Today in History
18 October 2011
October 18, 1943 - The Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee was officially dissolved and workers were given control over their own organization -- the United Packinghouse Workers of America. The UPWA merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen in 1968, which merged with the Retail Clerks to become the United Food & Commercial Workers in 1979.
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