The International Chemical Workers' Union (ICWU) was a labor union representing workers in the chemical industry in the United States and Canada.
The union's origins lay in the Chemical Workers' Council, established by the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1937, bringing together local unions in the Mid West.
In 1940, this was replaced by the International Council of Chemical and Allied Industries Union, led by H. A. Bradley and based in Akron, Ohio.
[3] In 1968, the union joined the Alliance for Labor Action, which led to it being expelled from the AFL–CIO the following year,[1] though it was readmitted in 1971.
[5] On July 1, 1996, it merged into the United Food and Commercial Workers' International Union.