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William Usery Jr.

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William Julian Usery Jr. (December 21, 1923 – December 10, 2016) was a labor union activist and U.S. government political appointee who served as United States Secretary of Labor in the Ford administration. [1]

57 relations: AFL–CIO, Alpha Natural Resources, American Postal Workers Union, Armstrong World Industries, Bill Clinton, Brink's, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, Brunswick, Georgia, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Competition law, Davis–Bacon Act of 1931, Digital Library of Georgia, Eatonton, Georgia, Elizabeth Dole, Executive order, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States), Federal Trade Commission, Fremont, California, General Motors, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia Military College, Georgia State University, Gerald Ford, Hardwick, Baldwin County, Georgia, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Jimmy Carter, John Thomas Dunlop, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Labor and Employment Relations Association, Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, Liberty ship, Marshall Space Flight Center, Mercer University, Milledgeville, Georgia, New York City, PDF, Postal Reorganization Act, Ray Marshall, Republican Party (United States), Richard Nixon, Toyota, Trade union, Transportation Communications International Union, U.S. postal strike of 1970, United Automobile Workers, United States, United States Air Force, United States Army Center of Military History, United States Department of Labor, ..., United States Navy, United States Postal Service, United States Secretary of Labor, United Transportation Union, University of Louisville, Vietnam War, World War II. Expand index (7 more) »

AFL–CIO

The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States.

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Alpha Natural Resources

Alpha Natural Resources is a large American producer of metallurgical coal ("met coal") for the industrial production of steel and iron and low-sulfur thermal coal ("steam coal") to fuel steam boilers for the production of electrical power.

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American Postal Workers Union

The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) is a labor union in the United States.

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Armstrong World Industries

Armstrong World Industries, Inc. is a Pennsylvania corporation incorporated in 1891.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Brink's

The Brink's Company is an American security and protection company headquartered outside of Richmond, Virginia.

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Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen (BRS) is a labor union in the United States.

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Brunswick, Georgia

Brunswick is a city in and the county seat of Glynn County, Georgia, United States.

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Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) (known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station from 1963 to 1973) is an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command's 45th Space Wing.

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Competition law

Competition law is a law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies.

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Davis–Bacon Act of 1931

The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics.

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Digital Library of Georgia

The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is an online, public collection of documents and media about the history and culture of the state of Georgia, United States.

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Eatonton, Georgia

Eatonton is a city in and county seat of Putnam County, Georgia, United States.

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Elizabeth Dole

Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole (born July 29, 1936)Mary Ella Cathey Hanford, "Asbury and Hanford Families: Newly Discovered Genealogical Information" The Historical Trail 33 (1996), pp.

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Executive order

In the United States, an executive order is a directive issued by the President of the United States that manages operations of the federal government and has the force of law.

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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (United States)

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) is an independent agency of the United States government, founded in 1947, which provides mediation services to industry, community and government agencies worldwide.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

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Fremont, California

Fremont is a city in Alameda County, California, United States.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Georgia Military College

Georgia Military College (GMC) is a military-focused educational institution in Milledgeville, Georgia.

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Georgia State University

Georgia State University (commonly referred to as Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.

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Hardwick, Baldwin County, Georgia

Hardwick is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baldwin County, Georgia, United States.

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International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx.

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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John Thomas Dunlop

John Thomas Dunlop (July 5, 1914October 2, 2003) was an American administrator and labor scholar.

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Johnson Space Center

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted.

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers.

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Labor and Employment Relations Association

The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), was founded in 1947 as the Industrial Relations Research Association.

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Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (also "LMRDA" or the "Landrum–Griffin Act"), is a US labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers.

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Liberty ship

Liberty ships were a class of cargo ship built in the United States during World War II.

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Marshall Space Flight Center

The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), located in Huntsville, Alabama, is the U.S. government's civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center.

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Mercer University

Mercer University is the oldest private university in Georgia with its main campus in Macon, Georgia, United States.

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Milledgeville, Georgia

Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Postal Reorganization Act

The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 was a law passed by the United States Congress that abolished the then United States Post Office Department, which was a part of the cabinet, and created the United States Postal Service, a corporation-like independent agency with an official monopoly on the delivery of mail in the United States.

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Ray Marshall

Freddie Ray Marshall (born August 22, 1928) is the Professor Emeritus of the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Centennial Chair in Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Toyota

, usually shortened to Toyota, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Transportation Communications International Union

The Transportation Communications International Union (TCU) is the successor to the union formerly known as the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and includes within it many other organizations, including the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, that have merged with it since 1969.

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U.S. postal strike of 1970

The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was an eight-day strike by federal postal workers in March 1970.

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United Automobile Workers

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Center of Military History

The United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a directorate within the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment services, and some economic statistics; many U.S. states also have such departments.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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United States Secretary of Labor

The United States Secretary of Labor is a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and as the head of the U.S. Department of Labor, exercises control over the department, and enforces and suggests laws involving unions, the workplace, and all other issues involving any form of business-person controversies.

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United Transportation Union

The United Transportation Union (UTU) is a broad-based, transportation labor union representing about 70,000 active and retired railroad, bus, mass transit, and airline workers in the United States.

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University of Louisville

The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, a member of the Kentucky state university system.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Usery_Jr.

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