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United Automobile Worker
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
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Three unions joined the Council for Cooperative Development in Cleveland on May 15, totaling six unions and four co-op groups. Formed in February to unite labor and co-ops for U.S. industrial organization, focusing on Eastern Michigan with $1.5M volume chain and expansion plans.
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Applications of the United Packinghouse Workers International Association of Machinists and Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Auxiliary) for membership in the Council for Cooperative Development were approved at its Executive Committee meeting in Cleveland on May 15. This brings membership in the council to six International unions and four Regional and National Cooperative groups. The unions, already members, include the UAW-CIO, United Rubber Workers, and the State, County and Municipal Workers.
AFL Cooperatives are: Central States Cooperatives, Chicago; Eastern States Cooperatives, New York; Associated Cooperatives in California and the Cooperative League of the USA.
The Council for Cooperative Development was set up in February of this year for the purpose of uniting labor and cooperative groups in the work of organizing cooperatives in the industrial centers of the U. S.
During the past year, chief emphasis of the Council has been in Eastern Michigan. Six cooperatives in Detroit, Ecorse, Lansing, Flint and Pontiac, are now working together as a chain with an annual volume of just under $1,500,000.
Plans call for completing organization work in Toledo, Jackson, Wayne, Lansing, Saginaw, Dearborn and west-side Detroit within the next year.
Cooperation in some states as in others.
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Cleveland; Eastern Michigan; Detroit, Ecorse, Lansing, Flint, Pontiac; Toledo, Jackson, Wayne, Saginaw, Dearborn
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May 15; February Of This Year
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Three international unions joined the Council for Cooperative Development at its Executive Committee meeting in Cleveland on May 15, increasing membership to six international unions and four regional and national cooperative groups. The council, established in February, unites labor and cooperative groups to organize cooperatives in U.S. industrial centers, with emphasis on Eastern Michigan where six cooperatives operate as a chain with nearly $1,500,000 annual volume. Plans include expansion to additional Michigan areas within the next year.