NABTU Legislative Conference Signals Unified Push for Workforce, Infrastructure, and Energy Investment
America’s ability to meet rising demand in construction, energy, and infrastructure depends on a highly skilled, union-trained workforce—and the systems that support it.
Part 3 Union History
The modern history of unions is sometimes told too narrowly, as if it were only a story of decline. That misses the bigger truth.
Part 2 History of Unions
America’s first unions did not appear fully formed. They started locally, trade by trade, city by city. One of the earliest documented examples was the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers in Philadelphia, which workers said they organized in 1794 in response to employers’ efforts to drive wages down.
Part 1 History of Unions
Long before unions had formal offices, contracts or national conventions, they began with something simpler and more powerful: workers recognizing that alone they had little leverage, but together they had a voice.
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