Organized Labor
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Organized Labor masthead; in use since 2025 | |
| Type | Monthly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council |
| Founder | Olaf Tveitmoe |
| Founded | February 3, 1900 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 825 Van Ness Ave., #301 San Francisco, CA |
| Circulation | 12,000 (as of July 2025) |
| ISSN | 00199-6452 (Warning: Check ISSN) |
| Website | orglabornews.org |
Organized Labor (OL) is a union-affiliated newspaper published by the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council (SFBCTC), a regional labor council affiliated with NABTU and the AFL–CIO. Founded in 1900, it is one of the oldest labor publications in the United States and has served as a voice for building and construction trades in the San Francisco Bay Area for over a century.
Contemporary unionists often take for granted the rather boring, thin tabloids that arrive by mail in return for a portion of their dues. In contrast, [Organized Labor] was a wide-ranging forum of opinion and news that mobilized each local building union in California to support the decisions and ambitions of the San Francisco leadership.
—Michael Kazin, in Barons of Labor, published 1989