Benjamin H. Wolf. Series 3. Brooklyn Union Gas Company vs. Transport Workers Union of America : documents, 1966-1970.

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Benjamin H. Wolf. Series 3. Brooklyn Union Gas Company vs. Transport Workers Union of America : documents, 1966-1970.

Consist of documents pertaining to cases arbitrated by Wolf as impartial chairman between the Brooklyn Union Gas Company and the Transport Workers Union of America. Documents include awards and decisions; notes; correspondence; hearings transcripts; briefs; and exhibits used in evidence. Awards chiefly pertain to issues of old age benefits, wages, absenteeism, arbitrability, work assignment, management rights, job evaluation, promotion, bargaining unit, past practice, position classification, improper personal conduct, altercations, employee fighting, overtime and tardiness.

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Cornell University Library

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Wolf, Benjamin H., 1909-

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Arbitrator, labor mediator and attorney; visiting professor, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. From the description of Benjamin H. Wolf. Series 4. American Airlines, inc. vs. Transport Workers Union of America : documents, 1966-1973. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63540415 From the description of Benjamin H. Wolf. Series 3. Brooklyn Union Gas Company vs. Transport Workers Union of America : documents, 1966-1970. (...

Brooklyn Union Gas Company

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Transport Workers' Union of America

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Much of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) history centers around the fiery figure of Michael Quill, President of the TWU from 1935 to 1966. Quill, born in Kilgarven, Ireland in 1905, started with the IRT subway as a ticket taker. It was only with the financial support of the Communist Party that Quill, together with Maurice Forge, Austin Hogan and Harry Sacher, was able to lead a successful organizing drive among New York City transit workers beginning in 1934. With Quill as President, the TWU o...