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Textile and clothing trade unions are labor unions that represent workers in the textile industry and garment industry. A partial list is as follows.

International

• IndustriALL Global Union (Switzerland)
• International Trade Union Confederation (Belgium)

Africa

• Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (South Africa)

Asia

• All India Jute Textile Workers' Federation (India)
• Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Federation (India)
• Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Union (India)
• Bengal Jute Mill Workers' Union (India)
• Bengal Provincial Chatkal Mazdoor Union (India)
• Bunkar Mahasabha (India)
• Coimbatore District Textile Workers Union (India)
• Federation of Chatkal Mazdoor Unions (India)
• National Committee of the Chinese Financial, Commercial, Light Industry, Textile and Tobacco Workers' Union (People's Republic of China)
• National Union of Jute Workers (India)
• Pondicherry Textile Labour Union (India)
• Powerloom Workers Union (India)
• Rashtriya Mill Mazdoor Sangh (India)

Australia

• Australian Workers Union (Australia)
• Clothing, Laundry and Allied Workers Union of Aotearoa (New Zealand)
• Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (Australia)
• United Voice (Australia)

Europe

• Community (United Kingdom)
• Fédération française de la couture (France)
• GMB (trade union) (United Kingdom)
• United Federation of Trade Unions (Norway)
• Transport and General Workers Union (United Kingdom)

North America

• UNITE HERE (United States)
• Workers United (United States)