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Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. Records, 1903-1980.

Title: Records, 1903-1980.

Records of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (AMCBWNA), an international union formed in 1897. In 1979 AMCBWNA merged with the Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU) to become the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Unions that merged with AMCBWNA during its earlier history include the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Stockyard Workers Association of America, the International Fur and Leather Workers Union, the United Leather Workers International Union, and the National Agricultural Workers Union. The administrative records primarily document high level policy making during the post-World War II leadership of Earl Jimerson, Thomas Lloyd, and Patrick Gorman. Included are International Executive Board minutes and correspondence with individual locals, informational mass mailings, and convention planning files. Three overlapping administrative subject files (1919-1980) comprise the heart of the collection. They document relations with the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters, and the internationals with which the Amalgamated eventually merged, particularly the UPWA and the RCIU; major meat packers and grocery store chains, the War Labor Board, the National Labor Relations Board, and the U.S. Department of Labor. Additional files concern internal operations, convention planning, the Amalgamated Labor Life Insurance Company, and charitable interests of the union leadership such as cancer research and numerous Jewish organizations. The information about locals includes material on strikes, contracts, disciplinary cases, and jurisdictional disputes. This description thus far refers to the microfilmed records. The paper portion of additional unprocessed records, 1903-1979, include additional administrative records and incomplete files of the Fur and Leather, Packinghouse, Poultry, Research, and Retail departments and the Washington, D.C. office. Among the unprocessed administrative records are additional IEB minutes, scant documentation of the 1903-1921 era, indexes, publications, subject files, and clipping scrapbooks. The departmental records vary according to the sector of the economy or function represented, but they often include information on individual locals and their respective leaders, employers, contracts and master agreements, and legislation. The Research Department files are the most extensive, including reference and subject files containing background information and economic survey data and files on national negotiations, primarily 1945 to 1961. These unprocessed paper records are described in the collection register with the microfilm and other processed parts of the collection. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions include extensive photographic holdings, other visual materials, and additional tape recordings described below.

ArchivalResource: 503 reels of microfilm (16mm),18 tape recordings,29 films, and2 videorecordings; plusadditions of 101.8 c.f.,22 tape recordings,11,595 photographs,14,995 negatives,1,008 transparencies,61 pieces of ephemera,6 drawings,8 posters, and5 films.

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United Food and Commercial Workers Union retired leaders oral history project. United Food and Commercial Workers Union retired leaders oral history project interviews, 1980-1981.

Title: United Food and Commercial Workers Union retired leaders oral history project interviews, 1980-1981.

Tape-recorded interviews conducted by James A. Cavanaugh of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin staff with six former leaders of the various unions which merged in 1979 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers; pertaining to the unions' philosophies, policies, methods, industrial changes, integration and civil rights activities, opinions on the Vietnam War, and other topics. Paper abstracts summarize the interviews.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and43 tape recordings.

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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Records, ca. 1939-1994.

Title: Records, ca. 1939-1994.

Records of the union formed in 1981 by the merger of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and the Retail Clerks. Records of these and earlier predecessor organizations are in the Historical Society's custody accessioned under the predecessor organizations' names. Some predecessor organizations' records are currently listed in this collection; they will be transferred to the proper collection when processed.

ArchivalResource: 67.3 c.f. (including papers, discs, tapes, and films),13 disc recordings,659 tape recordings,2423 photographs,6 negatives,10 pieces of ephemera,40 videotapes, and18 films.

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United Food and Commercial Workers. Local 1182 (Seattle, Wash.). United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1182, Seattle, Washington records, 1970-2004.

Title: United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1182, Seattle, Washington records, 1970-2004.

Records of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1182, a labor union in Seattle, Washington, which represented employees at the Seattle-First National Bank (SeaFirst). Initially represented by the Firstbank Independent Employees Association, this union later became affiliated with the Retail Clerks International Union which merged with another union to create the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). A dispute arose regarding whether the union could represent the bank's employees in contract negotiations and after several legal battles involving the National Labor Relations Board, the United States Supreme Court ended the dispute in 1986 with a decision in favor of the union. In 1990, SeaFirst became the first large bank to bargain with a labor union. The collection documents the legal battle with SeaFirst, as well as routine union activities such as member recruitment, grievance filing, and training of union representatives.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes) and1 photograph.

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Akamatsu, Robert. Meats, markets, and mergers : oral histories on food store work and unionization in southern Wisconsin since the 1930s, 1981-1982.

Title: Meats, markets, and mergers : oral histories on food store work and unionization in southern Wisconsin since the 1930s, 1981-1982.

Interviews with 20 former and current retail food employees and union representatives concerning such topics as customer relations, productivity, small-scale grocery operation, changes in meat cutting, employee-management relations, unionization, male-female working relationships, and the role of women in the retail food industry.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and66 tape recordings.

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Singer, Steven. Singer, Steven. Labor collection. Memorabilia.

Title: Singer, Steven. Labor collection. Memorabilia.

This collection consists of badges, Union buttons, and other assorted Union memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear feet.

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Retail Clerks International Union. Retail Clerks International Union records, 1890-1990 (bulk 1899-1982).

Title: Retail Clerks International Union records, 1890-1990 (bulk 1899-1982).

Records, 1890-1990 (bulk 1899-1982), of the Retail Clerks International Union (most of which are on microfilm produced by the RCIU) documenting various departments and levels of the organization, from the executive office to the union locals. The RCIU began as the Retail Clerks International Protective Association around 1891, and eventually merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America in 1979 to become the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). The collection spans the organization's history and includes organizing materials, financial records, collective bargaining files, correspondence, reports, memos, trusteeship files, convention proceedings, extensive administrative files, information on strikes and the Meat Cutters union, photographs, and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 75.6 c.f.,48 volumes,931 reels of microfilm (16 mm),7 reels of microfilm (35 mm),3 tape recordings,4 disc recordings,5 dictabelts, and1 film.

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Hilpert, Elmer E., 1905-1975. Series 1. General arbitration files, part a, 1948-1975.

Title: Series 1. General arbitration files, part a, 1948-1975.

Arbitration case files for employers with names beginning with letters A through G. Arbitration case files for employers with names beginning with letters A through G. Include arbitration case files for Allied Chemical Corp. vs. the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW) on issues of rates of pay, temporary assignment, grievance, seniority, reduction in force, suspension, promotions, and bargaining unit work (1960-1973); and Allied Materials Corp. vs. OCAW on issues of discipline, dismissal, and vacancies (1964-1968). Other cases include the American Car and Foundry Company vs. the Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America on issues of demotion, discipline, dismissal, insubordination, rates of pay, and incentive pay (1966-1969); American Car and Foundry Co. vs. the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) on issues of discipline, dismissal, layoff, work assignment, and seniority (1948-1955); the American Oil Company vs. the Independent Oil Workers Union on issues of sick leave, assignment of jobs, pay rate, and assignment of overtime (1961-1962); American Oil Co. vs. OCAW on issues of assignment of jobs and rates of pay (1966); American Steel Foundries vs. USWA on issues of assignment of jobs, seniority, and de minimis assignment (1953-1959); and the American Thermometer Company vs. USWA on issues of rates of pay, Saturday, Sunday, and holiday work, discipline, dismissal, transfers, seniority, and vacations (1947-1954). Other cases include Armco Steel Corp. vs. USWA on issues of dismissal, intoxication, assignment of jobs, and crew size (1962-1968); the Armor Elevator Company vs. the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) on issues of strikes, suspensions, safety equipment, slowdowns, and discipline (1972-1973); Arvin Industries vs. the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) on issues of discipline, restrictions of production, and assignment of jobs (1963-1969); Arvin Industries, Inc. vs. the International Association of Machinists (IAM) on issues of rates of pay, reduction in force, and demotions (1971-1973); Arvin Industries, Inc. vs. USWA on the issue of rates of pay (1971); and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company vs. the Retail Clerks International Association on issues of schedules of work, reduction of hours, assignment of jobs, change in location, and rates of pay (1965-1974). Other cases include the Borden Company vs. the Textile Workers' Union of America on issues of strikes, slowdowns, dismissal, insurance plan, and theft (1964-1973); Borg-Warner Corp. vs. the International Union, Allied Industrial Workers of America on issues of overtime, transfers, managerial prerogatives, dismissal, discharge, assignment of jobs, contracting out, insubordination, holiday pay, sick pay, absences, tardiness, seniority, and layoffs (1958-1973); the Brockway Glass Company, Inc. vs. the Glass Bottle Blowers Association (GBBA) on issues of discipline, dismissal, illness, failure to report, promotion, and seniority (1966-1970); Nat Carling Breweries vs. IBEW on issues of vacation pay and rates of pay (1958); and Nat Carling Breweries vs. the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink, and Distillery Workers of America on issues of overtime, assignment of jobs, reduction in force, layoff, and managerial rights (1960-1961). Other cases include the Century Electric Company vs. the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE) on issues of rates of pay, recall following strike, discipline, layoff, and dismissal (1956-1963); Cerro De Pasco Corp vs. USWA on issues of management rights, contracting out, assignment of jobs, and downgrading (1958-1962); the Container Corporation of America vs. the United Paperworkers International Union on issues of rates of pay, overtime, reduction in force, work distribution, job classification, discipline, suspension, and assignment of jobs (1962-1975); and Container Corporation of America vs. the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and Paper Mill Workers on issues of rates of pay and classification of jobs (1962). Other cases include Dow Chemical Company vs. USWA on issues of rates of pay, seniority, training, call-in, holiday pay, discipline, and dismissal (1956-1964); Emerson Electric Company vs. IAM on issues of dismissal and discipline (1974); Emerson Electric Company vs. the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) on the issue of assignment of jobs (1949); Emerson Electric Company vs. IUE on issues of discipline, dismissal, classification of jobs, rates of pay, and transfers (1960-1965); and Federal Barge Lines, Inc. vs. the International Organization of Masters, Mates and Pilots on issues of grievance procedures, discipline, dismissal, and suspensions (1960-1967). Other cases include Firestone Tire and Rubber Company vs. UAW on issues of discipline, dismissal, seniority, classification of jobs, rates of pay, and layoff (1964-1967); General Electric Company vs. IUE on issues of discipline and dismissal, reduction in workforce, and seniority (1960-1963); General Electric vs. UAW on issues of seniority and size of bargaining unit (1965); General Steel Castings Corp. vs. USWA on issues of rates of pay, cost of living allowances, and premium pay (1948-1957); and General Steel Castings Corp. vs. the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers on issues of overtime pay, rates of pay, classification of jobs, insubordination, job assignment, layoff, shut down, and seniority (1963-1967). Other cases include the Glass Container Corporation vs. the GBBA on issues of sub-contracting, assignment of jobs, seniority, layoff, arbitrability, overtime, holidays, holiday pay, and managerial prerogatives (1969-1970); Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company vs. the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America on issues of arbitrability, rates of pay, assignment of jobs, discipline, managerial prerogatives, and reduction in workforce (1971-1973); Granite City Steel Co. vs. the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America (IBT) on issues of dual employment, dismissal, discipline, layoff, negligence, and carelessness (1957-1962); Granite City Steel vs. IAM on the issue of rates of pay (1966-1967); Granite City Steel vs. USWA on issues of overtime, discipline, layoff, negligence, carelessness, job classification, promotion, holiday pay, and overtime (1951-1967); W.T. Grant Co. vs. the Retail Clerks International Union on issues of work schedule, overtime, discipline, and incompetence (1965-1974); Grinnell Co. vs. IBT on issues of assignment of jobs, layoff, insurance eligibility, and coffee breaks (1969-1971); and the Gulf States Paper Corporation vs. the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers on issues of vacation eligibility, discipline, leaving work area without permit, dismissal, insubordination, promotion, and job vacancies (1969-1971).

ArchivalResource: Series 1, parts a and b: 78 linear ft.

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