ACTWU

Acronym	Definition
ACTWU	Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
ACTWU	Atlantic Communication and Technical Workers Union (labor union; Canada)

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(124.) Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (ACTWU) Local no.

Accommodating resistance: unionization, gender, and ethnicity in Winnipeg's garment industry, 1929-1945

As a result, many white workers began to view ACTWU as a "black union." But the author gives little sense of the working lives of white or black employees, and there is no mention of Southern white culture or the possible ways individualistic or religious attitudes of Southern white workers might have shaped their response to union organizing efforts.

"Don't Sleep with Stevens!": The J. P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-1980

At the Unity Organizing Conference in San Francisco, Irene Reyna addressed the difficulties in counting on support from organized labor: Levi's went as far as promising contracts to ACTWU if they would drop support of Fuerza Unida....

Political consciousness and new social movement theory: the case of Fuerza Unida

Markowitz argues that the "blitz model" employed by the ACTWU involves significant worker participation, in the form of workers organizing their c oworkers and helping to shape strategy over the course of the campaign.

Worker Activism after Successful Union Organizing. (Labor-Management Relations)

They clearly know who the perpetrators are--the mostly male hierarchy of the ILGWU in Los Angeles and the International headquarters in New York The union leadership must act and willingly recognize the innovative potential of Latina and Chicana leaders to improve the work of the ILGWU that has now merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (AcTwu) to form UNITE.

ILGWU labor organizers: Chicana and Latina leadership in the Los Angeles garment industry

I contemplate these films in the shadow of the defeat of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees Union (Unite, the successor to ACTWU) in its attempt to organize Fieldcrest Cannon's North Carolina plants and of the victory of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in its strike against United Parcel.

The Wobblies

The book is presented in nine chapters, followed by notes, and appendices, including a list of the current ACTWU membership and credits for the numerous archival photographs interspersed throughout the volume.

Clothes off our back: a history of ACTWU 459

In May, the Clothing Manufacturers Association, a national multi-employer bargaining group, and the ACTWU signed a 3-year agreement covering some 35,000 workers involved in the manufacturing of men's tailored clothing.

Labor-management bargaining in 1995

ACTWU was a strong advocate of a generous amnesty program.

Openings in the wall: transnational migrants, labor unions, and U.S. immigration policy

Although there is no union membership among Burlington employees, ACTWU is advising the workers.

A $100 million lawsuit: two Burlington Industries employees from Monticello file suit over ESOP

Canada is not mentioned until the final pages of the Epilogue, where Pastorello notes that its successor, the ACTWU, played a leadership role, joining with workers in Canada and Mexico, to fight for international workers' rights.

Karen Pastorello, A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

"Xerox and the ACTWU: Tracing a Transformation in Industrial Relations." In Fred K.

THE IMPACT OF CO-MANAGEMENT ON QUALITY PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF THE SATURN CORPORATION