New York State Labor Documentation Project, 1863-1992.

Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Local 340

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The Retail Clothing Salesmen of Greater New York was chartered in 1910 by the United Hebrew Trades and organized men's clothing salesmen on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and along Pitkin Avenue in Brooklyn. The Union later affiliated with the Retail Clerks International Protective Association as Local 717, then Local 1006 RCIPA. In about June 1938 it joined the Amalgamated Clothing Workers as Local 340. From its base in the "Mom and Pop" retail trade, L...

Musical Mutual Protective Union.

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Civil Service Forum.

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Teachers' Union of the City of New York

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The Teachers' Union of New York City (TU) was known as one of the country's most militant and influential teachers' organizations. It consistently addressed not only issues of salaries and pensions for its members, but also broader social concerns, from educational reforms to racial justice and international relations. From the description of Minutes [microform], 1918-1942. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 590661999 From the description of Minutes of the Executive ...

International Typographical Union. No. 6 (New York, N.Y.)

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The National Typographical Union was founded in 1852. The name was changed in 1869 to the International Typographical Union. It is the oldest trade union in the United States. The New York City local, established by Horace Greeley in 1850, was one of 14 founding locals and was designated No. 6. Among progressive reforms advanced by the ITU were the eight hour day, membership--with equal pay for equal work--for women printers, and a pension plan that became the model for the social security syste...

Office and Professional Employees International Union. Local 153 (New York, N.Y.)

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New York Industrial Union Council, CIO.

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United Hatters, Cap, and Millinery Workers International Union

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The United Hatters Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW) was formed in 1934 by the amalgamation of United Hatters of North America (UHNA) and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (CHCMW). The United Hatters of North America (UHNA) was established in New York in 1896 as the resultof the merger of two Kinights of Labor-affiliated unions in the men's hat industry, the the Hat Makers and the Hat Finishers. The Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers ...

CIO Council (New York, N.Y.)

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Allied Printing Trader Council (New York (State))

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local no. 3 (New York, N.Y.)

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Local 3's origins date back to 1887 when electricians in New York City building trades organized the Electrical Mechanical Wiremen's Union of the Knights of Labor, Local Assembly 5468. This local affiliated with the AFL in the next decade but would not join the IBEW, which established three other locals. A conciliation was reached, however, and an IBEW charter was granted in February 1900. During a time when workers risked being blackballed for union affiliation, Local 3...

Communications Workers of America. Local 1150.

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American Federation of Musicians. Local 802

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The American Federation of Musicians, Local 802 (Associated Musicians of Greater New York) is the largest local of professional musicians in the world. As of 2011, it represents approximately 10,000 members in and around New York City. Members work in many fields of music: rock, rhythm and blues, jazz, Latin, concert, theater, club date, night club, ballroom and symphonic. They are also instrumentalists, copyists, arrangers, orchestral librarians, proofreaders, and editors. Additionally, Local ....

Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.)

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The Jewish Labor Committee was founded on February 25, 1934. Its first efforts were directed toward relieving the suffering of the victims of Nazi terror, participating in rescue work, and supporting the growing anti-Nazi labor resistance movement in Europe. Eventually, JLC became an organization that would articulate the Jewish perspective and interests of American Jewish workers on issues of national and international importance. JLC serves as a bridge between Jewish workers and the trade unio...

AFSCME. District Council 37 (New York, N.Y.)

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American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37 is an umbrella group of 56 local unions representing public employees in New York City. Chartered in 1944, DC 37 has grown from an organization of less than a thousand employees in the city's parks, hospital, finance, and health departments to the country's largest federation of public employees, with more than 125,000 members working in the city's agencies and cultural institutions. The collection contains consti...

American Guild of Musical Artists

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The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) was founded in 1936 in New York City to protect the interests of solo musical artists in the field of opera and later expanded to include dancers, choreographers and some categories of stage managers. The union became affiliated with the Associated Actors and Artistes of America (known as the 4A's) and established regional offices throughout the United States in addition to the main New York office. The records of two predecessor organizations, the Gr...

International Association of Machinists. Eureka Lodge 434.

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Union Label.

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AFL-CIO. New York City Central Labor Council

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The AFL-CIO New York Central Labor Council (NYC CLC) had its origin in the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York, a federation of New York City area unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The CTLC was chartered by the AFL in 1920 and existed until it merged with the New York City CIO Council in 1959. Harry Van Arsdale Jr., Business Manager of the International Brotherhood of Electricians Local 3, became president of the Council in 1957 and served in that office u...

United Federation of Teachers

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The Teachers' Union (TU) of New York City was organized in 1916 and chartered as Local 5 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Although constrained by the AFT's no-strike pledge, laws against strikes by public employees, the authoritarian and paternalistic policies of the Board of Education, and the resistance of many teachers to trade-union appeals, the Teacher' Union soon won a reputation for militancy. The Teachers' Union not only addressed the bread and butter issues of salaries, pen...

Office and Professional Employees' International Union

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AFL Federal Locals of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union have organized the clerical trades since the early decades of the twentieth century; but it wasn't until the charter convention of the Office Employees International Union in Cincinnati in January, 1945 that a national AFL jurisdiction was created for all private sector clerical and office employees. Charter membership was 22,500. During the war years, OEIU growth was slow, while the rival CIO uni...

Actors' Equity Association

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The Paul Robeson Award is presented annually by Actors' Equity Association to honor an individual for both artistic achievement and exemplary humanitarian service. From the description of Paul Robeson award ceremonies collection [sound recording], 1978-1996. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 123489015 Actors' Equity Association (AEA) is the union of professional legitimate stage actors and stage managers. AEA negotiates contracts and agreements that often affect...

International Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers. Local 463 (New York, N.Y.)

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Local 463 of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers was founded in 1951 by James Trenz, a business agent of Local 1227 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Local 1227 was an amalgamated local, representing 37 shops and about 2300 workers. After a bitterly contested local election in November 1950 between Communist and non-Communist UE leadership, Trenz led a protest of the Local's position on the United States' role in...

Associated Actors and Artistes of America

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The Associated Actors and Artistes of America (AAAA, also known as the 4A's), chartered in 1919 by the American Federation of Labor, is a New York-based umbrella organization of several autonomous unions representing different types of performing artists, including the Actors Equity Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the American Guild of Musical Artists, the American Guild of Variety Artists, and the Screen Actors Guild. The Four A's w...

American Postal Workers Union, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

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