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BROTHERHOOD OF MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYEES
BROTHERHOOD OF MAINTENANCE OF WAY EMPLOYEES. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, later the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (BMWED), is a national union representing those who build and maintain the tracks, bridges, buildings and other structures on the railroads of the United States.
Founded in 1887, at Demopolis, Alabama, as a fraternal organization by Track Foreman John T. Wilson, was once an international union with over 350,000 members in the United States and Canada. Automation, the rise of the trucking and airline industries, and policies of a conservative government depleted the ranks of the BMWED to under 40,000 members.
In 2004 the BMWE merged with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and consolidated its strength with the powerful 1.4 million member Teamsters' Union.
The 1934 Dubuque City Directory listed 951 1/2 Main for union offices.
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"BMWED," Online: https://www.bmwe.org/aboutus.shtm