Dubinsky, << doo BIHN skee, >> David (1892-1982), an American labor leader, was president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union from 1932 to 1966. He also helped found the Committee for Industrial Organization in 1935, which later became the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He became a founding vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in 1955. He became noted for work in collective bargaining, labor’s international affairs, and anti-racketeering. Born on Feb. 22, 1892, in Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Brest, Belarus), Dubinsky was arrested for union activity there and was exiled to Siberia. He escaped and moved to the United States in 1911. He died in New York City on Sept. 17, 1982.
See also Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) .
