United Furniture Workers of America
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
A. R. Marshall arbitration records
Collection
Identifier: L1980-07N
Abstract
The A. R. Marshall Arbitration records, 1942-1983, consist of professional files, arbitration case files, publications and contracts between unions and companies.
Dates:
1942-1983
Found in:
Special Collections
Furniture and Bedding Workers Union (of United Furniture Workers of America), Local 18-B (Chicago, Ill.), contracts collection
Collection
Identifier: L-Contracts_Furnitur
Abstract:
The collection consists of 11 agreements, 1948, 1960-1969, between the Furniture & Bedding Workers Union (of United Furniture Workers of America), Local 18-B (Chicago, Ill.), and manufacturers.
Dates:
1948-1969; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1969
Found in:
Special Collections
M. H. Ross papers
Collection
Identifier: L2001-05
Abstract:
Myron Howard "Mike" Ross, was born November 9, 1919. Ross worked with a number of unions as an organizer, arbitrator, and advocate in the South. He ran for elective office in North Carolina on the Progressive Party ticket. After receiving public health training, he founded the Fairmont (West Virginia) Clinic, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. Administering the clinic 1958-1978, Ross developed a longstanding interest in coal miners and...
Dates:
1916-1987
Found in:
Special Collections
United Furniture Workers of America contracts and agreements collection
Collection
Identifier: L-contracts_UFWA
Abstract:
The Contracts and Agreements Collection of the United Furniture Workers of America (1905-1975) includes agreements and contracts between UFWA locals and companies located throughout the United States.
Dates:
1905-1975
Found in:
Special Collections
United Furniture Workers of America records
Collection
Identifier: L1979-09
Abstract:
In 1937, dissident members of the Upholsterers' International Union of North America formed the new United Furniture Workers of America (UFWA), and affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The UFWA records, 1939-1977, document the Union's relationship with the CIO and later the AFL-CIO, and other unions. The contains includes records relating to the UFWA administrative and operational units, including minutes of the General Executive Branch, International Executive...
Dates:
1939-1977
Found in:
Special Collections
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- Collective labor agreements 2
- Furniture industry and trade 2
- Labor unions 2
- contracts 2
- Arbitration, Industrial 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners -- Labor unions 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Collective labor agreements -- Furniture industry 1
- Communism 1
- Elections 1
- Furniture workers 1
- Furniture workers -- Labor unions 1
- Georgia 1
- Industrial arbitrators 1
- Industrial relations 1
- Labor movement 1
- Labor unions -- Political activity 1
- New Mexico 1
- North Carolina 1
- Political activists 1
- Upholstery trade -- Employees 1
- West Virginia 1
- arbitration 1
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