Unionist Organizations

Arnold M. Dublin Labor Education Center (Massachusetts, USA)
• "...founded in 1975 by leaders in the labor movement, the community and the university. The Center's Advisory Board represents a wide constituency in developing..."

International Longshoremen's Association (ILA, AFL-CIO)
• "...the largest union of maritime workers in North America, representing upwards of 65,000 longshoremen on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, Great Lakes, major U.S. rivers, Puerto Rico and Eastern Canada."

Unite Here! - Local 8
• "...represents about 4,000 workers in the hospitality industries of Washington State. Local 8 members work in hotels, restaurants, food service, and airport concessions. They include room cleaners, cooks, bartenders, bellmen, food and beverage servers, bussers, and dishwashers."

Inlandboatmen's Union, The: Marine Division of the ILWU (IBU)
• "Union workers enjoy higher pay and better benefits. Union workers have job security and a contract making their employer the best they can be! The Inlandboatmen's Union wants to help you build a union at your company...."

New York State - Public Employees Federation (PEF) (AFL-CIO) (New York, USA)
• "Our Vision...That all PEF members believe their union is superior in representing them, that it strives to involve every member in organized union activities to achieve their workplace objectives, and that our union's resources will be dedicated to dramatically increasing PEF's influence..."

• "...called upon to challenge the deplorable conditions of the broader workforce that remains voiceless, powerless, and invisible to mainstream America..."

• "If you want to help workers -- and especially women workers -- join labor unions, you've come to the right place."

• "Another aspect of the financial problem has been the soaring costs of drugs from the profiteering pharmaceutical companies. For the sake of the public and those that work in the NHS, the local Trades Union Council is tackling this issue...."

• "... represents the SCMTD Bus Operators and the Operators and Dispatchers of Liftline; all within the Santa Cruz, California community."

• "...a democratic organization governed and comprised of local, national, and international unions. These unions meet at a biennial convention whose location alternates between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia every two years. Convention delegates are elected by their local unions to establish goals and policies..."