Eleanore Collins Papers 1944-1993

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Eleanore Collins Papers 1944-1993

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Eleanore Collins (d. 1994) had a passionate concern for labor education, women's rights, and white-collar organizing. As a clerk with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), she joined the Communications Workers of America (CWA), Local 1150, and by the early 1950s she became a steward. In the CWA, Collins was active in organizing, upgrading clerical titles, and boosting the status and pay for female workers. She served as a union board member, convention delegate, education director, and finally president of the CWA, Local 1153 from 1981 to 1984. The collection includes correspondence, election materials, minutes, arbitration awards, clippings, and reports that reflect both Collins's duties as a CWA local officer and her personal political and community interests.

2.75 linear feet; in 3 boxes and 1 folder

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Communications Workers of America. Local 1150 (New York, N.Y.)

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The jurisidiction of CWA Local 1150 has shifted somewhat over the years since its founding in 1951, but its basic purpose had been to represent long-distance operators, maintenance workers and clerical workers employed by AT&T in the New York metropolitan area. Through the period covered by this collection, half or more of all Long Lines (long distance) workers were women. The New York Local was (and is) divided into three sections: Traffic (operators), Plant (installation and m...

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Collins, Eleanore, d. 1994.

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Eleanore Collins was born in the Bronx and raised in Elmsford, NY. She graduated from Mount St. Vincent College and later earned a Master's degree in labor relations from Pace University. After working briefly for Reader's Digest and then as a social worker, she took a job as a clerk for the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Manhattan on the eve of World War II. In the early 1950s she joined the Communications Workers of America, Local 1150. In 1954 her clerical job was transf...

Myerscough, George T.

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Collins, Eleanore

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Communications Workers of America. Local 1153 (Valhalla, N.Y.).

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Communications Workers of America, Local 1153 was chartered in 1975, after more than 500 members of the Manhattan-based Local 1150 petitioned for a new local to represent American Telephone & Telegraph's Long Lines (long distance) employees working in the White Plains and Mount Kisco area. The jurisdiction granted compromised Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Putnam Counties in New York; and for the Construction Department only, all of New England, New Jersey and New York. But the majority o...

Mayer, Henry

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Foster, Betty

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Wansi, Emmanuel

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American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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