Association of Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA)
- The world's largest labor union organized by flight attendants for flight attendants. AFA represents nearly 60,000 flight attendants at 23 airlines, serving as a voice for flight attendants at their workplace, in the industry, in the media and on Capitol Hill.
BECTU - Independent union for those working in broadcasting, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure, interactive media and allied areas who are primarily based in the United Kingdom.
CAW/TCA - Largest union in Canada in sectors such as auto assembly, auto parts manufacturing, aerospace, shipbuilding, fisheries and railway transportation.
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) - Independent voice of black workers within the trade union movement, challenging organized labor to be more relevant to the needs and aspirations of Black and poor workers.
Department for Professional Employees (DPE) [AFL-CIO] - Currently represents 25 unions comprising more than four million white collar workers. The Department was chartered by the AFL-CIO in 1977, in recognition of the dramatic rise in professional and technical employees among union members. Also see DPE NewsLine.
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) - The largest professional association of national broadcasters in the world. The Union has 71 active Members in 52 countries of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, and 46 associate Members in 29 countries further afield.
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) - The ETUC has in its membership 77 national trade union confederations from a total of 35 European countries, as well as 11 European industry federations, making a total of 60 million members. Other trade Union structures such as Eurocadres (Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff) and EFREP/FERPA (European Federation of Retired and Elderly Persons) operate under the auspices of the ETUC. In addition, the ETUC coordinates the activities of the 39 ITUCs (Interregional Trade Union Councils), which organise trade union cooperation at a cross-border level.
Freelancers Union -
A nonprofit organization that represents the needs of America’s independent workforce though advocacy, information, and service. Independent workers make up 30% of the nation’s workforce: freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, temps, part-timers, contingent employees, and the self-employed. By representing independent workers as a group, Freelancers Union can negotiate insurance rates and provide a social safety net.
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) -
Main areas of activity include: 1) trade union and human rights; 2) economy, society and the workplace; 3) equality and non-discrimination; and 4) international solidarity.
International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) - A progressive, diversified trade union that primarily represents Operating Engineers, who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, and surveyors in the construction industry, and Stationary Engineers, who work in operations and maintenance in building and industrial complexes, and in the service industries. The IUOE also represents nurses and other health industry workers as well as significant numbers of public employees engaged in a wide variety of occupations.
Labor Council - A union for unions with over 67 affiliated unions representing over 800,000 workers in New South Wales. The Labor Council's web-project, LaborNET, was first launched in 1996. Today LaborNET is the largest clustering of Australian union information available on the Internet.
National Domestic Workers Alliance - Organizes domestic workers in the United States for respect, recognition and labor standards. Through leadership development, strategic campaigns and alliance building we seek to help build a movement for social and global justice.
National Guestworker Alliance (NGA) -
A membership organization of guestworkers whose members organize in labor camps across the United States to win collective dignity at work.
National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) - The largest metalworkers trade union in South Africa with more than 260 000 members. It is an active affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions [COSATU], the biggest trade union federation in South Africa.
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) -
British trade union representing more than 80,000 members in almost every sector of the transport industry, from mainline and underground rail to shipping and offshore, buses and road-freight.
Nautilus International - Trade union and professional organisation that represents shipmasters, officers, cadets and other staff serving in international merchant shipping fleets and ashore in maritime related industries. The union is affiliated to the UK Trades Union Congress and the International Transport Workers' Federation, International Federation & Shipmasters Associations, as well as Netherlands-based FNV.
Newspaper Guild, The - Founded as a print journalists' union, the Guild today is primarily a media union with more than 34,000 members in the United States, Canada and in Puerto Rico: journalists, sales and media workers of all kinds, on-line writers and designers, reporters, editorial assistants, photographers, editors, paginators, editorial artists, correspondents, typographers, advertising sales people, marketing, information systems specialists, commercial artists, technicians, accountants, business, customer service reps, drivers, maintenance, mail room, pressroom, telephone operators, circulation and distribution staff.
Pacific Media Workers Guild - Local 39521 of The Newspaper Guild, a sector of the Communications Workers of America, one of the nation's largest affiliates of the AFL-CIO, the "union for the Information Age."
Located in downtown San Fancisco. Represents more than 2,200 newspaper and communications workers across the San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey and the Central Valley, as well as court interpreters in its statewide California Federation of Interpreters unit.
Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) - Organised throughout the civil service and government agencies, making it the UK’s largest civil service trade union. Also organise widely in the private sector, usually in areas that have been privatised.
San Francisco Labor Council (SFLC) - The SFLC is the local body of the AFL-CIO and was chartered in 1893 to be the coordinating regional body for labor cooperation and unity. It is a membership organization serving as a coalition of the labor community in San Francisco. Over 150 unions are affiliated with the SFLC, representing more than 100,000 union members and their families.
Teamsters Local 399 - The Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Division of the Teamsters represents workers in the motion picture industry including firms that produce feature films, television programs, commercials, and live theatrical productions.
Union Network International (UNI) - UNI represents 15.5 million members in 900 unions from more than 140 countries world-wide. Founding partners are The Communications International, FIET (the white collar and services grouping), International Graphical Federation, and the Media and Entertainment International.
UNISON - Britain's biggest trade union with over 1.3 million members. Its members are people working in the public services, for private contractors providing public services and the essential utilities.
Unite Here! - Represents workers throughout the U.S. and Canada who work in the hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, laundry, and airport industries.
Unite the Union - Britain and Ireland's largest manufacturing, technical and skilled persons' union.
United Federation of Teachers (UFT) -
Over 200,000 members strong, the UFT is a federation of teachers, nurses and other professionals working in New York City’s five boroughs.
United Professionals (UP) - A nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for white collar workers, regardless of profession or employment status.
United Scenic Artists, L.U. 829 - Professional union representing scenic designers, art directors, lighting designers, and stylists for theatre, film and television.
World Council of Nuclear Workers (WONUC) - An association of trade unions and/or other organized bodies of workers and professionals involved in nuclear technologies.
World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) -
The Constitution of the WFTU adopted in 1945 placed among the aims of the WFTU: "To combat war and the causes of war and work for a stable and enduring peace." Today the WFTU is involved in the co-ordination of all militant trade unions, no matter what their differences are, in order to repulse capital’s attack against social security, full and stable work, privatizations, environmental pollution, quality of life.
Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) - Since 1954, the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West have negotiated and administered minimum basic agreements with major film producers and networks and stations, covering theatrical and television films, broadcast and cable television, documentary film and radio, public and commercial television. In recent years, the Guilds have expanded their coverage of radio and television staff employees, the latter group mostly in the news and documentary areas, including news writers and others at ABC and CBS and a number of major individual stations. Currently the Guilds administer 36 separate agreements.
Writers Guild of America, West (WGA) - Represents thousands of writers of television shows, movies, news programs, documentaries, animation, CD-ROMs, and content for new-media technologies in negotiations with film and television producers.
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