Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union information
North American trade union
For the South African trade union, see Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union of South Africa.
ACTWU
Merged into
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Successor
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
Founded
1976
Dissolved
1995
Merger of
Textile Workers Union of America
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Location
United States of America
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.[1][2] In 1979, the United Shoe Workers of America merged in, followed in 1983 by the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union.[3]
The union successfully campaigned to unionize workers at J.P. Stevens & Co. However, the industry was in sharp decline in the United States,[4] and by 1995, the union had only 129,000 members. That year, it merged with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.[5]
^Stetson, Pamon (20 March 1976). "2 Apparel Unions Agree on Merger". New York Times.
^"Inactive Organizations" (PDF). UMD Labor Collections. University of Maryland. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
^Adams, Larry T. (September 1984). "Labor organization mergers 1979-84: adapting to change". Monthly Labor Review: 21–27.
^"ACTWU President's Office Murray Finley Correspondence on Microfiche". Cornell University Library. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
^Turner, Lowell; Katz, Harry Charles; Hurd, Richard (2001). Rekindling the Movement. ILR Press. ISBN 9780801487125.
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