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  2. New York City Central Labor Council - Wikipedia

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    New York City Central Labor Council ( NYCCLC) is the largest local labor membership organization under the direction of the national AFL–CIO. Founded in 1959 the NYCCLC represents over 400 local New York City unions in both the public and private sectors of the New York economy. [2] Of the 11 million total workers represented by the AFL–CIO ...

  3. Laborers' International Union of North America - Wikipedia

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    The Laborers' International Union of North America ( LIUNA, stylized as LiUNA! ), often shortened to just the Laborers' Union, is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of 2017, they had about 500,000 members, [ 3] about 80,000 of whom are in Canada. [citation needed] The current general president is Brent Booker who was ...

  4. Socialist Alternative (United States) - Wikipedia

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    By the mid-1990s, Labor Militant became part of a campaign to form the Labor Party where it was in the leadership of the New York Metro Chapter. The New York Metro Chapter, the largest in the country, saw Labor Militant and its allies run again for the leadership of the chapter under the United Action slate only to be defeated in an Executive ...

  5. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives - Wikipedia

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    The Tamiment Library is a research library at New York University that documents radical and left history, with strengths in the histories of communism, socialism, anarchism, the New Left, the Civil Rights Movement, and utopian experiments. The Robert F. Wagner Archives, which is also housed in Bobst Library at NYU, documents American labor ...

  6. Unemployed Councils - Wikipedia

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    Unemployed Councils activists William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, and Israel Amter at the time of their March 1930 International Unemployment Day arrests in New York City. The Unemployed Councils of the USA (UC) was a mass organization of the Communist Party, USA established in 1930 in an effort to organize and mobilize unemployed workers .

  7. Public-sector trade unions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The postal unions did not engage in strikes, but there was the U.S. postal strike of 1970, a two-week wildcat walkout in New York City and 12 other cities by 200,000 of the 750,000 postal employees. It was not officially sponsored and ended when the Army started delivering the mail in "Operation Graphic Hand."

  8. New York State Department of Labor - Wikipedia

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    Also in 1937, New York passed a minimum wage law protecting women and minors. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a national minimum wage standard and a forty hour work week, and in this same year, an amendment to the New York State Constitution established a "Bill of Rights" for working people. The Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board ...

  9. Can you really not wear white after Labor Day? Plus, 18 Labor ...

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    To this day, the New York City Central Labor Council still hosts a Labor Day parade and march, which is held just north of the location of the original 1882 march. This year, the parade will be ...