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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
The
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
(
ACWA
) was a
United States
labor union
known for its support for "social unionism" and progressive political causes. Led by
Sidney Hillman
for its first thirty years, it helped found the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
. It merged with the
Textile Workers Union of America
(TWUA) in 1976 to form the
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
(
ACTWU
), which merged with the
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union
in 1995 to create the
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
(UNITE). UNITE merged in 2004 with the
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union
(HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as
UNITE HERE
. After a bitter internal dispute in 2009, the majority of the UNITE side of the union, along with some of the disgruntled HERE locals left UNITE HERE, and formed a new union named Workers United, Led by former UNITE president Bruce Raynor.
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