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Employers who signed the major collective bargaining agreements with the ILGWU in the women’s industry (primarily manufacturers) not only agreed to abide by wage and working conditions for their own employees, they also pledged to use only contractors “designated or registered” with the union and the employer association.
(The Amalgamated and ILGWU merged in 1995 to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees—or UNITE!)
The principal architects of this approach, Sidney Hillman, founding president of the Amalgamated, and David Dubinsky, long-time president of the ILGWU, were cutters and came out of this craft-group.
Emphasizing the potential role of the union in this regard, ILGWU President Dubinsky commented on the difficult conditions of the 1920s:
For the ILGWU, standardizing wages required regulation through collective bargaining of the network of contractors and “submanufacturers” working for jobbers and manufacturers.