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OCAW finally merged with the 250,000-member United Paperworkers International Union on January 4, 1999, to form the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (PACE). [1] [15] OCAW gained a final victory as an independent union seven months after the merger, when the federal government acknowledged for the first ...
In 1991, cement workers from the Independent Workers of North America joined the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU). [ 2 ] In 1999, the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) and Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union International Union (OCAW) merged to create the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers ...
The new union, with 860,000 active members in the United States and Canada,was the largest industrial labor union in North America. The union is known as the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied-Industrial and Service Workers International Union, abbreviated as the "United Steelworkers" or by the acronym USW.
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]
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
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).
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]
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]