United Furniture Workers of America
The United Furniture Workers of America was a 20th-century American labor union, founded as a breakaway from the Upholsterers International Union of North America by a group of labor activists, who included Emil Costello in 1937. The UFWA advocated industrial unionism and affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Facing declining membership, even after President Carl Scarbrough moved the union's headquarters from New York City pursuing a policy of aggressively organizing in the Southern United States, in cooperation with other unions such as their former rivals the Upholsterers and the International Woodworkers of America, in 1987 the UFWA merged with the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Technical, Salaried and Machine Workers to form the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Technical, Salaried, Machine and Furniture Workers.
The IUE in turn affiliated the Communication Workers of America as "IUE-CWA."
