ILGWU Operations Department Collective Bargaining Agreements
Collection Number: 5780/202
Kheel Center for Labor- Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
ILGWU Operations Department
Collective Bargaining Agreements, 1988-1998
Collection Number:
5780/202
Creator:
International Ladies' Garment
Workers' Union (ILGWU)
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents).
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This collection includes records from both the Research
Department and the Operations Department. Arranged alphabetically by company, these
records consist of collective bargaining agreements negotiated by local unions of
the ILGWU and various companies.
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.
Little documentation exists in the ILGWU records about the work of the Operations
Department in the union's international offices, and the materials that comprise the
Operations Department records do not explicitly show that they were created by the
department per se. While typically an operations department is known to deal with
the everyday business of an organization and to have responsibility for the
organization's facilities, the records suggest that the department either
complemented the work of the Research Department, the Master Agreements Department,
and the former Management Engineering Department, or maintained records useful to
those departments.
The Operations Department records consist of materials relating to the ILGWU's
efforts to maintain a ban on industrial homework, manuals for operations standards
in the manufacturing of women's blouses and women's skirts, and collective
bargaining agreements. The records relating to homework and operations standards
date from the 1980s, and the collective bargaining agreements are from the years
just before the ILGWU merged with ACTWU in 1995.
Researchers interested in ILGWU statements on homework and related issues should
consult the Research Department records, 5780/209. Likewise, researchers looking for
additional collective bargaining agreements should consult collections in Series VI,
Contracts and Case Files (5780/075, 5780/075 mf, 5780/145, 5780/146, 5780/147,
5780/158, 5780/191). These records, and others throughout the ILGWU records,
complement the records of the Operations Department.
This collection includes the collective bargaining agreements negotiated by local
unions of the ILGWU and various companies.
Names:
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Accurate Lace Dye Experts, Inc.
Ajax Shoulder Pad Company, Inc.
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
American White Cross, Inc.
Bari Manufacturing Corporation
Biener and Son, Inc.
Brooks Brothers (Firm)
Buster Brown Apparel, Inc.
California Ranchwear
Chase Packaging Corporation
Cleve-Tenn Industries, Inc.
Cliftex Corporation/Cutting Room
College House Manufacturing
Columbia Wool Scouring Mills
Cone Mills Corporation
Cooper Sportswear Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Country Miss, Inc.
Crown Yarn Dye Company, Inc.
Hallmark Emblems, Inc.
Harris-Tipograph, Inc.
Ideal Shoulder Pad Company
Imperial Coat Front Company, Inc.
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Operations Department.
Interstate Dyeing and Finishing Company
Kellwood Company
Lee County Manufacturing
Lehigh Valley Throwing Mills, Inc.
Levi Strauss and Company
Lilly Industrial Coatings
Meren Industries, Inc.
Mespo Umbrella Ltd.
Midlantic/New York Pad
Miller Brothers, Inc.
Missbrenner Prints, Inc.
Moderne Gloves, Inc.
Monroe Prints, Inc.
Montreal Fast Print, Ltd.
National Knitted Processors, Inc.
Oneita Industries, Inc.
Peerless Rug Ltd.
Perennial Print Corporation
Perfection Pad Company, Inc.
Poughkeepsie Finishing Corporation
Rainbow Dyeing and Finishing Company
River Warping, Inc.
Schertz Umbrellas, Inc.
Sierra Plastics, Inc.
Societe de la Broderie
Tavernon Photo Engraving Company
Techniplast, Inc.
Texas Apparel
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile
Employees
UNITE HERE (Organization)
United Global Distributors, Inc.
Warwick Dying Corporation
Wimpfheimer A. and Brothers, Inc.
Windsor Textile Processing, Inc.
American White Cross, Inc.
Subjects:
Collective bargaining--Clothing industry--New
York (State)--New York
Collective bargaining--Textile industry--New York
(State)--New York
Textile workers--Labor unions--New York
(State)--New York
Clothing workers--Labor unions--New York
(State)--New York
Form and Genre Terms:
Records (documents)
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
ILGWU Operations Department Collective Bargaining Agreements #5780/202. Kheel
Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 | 1991-1994 | |
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Union City, New Jersey
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 | 1990-1996 | |
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NY, NY
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 | 1994-1997 | |
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Hoboken, NJ
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| Box 1 | Folder 4 | 1994-1997 | |
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Boston, MA
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| Box 1 | Folder 5 | 1994-1997 | |
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Boston, MA
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 | 1991-1994 | |
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Lansford, PA
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 | 1992-1994 | |
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Lake Bluff, IL
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 | 1993-1998 | |
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Montreal, QU
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 | 1994-1996 | |
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Toronto, ON
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 | 1991-1994 | |
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Tucson, AZ
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 | 1994-1997 | |
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Pompano Beach, FL
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 | 1988-1994 | |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 | 1994-1997 | |
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Newark, NJ
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 | 1994-1997 | |
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Milwaukee, WI
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 | 1995-1966 | |
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Kulpmont, PA
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 | 1993-1996 | |
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Bethlehem, PA
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| Box 2 | Folder 1 | 1993-1995 | |
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Napa, CA
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 | 1989-1992 | |
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Price, UT
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 | 1993-1996 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 | 1994-1997 | |
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Dayton, NJ
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 | 1995-1996 | |
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Montreal, QU
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 | 1994-1996 | |
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Lawrence, MA
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 | 1993-1998 | |
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Montreal, QU
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 | 1993-1996 | |
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W. Hazleton
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 | 1994-1997 | |
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West Union, WV
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 | 1993-1995 | |
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Montreal, QU
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 | 1993-1996 | |
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Montreal, QU
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 | 1995-1998 | |
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Seneca Falls, NY
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| Box 2 | Folder 13 | 1994-1997 | |
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Evansville, IN
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| Box 2 | Folder 14 | 1995-1996 | |
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Downs view, ON
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| Box 2 | Folder 15 | 1991-1994 | |
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New York, NY
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| Box 2 | Folder 16 | 1992-1995 | |
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Chicago, IL
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