Journeymen Stonecutters' Association of North America
The Journeymen Stonecutters' Association of North America (JSANA) was a labor union representing workers involved in cutting and shaping stone for construction in the United States and Canada.Stonecutters were one of the first trades to establish a national union in the United States.[1] The union achieved a maximum eight hour day in 1904, the first industry to do so.In 1907, it was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and in 1915 it absorbed the New York Stone Cutters' Society and the Architectural Sculptors' and Carvers' Association of New York.[3] On February 19, 1968, it merged into the Laborers' International Union of North America.