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UPWA's Wilson Strike
1950
Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union hall. UPWA was then a member of the CIO.
Just the Facts
1962
During a long strike by United Packinghouse Workers Local 156, the Teamsters union attempted to lure the strikers into their union. To combat that effort, UPWA official Tom Moss distributed a leafl...
Goodbye to Local 50
1962
Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 50 at a ceremony marking the closure of the Swift & Company plant in Milwaukee. The local was organized about 1932 by the Amalgamated Mea...
Don't Buy Wilson
Picket line of United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) Local 11 in front of the plant of the Wilson meatpacking company. Although unidentified except for the internal information, the photogr...
Don't Buy Kohler
Unidentified photograph from the archives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America showing the boycott of Kohler Company products. The strike by the Kohler workers begun in 1954 was one of the...
Representation Election
September 1962
Vying to represent some Illinois packinghouse workers are (left to right) representatives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers (AMC...
