The International Association of Cleaning and Dye House Workers (CDHW) was a

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 ( ...

representing workers in laundries and the dyeing industry in the United States. The union was founded and chartered by the

American Federation of Labor The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutu ...

on January 21, 1937. By 1953, it had 20,000 members. The union transferred to the new AFL-CIO in 1955. In 1956, it merged into the Laundry Workers' International Union, which changed its name to the "Laundry, Cleaning and Dye House Workers' International Union". This merger occurred without the consent of the AFL-CIO.{{cite book , title=Directory of National and International Labor Unions in the United States , date=1957 , publisher=United States Department of Labor , location=Washington, D.C. , url=https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/bls/bls_1222_1957.pdf , access-date=18 April 2022 , archive-date=2 May 2022 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502202251/https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/bls/bls_1222_1957.pdf , url-status=live

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Textile and clothing trade unions Trade unions established in 1937 Trade unions disestablished in 1956