Pipeline laborers union and the international brotherhood of operating engineers (heavy equipment)
However, after I turned 30, I gave up that work.

We have the Unions to thank for all their hard fought efforts that most all people enjoy without having to negotiate, strike, get hurt or lose their life. Unions paid that price many times. Happy Labor Day 🤗

UAW ... retired with a great pension.

I read yer posts. They're great. When I still worked on the pipeline, I considered getting a teamsters book.
I was thinking about becoming a warehouseman (material man, purchasing agent).

Glad you had a book ,my friend is welder on pipeline that guy always travels.

But the money is good and the benefits and pension are good.

who fought for the right to have a 40 hour week. They remember it on May 1st.

I believe you can find such numbers in Labor's Untold Story.

https://archive.org/details/laborsuntoldstor00boye

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his mills. Many were killed. I will see if they have a section on the Homestead Works. in PA Thanks for the link and Happy Labor Day.

Works was located. It is very interesting to read the Riot/Strike , canons used etc.

From 1971 to 1986. Now, the ITU apparently no longer exists. I have tried to Google search whatever remnants of it still exist, and the only one I was able to find was the Union Printers Home for retired ITU members somewhere in Colorado. Pueblo or Colorado Springs or somewhere, I forget exactly.

We did pasteup and typesetting and proofreading and camera work in a darkroom and stuff like that. Nowadays, any fifth grader with a laptop computer and Quark Xpress and Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator can sit in his bedroom and do anything we were able to do back then, and much more. I suppose that's what killed our union, but I kept on working at that newspaper. I did pagination, page design, copyediting, proofreading, wrote headlines and blurbs and captions, lots of stuff like that, but not as a member of any union after 1986.

I worked for that newspaper for 43 years, retired at the end of 2014 (worked literally to exactly midnight on Dec. 31) and then went back to work there part-time 10 months later for another 22 months. My job at that newspaper is the only real job I've ever had, in fact. And I'm the only member of my family who has ever been a union member.

Even though the International Typographical Union no longer exists, it still occupies a warm spot in my heart. I am grateful to the ITU because, even though I was a member for only 15 years, almost everything I have now carried over from those 15 years to everything I got after, and everything I have now.

-- Ron

Labor Day.

I do know there are Union printers because the election mailings I received from our Dem candidate trying to unseat Rick Scott used Union printers. I always look for that Union label from mailings from candidates and all her envelopes n paper had it. When I sent in my donation, I thanked her for using Union printers. Hope you find where your Union merged

As a young man, he tried to organize a union at the Austin American-Statesman. He'd been well thought of but after that, he was met at the door by a manager and by the end of the conversation had his pride up and quit – much to the satisfaction of the manager. Then he was blacklisted and couldn't get anyone to hire him in Austin. A big dilemma for him. By that time he'd fallen in love with my mom, who was determined to live in Austin the rest of her days. Not just Austin but South Austin.

Dad ended up having to rent time on a printing press to earn enough money to start his own printing company. Futura Press. It was 100 percent union from the beginning. Dad was management and labor at the same time. He sold the business when he retired. The next guy milked it into the ground, didn't pay taxes so it was seized and shut down.

Dad passed last summer. I didn't realize the ITU was no more. Sorry to learn that.

I taught school in Texas. I was a union member part of that time. It's different in a right to work state. Unions have so little power. But I always believed in unions and honored boycotts.. Got to see Cesar Chavez speak a couple of times.

some reason workers are black balled by the company. Good for him he quiet. Happy Labor Day.

My mom was a lifelong Democratic activist. Dad was a socialist-leaning Democratic voter. Since he had the only printing press in Texas with a union label in those days, he got a whole lot of the political printing. The really good progressive candidates got the really good rates. Sometimes Mom and Dad made that happen by recruiting us kids to fold mailing pieces and stuff envelopes at home around the kitchen table. I've never forgotten how to jog paper, collate, or to splay sheets out so they're quick and easy to pick up and fold by hand.

Salute to you guys. You were the greatest.

22 of those years retired and I volunteered to keep paying dues.
My new wife is now on my health insurance. She is an RN and was paying a fortune for terrible insurance.

Well he's a rapist too, among other things, but Shawn Fain had me on my feet. Ok, I was cooking dinner anyway, but...

DEA (MEA) local teachers union. We just negotiated a great new contract!

conditions there, Stay Union, Stay Strong. Happy Labor Day. snpsmom.

Of one union or another since 1971.
Awppw (papermill)
Teamsters 959 (surveyor trans-Ak pipeline)
Laborers union (concrete)
Piledrivers union (Bridges, Docks, and Warves)
Shop Steelworkers(Steel bridges and buildings)
Operators lcls 701, 12, &3.(Welding foreman, then weld inspection)

Became a member of the piledrivers and retired from carpenters union. He worked on many of the major bridge's in California. Coronado and Terminal Island ( Long Beach ) were two of the bridges. He started out with the labors union in Flagstaf Arizona on the Glen Canyon Bridge.
He poured a lot of concrete patios at his home when he retired lol

I went to union meetings during the time that Pat Tornillo was President.

It was one of the best things that I chose to do as a public school teacher. The union was always there when we needed them.

Union strong !

I used to be IPGCU - International Print and Graphic Communications Union when I worked as a commercial artist

Hubby and my youngest son Education

Middle and oldest sons used to be in Grocery workers union

It was a summer job in a factory. I had some "student membership" which didn't cost alot. Learned alot, good and bad, about unions. Moved south and have constantly been amazed at the continued resistance to unionization, all the while they complain about work conditions, salary, promotions, etc. My standard response is "that's what unions are for". But it falls on deaf ears.

I was the 1st female Air Traffic Controller at a California tower and a member of our union PATCO. We went on strike and Reagan fired us. Little note though, they called me and offered me my job back a year later. Fortunately I was young enough and started a new career. The training and confidence I gained to become a Controller was so valuable that I was eveutally able to open my own business.
Big union supporter.

Happy Labor Day!

I was a member for three years. Every year, I got a cost-of-living raise, and I always got off work on time.

Now that I’m a Physician Assistant and have no union, I still support unions 100%!

union workplace. thank you Aristus and have a relaxing Labor Day

National association of letter carriers. Worked at the post ofice for 28 years.

AFL-CIO

Was a Teamster for a bit working for UPS in college.

I was a proud member of the PSEA and the NEA.

I lived my enter life in SW PA until 3 years ago. We moved to a suburb of Cleveland to be near our oldest son and his family. We still fly our Pitt and Steelers flags!

IAM!!!

For 25 years on and off through airline mergers and acquisition turmoil. Mr. Barnes CWA (Communications Workers of America) for about 15 years, most of the time as shop steward.

and I will never cross a picket line of any union. I've sent pizzas and brought sweet rolls and donuts to picket lines. Any time I'm driving and see a company being picketed if I'm able to pull over and talk I do. I ask them what the big issues are and tell them keep up the pressure. It only takes a minute or two to express your support for union labor and the workers do acknowledge that you cared.

When the protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol building were going on when Scott Walker was doing his power grab and laying waste to public employee rights in Wisconsin I picked up the phone and ordered and paid for several hundreds of dollars of pizza to be delivered to the protesters. So if you were there on that day I made the order and you got some pizza I'm glad some made it through. If not I maybe got f**ked again but I tried to get you fed. I'm no hero. But I am one ornery old coot who isn't afraid to take a chance and spend some dough (no pun intended) trying to keep up the spirit of resistance and rebellion against these clowns.

He was among the members agitating for good pension, health insurance, and vacation in the 60s and 70s.

I'd worked enough to attain.

LU756 Daytona Beach, FL

Retired with thirty years.

Also member of a UAW Retiree Chapter for last seventeen years. Recording Secretary going on fourteen years.

I have been the editor of our Chapter two page newsletter since end of 2010. It goes to about 2,000 dues paying retirees and some surviving spouses.

Active members pay dues equal to 2.5 hours of pay per month. New retirees and Associated Members (spouses) pay $3 monthly. Of which $1.05 stays with the Chapter

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and union jobs were always better. Even a so so union was better than no union.

Take that to the bank.

when I worked for the County and the UFT (I think) when I taught in the South Bronx.

Happy Labpr Day Thank you captain queeg

Member since 2001. Two strikes under my belt, one called while I was actually employed!

Great book. Not a fan of Andrew Carnegie after reading the book. The book is about the history of Andrew Carnegie and how he monopolized the steele industry and the transformation of workers rights. He was a shrewed businessman. I totally recommend the book. I couldn't put it down. Unions are the backbone of workers rights! I became a union rep after a long battle over pregnancy discrimination. This squeaky wheel got the grease and everyone benefitted!

then I joined one a couple years ago, best decision I made in my career

Also got fired for trying to start a union at my crappy college job.

Happy Labor Day.

the last 12 years of my professional career. One of the best career moves I made for the health care and retirement benefits.

Before that, 19 years NEA Indiana.

Proud Union Teacher!

Now retired.

I got a job in the steel industry where I belonged to the USW union. All totaled about 42 years. I
spent 1 1/2 years total on strike in order to enjoy a decent retirement. Although unions have their problems
they are far better than the alternative.

Past local President, PAC Chair, etc.

Newark Teachers Union for⁸ 25 years

Airline Pilots Association, then Allied Pilots Association which is an in-house American Airlines union.

Happy Labor Day to all my DU members!