Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union
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The Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union (PACE) is an international union that represents workers in the United States and Canada. PACE was founded in January 4, 1999 by the merger of the United Paperworkers International Union with the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union.
PACE fights for rights, wages raise, improvement of working conditions for workers in such fields as: paper industry, oil, chemicals, nuclear materials, pharmaceuticals, automobile parts, motorcycles, tissues, toys, cement, corn sugar, etc.
On January 11, 2005, the union announced a merger with the United Steel Workers of America. The new union, with 850,000 active members in the United States and Canada, will be the largest industrial labor union in North America. The union will be known as the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied-Industrial and Service Workers International Union, or by the acronym USW.
External links
- PACE official page (http://www.paceunion.org/)
- PACE Power - PACE legislative staff (http://www.pacepower.org/aboutus/)