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Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union

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LDCIU
Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union
Union mergerService Employees International Union
Founded1958
HeadquartersOakland, California
Location
Key people
Russell Crowell, President
AffiliationsChange to Win Federation

The Laundry and Dry Cleaning International Union is an AFL–CIO union in the United States. Based in Oakland, California, it was created as an alternative to the Laundry Workers International Union, which had been expelled from the AFL–CIO in 1958 for corruption. Russell Crowell was president of the new union from 1962 to 1983.

The organization merged with the Service Employees International Union in 1999, at which time it had 11,000 members.[1]

See also

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  • Television interview with union member Tacolia (?) McDaniel and president Russell Crowell, 1963, about union and nonunion wages in the industry (starting at 13:05)

References

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  1. ^ Elizabeth A. Ashack, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Major Union Mergers, Alliances, and Disaffiliations, 1995-2007," 2008