National Writers Union

National Writers Union , founded on November 19, 1981, is the trade union in the United States for freelance and contract writers: journalists, book and short fiction authors, business and technical writers, web content providers, and poets. Organized into 17 local chapters nationwide, it has been Local 1981 of the United Automobile Workers, AFL-CIO since merging with them in 1992. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
National Writers Union has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1996 Speech.