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Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Central North Carolina Joint Board records
Collection
Identifier: L1980-16
Abstract:
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Central North Carolina Joint Board records, 1939-1979, include correspondence, grievances, and time studies on job productivity in the textile industry; together with correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other items. Material relates to the Textile Workers Union of America; Local 578 and Local 584 and the strike (1958-1960; and abandoned by the union) against Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, Henderson, N.C.; and Local 319 at Highland...
Dates:
1939-1979
Found in:
Special Collections
United Food and Commercial Workers 2598T (Enka, N.C.) records
Collection
Identifier: L2012-31
Abstract
The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 2598T (Enka, N.C.) represents workers who first organized as rayon workers of American Enka Corporation. The mill has chiefly produced Rayon and Nylon, although currently produces only carpeting. Although organized by the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) for most of its existence, the local is now a textile peripheral of UFCW. At its height, the local had 1500 members which has since dwindled to approximately 200. This collection...
Dates:
1939-2012
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. Central North Carolina Joint Board 1
- American Enka Company 1
- Harriet Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.) 1
- Henderson Cotton Mills (Henderson, N.C.) 1
- Highland Cotton Mills (High Point, N.C.) 1
- Jervis, John E. (John Elwood), 1909-1984 1
- Textile Workers Union of America. Local 319 (High Point, N.C.) 1
- Textile Workers Union of America. Local 578 (Henderson, N.C.) 1
- Textile Workers Union of America. Local 584 (Henderson, N.C.) 1
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 1
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Local 2598T (Enka, N.C.) 1
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