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The Window Glass Cutters' League of America (WCGLA) was a labor union representing workers involved in making flat glass in the United States. The union was founded in on December 6, 1917, in Charleston, West Virginia, as the Cutters' League. It soon renamed itself as the WCGLA, and relocated its headquarters to Columbus, Ohio. [1]
Job losses continued. As of 2009, the union had just 30,392 members. [6] The Great Recession cut heavily into its membership, and by the end of 2012 it had just under 28,000 members. [1] In 2016, the union agreed to merge into the United Steelworkers. [7] The merger was completed on January 1, 2018, and the union became the GMP Council of the ...
The Glass, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers' International Union (GPPAW) was a labor union representing manufacturing workers in various industries in the United States and Canada. The union was founded on August 5, 1982, with the merger of the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association and the International Brotherhood of Pottery and Allied Workers .
In 1955, the union adopted its final name. [1] Later in the year, it affiliated to the new AFL–CIO. By 1957, it had 53,000 members, [2] but this fell to 34,539 by 1980. [3] On September 1, 1982, it merged into the Aluminum, Brick and Clay Workers' International Union, which renamed itself as the Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers ...
Collectors of American cut glass refer to the era circa 1870s to early 20th century as the Brilliant Period.
The union was founded in Pittsburgh on July 1, 1878, by locals which split away from the Knights of Labor. On July 27, 1887, it was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In 1901, workers involved in making glass bottles split away to join the Glass Bottle Blowers' Association. The AFGWU left the AFL in 1903, but rejoined in 1912.
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Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers' International Union; American Flint Glass Workers' Union; C. ... National Glass Workers' Trade Protection Association; T.