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UNITE Pacific Northwest District Council Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 6000/018 P

Scope and Contents

This is a collection of over 400 photographs, chronicling rallies, conventions, meetings, etc. Members from the following organizations are pictured: ILGWU, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Local 317, Local No. 8 of the Cloakmakers Union, the Laundry Workers Int'l. Union and UNITE.

Dates

  • 1962-1997

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

UNITE, the Union of Needle Trades, Industrial, and Textile Employees was formed in 1995 after a merger between the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).

In 2004 they announced they would merge with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) which created UNITE HERE.

Jay Mazur served as president of UNITE from its beginning until his retirement in 2001. Bruce Raynor was elected president at that time and served until the HERE merger.

Extent

0.83 cubic feet

Quantity:

0.8 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Photographs.

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff, May 02, 2012
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, February 17, 2016
Title
UNITE Pacific Northwest District Council Photographs
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
February 17, 2016
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853