The Amalgamated Food Workers of America was a labor union representing food processing and catering workers in the United States.

The union was founded in 1921 in New York City, bringing together the Hotel, Restaurant and Caterer Workers' Federation with a dissident faction of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers' International Union (B&C). In contrast to the B&C, it adopted a class struggle perspective and operated as an industrial union, with three sections: hotel, butchery and bakery workers.[1]

The union was originally named the International Workers of the Amalgamated Food Industry, and adopted its final name in 1928. At that time, it had 12,000 members.[1] In 1935, it merged into the B&C.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Handbook of American Trade Unions (PDF). Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Labor. 1926. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
  2. ↑ Reynolds, Lloyd G.; Killingsworth, Charles C. (1944). Trade Union Publications: The Official Journals, Convention Proceedings, and Constitutions of International Unions and Federations, 1850-1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
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