United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 179 records, 1967-1982.

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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 179 records, 1967-1982.

Contains the records of a UFCW local in Cherokee, Iowa. Includes by-laws, contracts and agreements, meeting minutes, a National Labor Relations Board case, and grievances. The majority of records date from the 1970s and 1980s. Local 179 held contracts with Wilson & Company, Inc. and United Refrigerated Services, Inc.

0.2 linear ft. ( 1 small archives box).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7547690

Iowa State Historical Society

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United States. National Labor Relations Board

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After the first National Labor Relations Board was functionally abolished by the Supreme Court decision invalidating the National Industrial Recovery Act, May 27, 1935, a new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was established as an independent agency by the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (NLRA) (49 Stat. 195), dated July 5, 1935. The Supreme Court in 1937 declared the Board constitutional and sustained Congress’s power to regulate employers whose operations affected interstate commerce...

United Refrigerated Services, Inc.

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Wilson & Company, Inc.

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United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Local 179 (Cherokee, Iowa)

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Before 1979 UFCW Local 179 was a local of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. The local changed its name after the formation of the UFCW when the Amalgamated Meat Cutters merged with the Retail Clerks International Union and the Boot and Shoe Workers Union. Local 179 bargained with United Refrigerated Services, Inc. and Wilson & Company, Inc. Wilson & Company became Continental Deli Foods in 1988. From the description of United Food and Commerci...