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Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) emblem from magazine publication in 1916. Women in labor unions have participated in labor organizing and activity throughout United States history. These workers have organized to address issues within the workplace, such as promoting gender equality, better working conditions, and higher wages.
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 US unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.
The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) (1903–1950) was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions.
Women's union may refer to: Bulgarian Women's Union; Crittenton Women's Union, Boston; Murba Women's Union, Indonesia; Lithuanian Women's Union; Socialist Women's Union of Korea; Sudanese Women's Union; Ukrainian Women's Union; Union of Women of Wallonia, Belgian women's association, 1912–1955; Vietnam Women's Union
Women's Trade Union; Women's Trade Union League; Women's Trade Union League (UK) This page was last edited on 11 March 2024, at 17:27 (UTC). Text is available ...
Woman's Missionary Union; Women's Political Council, formed 1946, active in the 1950s; Women's Refugee Commission; Women's Trade Union League, 1903–1950, encouraging women to organize trade unions; Younger Women's Task Force; Zeta Phi Beta sorority, founded 1920; Zonta International Empowering women through Service and Advocacy, founded 1919
The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of trade union women affiliated with the AFL–CIO. The CLUW is a bridging organization that seeks to create connections between the feminist movement and the labor movement in the United States. The organization works towards overcoming past constraints and ...
It now agreed to accept the newly formed Women's Typographical Union as an affiliate, becoming the second national union (after the cigar makers) to admit female members. [6] When a printers' strike broke out in 1869, members of the Women's Typographical Union cooperated fully with the strike. Anthony, on the other hand, voiced support for a ...