Papers, 1951-1988.

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Papers, 1951-1988.

The collection includes correspondence, election materials, minutes, arbitration awards, clippings, and reports reflecting both Collins' duties as a CWA Local officer and her personal political and community interests. In an undated file marked "Writings" are three typescript essays by Collins, one on women's employment in the White Plains unit of AT&T, one on job losses in White Plains, and one on the telephone strike of 1971 in the New York area.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7584063

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

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

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Reader's digest association

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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...

American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

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