Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Location: New York, New York, United States
Duration: 1976 - 1995 (Africa work known in the late 1970s through the end of apartheid)
The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) was formed in 1976 by the merger of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) and the Textile Workers Union of America. In the late 1970s ACTWU supported the campaign to end bank loans to South Africa. In the 1980s ACTWU was involved in the New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid...
The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) was formed in 1976 by the merger of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) and the Textile Workers Union of America. In the late 1970s ACTWU supported the campaign to end bank loans to South Africa. In the 1980s ACTWU was involved in the New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid (NYLCAA). In early 1988 ACTWU in Chicago was involved in the formation of the Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid (ILNAA) and remained involved in the organization until the end of apartheid in 1994. In the late 1980s ACTWU produced a button in support of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union of South Africa (ACTWUSA). In 1995 the ACTWU merged with the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). (Source: Material on this website including of ACTWU, NYLCAA and ILNAA; the description of the organization in Encyclopedia Britannica accessed June 6, 2018; the description of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America on Wikipedia accessed June 6, 2018; and the UNITE HERE History page accessed June 6, 2018.)
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