The INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION (ILGWU) struggled to gain a foothold in Cleveland during the first 2 decades of the 20th century. Toward the end of the 19th century, poor working ...

The INTERNATIONAL LADIES' GARMENT WORKERS' UNION AGREEMENT OF 1918-19 laid the basis for collective bargaining in the Cleveland cloak and suit trade. Agitation for the agreement began a few years ...

The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) became one of the largest unions voicing the concerns of women workers (men also joined this union.) It was formed in 1900.

Local 25 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union had organized a meeting that night to discuss the possibility of an industry-wide strike, a practice that was still illegal at the time.

Dubrow, the 4-foot-11, throaty-voiced representative for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and its successor union, advocated for a higher minimum wage, fair trade laws, family and ...

In the early 20th century, the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union was the largest women's union in the world. It pushed to improve benefits for women in the clothing industry and inspired ...

The membership and leadership of The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union join with the widest elements of the nations population in offering to you and to the members of your family our ...

Benjamin Schlessinger, former president of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, was unanimously chosen by the Union’s general executive board to succeed Morris Sigman in that ...