Textile Workers Union of America
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The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1976. It waged a decades-long campaign to organize J.P. Stevens and other Southern textile manufacturers that achieved some successes.
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Textile Workers Union of America | |
Predecessor | United Textile Workers of America, Textile Workers Organizing Committee |
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Merged into | Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union |
Successor | Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, UNITE HERE, Workers United |
Founded | 1939 |
Dissolved | 1976 |
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Affiliations | CIO, AFL–CIO |
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