New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council Records 1930s-1987

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New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council Records 1930s-1987

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The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council was born in of Depression-era struggles to improve conditions for employees of New York City hotels, restaurants and private clubs. Several unsuccessful strikes and the emergence of a powerful Hotel Association representing the employers, spurred this effort. In April of 1938 the Council was formed as an umbrella group of five AFL-affiliated unions and given sole authority to bargain for those unions. Over the years many other independent unions and locals have affiliated with the Council. In addition to industry-wide bargaining, the Council took on the work of administering welfare funds and running training and community service programs for its affiliates as a group. The collection consists of administrative files of the Council, correspondence and other files of Council presidents Jay Rubin and Vito Pitta, an extensive series of files arranged by the names of individual hotels, and records of the welfare funds and social service programs amdinistered by the Council. NOTE: This collection is housed offsite and advance notice is required for use.

96.0 linear feet; (96 boxes)

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Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union. Local 6 (New York, N.Y.)

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Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union, Local 6 (now affiliated with the international union, UNITE/HERE) represents housekeeping staff, waiters, bartenders and other categories of service employees in hotel, private clubs and restaurants in the New York City area. The local grew substantially as a result of a major organizing drive in the mid-1930s, under Local president Michael J. Obermeier, and absorbed a number of smaller locals of hotel employees over the years. Signific...

Rubin, Jay

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Pitta, Vito J.

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Hotel Association.

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New York Hotel Trades Council

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Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union. Local 20

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New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council

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The New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council is an umbrella group of unions whose members are employed in New York metropolitan area hotels, restaurants and private clubs. The bulk of the affiliated workers are members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union, but electricians, elevator technicians and other building trades groups are also represented in the Council. The Council was formed in 1938, with the signing of the first city-wide contract for hotel employees in ...