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The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is a labor union in the United States. It represents over 200,000 employees and retirees of the United States Postal Service who belong to the Clerk, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle, and Support Services divisions. It also represents approximately 2,000 private-sector mail workers.
In 1999, Dimondstein led an organizing drive which led workers at East Coast Leasing to join the APWU, the union's first success in the private sector. [3] The following year, he was appointed as the union's National Lead Field Organizer. For his successes in the private sector, he was in 2001 made the AFL-CIO Southern Organizer of the Year ...
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[12] [13] On September 10, 1936, the AFL suspended all 10 CIO unions (two more had joined in the previous year) and their four million members. [12] [13] In 1938, these unions formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations as a rival labor federation. [12] [13] Over the next 20 years, both the AFL and CIO would lose member unions.
Samuel Gompers in the office of the American Federation of Labor, 1887. Convinced that no accommodation with the leadership of the Knights of Labor was possible, the heads of the five labor organizations which issued the call for the April 1886 conference issued a new call for a convention to be held December 8, 1886, in Columbus, Ohio, in order to construct "an American federation of alliance ...
The operators' union did not join in the strike, and the railroads employed strikebreakers to fill three-fourths of the roughly 400,000 vacated positions, increasing hostilities between the railroads and the striking workers. [94] On September 1, a federal judge issued the sweeping "Daugherty Injunction" against striking, assembling, and picketing.
The open shop in its milder form, in which the open shop represents only an employer's refusal to favor union members for employment, is legal. Although the National Labor Relations Act permits construction employers to enter into pre-hire agreements, in which they agree to draw their workforces from a pool of employees dispatched by the union ...
[12] [13] Clay attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn and as a teenager worked as a drummer on the Catskill Mountains circuit in the 1970s, playing bar mitzvahs and weddings under the name Clay Silvers. [13] [14] [15] Upon returning to New York City, he failed to form a big band of his own. He pursued higher education but dropped out to ...