TheJourneymen Stonecutters' Association of North America (JSANA) was alabor union representing workers involved in cutting and shaping stone for construction in the United States and Canada.
The union was founded on December 5, 1887 at a conference inChicago. Stonecutters were one of the first trades to establish a national union in the United States.[1] Early on, the stonecutters union advocated against the use ofplaners, a stonecutting device, and launched several strikes to limit the use of planers in stonecutting.[1]
The union achieved a maximumeight hour day in 1904, the first industry to do so. In 1907, it was chartered by theAmerican Federation of Labor (AFL), and in 1915 it absorbed the New York Stone Cutters' Society and the Architectural Sculptors' and Carvers' Association of New York. By 1925, it had 5,075 members.[2]
The union affiliated to the newAFL-CIO in 1955, but by 1957, its membership had fallen to just 1,900.[3] On February 19, 1968, it merged into theLaborers' International Union of North America.[4]