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IAM also competed for members with the United Auto Workers of America in the automotive industry and with the United Aerospace Workers for aircraft working in that union. In 1949, IAM signed no-raiding agreements with both unions. [10] Those agreements become the model for other unions when AFL and the CIO merged in 1955.
Buffenbarger is a member of the executive council of the AFL-CIO and a member of the Economic Policy Institute's board of directors, serves as chairman of the Labor Advisory Committee to the U.S. Trade Representative, and is a past member of the U.S. Treasury Department's Advisory Committee to the International Monetary Fund.
The CIO had been founded to promote industrial unionism, and the new federation created a department to bring together industrial unions. Its initial leadership was similar to that of the CIO, and most of its affiliated membership came from former CIO unions, although 35 AFL unions affiliated, compared to 31 CIO unions.
The union president said Boeing has been in “free fall" for more than a year, and he acknowledged the company faces huge and costly challenges. Despite all that, he said, the union is in good ...
Several smaller AFL–CIO unions either joined the ALA and were expelled from the AFL–CIO for dual unionism or disaffiliated and joined the ALA. [21] The ALA was not successful, however, and ceased to exist in January 1972. [22] Over the years, most of the unions which had been expelled or left the AFL–CIO rejoined it.
Microsoft and the AFL-CIO union federation said Monday they had struck a deal whereby the U.S. software giant will remain neutral in efforts by unions to encourage workers to become members. The ...
Union machinists assemble the 737 Max, Boeing’s bestselling airliner, along with the 777 or “triple-seven” jet and the 767 cargo plane at factories in Renton and Everett, Washington.
[1] [2] He soon became active on his local central labor council and the Iowa AFL-CIO, then became president of his district of the union. [3] In 1964, he began working full-time for the international union as an administrative assistant, rising to become executive assistant to the president in 1979, and then general vice president in 1983.