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The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States one of the first U.S. 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 1995 to form the Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE).