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William Nuchow was born in Bronx, New York, in 1928. He quit school to go to sea and in 1946 was elected to the strike committee of the National Maritime Union. He then worked in steel mills and auto plants in Buffalo, New York, before returning to New York City. There he led the organization of New York City cabbies as an officer of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 826, from 1952 through the taxi strike of 1956. Before joining the staff of Teamsters Local 210 in 1958 he worked for one and one-half years as an organizer for the United Furniture Workers in the South. In 1969 his efforts led to the chartering of Teamsters Local 840 to organize Technical, Industrial, and Service Agency Employees.

Nuchow was committed to labor education, and served on the advisory boards of the Harry Van Arsdale School of Labor Studies, the Cornell University Labor Liberal Arts Certificate Programs, and the Trade Union Leadership Institute of the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Throughout his work with the labor movement, Nuchow had espoused progressive political and union causes.

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