ILGWU Master Agreements, Out-of-Business Contracts, 1941-1994
Collection Number: 5780/146
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
ILGWU Master Agreements Out-of-Business Contracts, 1941-1994
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5780/146
Abstract:
This collection consists of agreements and contracts between the International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union and defunct garment manufacturing firms.
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
Quanitities:
2 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
ILGWU Master Agreements, Out-of-Business Contracts #5780/146. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 5780: ILGWU records 5780/075: ILGWU Collective Bargaining Agreements 5780/075 mf: ILGWU Collective Bargaining Agreements on Microfilm 5780/085: ILGWU National War Labor Board case files 5780/145: ILGWU Association Agreements, Out-of-Business Contracts 5780/147: ILGWU Independents, Out-of-Business Contracts 5780/158: ILGWU Out-of-Business Contracts 5780/191: ILGWU Association Contracts 5780/202: ILGWU Operations Department Collective Bargaining Agreements
Subjects:
Women's clothing industry -- United States
Clothing workers--Labor unions--United States.
Clothing workers -- United States
Industrial relations -- United States
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Associated Sportswear Companies
|
1967-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Barbizon Corporation
|
1962-1983 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Berkshire Apparel
|
1967-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1956-1962 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1963-1964 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1965-1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1968-1970 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1971-1973 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1974-1976 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1976-1979 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1979-1982 |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1982-1985 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Bobbie Brooks
|
1985-1988 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Country Miss
|
1964-1967 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Country Miss
|
1973-1976 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Country Miss
|
1976-1979 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Country Miss
|
1979-1982 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Country Miss
|
1982-1985 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Country Miss
|
1988-1994 |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Jonathan Logan
|
1958-1963 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Jonathan Logan
|
1964-1966 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Jonathan Logan
|
1966-1969 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Jonathan Logan
|
1969-1972 |
Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Jonathan Logan
|
1972-1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Jonathan Logan
|
1976-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Jonathan Logan
|
1979-1985 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Kenrose Manufacturing
|
1956-1974 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Majestic Specialties
|
1962-1967 |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Mode O'Day
|
1941-1950 |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Mode O'Day
|
1951-1961 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Mode O'Day
|
1961-1964 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Mode O'Day
|
1970-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Mode O'Day
|
1973-1976 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Mode O'Day
|
1976-1979 |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Mode O'Day
|
1979-1982 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Puritan Fashions
|
1964-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Puritan Fashions
|
1973-1982 |
Box 2 | Folder 14 |
United Merchants and Manufacturing
|
1988-1991 |
Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Wentworth Manufacturing
|
1969-1973 |