Local 7 proudly owned this spacious three-story building on the corner of 2nd and Main. Local 7 leaders Ernesto Mangaoang, Vincent Navea, Irineo Cabatit in early 1940s. The union is now known as FTA-CIO Local 7.ġ949-1950 – CIO expels FTA International and Local 7 affiliates with International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) to become Local 7-C. The Seattle local is UCAPAWA-CIO Local 7.ġ943 – Local 5 of San Francisco and Local 226 of Portland merge into Seattle’s Local 7.ġ947 – The Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers’ Union of America (FTA) succeeds UCAPAWA. Novem– Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco locals leave CWFLU-AFL and join United Cannery, Agricultural, Packinghouse, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). J– Cannery Workers’ and Farm Laborer’s Union (CWFLU) Local 18257 formed under American Federation of Labor (AFL). What's in a Name? A timeline of affiliations and name changes: This pamphlet was part of the campaign to save the union and its leaders. In 1949 five Local 7 leaders were arrested and threatened with deportation because of ties to the Communist Party. Click on any image to see a larger version. Special thanks to Fred and Dorothy Cordova and the Filipino American National Historical Society (FAHNS) for permission to display the following pictures and documents.
