National Maritime Union

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Dates:
Establishment 1937-05
Disestablishment 2001
Active 1940
Active 1960

History notes:

The National Maritime Union (NMU) was an American labor union founded in May 1937 representing workers in the merchant marine. It affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in July 1937. After a failed merger with a different maritime group in 1988, the union merged with the Seafarers International Union of North America in 2001.

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Subjects:

  • Congresses and conventions
  • Labor leaders
  • Labor union meetings
  • Labor unions
  • Merchant mariners
  • Merchant mariners
  • Strikes and lockouts
  • Merchant mariners
  • Merchant mariners
  • Politicians

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  • NY, US
  • NY, US
  • CA, US
  • United States (as recorded)
  • France (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

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