The United Steel,Paper and Forestry,Rubber,Manufacturing,Energy,Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union,commonly known as the United Steelworkers (USW),is a general trade union with members across North America. Headquartered in Pittsburgh,the United Steelworkers represents workers in Canada,the Caribbean,and the United States. The United Steelworkers represent workers in a diverse range of industries,including primary and fabricated metals,paper,chemicals,glass,rubber,heavy-duty conveyor belting,tires,transportation,utilities,container industries,pharmaceuticals,call centers,museums,and health care.
Iorwith Wilbur Abel,better known as I. W. Abel,was an American labor leader.
The Oil,Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) was a trade union in the United States which existed between 1917 and 1999. At the time of its dissolution and merger,the International represented 80,000 workers and was affiliated with the AFL–CIO.
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) was one of two precursor labor organizations to the United Steelworkers. It was formed by the CIO on June 7,1936. It disbanded in 1942 to become the United Steel Workers of America. The Steel Labor was the official paper of SWOC.
Lynn Russell Williams was a Canadian labour leader best remembered as the International President of the United Steelworkers union (USW) from 1983 until his retirement in 1994. Williams was the first Canadian to head a major North American industrial union.
George Becker was a steelworker,American labor leader and president of the United Steelworkers (USW) from 1993 to 2001. During his tenure as president of the Steelworkers,Becker also served as a vice president of the AFL-CIO.
The Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) was a trade union federation in Canada. Affiliated with the United States-based Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). It was founded in 1940 and merged with Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) to form the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in 1956.
Workers Uniting is a trans-Atlantic trade union created in 2008 by a merger of Unite the Union of the United Kingdom and Ireland with the North American United Steelworkers union (USW) based in the United States. Both unions still retain individual branding and leadership.
The Sudbury Steelworkers Hall was a historic labour union hall in Sudbury,Ontario,which was destroyed by a fire on September 19,2008.
Elizabeth H. Shuler is an American labor activist and,since August 5,2021,President of the AFL–CIO. She is the first woman to be elected president of the federation. She was previously the first woman and the youngest person to hold the position of Secretary-Treasurer. She is the highest-ranking woman in the labor federation's history. From her election to the retirement of Arlene Holt Baker in 2013 was the first time that two of the three officer positions in the AFL–CIO were held by women;her election as president with Fred Redmond succeeding her as Secretary-Treasurer marked the first time two of the three positions were held by African Americans.
The Transportation Trades Department,AFL–CIO (TTD) is a constitutionally mandated department of the AFL–CIO. It was founded in February 1990 to provide AFL–CIO-affiliated unions whose members work in the transportation industry or who build transportation infrastructure a unified policy-making voice on transportation issues. TTD has 37 member unions as of October 2022.
The 2009 election for the leadership of the AFL–CIO occurred following the announcement of incumbent president John Sweeney's retirement. The election took place during the 26th AFL–CIO National Convention in Pittsburgh.
The Pennsylvania AFL–CIO is a federation of labor unions in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania in the United States. It is an affiliate of the AFL–CIO. It was formed on June 9,1960,by the merger of two predecessor bodies,the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor and the Pennsylvania Industrial Union Council. It can trace its history through its predecessor bodies to 1890.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. Originally created in 1935 as a committee within the American Federation of Labor (AFL) by John L. Lewis,a leader of the United Mine Workers (UMW),and called the Committee for Industrial Organization. Its name was changed in 1938 when it broke away from the AFL. It focused on organizing unskilled workers,who had been ignored by most of the AFL unions.
The International Union of Mine,Mill and Smelter Workers (IUMMSW) was a labor union representing miners and workers in related occupations in the United States and Canada.
The following is a timeline of the history of labour organizations in communities in and around Greater Sudbury,Ontario,Canada. Listings for incorporated townships which were later amalgamated with the City of Sudbury are noted separately.
Leon Lynch was an American trade union leader. He was the first African American to be an international vice president of any major labor union,serving in that role for the United Steelworkers from 1976 to 2006. He was elected to the Executive Council of the AFL-CIO in 1995 and served on that body until he retired in 2008. He was co-chair of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and a member of the Democratic National Committee.
Frederick D. Redmond is an American labor union official.
Boyd Daniel Young was an American labor union leader.
