The Office and Professional Employees International Union was chartered in 1945 by the American Federation of Labor. At the time of its founding, the membership of the Union numbered 22,000.  The Union now counts 90,000 members and is one of the larger unions in the AFL-CIO. As it moves into its 81st year of chartered existence, the OPEIU has local unions functioning throughout the fifty states, as well as the District of Columbia

The Union represents and bargains for both private and public sector professional and semiprofessional workers laboring in most of the major industries in the United States. The OPEIU is also affiliated with a number of state and national professional organizations.

OPEIU members work in industries varied as motion picture industry, banking, insurance, universities, shipping, hospitals and nursing homes, utilities, transportation, manufacturing, paper companies, hotels and many more. They are in positions as varied as computer programmers and operators, engineers, secretaries, nurses, accountants, attorneys, transit supervisors, security guards, bank tellers, administrative aides, quality control personnel, doctors, models, and others.

Who Local 174 Represents:

OPEIU Local 174 is the Motion Picture Industry Union representing over 900 workers In California, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Indiana who are employed at Universal Studios, Universal Television Network, Universal Studios Hollywood, Fox Lot, Warner Bros Studios, Warner Bros. Studio Operations, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walt Disney Enterprises, Motion Picture Health and Pension Plan. IASTE Cinematographers Guild Local 600, IATSE Training Trust Fund, Secretly Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Code for America.  

OPEIU Local 174 members have gained major through the collective bargaining process in:

Wage Increases, Medical Benefits, Pension Benefits, Overtime Pay, Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, Representation, Grievance and Arbitration,