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Amalgamated Clothing And Textile Workers' Union
The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) was a labor union representing workers in two related industries in the United States. The union was founded in 1976, when the Textile Workers Union of America merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The small American Federation of Hosiery Workers also joined. On foundation, the new union had about 500,000 members. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the AFL–CIO. In 1979, the United Shoe Workers of America merged in, followed in 1983 by the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union. The union successfully campaigned to unionize workers at J.P. Stevens & Co. However, the industry was in sharp decline in the United States, and by 1995, the union had only 129,000 members. That year, it merged with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labor Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Textile Workers Union Of America
The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1976. It waged a decades-long campaign to organize J.P. Stevens and other Southern textile manufacturers that achieved some successes. History In 1901, the United Textile Workers of America (UTW) was formed as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The UTW, which had its greatest strength in the North, called a strike of textile workers in 1934 to protest worsening working conditions during the Great Depression. The strike was, however, a failure, especially in the South. In 1937, the Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations or CIO) formed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC) as an alternative to the UTW. In 1939, local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Of America
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) was a United States labor union known for its support for "social unionism" and progressive political causes. Led by Sidney Hillman for its first thirty years, it helped found the Congress of Industrial Organizations. It merged with the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) in 1976 to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), which merged with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in 1995 to create the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged in 2004 with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. After a bitter internal dispute in 2009, the majority of the UNITE side of the union, along with some of the disgruntled HERE locals left UNITE HERE, and formed a new union named Workers United, led by former UNITE president Bruce Raynor. Founding In 1914, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Federation Of Hosiery Workers
The American Federation of Hosiery Workers (AFHW) was a labor union representing workers involved in manufacturing hosiery. The union's origins lay in the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA), which in 1913 formed a craft group named the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers. In 1915, this split from the UTWA to become independent, and while it rejoined the UTWA in 1922, it remained autonomous and affiliated to the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in its own right. On rejoining the UTWA, it adopted its final name. The union had 10,000 members in 1926. In 1939, the UTWA merged into the new Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), and the AFHW adopted a similar relationship with this new union. However, in 1951 it split from the TWUA and received a new charter from the AFL, transferring in 1955 to the new AFL–CIO. By 1957, it still had 10,000 members. In 1976, it merged with the TWUA and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, to form the Amalgamated Clot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL–CIO
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It is made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 12 million active and retired workers. The AFL–CIO engages in substantial political spending and activism, typically in support of progressive and pro-labor policies. The AFL–CIO was formed in 1955 when the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged after a long estrangement. Union membership in the US peaked in 1979, when the AFL–CIO's affiliated unions had nearly twenty million members. From 1955 until 2005, the AFL–CIO's member unions represented nearly all unionized workers in the United States. Several large unions split away from AFL–CIO and formed the rival Change to Win Federation in 2005, although a number of those unions have since re-affiliated, and many locals of Change to Win are either part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Shoe Workers Of America
The United Shoe Workers of America (USWA) was a trade union representing workers involved in making shoes and other leather goods. History The union was founded in 1937, when the United Shoe and Leather Workers' Union merged with the Shoe Workers' Protective Union. It affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and by 1953, it had around 60,000 members. In 1955, it transferred to the newly merged AFL–CIO. The union's membership declined during the 1970s, in line with employment in the industry, and by 1979 was down to 25,000. It negotiated a merger with the independent Brotherhood of Shoe and Allied Craftsmen, the idea being that the resulting union would itself affiliate to the Retail Clerks International Union. However, the unions could not agree on how power would be distributed in the new shoe section. Instead, in 1979, it merged into the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) was a labor u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Hatters, Cap And Millinery Workers International Union
The United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (1934–1983), also known by acronyms including UHCMW, U.H.C. & M.W.I.U. and UHC & MWIU, was a 20th-century American labor union. History In 1934, the United Hatters of North America (UHNA) (formed 1896) and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (CHCMW) (formed 1901), both based in New York, ended their competition by merging to form the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW). In June 5, 1946, ''Congressional Quarterly'' reported how, in the wake of the Strike wave of 1945–1946 and February 1936 Case permanent strike control bill: President Green of the A. F. L. called upon the President, June 3, to veto the Case (permanent) strike control bill which had been sent to the White House four days earlier. Unless this were done, he told the convention of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers at New York, "the 7,500,000 members of the A. F. L. will be r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union, generally referred to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG", merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in the 1990s to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented 250,000 workers between them, down from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969. Early history The ILGWU was founded on June 3, 1900, in New York City by seven local unions, with a few thousand members between them. The union grew rapidly in the next few years but began to sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Needletrades, Industrial And Textile Employees
The Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE, often stylized UNITE!) was a labor union in the United States. In 2004, UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) to form UNITE HERE. History UNITE was formed in 1995 as a merger between the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). Merger In 2004, UNITE announced that it would merge with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) to form UNITE HERE. In 2009 most of the apparel and laundry workers in UNITE HERE broke away to form a separate union known as Workers United, which affiliated with the Service Employees International Union. UNITE's core industries were textile and apparel manufacturing, distribution, and retailing, but they also had locals involved in industrial laundry, and manufacturing in other industries. Jay Mazur served as president of UNITE from its inception until hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Finley
Murray Howard Finley (March 31, 1922 – July 31, 1995) was an American labor union leader and lawyer. Born in Syracuse, New York, Finley attended the University of Michigan in the early 1940s. While there, he worked in an automobile plant, joining the United Automobile Workers. He served in the military during World War II, then studied law at Northwestern University. After graduating, he became an assistant attorney for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, based in Detroit. In 1961, Finley was elected as manager of the Chicago Joint Board, in which role he launched college scholarships for the children of union members. He also founded the United Dwellings Foundation, to build housing for workers on low incomes. In his spare time, he served on the Chicago Public Library Board, on which he campaigned for a new library building, incorporating affordable housing, and a scheme to get college students to read to local children. In 1972, Finley was elected as the presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Sheinkman
Jacob Sheinkman (December 6, 1926 – January 29, 2004) was an American labor union leader. Sheinkman was born in the Bronx, to parents who had recently emigrated from Kyiv. In his youth, Sheinkman attended Evander Childs High School and was active in the Workmen's Circle. He served in the US Navy during World War II, then in the Naval Reserve, where he became a lieutenant. After the war, he studied industrial labor relations at Cornell University, then law, and also completed a certificate in economics with the University of Oxford. After completing his studies, Sheinkman became an organizer with the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, then in 1953 switched to work for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. In 1958, he became the union's general counsel, then in 1972, he was elected as its secretary-treasurer. The union merged into the new Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and Sheinkman continued as secretary-treasurer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Trade Unions In The United States
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