ILGWU Local 262 Minutes, 1943-1967
Collection Number: 5780/025
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Local 262 Minutes, 1943-1967
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/025
Abstract:
Consists of minutes from Local 262's Executive Board, Membership, Pressers Branch,
and Welfare Fund Committee meetings.
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
3 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English, French
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union was once one of the largest labor
unions in the United States founded in 1900 by local union delegates representing
about 2,000 members in cities in the northeastern United States. It was one of the
first U.S. Unions to have a membership consisting of mostly females, and it played
a key role in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union is generally referred
to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG". The ILGWU grew in geographical scope, membership size,
and political influence to become one of the most powerful forces in American organized
labor by mid-century. Representing workers in the women's garment industry, the ILGWU
worked to improve working and living conditions of its members through collective
bargaining agreements, training programs, health care facilities, cooperative housing,
educational opportunities, and other efforts. The ILGWU merged with the Amalgamated
Clothing and Textile Workers Union in 1995 to form the Union of Needle trades, Industrial
and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant
Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE. The two
unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented only 250,000 workers between them, down
from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969.
Local 262 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), also known
as the Union de la Robe or the Dressmakers Union, was based in Montreal, Quebec.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Local 262 Minutes #5780/025. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780/026: ILGWU Local 315 Minutes 5780/027: ILGWU Local 205 Minutes 5780/028: ILGWU Montreal locals Minutes 5780/029: ILGWU Montreal Dress Joint Board Minutes 5780/030: ILGWU Montreal Joint Council Minutes 5780/116: ILGWU Montreal Joint Board Records 5780/117: ILGWU Quebec Joint Council Records
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Local 262 (Montreal (Quebec))
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States
Women's clothing industry--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.
Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- United States
Labor unions--Clothing workers--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.
Clothing workers -- United States
Clothing workers--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.
Industrial relations -- United States
Industrial relations--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Dressmakers minutes
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1943-1963 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Executive, Joint Board, and General Membership
meetings
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.1
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1946 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.2
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1947-1949 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.3
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1950-1951 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.4
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1952-1953 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.5
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1954-1955 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.6
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1956-1957 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings, and Business
Agent Reports
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.7
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1958-1959 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.8
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1960-1961 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.9
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1962-1963 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.10
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1964-1965 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Pressers minutes. Vol.11
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1966-1967 |
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Scope and Contents
English and French. Attendance sheets, Membership and Executive Meetings
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Welfare Fund Committee
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Scope and Contents
French. Meeting minutes and attendance sheets
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