Upholsterers International Union of North America

It was founded in 1882 when eight small met at a conference in Chicago and agreed to combine.In 1929, a convention voted to change the name to Upholsterers, Carpet and Linoleum Mechanics' International Union of North America but the other name remained in common use.[1] By 1977, the union (headquartered in Philadelphia) had a membership of 55,000, and was pursuing a policy of aggressively organizing in the Southern United States (where most furniture jobs had gone), in cooperation with other unions such as the United Furniture Workers of America and the International Woodworkers of America.[2] In October 1985, the union voted to merge with the United Steelworkers.This article related to a United States labor union is a stub.
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