Office and Professional Employees International Union

found: NUCMC data from U. of Washington Lib. for Office & Professional Employees International Union. Records, 1938-1975(Office & Professional Employees International Union)

found: LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Office and Professional Employees International Union; at the January 1966 meeting ... the President reported in detail on the official change in the name of the Office Employes International Union to Office and Professional Employees International Union)

found: The Twenty-niner, Oct. 1968, surrogate:return address page (Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 29, Oakland, Calif.)

found: Office & Professional Employees International Union website, August 1, 2013:home page (Office & Professional Employees International Union; OPEIU) About OPEIU > Our history (In 1936 Mollie Levitas presented the first resolution calling for an international union of office workers at the AFL convention in Tampa. Nine years later the AFL issued a charter to Office Employees International Union (OEIU), with 22,000 members strong, at a convention in Cincinnati. Ten years after the AFL merged with the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) at the AFL-CIO's 10th convention in San Francisco in 1965, our union changed its name to the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU))

found: Wikipedia, August 1, 2013(under Office and Professional Employees International Union: The Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) is a trade union in the United States; Clerical unions began forming in the early 1900s. By 1920, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had issued charters to more than 50 clerical unions. In 1942, the locals banded together to form the International Council of Office Employee Unions. In 1945, this union received a charter from the AFL as the Office Employees International Union. In 1965, the union adopted its current name. )