United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union
The United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (1934-1983), also known by acronyms including UHCMW, U.H.C. & M.W.I.U. and UHC & MWIU, was a 20th-century American labor union. History. In 1934, the United Hatters of North America (UHNA) (formed 1896) and the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (CHCMW) (formed 1901), both based in New York, ended their competition by merging to form the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union (UHCMW). In June 5, 1946, "Congressional Quarterly" reported how, in the wake of the Strike wave of  1945–1946 and February 1936 Case permanent strike control bill: In August 1948, UHCMW established a Hatters Union, Local No. 125 at the Texas-Miller Products. UHCMW failed to get International Hat Company employees to join its union. UHCMW was a member of the International Clothing Workers' Federation (IGWF), a global union federation representing workers involved in making and repairing clothes, as well as the International Textile and Garment Workers' Federation (ITGWF), also a global union federation of unions representing workers involved in manufacturing clothing and other textiles, and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF), which in 1970  resulted from the merger of the International Textile and Garment Workers' Federation and the International Shoe and Leather Workers' Federation. The hat and millinery trade went into decline in the US, and in 1983 UHCMW merged into the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). Legacy. In 1995, ACTWU merged with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union to form UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees).