Scope and Contents
This collection has over 12,000 photographs, 400 slides and several CD's of photographs documenting the history of UNITE.
Dates
- 1926-2005
Creator
- UNITE-HERE (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Conditions Governing Use
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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
25.06 cubic feet
Quantity:
25.1 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, May 15, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 30, 2015
- Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
- Clothing trade -- New York (State) -- New York
- Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York
- International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
- Sweatshops -- New York (State) -- New York
- Textile Workers Union of America
- Textile industry -- New York (State) -- New York
- Textile workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- New York
- UNITE HERE (Organization)
- Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
- Title
- UNITE 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