The United Paperworkers' International Union (UPIU) was a labor union representing workers involved in making paper, and later various industrial workers, in the United States and Canada.
4-658: The union was founded on August 9, 1972, when the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers merged with the United Papermakers and Paperworkers . Like both its predecessors, it was chartered by the AFL–CIO . On formation, the union had 389,000 members. In 1974, the large majority of its Canadian section split away, to form the Canadian Paperworkers' Union . In 1978, Joseph Tonelli ,
8-641: The UPIU in 1991, followed in 1994 by the Allied Industrial Workers of America . On January 4, 1999, the union merged with the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union , to form the Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union . International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers The International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers (IBPSPMW)
12-452: The union's president, was indicted on a charge of embezzling $ 360,000 of union money. In 1987 and 1988 , UPIU members struck against International Paper in Jay, Maine . The strike generated international attention but ultimately ended in defeat for the strikers and the permanent replacement of union members with non-union replacements. The Independent Workers of North America union merged into
16-551: Was a labor union representing workers involved in making paper in the United States and Canada. The union was founded on January 6, 1906, as a split from the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers . In 1909, it was chartered by the American Federation of Labor . By 1926, it had 10,000 members. The union was affiliated to the AFL–CIO from 1955 and by 1957 it had grown to have 165,000 members. In 1958, it absorbed
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