Local 23-25 Blouse, Skirt and Sportswear Workers Union. Study of the Garment Industry in Chinatown, 1981

This collection contains files of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Local 23-25, Blouse, Skirt and Sportswear Workers, documenting the work and members of the local. Included are files of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, as well as press releases, news clippings, and other printed material.



Subjects with sufficient material include information packets and meetings regarding the 1990 U.S. Census, in which the local and May Chen were involved with the Chinatown Census Committee to get the individuals and union members of Chinatown counted. Additionally, Chinatown is documented through industry studies and proposals. There is a digest of articles from the "Chinatown Press and at the end of the collection a large amount of collected newspaper articles and clippings, mostly from Chinese publications. And finally, there is substantial material on the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Most of this involves the Asian members of Local 23-25 who formed the Chinese Committee (see also 5780/059).