International Ladies Garment Workers Union

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Abbreviation	ILGWU
Merged into	Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees
Formation	June 3, 1900 (1900-06-03)
Dissolved	1995 (1995)
Type	Trade union
Location	Canada United States
Membership	450,000 (1969) 250,000 (1995)
Affiliations	American Federation of Labor (until 1955) AFL–CIO (from 1955) Canadian Labour Congress

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first US unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s. The union, generally referred to as the "ILGWU" or the "ILG", merged with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in the 1990s to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) in 2004 to create a new union known as UNITE HERE.^[1] The two unions that formed UNITE in 1995 represented 250,000 workers between them, down from the ILGWU's peak membership of 450,000 in 1969.

The union published Justice in Jersey City, New Jersey.^[2]