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
He has worked as a regional and national organizer and director for ACTWU (now UNITE-Here) and created the Laborers' International Union's leading organizing program.
Prewitt Organizing Fund Announces New Board; 'Labor's Most Novel and Ambitious Enterprise...'
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
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
An ACTWU staffer likens the merger to a marriage between two problematic partners: "It's a marriage where one party is sloppy and the other curses a lot.
Garment unions UNITE
In September, the ACTWU will bargain for more than 45,000 workers in the men's and boys' apparel industry.
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
The story concludes in Chapters Eight and Nine with the merger of the ACTWU and ILGWU in 1995 to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), a merger necessitated by rapidly changing conditions in the garment industry resulting from free-trade agreements, technological change, industry restructuring and the incipient deregulation of the sellers side of the labour market.
Clothes off our back: a history of ACTWU 459
Everyone is aware of the difficulties facing our workers and the industry," said ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman.
ACTWU RATIFIES CMA CONTRACT
The September agreement between the Cotton Garment Manufacturers and the National Trouser Association covering 101,000 workers represented by the ACTWU dropped their COLA clause which had not yielded any payment since 1981.
Wage restraints continue in 1985 major contracts
In announcing the tentative settlement, Jack Sheinkman, president of ACTWU, said, "The difficulties which face the domestic men's tailored clothing industry and our members has not deterred us from reaching an agreement which has characterized the historic working relationship between our union and the Clothing Manufacturers Association.
ACTWU AND CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS AGREE ON TENTATIVE CONTRACT
Most of these workers were in plants covered by the ACTWU plan, which provides for a 2-week summer vacation for employees with 1 year of service (1 week after 6 months) and a 1-week winter vacation for employees with 1 year of service.
Minimum wage stability affects shirt and nightwear industry pay
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