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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.
The Cannery Workers and Farm Laborer Union was created on June 19, 1933, in Seattle, representing Filipino laborers in Alaska's canneries. Shortly after, CWFLU was chartered as Local 18527 by the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
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.
More than 47,500 workers were involved in the wave of approximately 30 strikes from 1931 to 1941. [1] [2] Twenty-four of the strikes, involving 37,500 union members, were led by the Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union (CAWIU). [1] [a] The strikes are grouped together because most of them were organized by the CAWIU.
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 ...
Wespac, as well as local fishermen and officials in American Samoa, blame the growth in China's fishing efforts in the area. ... But in American Samoa, more than 1, 200 cannery workers signed a ...
The United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) was a labor union formed in 1937 and incorporated large numbers of Mexican, black, Asian, and Anglo food processing workers under its banner. [1] The founders envisioned a national decentralized labor organization with power flowing from the bottom up.
Due to longstanding pushback and controversial health studies surrounding the ingredient, many processed food manufacturers have already shifted away from using Red Dye No. 3, opting instead for ...