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The union was founded on January 25, 1888, in Toledo, Ohio, as the Tin, Sheet Iron and Cornice Workers' International Association. [1] In five years the organization grew to include 108 locals in the United States. The first local in Canada was chartered in 1896 as well, in Toronto.
Name est. Members (approx) Description Constitution Website National Education Association (NEA) : 1857 3,000,000+ Public school employees including but not limited to teachers, Education Support Professionals, cafeteria workers, bus drivers, guidance counselors, nurses, administrative assistants, secretaries, psychologists, and librarians.
NLRB v. Truck Drivers Local 449 (Buffalo Linen Supply Co.), 353 U.S. 87 (1957), is an 8-0 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that a temporary lockout by a multi-employer bargaining group threatened by a whipsaw strike was lawful under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), as amended by the Taft-Hartley Act.
Wabash National is an American diversified industrial manufacturing company and North America's largest producer of semi trailers and liquid transportation systems. The company specializes in the design and production of dry freight vans, refrigerated vans , platform trailers, liquid tank trailers, intermodal equipment, engineered products and ...
The American Trucking Associations (ATA), founded in 1933, is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry.ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences, and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations.
The extended strikes in the states of Georgia, California, Kentucky and New York come after 100 Amazon drivers started a strike at the e-commerce giant's facility in Skokie, Illinois, in June.
Workers engaged in a wave of strikes, the most since 1921, in 1934. The largest and most significant were three giant strikes for union recognition among longshoremen on the West Coast, truck drivers in Minneapolis, Minnesota and automobile workers in Toledo, Ohio. In each case the strike became either a general strike or something close to it.
Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is an American automotive and industrial parts distributor based in Atlanta, Georgia. [1] Established by brothers Carlyle and Malcolm Fraser in 1928, the company has approximately 60,000 employees. [ 2 ]