American Federation of Labor

It then had a brief tenure as clubhouse for the Safeway Employees’ Assn. before it became the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor Teamsters Joint Council 42.

Also highlighted are such workplace affiliations as the American Bar Association, the American Federation of Labor and the Society of Women Geographers, as well as religious, fraternal and neighborhood groups.

Bancorp — publicly committed to versions of the Rooney Rule in response to proposals from the American Federation of Labor, the country’s largest labor group.

The show is built around the real history of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded in 1925, which was the first all-Black union chartered by the American Federation of Labor.

Anger at autocratic bosses and the misery of the Great Depression helped unions like the Teamsters and Machinists, which belonged to the older American Federation of Labor, to make inroads as well.