Leather Workers' International Union of America
The Leather Workers' International Union of America (LWU) was a labor union representing workers in the leather industry in the United States and Canada.
The union was founded on January 14, 1955, as the Leather Workers' Organizing Committee.[1] Its founding affiliates were some former locals of the International Fur and Leather Workers' Union, which had opposed that union's merger into the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen.[2] On November 2, it was chartered by the Congress of Industrial Organizations as the LWIU.[1]
In December 1955, the union affiliated to the new AFL-CIO, and by 1957, it had 5,743 members.[3] Its membership fell to only 2,110 in 1980,[4] and on February 3, 1992, it merged into the Office and Professional Employees' International Union.[1]
Presidents[edit]
- 1955: R. J. Thomas
- 1955: Richard B. O'Keefe
- 1971: Arthur Cecelski
- 1980s: James L. Sawyer
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Inactive Organizations" (PDF). UMD Labor Collections. University of Maryland. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
- ^ Chaison, Gary (1973). "Federation Expulsions and Union Mergers in the United States". Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations. 28 (2).
- ^ Directory of National and International Labor Unions in the United States (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Labor. 1957. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
- ^ Directory of National Unions and Employee Associations (PDF). Washington DC: United States Department of Labor. 1980. Retrieved 3 May 2022.