Union Histories
he American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 58 national and international labor unions. These unions represent 13 million working women and men of every race and ethnicity and from every walk of life. They are teachers and teamsters, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers—and more. In addition to being affiliated on a national level, these unions generally belong to a federation that unites the labor movement on a state level.
You may be a member of one of the organizations listed below or have a relative, friend or acquaintance who carries a union card. You can discover more about the history and accomplishments of each union or federation by clicking on the following links:
National
American Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO)
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/history/
States
Labor History Curriculum - New Hampshire AFL-CIO
Wisconsin's Lessons in Labor History
International and Local Unions
Airline Pilots Association
http://www.alpa.org/?tabid=176 (ALPA)
American Federation of Musicians
http://www.afm.org/public/about/history.php (AFM)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
http://www.afscme.org/about/history.htm (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers
http://www.aft.org/about/history/index.htm (AFT)
American Postal Workers Union
http://www.apwu.org/about/history.htm
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
http://www.aftra.org/aftra/history.htm
Screen Actors Guild
http://www.aftra.org/aftra/history.htm
Bakery, Confectionary, Tobaco Workers and Grain Millers International Union
http://www.bctgm.org/international/bctgm_history.html
California School Employees Association
http://www.csea.com/content/main/interior_2.asp?section=about&pNavID=1&NavID=133&ParentID=1
Communications Workers of America
http://www.cwa-union.org/about/profile_history.asp
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
http://www.afanet.org/default.asp?nc=6336&id=37
IUE-CWA
http://www.iue-cwa.org/about/history.asp
Federation of Professional Athletes
http://www.nflpa.org/AboutUs/main.asp?section=ALL&subpage=History&x=13&y=11
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees,
Motion Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE)
http://www.iatse-intl.org/about/timeline.html
Iron Workers
http://www.ironworkers.org/about/history/index.php
Asbestos Workers
http://www.insulators.org/history.htm
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
http://www.goiam.org/visit.asp?n=529
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers
http://www.boilermakers.org/History/Historybook2.html
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
http://www.ibew.org/history/default.htm
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
http://www.ibtstw.org/teamsters/history.html
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
http://www.ble.org/about.asp
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
http://www.bmwe.org/BMWE/history/index.htm
Graphics Communications Conference (IBT)
http://gciu.org/chronology.shtml
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers
http://www.ifpte.org/about/history.html
International Longshore and Wharehouse Union
http://www.ilwu.org/history/index.cfm
International Longshoremen's Association
http://www.ilaunion.org/history.asp?l=9
International Union of Elevator Constructors
http://www.iuec.org/history.asp
International Union of Operating Engineers
http://www.iuoe.org/history/iuoehistory.htm
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
http://www.iupat.org/about/history.html
International Union of Police Associations
http://www.iupa.org/about/iupahighlights.html
Laborers' International Union
http://www.liuna.org/about/history.html
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
http://www.d1meba.org/history.htm
National Association of Letter Carriers
http://www.nalc.org/nalc/facthist/index.html
New York State United Teachers
http://www.nysut.org/history/index.html
Office and Professional Employees International Union
http://www.opeiu.org/html/aboutus.html
Seafarers International Union
http://www.seafarers.org/about/history.xml
Service Employees International Union
http://www.seiu.org/who/fast_facts/
Transport Workers Union
http://www.twu.org/about/history/
UNITE HERE
http://www.unitehere.org/about/history.asp
United American Nurses
http://www.uannurse.org/onemovement.htm
United Association (Journeymen and Apprentices - Pipe Fitting and Plumbing)
http://www.ua.org/history.asp
UAW
http://www.uaw.org/about/uawmembership.html
United Farm Workers
http://www.ufw.org/
United Federation of Teachers
http://www.uft.org/about/history/
United Food and Commercial Workers
http://www.ufcw.org/about_ufcw/where_we_come_from/index.cfm
Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union
http://www.rwdsu.info/en/archives/about_rwdsu/index.html
United Mine Workers
http://www.umwa.org/history/hist1.shtml
Roofers and Allied Workers
http://www.unionroofers.com/
Utilility Workers Union of America
http://www.uwua.org/newpage410.htm
