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The Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7 was the first Filipino-led union in the United States. [1]Founded in 1933 as the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 18257 of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), it represented Alaska salmon cannery workers and farm workers.
Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union Local 7 Records. 1915-1985. 46.31 cubic feet. Carlos Bulosan Papers, 1914-1976. 4.65 cubic feet, 17 microfilm reels.
Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7 Photographs 217 photographic prints, 6 contact sheets, 45 negatives, 1 postcard, 1 35mm color slide (1 box and 2 folders) at the Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections
Mangaoang served as President of Local 266 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packinghouse, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) that represented Alaska cannery workers dispatched from Portland. In 1944, Local 266 was absorbed by UCAPAWA Local 7, based in Seattle, and Mangaoang became Local 7's Business Agent.
The labor powerhouse, which represents about 150,000 city workers, plans to render a final decision on March 23, according to spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein. Eric Adams poised to win backing from DC ...
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Modesto "Larry" Dulay Itliong (October 25, 1913 – February 1977 [a]), also known as "Seven Fingers", [3] was a Filipino-American union organizer.He organized West Coast agricultural workers starting in the 1930s, and rose to national prominence in 1965, when he, Philip Vera Cruz, Benjamin Gines and Pete Velasco, walked off the farms of area table-grape growers, demanding wages equal to the ...
Starbucks workers in New York City have filed 14 more complaints alleging that the coffee giant violated the city’s labor laws.. New York’s Fair Workweek law says that employers have to give ...