David Dubinsky
David Dubinsky · Philosophy & Social Sciences
President of the ILGWU who won health benefits, pensions and shorter hours for garment workers
1892, Brest-Litovsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1982, New York City, United States
United States
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David Dubinsky was an American labor leader who as long-serving president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) from 1932 won health benefits, pensions, and shorter hours for hundreds of thousands of garment workers. A major force in the American labor movement and a founder of the Liberal Party of New York, he helped shape mid-century labor and progressive politics. Dubinsky was a Jewish immigrant from a Jewish family in what is now Belarus.
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President of the ILGWU who won health benefits, pensions and shorter hours for garment workers
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