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The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) was a trade union in the United States which existed between 1917 and 1999. At the time of its dissolution and merger, the International represented 80,000 workers and was affiliated with the AFL–CIO .
Alvin F. Grospiron (April 17, 1916 – January 1985) was an American labor leader who served as president of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW) from 1965 to 1979. Grospiron started as an oil refinery worker on the Texas Gulf Coast , before becoming secretary-treasurer of his local union.
He was a high elected official of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW), serving as vice president from 1977 to 1988, and as secretary-treasurer from 1988 to 1991. [1] He was credited by President Richard Nixon as being the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
Robert E. "Bob" Wages (born August 18, 1949) is an American former labor union leader.. Born in Kansas City, Kansas, Wages studied at the University of Kansas.He then followed his father in working at a Phillips Petroleum Company refinery, and joined the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers' International Union (OCAW).
National Federation of Workers in the Chemical, Parachemical and Glass Industries: France: 4,000 Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union: Canada: 10,000 Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union: United States: 200,000 Oil Companies' Field Staff Association: India: 150 Oilfield Workers' Federation: British West Indies ...
The United Steelworkers union is counting on clean energy projects to spur membership growth, offsetting losses at oil refining and petrochemical plants, a union official said, even if Donald ...
International Federation of Petroleum and Chemical Workers; International Union of District 50, Allied and Technical Workers of the United States and Canada; Italian Federation of Chemical and Allied Workers; Italian Federation of Chemical and Oil Workers; Italian Federation of Chemical Workers; Italian Union of Chemical and Allied Industries
At the same time, he merged the union into the new Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW), becoming the president of the largest oil or chemical workers' union in the world. [1] In 1954, Knight became the founding president of the International Federation of Petroleum Workers. [1]