Records, 1939-1972.

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Records, 1939-1972.

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Minutes, correspondence, reports, contracts and agreements, financial records, membership rosters, grievance and arbitration proceedings, civil litigation records, organizing files, newspapers and periodicals. The collection focuses on the day-to-day operations of an amalgamated local, with the various problems accompanying a mixed membership, and includes material on the jurisdictional disputes with IBEW Local 38 and the representational disputes with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, as well as labor-management conflicts and general conditions in the Cleveland electric industries, especially General Electric, Leece-Neville, Westinghouse and Picker X-Ray. The collection includes extensive material relating to the AFL-CIO Committee on Collective Bargaining, established in 1966 to negotiate an industry-wide contract with GE and Westinghouse and the eight major unions the Committee represented. Also included are files of Local 1377 officials Peter J. Zicarelli, Gordon M. Freeman, Joseph Keenan, and H.B. Blankenship, as well as material regarding the role of women in the local.

18.00 linear ft.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Leece-Neville Company.

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 38 (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Freeman, Gordon M.

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Keenan, Joseph D.

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Joseph Daniel Keenan was a labor leader who was an important labor-government laison during the Second World War, a significant force in labor's post war support for Democratic presidential candidates, and a key advisor to the AFL-CIO's George Meany. Born in Chicago in 1896, he was the eldest of eight children. He left school at an early age to help support his family after his father was injured and he became an electrician by trade. He participated in the labor movement in Chicago, beginning w...

Westinghouse electric corporation

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AFL-CIO. Committee on Collective Bargaining.

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Picker X-Ray Corporation

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

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General Electric Corporation

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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Local 1377 (Cleveland, Ohio)

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Cleveland (Ohio) local of electrical manufacturing workers originally set up to represent employees of the Leece-Neville Company. By the mid-1950s, however, the local had absorbed several units of Local 38, and included manufacturing units, maintenance units and radio and sound units, including appliance repairmen and mobile/microwave technicians. Peter J. Zicarelli served as business manager, 1950-1970s. The local was involved in jurisdictional disputes with Local 38 and representational disput...

Blankenship, H. B.

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Zicarelli, Peter J.

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