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Amalgamated Lithographers of America

The Amalgamated Lithographers of America (ALA) is a labor union formed in 1882 to represent professional lithographers.

Americans for Democratic Action

The UDA was formed by former members of the Socialist Party of America and Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies as well as labor union leaders, liberal politicians, theologians, and others who were opposed to the pacifism adopted by most left-wing political organizations in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Chicago Teachers Union

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is a labor union representing teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians in the Chicago public school system.

Leonard Weinberg

In the 1930s he filed one of the earliest damages lawsuits against a labor union; he was a delegate to the 1932 Democratic Convention held in Chicago in support of Governor Albert Ritchie of Maryland nomination.

Lewis B. Schwellenbach

He changed the labor department from a department primarily interested in statistical information gathering to a policy-making department, actively trying to conciliate labor with management and promote a high-wage economy based on unionized labor.

Orange County Employees Association

The Orange County Employees Association (OCEA), located in Santa Ana, California, is the largest independent public employee labor union in Orange County, representing about 18,000 employees.

Syndicat de l'Architecture

The Syndicat de l'Architecture is a French labor union for architects co-founded by Jean Nouvel.

William Worthy

However, the highly controversial and ultra-conservative BU president, John Silber, removed Worthy as head of the program after Worthy criticized the BU administration and he supported BU campus workers who were attempting to unionize.


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Angela Bambace

Angela Bambace (February 14, 1898, – April 3, 1975) was a labor union organizer for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for over fifty years.

Avinguda de Catalunya, Lleida

Most buildings are relatively recent, and include the infamous Edifici dels Sindicats, or Labor Union building, also called the "Ducados building" because of its alleged resemblance to a Ducados blue cigarette box.

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Ethan Snow of the UNITE HERE labor union expressed the continuity of the labor struggle by linking the Occupy Wall Street Movement's "99 percent" slogan to the 1912 strikers and to the plight of modern laborers in Lawrence: “One hundred years ago, workers took a stand against the greed of the 1%. Today we are faced with a similar situation in Lawrence, and we too will take up the fight for current day Bread & Roses.”

Bruce S. Raynor

Bruce S. Raynor is a former Executive Vice President of the labor union SEIU, former President of Workers United, former General President of UNITE HERE, a founding member of the Leadership Council of the Change to Win Federation (CTW), and a member of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.

Charles Krause

Charles I. Krause (1911–2002), American labor union organizer and local executive

Domenic Sarno

While Tosado won several key labor union endorsements during the campaign, Sarno touted his fiscal management and response to the 2011 New England tornado outbreak.

Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions

The International Typographical Union, eager to establish a national labor union, also widely publicized the conference.

Kellman

Peter Kellman (born 1945), anti-war activist, author, and American labor union leader

Kurt Gscheidle

In 1953 Gscheidle became an official of the Deutsche Bundespost labor union and was elected vice-chairman in 1957.

Mellon Square

In the 1800s the site was home to Turner Hall, and in 1881 the world's first labor union, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (later to become the AFL and part of the AFL-CIO) had its founding conference at the site.

NALC

National Association of Letter Carriers, a labor union of city letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service

Nikolaus Gross

Nikolaus Gross (German:Groß) (30 September 1898 – 23 January 1945) was a German resistance fighter and labor union leader in the time of the Third Reich who was later beatified by Pope John Paul II at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on 7 October 2001.

People of the Cumberland

The introduction of the Highlander Folk School in 1931 by educator Myles Horton and the movement to bring labor union representation to the region are shown as means of empowering the population.

Peter Richard Kenrick

During the period when the Knights of Labor, a strongly Roman Catholic labor union and the first national labor union, turned to violence, Kenrick vocally opposed them and condemned their actions.

Robert S. Leiken

In Cuernavaca he taught English at a labor union center called CEFESOM and political economy at a research university CIDOC.

Socialism or Barbarism

What Mészáros prescribes is a labor union socialist solution, specifically the syndicalist form of socialism that Samuel Gompers had abandoned when the AFL provided the a workforce for the U.S. involvement in World War I.

Vincent Meli

He was named by former Detroit mobster Nove Tocco and retired federal agents as an associate of Michael Bane, president of Pontiac, Michigan's Teamster Local 614, during federal investigations into labor union corruption.

Welsh American

The miners brought organizational skills, exemplified in the United Mine Workers labor union, and its most famous leader John L. Lewis, who was born in a Welsh settlement in Iowa.

Wilfred Feinberg

Feinberg has authored many seminal opinions, including United States v. Miller, which upheld the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting the burning of draft cards, NLRB v. J.P. Stevens & Co, the famous labor union case that inspired the movie, Norma Rae, and Kelly v. Wyman, aff'd sub nom. Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254, 271 (1970).

Wyndham Mortimer

Wyndham Mortimer was born March 11, 1884 in Karthaus, Pennsylvania, the son of a coal miner who was a member of the Knights of Labor, an early American labor union.

Yupiit School District

In 2004, the Yupiit School District, the NEA-Alaska labor union, and several other school districts sued the state (Moore v. Alaska), asking for additional funding and educational programs.