International Chemical Workers Union, Local 110, Tacoma, Wash., minutes books, 1947-1967, 1975-1982.

Hooker Chemical Corporation

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Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation

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Pennwalt Corporation

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Pennwalt Corporation was incorporated in Pennsylvania on September 1, 1850, as the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company. It was renamed the Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation on April 27, 1957. Upon absorbing Wallace & Tiernan, Inc., a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, on March 31, 1969, it was renamed the Pennwalt Corporation. In 1989, the properties of Pennwalt were acquired by the Société Nationale Elf Aquitane, a French petrochemical firm, and merged into Elf Atochem, N.A. ...

Wypen Oil Company

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Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company

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Tacoma Chemical Workers Union

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International Chemical Workers Union. Local 110 (Tacoma, Wash.)

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Tacoma Chemical Workers Union was organized in 1936 by employees of Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company; in 1937 they were joined by workers at Hooker Chemical Corporation and Wypen Oil Company; in 1944 161 affiliated locals formed the International Chemical Workers Union and the Tacoma local was designated 110. The union not only bargained for wages and benefits, it sought health protections in a group of industries that exposed workers to high levels of hazardous chemicals. In 1975-1976 th...