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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.
The company's managers also began "working behind the scenes to entice workers to sign a petition calling for a decertification election to eliminate the union." [8] In August 1974, Silkwood was elected to the OCAW local's three-person bargaining committee, the first woman to hold such a position at Kerr-McGee. [3]
Anthony Mazzocchi (June 13, 1926 – October 5, 2002) was an American labor leader.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]
The U.S. Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their ...
Robert Francis Goss (November 10, 1921 – October 27, 2005) was an American labor union leader. Born in Escanaba, Michigan, Goss grew up in Lomita, California. In 1940, he began working for Union Oil, and joined the Oil Workers' International Union. In 1949, he began working full-time for his local union.
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).
Workers at a Pennsylvania Whole Foods store voted on Monday to unionize, forming the first union in the organic grocery chain owned by Amazon. A majority of the employees at the flagship store in ...