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The Mechanic's Free Press was founded in April 1828 with the goal of spreading the union's pro-labor message to communities across the country. The paper reached a circulation of 2,000, half the circulation of the largest New York City newspaper at that time. The paper's editor and founder, William Heighton, was an English-born shoemaker.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America District Council, Seattle Records, 1918–1972. 8 cubic feet. At the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Local 131 (Seattle, Washington) Records, 1888–1960. 9 cubic feet.
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 ...
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932. The following is a timeline of labor in New York City from the prehistory of New York City covering the labor of the precolonial era, when the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by Algonquian Native Americans, including the Lenape, to the colonial era, under the Dutch and English, to the American Revolution to modern day New York City.
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 ...