The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a national trade union center that is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 60 national and international unions,together representing more than 12 million active and retired workers. The AFL-CIO engages in substantial political spending and activism,typically in support of progressive and pro-labor policies.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers in the United States and Canada in industries including retail;meatpacking,food processing and manufacturing;hospitality;agriculture;cannabis;chemical trades;security;textile,and health care. UFCW is affiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the AFL–CIO;it disaffiliated from the AFL–CIO in 2005 but reaffiliated in 2013. UFCW is also affiliated to UNI Global Union and the IUF.
John Joseph Sweeney was an American labor leader who served as president of the AFL–CIO from 1995 to 2009.
Jerome Wurf was a U.S. labor leader and president of the American Federation of State,County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1964 to 1981. Wurf was a friend of Martin Luther King Jr.,and was arrested multiple times for his activism,notably during the Memphis sanitation strike. He was present for King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" oratory at the strike,the day before King was assassinated,and attended King's funeral.
UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with roughly 300,000 active members. The union's members work predominantly in the hotel,food service,laundry,warehouse,and casino gaming industries. The union was formed in 2004 by the merger of Union of Needletrades,Industrial,and Textile Employees (UNITE) and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE).
Linda Chavez-Thompson is a second-generation Mexican-American and union leader. She was elected the executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO in 1995 and served until September 21,2007. She was also a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 1997 to 2012 and served as a member of the board of trustees of United Way of America. She was the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Texas in the 2010 election.
Thomas Reilly Donahue Jr. was an American trade union leader who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations from 1979 to 1995,interim president for several months in 1995,and was President Emeritus from 1996 until his death. He was considered one of the most influential leaders of the post-World War II American trade union movement.
The Amalgamated Meat Cutters (AMC),officially the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America,1897–1979,was a labor union that represented retail and packinghouse workers. In 1979,the AMCBW merged with the Retail Clerks International Union to form the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
The Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU) was a North American labor union that represented retail employees.
Pride at Work (P@W) is an American lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender group (LGBTQ+) of labor union activists affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Joseph T. Hansen is a North American labor leader,best known for his work as president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW).
The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is a nonprofit,nonpartisan organization of trade union women affiliated with the AFL–CIO. The CLUW is a bridging organization that seeks to create connections between the feminist movement and the labor movement in the United States. The organization works towards overcoming past constraints and conflicts in pursuance of relationship improvement between those movements,and thus enabling broad coalitions. The CLUW is the only national organization solely for women union members and is one of six constituency groups within the AFL–CIO. It is based in the headquarters of the AFL–CIO in Washington,D.C. CLUW pursues by four goals:to bring women into union leadership,to organize unorganized women workers,to bring women's issues onto the labor agenda,and to involve women into political action.
The Department for Professional Employees,AFL–CIO (DPE) is a semi-autonomous "trade" department of the AFL–CIO,and serves as an advocate for professional workers within the federation,and before legislative bodies,the press and the public.
UFCW Local 1776 represents workers in the state of Pennsylvania for the United Food and Commercial Workers. The larger majority of their members work in grocery stores. The number 1776 refers to the year that the United States Declaration of Independence was drafted in Philadelphia,rather than it being a sequential number of local unions.
George Baldanzi was an American trade unionist. He was the founding executive vice president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA),and had a rivalry with Emil Rieve,the founding president of the organization. This rivalry led to his ouster from the TWUA in 1952,after which he joined the United Textile Workers of America as national organizing director. Following the merger of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) into the AFL-CIO in 1958,Baldanzi was president of the United Textile Workers of America from 1958 until his death in 1972.
William H. "Bill" Wynn was the first president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW),and the last president of the Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU),after the latter merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America in 1979,to create the UFCW. He is best known for playing a leading role in completing the above merger,and,through that effort,making a pivotal contribution to the creation of the largest union affiliated to the AFL–CIO at the time. Wynn is also credited for instituting a fierce organizing culture at UFCW.
Douglas H. Dority was president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW),one of North America's largest labor unions.
Clifford Russel Evans,was a Canadian trade unionist,pension plan innovator,and a key player in the creation of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
James A. Suffridge was an American labor unionist.
Harry Ralston Poole was an American labor union leader.
