Hershey, Pennsylvania. By 1986, the ITU had only 44,000 active members. On December 31, 1986, the Associated Press printed the following with a dateline of Colorado Springs, Colorado: The International Typographical Union has ceased to exist, and most of its staff was laid off at national headquarters here. Most of the 60 workers are continuing on a temporary basis with the Communication Workers of America, with which the ITU merged, said ITU spokesman Bill Frazee. The ITU ended operations on December 31, 1986. On January 1, 1987, the union joined the CWA as its Printing, Publishing and Media Workers Sector. CWA has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and employees working for the sector will transfer there in two to four months, Frazee said. The International Typographical Union was the nation's oldest union, charted nationally in 1852. Its membership peaked in the 1960s at 100,000 printers. But since computerization of the business, membership has dropped to 40,000 working printers and 35,000 retirees. Finally, in 1987, the printers of the ITU merged with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). It is now the Printing, Publishing, and Media Workers Sector of the CWA. Daniel F. Wasser is currently president of the sector. The Mailers were split between the CWA and IBT. In May 1986, many Mailer locals joined "The Mailers' Conference of the CWA". When the ITU ended, some of the Mailer locals merged into the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). It is now the Newspaper, Magazine and Electronic Media Workers Division. Joe Molinero is the division director. The ITU Fraternal Pension Fund was from 1908–1966. Elmer Brown created the Negotiated Pension Plan (NPP). Today, the pension for all ITU members before 1986 and CWA members since 1987 is the CWA/ITU Negotiated Pension Plan. This pension plan is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Teamsters have the IBT Pension for members after 1987. Administration Original chartered locals On May 5, 1852: Indianapolis, #1 Philadelphia, #2 Cincinnati, #3 Albany, #4 Columbus, #5 New York, #6 Pittsburgh, #7 St. Louis, #8 Buffalo, #9 Louisville, #10 Memphis, #11 Baltimore, #12 Boston, #13 Harrisburg, #14 Chartered later in 1852: Rochester, #15 Chicago, #16 New Orleans, #17 Detroit, #18 Elmira, #19 Nashville, #20 San Francisco, #21 A group of thirty men met to organize the Columbia Typographical Society in Washington, DC in December 1814. In 1867 they joined the newly-formed National Typographical Union (later, the International Typographical Union)