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____________________________________________________________________________________ George Meany ____________________________________________________________________________________ The street where our union offices are located is named George Meany Boulevard in honor of a labor leader we remember as one of our own. George Meany
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plumber's son and a plumber himself by trade, George Meany joined
the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices
of the Plumbing and PipeFitting Industry
of the United States and Canada in 1915, and at the age of 16 he became an apprentice plumber. From
1922 to 1934 he was a Business Agent of the plumber's union in New York City. He
served as president of the New York State Federation of Labor from 1934 to 1939,
when he became secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
During World War II he was a member of the National War Labor Board. In 1952,
after the death of William Green, George Meany became president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). During the Meany years, the AFL-CIO became an effective, driving champion of the rights of the oppressed and the needy. He was an outspoken defender of individual freedom. The AFL-CIO he headed was the driving force behind national policies for social change, and improved employment conditions in America attest to the success of those efforts. George Meany made notable contributions to the growth of American unions. He played a vital and commanding role in the 1955 merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. This was his signal achievement, and by acclamation, a grateful merged labor movement named him president of the newly-created AFL-CIO. As his successor Lane Kirkland said: "The merger was not a climax, but just a beginning of George Meany's greatest years of service." In the sunset of his life, he spent many Sunday afternoons, often accompanied by members of his family, strolling the campus of the AFL - CIO Labor Studies Center, now the George Meany Memorial Center. George Meany died on January 10, 1980 at the age of 85 and is buried at Gate of Heavens in Silver Spring, Maryland. The George Meany Center for Labor Studies-National Labor College, is the site of the George Meany Memorial Archives. The following is excerpted from "George Meany, 1894-1980: Chronology," located at the George Meany Memorial Archives:
"One cannot have a trade union or a
democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and
assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their
rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No
democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade
union rights without either. That is our belief; that is our creed." __________________________________________________________________________________________ Click the BSA logo to learn about : |
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