Labor unions -- Organizing
Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:
Marc R. Levinson papers
Mississippi State AFL-CIO records
National Domestic Workers Union (U.S.) records
Newport News Central Labor Council records
The Newport News Central Labor Council records contain correspondence, minutes and financial documents concerning affiliation of local unions, delegates, charities, voter registration drives, organizing campaigns, and race issues.
Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 21 (Atlanta, Ga.) records
The Office and Professional Employees International Union was formed in 1965 from the Office Employees International Union (1945-1965). Local 21's (Atlanta, Ga.) membership is comprised mainly of clerical workers employed in the offices of trade unions. The records of Local 21, 1958-1979, consist of correspondence, financial records, minutes, grievances, organizing files, contracts, pamphlets, and periodicals.
Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 455 (Savannah, Ga.) records
The Office and Professional Employees International Union was formed in 1945 as the Office Employees International Union. The membership of OPEIU Local 455, located in Savannah, Georgia, is comprised of clerical workers and technicians who were employed by Savannah Electric and Power Company. The records of Local 455 (1976-2004) consist of correspondence, financial records, minutes, grievances, and monthly reports.
Office and Professional Employees International Union records
The collection, 1976-1978, of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) consist of handbills, a National Labor Relations Board petition, and agreements manual, and a sample ballot. The collection describes an attempt to secure a collective bargaining contract for the employees of Group Health Incorporated of Miami, Florida.
Peter J. Conlon family collection
Roy Groenert papers
Roy Groenert, former president of United Textile Workers Local 2563, was Director of Organization for the UTWA. Groenert's papers illuminate his interests in local union affairs, in organizing, and in the UTWA's suit which brought enforcement of the no-raid pacts signed after the merger of the AFL-CIO.
S. J. Maroda scrapbook
The S. J. Maroda scrapbook, dated 1 June 1954, is titled Labor in Transition. It contains a 21-page typescript, "Labor in Transition: General Electric Company vs. Unionism at Appliance Park, Ky.," and seven sections of mounted printed material, including newspaper clippings, handbills, and booklets, January-August 1953. The material documents competing efforts to organize workers at a new General Electic Company manufacturing plant.
Savannah Trades and Labor Assembly records
Records concern both Savannah's AFL Council in its opposition to local organizing activity of the CIO, and the subsequent AFL-CIO Council's concern for promoting labor's goals in the city.
Scripto strike records
The collection documents the strike (1964-1965) at Atlanta's Scripto Corporation manufacturing plant. The records of the Scripto strike, 1963-1968, 1996, 1999 consist of contemporary legal and union documents, newspaper articles, and photographs. Transcripts of interviews conducted in 1996 and a published article round out the collection.
Service Employees International Union, Local 579 (Charleston, S.C.) records
The records of the Service Employees International Union, Local 579, consists of materials related to the local's attempt to establish a bargaining unit at the St. Francis Xavier Hospital in Charleston, SC.
Service Employees International Union, Southern Region records
South Carolina Labor Council records
The records, 1950-1972, of the South Carolina Labor Council, AFL-CIO, consist mainly of correspondence.
Southeastern Building Trade Conference records
The Southeastern Building Trade Conference is an umbrella organization uniting building trade unions from the southeastern states: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The Southeastern Building Trade Conference records include financial records, correspondence, minutes, and resolutions.
Stetson Kennedy papers
Stewart Acuff papers
Former president of the Atlanta Labor Council, Stewart Acuff later served as Director of Organizing for the AFL-CIO. his papers consist of speeches, agendas, manuscripts and drafts, and notes from 1998-2011.
Textile Workers Union of America, Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Joint Board records
The Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama Area Joint Board of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA-GTA) provides support and leadership to the several TWUA local unions in northwest Georgia, northeast Alabama, and the Chattanooga area of Tennessee. Its records, 1952-1980, consist of correspondence, minutes, contract negotiation papers, grievance cases and printed items of the six TWUA Local unions in the area.
Textile Workers Union of America, Local 185 (Dalton, Ga.) records
This collection consists of union documentation regarding the foundation and management of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union Local 185 and its relationship with the Crown Cotton Mill, both of Dalton, Georgia. The collection concerns the operation and management ACTWUA Local 185 from its establishment in the 1940s through the 1960s.