Organized Labor

Organized Labor
Remember Your Friends
As Well As Your Enemies

Organized Labor masthead; in use since 2025
TypeMonthly newspaper
FormatTabloid
OwnerSan Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
FounderOlaf Tveitmoe
FoundedFebruary 3, 1900 (February 3, 1900)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters825 Van Ness Ave., #301
San Francisco, CA
Circulation12,000 (as of July 2025)
ISSN0199-6452
Websiteorglabornews.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
Political cartoon featuring labor leader and 29th mayor of San Francisco P. H. McCarthy, published in a 1911 edition of Organized Labor