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In 2023, union membership in Pennsylvania in the broad private service sector leapt 65,000 to 280,000, a jump of nearly a third in a single year. ... PA AFL-CIO's Angela Ferritto describes labor ...
The Pennsylvania AFL–CIO is a federation of labor unions in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania in the United States. It is an affiliate of the AFL–CIO.It was formed on June 9, 1960, by the merger of two predecessor bodies, the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor (an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor) and the Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council (an affiliate of the Congress of ...
The most important membership changes, however, occurred in 1968. The United Auto Workers (UAW) disaffiliated from the AFL-CIO on July 1, 1968, after UAW President Walter Reuther and AFL–CIO President George Meany could not come to agreement on a wide range of national public policy issues or on reforms regarding AFL–CIO governance. [19]
Telecommunication, customer service, broadcasting, public sector, healthcare and other workers. 2013: CWA: United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA) 1881 522,416 Building industry carpenters and millwrights. 2015: UBC: International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) 1937 424,579 Freight handlers at ports. 2016: ILWU
The Service Employees International Union said Wednesday it is re-joining the AFL-CIO, a group comprising 60 affiliated labor unions. With the addition of SEIU, its membership will expand to 15 ...
The SEIU, along with the Teamsters union, left the AFL-CIO in 2005. At the time, the SEIU leadership saw the AFL-CIO as insufficient at slowing the declining share of U.S. workers who belong to unions. The decline has largely continued over the past 20 years, but union leadership says that 60 million workers would like to be unionized if they ...
One of the largest and most powerful U.S. unions is rejoining the AFL-CIO, giving the country’s leading labor federation a boost as it prepares for another Donald Trump presidency. The 2 million ...
CWA contracts also cover some non-members, known as agency fee payers, which number comparatively about 7% of the size of the union's membership. This accounts for 166,491 "non-dues-paying retirees" and 52,240 "dues-paying retirees", plus about 43,353 non-members paying agency fees, compared to 404,289 "active" members.