UNITE HERE Operations Department Files, 1989-2001
Collection Number: 6200/003

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
UNITE HERE Operations Department Files, 1989-2001
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6200/003
Creator:
UNITE HERE
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English, French, Spanish
Biographical / Historical

UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada, that was formed in 2004 by the merger of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE). The membership is made up mainly of workers in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries. In 2005, UNITE HERE left the AFL-CIO and joined the Change to Win Federation along with other unions including the Teamsters, SEIU and the UFCW. In may 2009, Bruce Raynor, president, left UNITE HERE, taking with hiim several local unions and between 105,000 and 150,000 members. They formed Workers United. September 17, 2009, UNITE HERE announced that it would re-join the AFL-CIO.
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Preferred Citation

UNITE HERE Operations Department Files #6200/003. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Materials

Related Collections: 6200: UNITE HERE Records
SUBJECTS

Names:
UNITE HERE (Organization)
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Textile Workers Union of America
UNITE HERE (Organization) Operations Dept.
Subjects:
Clothing workers--Labor unions--United States
Textile workers--Labor unions--United States.
Collective bargaining--Textile industry-- United States.
Collective bargaining--Clothing industry--United States.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
75 / 50 Celebrating Our Heritage.
Scope and Contents
Logo. (English and French)
Box 1 Folder 2
ACTWU.
Scope and Contents
Steward's Pin. Artwork.
Box 1 Folder 3
Coalition of Labor Women. Health Care.
Box 1 Folder 4
Convention.
 1989-1999
Scope and Contents
Delegate's Guides.
Box 1 Folder 5
Convention.
Scope and Contents
Logo.
Box 1 Folder 6
Convention.
 1995
Scope and Contents
Mission Statement.
Box 1 Folder 7
Delgado, Ernesto Jofre.
 2001
Box 1 Folder 8
Great Liberal UI Scam.
Scope and Contents
English and French. La Grande Escroquerie de l'Assurance-Emploi de Liberaux.
Box 1 Folder 9
Haiti After the Coup: Sweatshop or Real Development?
Scope and Contents
Flyer.
Box 1 Folder 10
Made in GAP Sweatshop.
Box 1 Folder 11
Means of Production.
 1994
Box 1 Folder 12
Metro New York Labor Communications Council
Box 1 Folder 13
Metro New York Labor Press Council
 1995
Box 1 Folder 14
National Council of Negro Women.
Scope and Contents
Ad Hoc Labor Committee.
Box 1 Folder 15
Sidney Hillman Foundation.
Box 1 Folder 16
Spinning Yarns and Shirt Tales.
Box 1 Folder 17
Standing Together.
Box 1 Folder 18
Call to Justice. Que se Haga Justica.
Scope and Contents
Stickers. (English and Spanish).
Box 1 Folder 19
Organize! Mobilize! UNITE!
Scope and Contents
Stickers.
Box 1 Folder 20
Union Logo.
Scope and Contents
Stickers.
Box 1 Folder 21
UNITE!. Business Cards.
Scope and Contents
Mort, Jo-Ann Rayner, Bruce Romney, Edgar
Box 1 Folder 22
We're With Atlanta. UNITE!
Scope and Contents
Stickers.
Box 1 Folder 23
Students Against Sweatshops.
Box 1 Folder 24
Use Your Voice . . . Vote! Use Su Palabra . . . Vote!
 2000
Scope and Contents
English and Spanish.
Box 1 Folder 25
Wheat for Senate.