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  2. Labor unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The US Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent survey indicates that union membership in the US has risen to 12.4% of all workers, from 12.1% in 2007. For a short period, private sector union membership rebounded, increasing from 7.5% in 2007 to 7.6% in 2008. [1] However, that trend has since reversed.

  3. Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Gompers, Chair, Executive Committee. The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada ( FOTLU) was a federation of labor unions created on November 15, 1881, at Turner Hall in Pittsburgh. [1] It changed its name to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) on December 8, 1886.

  4. International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and ...

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    The International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers ( AWIU or Insulators) is a trade union in the United States and Canada, founded in 1903. It is affiliated with the AFL–CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress and the North America's Building Trades Unions . The union was formerly known as the International Association ...

  5. Biden picks up another big union endorsement, this one from ...

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    April 24, 2024 at 2:03 PM. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden picked up the endorsement of North America’s Building Trades Unions at a Wednesday event where the president and his allies set ...

  6. Biden notches another union endorsement as building trades ...

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    President Joe Biden secured the backing of another union on Wednesday as the organization representing American construction workers lined up behind the Democratic incumbent and called Donald ...

  7. New Brunswick Federation of Labour - Wikipedia

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    The New Brunswick Federation of Labour was organized at a meeting of union delegates in Saint John on 16 September 1913, making it the third provincial federation of labour to be established in Canada, after British Columbia and Alberta. [1] James L. Sugrue of Saint John was elected as president. In early 1914 the Federation obtained a charter ...

  8. North America's Building Trades Unions - Wikipedia

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    The Building and Construction Trades Department, commonly known as North America's Building Trades Unions ( NABTU ), is a trade department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) with 14 affiliated labor unions in the building trades. It was originally founded by the American Federation of Labor ...

  9. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union - Wikipedia

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    Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1937, the RWDSU represents about 60,000 workers in a wide range of industries, including but not limited to retail, grocery stores, poultry processing, dairy processing, cereal processing, soda bottlers, bakeries, health care, hotels, manufacturing, public sector workers like ...