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In 1937, the union changed its name to the Oil Workers International Union (OWIU). [3] The union was one of the first that affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization in early 1938, and AFL President William Green revoked the union's AFL charter. CIO helped the union grow significantly between the years of 1940–1946.
The secret atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee was part of the Manhattan Complex. Workers there were exposed to radioactive materials at plants X-10, K-25 and Y-12, and qualify for compensation from the 2011 Energy Employee Occupational Illness Compensation Act (RECA) for illnesses resulting from their work at the Oak Ridge Reservation.
Union family members all had a stake in the union's activities and wives of the union members often formed support groups associated with the locals. During strikes, women actively supported the union efforts by picketing with the men, fundraising for funds to feed families during the strikes, cooking in strike kitchens and in whatever way ...
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 Energy and Chemical Workers Union (ECWU) was a Canadian trade union.It was founded in April 1980 [6] as the result of a merger of the Canadian district of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, the Canadian Chemical Workers Union, and various directly chartered local unions of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec.
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]
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.
International Chemical Workers' Union; International Federation of Chemical, Energy and General Workers' Unions; International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions; International Federation of Petroleum and Chemical Workers; International Union of District 50, Allied and Technical Workers of the United States and Canada