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Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) was an American labor union formed in 1876 to represent iron and steel workers. It partnered with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO, in November 1935. Both organizations disbanded May 22, 1942, to form a new
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See moreThe Homestead strike was a major turning point for the union.
Andrew Carnegie placed strong anti-unionist Henry Clay Frick in charge of his company's operations in 1881. With the union's contract due to...
See moreThe AA never recovered from the U.S. Steel strike. It turned strongly conservative, hoping through submissiveness and
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See moreBy mid-1933, the Great Depression and conservative leadership had left the AA with only 5,000 members and less than $30,000 in the bank. Union president Michael F. Tighe, 76, was
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See moreFor the next six years, the AA remained inactive within SWOC. It issued charters and approved contracts for existing lodges, but let SWOC handle all matters regarding organizing and to negotiate contracts on behalf of new locals.
SWOC and the AA were...
See moreThe Homestead strike affected the AA nationwide. The Joliet Iron and Steel Company, the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, the St. Louis Wire Mill Company, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works
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See moreFaced with declining membership, the AA amended its constitution in 1910 and offered membership to all iron and steel workers. Few took the union up on its offer.
In 1909, AA president P.J. McArdle won approval for an AFL...
See moreOther events swiftly overtook the AA. The National Labor Relations Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on July 5, 1935.
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