UNITE Communications Department Photographs
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Scope and Contents
UNITE rallies and demonstrations as well as various meetings, informational guides, family images and historical pieces
Dates
- 1996-2004
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, spanish, and French
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
12.44 cubic feet
Quantity:
12.4 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Photographs.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, January 30, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 30, 2015
- Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union --Photographs
- Clothing workers -- Labor unions
- Textile workers -- Labor unions
- UNITE HERE (Organization) --Photographs
- Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
- Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees. Communications Department--Photographs
- Title
- UNITE Communications Department Photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 30, 2015
- 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