Engineers Association of ARMA Photographs 1951-1960

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Engineers Association of ARMA Photographs 1951-1960

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Engineers working at ARMA Corporation, a Brooklyn defense contractor, organized the Engineers Association of ARMA in 1951, becoming the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Local 418 in 1956. After twenty years without a defense contract, the company finally closed in 1983, forcing the union to disband. The collection contains images of union presidents, classroom scenes, women members, and a strike scene.

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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....