ACTWU

AcronymDefinition
ACTWUAmalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
ACTWUAtlantic Communication and Technical Workers Union (labor union; Canada)
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349 Executive Board Minutes, 18 February 1945, ACTWU fonds, P5556, AM.
Accommodating resistance: unionization, gender, and ethnicity in Winnipeg's garment industry, 1929-1945
Despite Levi Strauss' efforts to sever the relationship of ACTWU and other unions to Fuerza Unida, many locals continued to support Fuerza Unida, however inconsistently.
Political consciousness and new social movement theory: the case of Fuerza Unida
For an account of how the ACTWU mobilizes members to work for the union, see Jose La Luz, "Creating a Culture of Organizing: ACTWU's Education for Empowerment," Labor Research Review 17 (1991).
ILGWU labor organizers: Chicana and Latina leadership in the Los Angeles garment industry
In another development, the ILGWU and the ACTWU announced in June that they had agreed to merge to form the International Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).
Labor-management bargaining in 1995
The ACTWU official testifying at the SCIRP hearings in 1979 urged the adoption of a program that would legalize all undocumented workers residing in the United States at that time.
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
We are particularly disgusted by the crocodile tears being shed by Raynor over the alleged attempted 'takeover' by UNITE HERE of valuable assets and real estate which the ILGWU - not Raynor's ACTWU - had brought to the ill-fated 1995 merger between ACTWU and ILGWU which formed UNITE.
UNITE HERE: Retired International Ladies Garment Workers Union Officers Speak Out
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
It is not hard to see why ILGWU and ACTWU have decided, after more than 50 years of separate and often competing efforts, to merge.
Garment unions UNITE
In February, the ACTWU will bargain for 42,000 workers employed by a group of 15 manufacturers of men's cotton apparel (known as the Cotton Garment Negotiating Group).
Collective bargaining in 1990: health care cost a common issue
Levi entered into the Partnership agreement in 1994 with one of UNITE's predecessor unions, ACTWU (Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union).
Labor news from UNITE! Levi's workers unionize; second plant to go union this year
Under the direction of ACTWU, Lichtenberg workers voted 413-185 for union representation in April 1988.
Southern organizing in the post-civil rights era: the case of S. Lichtenberg
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