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The Spectrum Strike was a workers' strike involving 1,200 Spectrum workers in New York City. [1] [2] The strike began on March 23, 2017, [3] when 1,800 Spectrum workers walked off the job in protest of a plan by the company to replace its union healthcare plan and union pension with a company-run healthcare plan and pension plan. [1]
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is a labor union that represents approximately 820,000 workers and retirees [1] in the electrical industry in the United States, Canada, [3] Guam, [4] [5] Panama, [6] Puerto Rico, [7] and the US Virgin Islands; [7] in particular electricians, or inside wiremen, in the construction industry and lineworkers and other employees of public ...
Born in Syracuse, New York, Barry became an electrician and joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in 1943. Later that year, he joined the United States Navy and served in World War II. After the war, he returned to working as an electrician, and was elected as business manager of his union local in 1962. [1] [2] [3]
Bob Holden, New York City Councilmember from the 30th district (2018–present) [109] Rafael Salamanca, New York City Councilmember from the 17th district (2016–present) [121] Labor unions. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen Local 56 [109] Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen Local 241 [109] International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local ...
For years, officials of Laborers Local 91, in Niagara, New York, directed a strongarm squad [69] of union members to make death threats and to commit criminal acts against nonunion construction workers and work sites. In 1997, the union fire-bombed a residence used by non-union workers in Niagara Falls, New York, causing permanent injury to one ...
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Gradually, former members of rival unions joined the United Association. The depression of 1893–1897 slowed the development of a stronger organization. Membership in the United Association grew to 6,700 in 1893, but fell to 4,400 by 1897. Yet, by that year 151 local unions were listed on its rolls.
The union was formed on February 4, 1896 at a meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with 16 delegates from the local unions in Boston, Massachusetts, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, New York City, New York, Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. [3]