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The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) is an umbrella organization for unions in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is a subordinate body of the AFL–CIO , and as of 2011 has about 320 affiliated member unions representing half a million union members in Cook County.
The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA, stylized as LiUNA! ), often shortened to just the Laborers' Union , is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of 2017, they had about 500,000 members, [ 3 ] about 80,000 of whom are in Canada .
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers was founded on September 1, 1893. On that day, at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, representatives from the International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers and Iron Ship Builders, which had been organized on October 1, 1880, and the National Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, which had been formed in ...
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Born in Chicago, Angelo was the son of Peter Fosco, an activist in the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). He was educated at Morgan Park Academy, and then at Loyola University, before working as an organizer for a LIUNA local. He led a successful organization drive at the Cook County Highway Department before, in 1951 ...
The building is now the Charles Hayes Family Investment Center operated by the Chicago Housing Authority. The mural was created in 1974 by William Walker,"father of the Chicago mural movement" and commissioned by the Illinois Labor History Society with funding from the Illinois Arts Council. The mural was restored in 1998 by Bernard Williams.
Organizations applied to receive funding from the Welfare Fund, which evolved into a fundraising agency. [1] Some of the Welfare Fund's first applications came from Chicago branches of Catholic Charities USA, the American Red Cross, and The Salvation Army, among others. Also in 1932, the Chicago Urban League became the Welfare Fund's first ...
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