"IWA Canada" redirects here. For other uses, see IWA.
International Woodworkers of America
Woodworkers District Lodge W1
IWA
Merger
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Founded
1937
Dissolved
1994
Location
United States, Canada
Members
20,000
Affiliations
Congress of Industrial Organizations
International Woodworkers of America (IWA) was an industrial union of lumbermen, sawmill workers, timber transportation workers and others formed in 1937.
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area ofwoodworking requires a different variation of tools. Power tools and hand tools are both used for woodworking. Many modern woodworkers choose...
other unions such as the United Furniture Workers ofAmerica and the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica. In October 1985, the union voted to merge with...
the Communist Party of Canada was known). He was one of the founders of the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica and served as one of the union's organizers...
rivals the Upholsterers and the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica, in 1987 the UFWA merged with the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Technical...
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they seceded to form the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica in 1937. Craft unionism has receded in many industries as a result of changes in technology...
member of the United Church of Canada. He did missionary work as a student. Barnett was manager of the Alberni and District Co-op, the first employee of the...
National Convention.: 224–25 In 1959, a strike led by the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica (IWA) that resulted the "most bitter labour dispute in Newfoundland's...
expansion of the ILWU, InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica (IWA), Mine-Mill, and the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers ofAmerica (UCAPAWA)...
of mine, and I am very sorry to hear of his passing."—Jack Munro, former President of the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica, the most powerful of the...
Chinese-Canadians in 1947. He was also a labour organizer for the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica and founded the Chinese Canadian Military Museum and the...
Harry Bains is a Canadian politician serving as the Minister of Labour in British Columbia since 2017. He has been the NDP MLA for Surrey-Newton since...
a merger of the International Federation of Building Workers and International Federation of Wood Workers. The International Secretariat of Stone Masons...
Swift's Meats in Vancouver. He accepted a position with the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica, then went on to become a representative for the Canadian...
development and even intervened in a labour dispute in 1959. The InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica had struck to get higher wages and better working conditions...
as president of the British Columbia section of the party in the 1950s. He was also active with the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica in British Columbia...
government, or you were with a gang of mainland union thugs, which was how the InternationalWoodworkers' ofAmerica (IWA) leaders were unfairly depicted...
marriage was not successful, as most of these workers soon bolted to form the InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica and to join the CIO several years later...
candidates. The InternationalWoodworkersofAmerica (IWA) in British Columbia was also Communist-led. When, in 1948, CCF supporters gained control of the IWA's...