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Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Local 442 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1972-36
Abstract: The collection consists of records of Local 442 (Atlanta, Ga.) of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America from 1918-1968. These records describe the business activities of Local 442 including the Meat Cutter's strikes of 1939 over agreements and of 1945 for a new contract to give union members a holiday on New Year's Day. A meat shortage of the mid-1940s resulted in a drop on the number of new members, loss and unemployment of old members, and dwindling money...
Dates: 1918-1968, 1987

Meat workers contracts collection

 Collection
Identifier: L-contracts_AMCBW
Abstract:

The collection consists of 40 agreements, 1951-1976, between various local unions of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America or the United Packinghouse Workers of America and retail, manufacturing, or other entities.

Dates: 1951-1976

United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 525 (Asheville, N.C.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1986-22
Abstract:

The records of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 525 (Asheville, N.C.), 1944-1986 (bulk 1961-1983), contain correspondence, organizing materials, National Labor Relations Board cases and decisions, legal files, publications, meeting minutes, annual reports, convention and mass meeting materials, financial records, political and legislative materials, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1944-1986; Majority of material found within 1961 - 1983

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Butchers -- Labor unions 2
Labor union locals 2
North Carolina 2
Asheville (N.C.) 1
Atlanta (Ga.) 1