The Journeymen Stonecutters' Association of North America (JSANA) was a
labor union representing workers involved in cutting and shaping stone for construction in the United States and Canada.
The union was founded on December 5, 1887 at a conference in
Chicago
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. It achieved a maximum
eight hour day
The eight-hour day movement (also known as the 40-hour week movement or the short-time movement) was a social movement to regulate the length of a working day, preventing excesses and abuses.
An eight-hour work day has its origins in the 1 ...
in 1904, the first industry to do so. In 1907, it was chartered by the
American Federation of Labor (AFL), and in 1915 it absorbed the New York Stone Cutters' Society and the Architectural Sculptors' and Carvers' Association of New York. By 1925, it had 5,075 members.
The union affiliated to the new
AFL-CIO in 1955, but by 1957, its membership had fallen to just 1,900.
On February 19, 1968, it merged into the
Laborers' International Union of North America
The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA, stylized as LiUNA!), often shortened to just the Laborers' Union, is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of 2017, they had about 500,000 members, about 80,000 of whom ...
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References
Stonemasons' trade unions
Trade unions established in 1887
Trade unions disestablished in 1968