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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 ...
The Central Labor Union of New York, Brooklyn, and New Jersey was an early trade union organization that later broke up into various locals, which are now AFL–CIO members. The establishment of the CLU predates the consolidation of New York City (1897) by nearly two decades and is best known as the organization that created the American Labor ...
Vladeck was able to make use of personal connections to convince the New York Central Labor Council (CLC) and the Tamiment Institute, still headed by Ben Josephson, to co-sponsor the creation of the new labor archive. In 1977, New York University was brought on board and together the three entities established the new labor archive, named after ...
Arsdale in 1981. Harry Van Arsdale Jr. (November 23, 1905 – February 16, 1986) was a labor and community leader in New York City.His father was a union electrician. Van Arsdale was descendant from 17th century Dutch immigrants to New York and a descendant of John Van Arsdale, a Colonial army veteran of the American Revolutionary War, who climbed up a greased flagpole to retrieve a Union Jack ...
The New York City Central Labor Council, the largest labor union in New York City, and the Transport Workers Union both voted to endorse Lindsay for reelection in 1969. [ 116 ] [ 117 ] 20,000 to 25,000 building service workers, which would affect over 5,000 buildings, threatened to go on strike in 1970, unless they were given a weekly minimum ...
The Hard Hat Riot occurred in New York City on May 8, 1970, when around 400 construction workers and around 800 office workers attacked around 1,000 demonstrators affiliated with the student strike of 1970. The students were protesting the May 4 Kent State shootings and the Vietnam War, following the April 30 announcement by President Richard ...
Gary LaBarbera is an American labor leader. [1] He served as president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York (BCTC) since 2009 and was elected president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council in 2021. [2] [1] He is also the founder and chairman of NYC Helmets to Hardhats, a non-profit that ...
He also served as the vice president of the New York City Central Labor Council and the New York State AFL-CIO. [2] [1] These positions were influential both in the labour movement and politically. The Construction Trades Council represented 250,000 members from 18 locals and had close ties to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and leading ...