United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local P-31 records, 1935-1994.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local P-31 records, 1935-1994.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46954449

Materials from UFCW Local P-31 of Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1935-1994. Includes local union meeting minutes, union and company meeting minutes, organizing materials, contracts, strike documents, correspondence with other labor groups, and internal union files.

14 linear ft. (32 archives boxes, 1 small archives box, 1 records box, 1 oversize box)

Iowa State Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7572085

Iowa State Historical Society

Related Entities

There are 11 Entities related to this resource.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j788vr (corporateBody)

The Committee for Industrial Organization was formed by the presidents of eight international unions in 1935. The presidents of these unions were dissatisfied with the American Federation of Labor's unwillingness to commit itself to a program of organizing industrial unions. In 1936, the A.F. of L. suspended the ten unions which proceeded to organize an independent federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO subsequently became the A.F. of L.'s chief rival for the leadership of...

Packinghouse Workers' Organizing Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sj6nw8 (corporateBody)

American Federation of Labor. Committee for Industrial Organization

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gv0g85 (corporateBody)

Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee. Local 31 (Fort Dodge, Iowa)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk1539 (corporateBody)

United Packinghouse Workers of America. Local 31 (Fort Dodge, Iowa)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt6bbz (corporateBody)

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64784hw (corporateBody)

The Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America and the United Packinghouse Workers of America coordinated collective bargaining efforts ca. 1953. The two unions merged in 1968. From the description of Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America records, 1953-1957. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 711874958 ...

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Local P-31 (Fort Dodge, Iowa)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65v063t (corporateBody)

The first local at Tobin Packing Company in 1937 called itself United Packinghouse Workers Local Industrial Union No. 355, CIO. This local became PWOC Local 355, then PWOC Local 31 by 1939. The local became UPWA Local 31 with the founding of the international union in 1943. After the 1968 merger with the AMCBW the local became P-31 and then after 1979, UFCW P-31. Like other CIO local unions, Local 31 had a tradition of organizing outside its original plant. This organizing tradition lived on int...

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p03bwz (corporateBody)

The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), Local 1245 is based in Northern New Jersey and represents workers in the supermarket industry and other smaller industries. During the 1960s and 1970s the union, formerly the Retail Clerks International Association Local 1245 (AFL-CIO), was led by president Frank DeVito and membership included supermarket workers in North Jersey, Hockland County, Staten Island, New York City and Long Island. The UFCW was ...

Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee. Local 355 (Fort Dodge, Iowa)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66q8j7q (corporateBody)

United Packinghouse Workers of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj6mv9 (corporateBody)