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The Workingmen's Benevolent Association was a 19th-century labor organization that consisted mainly of coal miners. It was organized in 1868 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, with John Siney as president. In 1869, the organization called a strike of coal-miners from May 5 to June 16.
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 .
Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) 1903 669,772 Miscellaneous construction workers; other trades. 2022: LIUNA: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) 1888 653,781 Aircraft manufacturing workers; aircraft maintenance and repair workers. 2017: IAM: Communications Workers of America (CWA) 1947 545,638
Laborers' International Union of North America people (10 P) Pages in category "Laborers' International Union of North America" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Since the founding of the AFL in 1886, the AFL-CIO and its predecessor bodies have been the dominant labor federation (at least in terms of the number of member workers, if not influence) in the United States. As of 2014, the labor federation had approximately 12.7 million members.
The Christian Labor Association (CLA) is a trade union based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It was founded on April 27, 1931, by members of the Christian Reformed Church of North America , a Protestant denomination associated with Calvinism . [ 1 ]
On June 13, 1850, [7] in response to the difficulties faced by African Americans in joining existing labor unions and as part of a wave of efforts towards black economic self-sufficiency and cooperation, [8] [9] several noted social reformers and black activists met at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at the intersection of Leonard Street and Church Street to establish the ...
In 1937, it was chartered by the American Federation of Labor, as the National Association of Post Office and Railway Mail Laborers. [2] The union renamed itself as the National Association of Postal Mail Handlers in 1947. It transferred to the new AFL–CIO in 1955, and by 1957 had grown to 9,000 members.