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Find major labor organizations representing all kinds of workers across the U.S.
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Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees
The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED) is a national union representing the workers who build and maintain the tracks, bridges, buildings and other structures on the railroads of the United States.
Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN)
The Gay and Lesbian Labor Activists Network (GALLAN) is a non-profit organization of trade unionists founded in 1987. GALLAN's main purpose was to support LGBTQ rights and oppose homophobia in the workforce, as well as push its unions to campaign for anti-discriminatory measures and benefits packages.
Independent Pilots Association
The Independent Pilots Association is the union representing the collective bargaining interests of over 2800 airline pilots employed by United Parcel Service. The organization was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, where UPS's main air hub is located.
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts is a North American labor union representing over 168,000 technicians, artisans, and craftspersons in the entertainment industry, including live theatre, motion picture and television production, broadcast and trade shows in the United States and Canada.
International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers
The International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers is a trade union in the United States and Canada, founded in 1903. It is affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress and the North America's Building Trades Unions.
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers is a trade union in the United States and Canada. It is for boilermakers and related occupations, and is affiliated with both the AFL, CIO and CLC.
International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)
The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers is a North American labor union representing various professional, technical, and administrative support workers in the United States and Canada, in both the public and private sectors.
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT)
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) is a union representing about 100,000 painters, glaziers, wall coverers, flooring installers, convention and trade show decorators, glassworkers, sign and display workers, asbestos worker/hazmat technician and drywall finishers in the United States and Canada.
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA)
The Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association is the oldest maritime trade union in the United States still currently in existence, established in 1875. MEBA primarily represents licensed mariners, especially deck and engine officers working in the United States Merchant Marine aboard US-flagged vessels.
National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET-CWA)
The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians is a labor union representing employees in television, radio, film, and media production. A division of the Communications Workers of America, NABET represents about 12,000 workers organized into about 35 local unions.
National Education Association
The National Education Association is the largest labor union in the United States. It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers.
National Weather Service Employees Organization
National Weather Service Employees Organization (NWSEO) is a union that represents the National Weather Service, as well as NOAA's Office of Satellite & Product Operations, Office of General Counsel, Aircraft Operations Center, and Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory.
Southwest Airlines' Pilots Association
Since 1978, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has been the sole bargaining unit for more than 10,000 Pilots of Southwest Airlines.
The Guild of Italian American Actors (GIAA)
The Guild of Italian American Actors was founded in 1937 as the Italian Actors Union to protect the rights of Italian-American actors in Italian-language theater and was reinvented as GIAA, the Guild of Italian American Actors by then-president Paul Borghese in 1998.
Transportation Communications International Union
The Transportation Communications Union is the successor to the union formerly known as the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and includes within it many other organizations, including the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, that have merged with it since 1969.
United Service Workers Union
The USWU is a labor union dedicated to fighting for the rights of working people everywhere. Workers rights, labor union security, benefit fund, collective bargaining, member organization, security fund.
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is an American labor union representing over 750,000 employees of the federal government, about 5,000 employees of the District of Columbia, and a few hundred private sector employees, mostly in and around federal facilities.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. It represents 1.3 million public sector employees and retirees, including health care workers, corrections officers, sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, and childcare providers.
American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA)
The American Guild of Variety Artists is an American entertainment union representing performers in variety entertainment, including circuses, Las Vegas showrooms and cabarets, comedy showcases, dance revues, magic shows, theme park shows, and arena and auditorium extravaganzas.
American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
The American Postal Workers Union is a labor union in the United States. It represents over 200,000 employees and retirees of the United States Postal Service who belong to the Clerk, Maintenance, Motor Vehicle, and Support Services divisions. It also represents approximately 2,000 private-sector mail workers.
Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA)
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA is a union representing flight attendants in the United States. As of January 2018, AFA represents 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines. Since 2004, AFA has been part of the Communications Workers of America, an affiliate of AFL-CIO.
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union (BCTGM)
The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union is a labor union in the United States and Canada primarily representing workers in the food processing industry. The union was established in 1886 as the Journeyman Bakers Union.
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS)
The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen is a labor union in the United States. It represents workers who install, maintain, and repair railroad traffic control systems. These include switching, signaling, and highway-rail crossing warning systems on rail transport networks.
Colorado Workers for Innovations and New Solutions (WINS)
Colorado Workers for Innovative and New Solutions (WINS) is a union representing more than 24,000 state employees who work to ensure our quality of life in communities in every corner of our state.
Industrial Division, CWA (IUE-CWA)
As the Industrial Division of CWA, IUE-CWA represents a force of 150,000 active and retired workers united collectively to seek dignity on the job and a secure future for themselves, their children and all future generations.
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Iron Workers
The International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers is a union in the United States and Canada, which represents, trains and protects primarily construction workers, as well as shipbuilding and metal fabrication employees.
International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers
The International Union of Allied Novelty and Production Workers is an American labor union representing over 18,000 employees. Traditionally it organized workers at toy factories but, as that industry moved overseas, it evolved into a general union in a variety of industries.
International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades
The International Union of Journeymen and Allied Trades is a general union in the United States, with a history as a labor union representing farriers. The union was founded on April 27, 1874, as the Journeymen Horseshoers' National Union of the United States of America.
National Emergency Medical Services Association
The National Emergency Medical Services Association (NEMSA or National EMS Association) is a now defunct, registered labor union and California non-profit mutual benefit corporation. NEMSA's membership consists of emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and paramedics.
Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS)
The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists is affiliated with the AFL-CIO through its affiliation with the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association. It represents more than 11,000 Federal Aviation Administration's Airway Transportation Systems Specialists and Department of Defense employees.
Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada. SEIU is focused on organizing workers in three sectors: healthcare, including hospital, home care and nursing home workers; public services; and property services.
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), is an independent national, labor union established in 1959, representing theatrical directors and choreographers working on Broadway, National Tours, Off-Broadway, and in various resident, regional and stock theatres throughout the United States.
United Nurses and Allied Professionals
The United Nurses and Allied Professionals (UNAP) is a labor union in the United States which represents approximately 5,500 registered nurses, technologists, therapists, support staff, and other health care workers employed in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Connecticut.
American Maritime Officers (AMO)
American Maritime Officers is a national labor union affiliated with the Seafarers International Union of North America. With an active membership of approximately 4,000, AMO represents licensed mariners working in the United States Merchant Marine aboard U.S.-flagged merchant and military sealift vessels.
Home Healthcare Workers of America
Home Healthcare Workers of America (HHWA) is a national union representing home healthcare workers who have joined together to achieve better wages, benefits, and working conditions in their industry.
International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)
The International Association of Fire Fighters is a labor union representing paid full-time firefighters and emergency medical services personnel in the United States and Canada. The IAFF was formed in 1918 and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO in the United States and the Canadian Labour Congress in Canada.
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union. The union represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA)
The International Longshoremen's Association is a North American labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways; on the West Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC)
The International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) is a labor union in the United States and Canada which represents bricklayers, restoration specialists, pointers/cleaners/caulkers, stonemasons, marble masons, cement masons, plasterers, tile setters, terrazzo mechanics, and tile, marble and terrazzo finishers.
International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE)
The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) is a trade union within the AFL-CIO representing primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, surveyors, and stationary engineers who maintain heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes, in the United States and Canada.
Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU)
The Office and Professional Employees International Union is a trade union in the United States and Canada representing approximately 88,000 white-collar working people in the public and private sectors. It has members in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as in one local in Canada.
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)
The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is an American labor union representing approximately 160,000 media professionals worldwide. SAG-AFTRA is a member of the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the United States
Sheet Metal Workers International Association
The Sheet Metal Workers' International Association was a trade union of skilled metal workers who perform architectural sheet metal work, fabricate and install heating and air conditioning work, shipbuilding, appliance construction, heater and boiler construction, precision and specialty parts manufacture, and a variety of other jobs involving sheet metal.
Teamsters
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of the Team Drivers International Union and the Teamsters National Union, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors, totalling about 1.3 million in 2015.
United Public Service Employees Union
UPSEU is comprised of workers employed as registered nurses, social workers, clerical employees, operations and maintenance employees, food service workers, librarians and library support personnel, educational classroom aides/monitors/assistants, transportation employees, probation officers, police officers, crossing guards, social welfare examiners, laborers to name a few.
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