Engineers Association of ARMA.
Engineers working at ARMA Corporation, a Brooklyn defense contractor, organized the Engineers Association of ARMA in 1951. Company recruitment of new engineers during the Korean War with a pay rate comparable to senior employees was the central organizing issue. Two strikes, in 1951 and then in 1953, drove the engineers to consolidate their numbers with the other unions in the plant. In 1956, the ARMA engineers formed Local 418 of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. The union's survival depended greatly on the ability of the company to secure Pentagon contracts. After twenty years without a defense contract, the company finally closed in 1983, forcing the union to disband.
From the description of Engineers Association of ARMA photographs [graphic]. 1951-1960. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 60951540
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