One Union

by Edward M. Kennedy, James A. Williams

From its early struggles to unify in the 1880s to its organizing and political triumphs of the 1990s, the IUPAT has sought to bring a better life for its members and a better world for all working men and women. This history tells the tales of those triumphs and struggles and in looking back traces the promise of the future for today’s IUPAT members and generations of members to follow. One Union: The History of the IUPAT should be required reading for all IUPAT members and for anyone who wants to understand how the American labor movement has survived to arrive and thrive in the 21st century.

384 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2004

About the author

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy served nine terms in the Senate. At the time of his death, he was the second most senior member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia, and the third-longest-serving senator in U.S. history. He was best known as one of the most outspoken and effective Senate proponents of progressive causes and bills. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassinations, and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.