Textile Workers Union of America. South Region.
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Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the Textile Worker's Union of America (TWUA), serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. The TWUA actively sought to organize southern textile plants to help workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices.
In 1901, the United Textile Workers of America (UTW), was formed as an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). In 1937, the Committee for Industrial Organization (later the Congress of Industrial Organizations or CIO) formed the Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC). In 1939, locals from the TWOC and the UTW merged to form the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). The TWUA led numerous organizing campaigns in the union-resistant South, desiring to help textile workers achieve higher wages, health insurance, and other benefits, and to insure fair labor practices. In 1976, the TWUA merged with another textile union, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, to form the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), which was affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Scott Hoyman was an organizer and a bargainer with the TWUA, serving as the Southern Regional Director in the 1960s and 1970s. He worked on numerous organization and wage campaigns, including the J. P. Stevens & Co. campaign to organize workers and investigate unfair labor practices. Following the formation of the ACTWU in 1976, Hoyman became Executive Vice-President for the Textiles Division.
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Clothing workers
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Textile industry
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