Arthur Loevy
Template:TOCnestleft Arthur Loevy Is a litigation attorney against police officers and municipalities, Loevy and Loevy his law firm had its roots in time when Arthur Loevy, father of Jon Loevy, was a labor lawyer for the powerful Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and woked for the Police Union that covers Cook County and small municipalities like Oak Lawn, Evergreen Park, Melrose Park. [1] [2]
Legal Practice
Arthur Loevy graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1963, and for more than forty years has been a member of the Illinois bar continuously.
Arthur Loevy began his legal career practicing labor law until 1970 when he became an elected officer of a trade union, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union ("ACTWU"). Arthur proceeded to serve in various elected capacities for trade unions, including International Executive Vice President of ACTWU, International Secretary-Treasurer of ACTWU, and, most recently International Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of Needle-Trades Industrial and Textile Employees (U.N.I.T.E.).
Arthur Loevy has also served as a Director and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Amalgamated Bank of New York (1990-98), the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Trustee of various Taft-Hartley insurance and trust funds for almost twenty years, the President of theAmalgamated Housing Foundation (1974-98), and the President of the Sidney Hillman Health Center in Chicago (1980-98).
1990 DSA dinner
Arthur Loevy, Secretary/treasurer of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, was honored at Chicago Democratic Socialists of America's 32nd Annual Debs-Thomas- Harrington Dinner May 4, 1990, at the Midland Hotel.
Featured speaker was Cecil Roberts, vice president of the United Mine Workers, who talked on "Victory Over Pittston: Lessons and Strategies for Labor and the Progressive Movement in the 90s.".[3]
DSA solidarity
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References
- ↑ Windy Citizen: Arthur Loevy The garmet Union and Police Union Lawyer
- ↑ Arthur Loevy Law firm Bio page(accessed April 19, 2011)
- ↑ DEMOCRATIC: LEFT MAY-JUNE 1990, page 8