ILGWU. Legal Department records. 1921-1977

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ILGWU. Legal Department records. 1921-1977

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This collection contains correspondence, memoranda,financial reports, and printed material relating to the establishment of the ILGWU'scooperative housing in New York City, as well as research into similar projectselsewhere. Also included in this collection are files on the Ladies' GarmentWorkers' Center in New York City, arbitration regarding faulty design andconstruction of Unity House in the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, and contractnegotiations in 1979. Also, this collection contains documentation of the ILGWU'slegal activities relating to the regulation of homework and the reform ofimmigration law. Also included are correspondence, memoranda, notes, and legaldocuments (such as depositions, trial transcripts, and briefs) relating to theKellwood Company's suit against the ILGWU, the ILGWU and Marlene Industries'proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, Violetta Putterman's caseagainst the Knitgood Workers' Union Local 155, Thomas Rosario et al.'s case againstthe Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union Local 10, and miscellaneous othercases.

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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

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The ILGWU Archives were established in 1973 and transferred to the Kheel Center in 1987. From the description of ILGWU. Charles Zimmerman Collection of Radical Pamphlets, 1898-1978. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 748341343 The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the most significant union representing workers in the men's clothing industry, was founded in New York City in 1914 as a breakaway movement from the United Garment Workers. Radic...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Legal Department.

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The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women’s garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the “new unionism,” the ILGWU led two of the most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Tw...

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Legal Dept.

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The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was founded in New York City in 1900 by mostly Socialist immigrant workers who sought to unite the various crafts in the growing women’s garment industry. The union soon reflected changes in the sector and rapidly organized thousands of unskilled and semi-skilled women, mostly Jewish and Italian young immigrants. Exemplifying the “new unionism,” the ILGWU led two of the most widespread and best-known industrial strikes of the early Tw...