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...Newspaper Guild itself merged with the Communication Workers of America on June 19. Ten days later, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union combined with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union to form UNITE. On July 3, the United Rubber Workers Union voted to combine with the United Steelworkers of America. On July 4, the National Education Association consolidated its presence in our nation's schools by absorbing the United Federation of Teachers. Does there seem to be a trend here...
...national labor federation. Sweeney beat out insider Thomas Donahue by pledging to rebuild union membership, open more labor posts to minorities and women and-perhaps most significant-adopt more militant tactics against cost-slashing employers. True to his word, Sweeney led a protest march through New York City's garment district the day after his election...
...after he defeated Thomas Donahue to take control of the AFL-CIO, John Sweeney virtually blocked traffic on Eighth Avenue in New York City's Garment District, leading a rally of nearly 2,000 workers and denouncing "greedy employers" who are holding wages down. As an outsider in the historically closed circle of AFL-CIO leadership, Sweeney's challenge will be to revive a union that has been in steady decline for the past five years, says New York bureau chief John Moody. "His great strength is that he is not associated with the leadership of the union under former...
...poor folk in Top Hill. He literally came to America on a banana boat, a United Fruit Co. steamer that docked in Philadelphia. He went to work for Ginsburg's (later named the Gaines Co.), manufacturers of women's suits and coats at 500 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan's garment district. He started out working in the stock room, moved up to become a shipping clerk, and eventually became foreman of the shipping department...
...high school education, which my father lacked. ("Him who never finished high school," she would mutter when Pop pulled rank on family matters.) Before emigrating, Mom had worked as a stenographer in a lawyer's office. She was a staunch union supporter, a member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. My father, the shipping-room foreman, considered himself part of management. Initially, they were both New Deal Democrats. We had that famous wartime photograph of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with the Capitol and the flag in the background, hanging in the foyer of our apartment for as long...