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2. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America - Wikipedia

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   The Amalgamated solidified its gains and extended its power in Chicago through a series of strikes in the last half of the 1910s. The Amalgamated found it harder, on the other hand, to make gains in Baltimore, where it was able to sign an agreement with one of the largest manufacturers that, like HSM (Hart Schaffner and Marx) in Chicago, sought labor peace, it found itself at odds with an ...

4. Textile Workers Union of America - Wikipedia

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   In 1976, the TWUA merged with another garment union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). After several further mergers, the TWUA's textile locals became part Workers United, a manufacturing and hospitality workers union.

5. United Garment Workers of America - Wikipedia

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   At the UGW's 1914 convention in Nashville, Tennessee, a number of large urban locals, with stronger Socialist loyalties and more willingness to strike, and who represented a full two-thirds of the national membership, split off to form the rival Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America under Hillman's founding leadership.

6. Bessie Abramowitz Hillman - Wikipedia

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   Bessie Hillman (born Bas Sheva Abramowitz; May 15, 1889 – December 23, 1970) was a labor activist and founder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.She led the 1910 Chicago Garment Workers' Strike, which brought about the creation of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America labor union in 1914.

7. Jack Sheinkman - Wikipedia

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   The union merged into the new Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, and Sheinkman continued as secretary-treasurer, then in 1987, he was elected as its president. As leader of the union, he was prominent in opposition to CIA activities in Nicaragua , and was also known for working with companies in an attempt to persuade them to keep ...