Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
{{Short description|North American trade union}}
{{For|the South African trade union|Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union of South Africa}}
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| name = ACTWU
| founded = 1976
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| native_name_lang = ACTWU
| image = ACTWU Logo.png
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| merger = {{ubl | Textile Workers Union of America | Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America}}
| successor = Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
| dissolved = 1995
| headquarters =
| location_country = United States of America
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The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) was a labor union representing workers in two related industries in the United States.
The union was founded in 1976, when the Textile Workers Union of America merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. The small American Federation of Hosiery Workers also joined. On foundation, the new union had about 500,000 members. Like both its predecessors, it affiliated to the AFL–CIO.{{cite news |last1=Stetson |first1=Pamon |title=2 Apparel Unions Agree on Merger |work=New York Times |date=20 March 1976}}{{cite web |title=Inactive Organizations |url=https://umdlabor.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/3/9/29397087/inactive_organizations.pdf |website=UMD Labor Collections |publisher=University of Maryland |access-date=18 April 2022}} In 1979, the United Shoe Workers of America merged in, followed in 1983 by the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union.{{Cite journal |pages=21–27 |last=Adams |first=Larry T. |title=Labor organization mergers 1979-84: adapting to change |journal=Monthly Labor Review |date=September 1984}}
The union successfully campaigned to unionize workers at J.P. Stevens & Co. However, the industry was in sharp decline in the United States,{{cite web |title=ACTWU President's Office Murray Finley Correspondence on Microfiche |url=https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05619-036fiche.html |publisher=Cornell University Library |access-date=20 April 2022}} and by 1995, the union had only 129,000 members. That year, it merged with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees.{{cite book |last1=Turner |first1=Lowell |last2=Katz |first2=Harry Charles |last3=Hurd |first3=Richard |title=Rekindling the Movement |date=2001 |publisher=ILR Press |isbn=9780801487125}}