This collection documents the activities of Local 192 of the Amalgamated Transit Union from 1930 to 2004, with the bulk of the collection covering the years 1948-1986. The records provide insight into the activities of the union and its members,...
The files of the AMU lodge #1305 are divided into 9 series: Minutes, Membership, Correspondence, Agreements, City Shop Cases, Health and Welfare, Elections, Law and Legislative Committee and Artifacts. Types of material within the collection include bylaws, agreements, minutes of...
The Bardacke - Watsonville Canneries Strike files are divided into nine series: Teamsters Local 912, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Community Support for Strike, Media Coverage, Status Reports & Chronology, Legal, Watsonville Canning, Rally Operations Order, and Frank Bardacke. The...
Records include governance documents including some minutes, the articles of incorporation, by- laws, and balloting results....
The Bay Area Typographical Union (BATU) collection contains the organizational records and materials donated by the BATU in January, 1985....
The bulk of this collection of the personal papers of Arthur K. Bierman is divided into two major series: 1) American Federation of Teachers, and 2) Anti-HUAC Activities. The AFT material is focused primarily on organizing activities in Local 1352,...
The scrapbook, predominantly of newspaper clippings from the and from April 29 through September 21 1948 records the strike between the International Association of Machinists (IAM), Lodge 751 and Boeing Aircraft Company in Seattle, WA. The scrapbook also includes: Picket...
This collection of non-current records was slated for disposal by Lodge 6. Because LARC surveyor, Susan Goldstein, expressed an interest, the Union granted permission for the collection to be transferred to the Archive. Due to Lodge 6's original intent, there...
The fifth volume is a membership ledger and the remaining volumes are minutes. The agenda of the minutes typically include interaction with other unions, new business, and finances. The financial statement includes membership dues and expenses. Beginning with 1927 membership...
The collection includes items from the 1930s & 1960s, but the majority of documents cover the 1970s. Archie Brown was active in the ILWU, the Communist Party, and a host of "progressive" organizations. The many pamphlets and broadsides testify to...
This collection can be used to supplement and enhance research in LARC's primary collections. Although the earliest publication is 1913, the bulk is from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. A large amount of the material addresses working conditions in California,...
This collection offers researchers a multi-faceted view of the California Labor School and its place in the left-wing community of the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout the Box/Folder list, cross-references to the Holland Roberts Collection are made. Series I holds...
The collection is made up of 147 black and white images, 113 of which are 8" x 10;" the balance range from 2" x 3" to 5" x 7." All photographs are housed in one document box. They span the...
An incomplete set of Local 180's executive board meeting minutes comprise the bulk of the collection. The minutes start in 1900, a year after the Local began, and continue through 1981, with gaps from 1902 to 1904 and 1917 through...
The records of the Central Labor Council of Alameda County (CLCAC) primarily reflect the activity of the Council, in all of its roles, during the tenure of its secretary-treasurers, Robert S. Ash (1943-1967), and for a shorter period, Richard K....
The papers of Peter Comacho contains one series: Teamsters Local 85....
The Robert E. Durkin Collection is divided into eleven series: ...
This small collection of materials on business management associations was gathered by the San Francisco Employers Council Research Department for professor Sumner Slichter of Harvard University to prepare him for his late 1940's study of labor relations on the Pacific...
In addition to manuscripts and documents generated by Morris Evenson himself, the collection contains a large amount of originals or copies of the Bay Area Painters Union records covering the years when Evenson was an official and during his retirement....
The files in this collection have been divided into series following, as closely as possible, the numbering system used by the law offices. Generally speaking, this system assigns a four-digit number (e.g. 2015) to each client. Ascending numbers then are...
The folders in the Frontlash San Francisco collection are arranged alphabetically, and the material within each folder is arranged chronologically....
This small collection represents a random selection of George Hardy's papers which the donor determined worth saving. The papers and records from George Hardy's terms as President of the Service Employees International Union are held by the Union in Washington,...
This collection offers visual images of the career of George Hardy. It includes many union activities such as conventions and strikes. George Hardy is the central figure in most images....
These files reflect the concerns of Household Workers' Rights. The questionnaire, modeled after a survey by the Women's Occupational Health Resource Center in New York, delves into the specific problems faced by household workers. Information includes womens' ages, their children's...
The collection includes arbitration files of Eliel's work as well as files of many other arbitrators, particularly those of Paul Sinsheimer. Documents from these arbitrations cover the years 1917 to 1949. Many of the arbitrated disputes included strikes so there...
The IAM Lodge 284 collection is organized into eleven series: Minutes, Committees, Grievances, Print Material, Business Agent Administrative Files, District 115, Grand Lodge, Affiliations, Agreements, War Labor Board, Artifacts. ...
The files of IAM #68 are arranged into three series: Minutes, Membership and Treasury. Types of material in the collection include of bound volumes of minutes, financial ledgers and membership records. A detailed series list is attached....
The files of Teamsters Local 70 are divided into four series: Teamsters Local 70, Teamsters Local 515 (Oakland chauffeurs' union), International Brotherhood of Teamsters material, and non-Teamsters material....
This small collection has only one series: Teamsters Local 85. Included within it are minutes, office correspondence, and contracts and agreements....
This small collection contains correspondence, minutes, wage information and financial records of the union during the thirties and forties. Because of the abbreviated nature of the collection much of what is present in these categories is incomplete....
This collection contains the case files for over 4000 labor arbitrations and mediations heard by Sam Kagel, his son John Kagel, and others during the years 1949 to 1997. The cases involve unions and companies in the San Francisco Bay...
The collection consists of 280 photographs covering the decades 1930s-1960s; the bulk is from the 1940s. It represents a visual record of the leaders, meetings, strikes, World War II activities, Labor Day parades, and anti-Taft-Hartley demonstrations of major CIO unions...
The collection is comprised of documents and photographs from Lathen's labor and political activities in Vallejo. It ranges from a 1928 Plasterers' & Cement Finishers' Union Constitution to a 1995 holiday card from Bill and Hillary Clinton. Also included are...
The religious community of Northern California was actively involved in the farm labor movement but its role is not discussed extensively in histories of the movement. This collection will help researchers better understand the role of the Northern California Conference...
The major part of this collection is a first draft of Holland Roberts' memoirs centering on his time at the California Labor School. Most material is handwritten or typed with handwritten revisions. There are 28 folders representing material for approximately...
This collection is arranged in sixteen folders with attention paid to original order and grouping upon arrival to the Labor Archives. Each folder lists a and contains several listed in the descriptive guide. Photographers and identified individuals are also documented...
The BTC files are divided into two series: the San Francisco Building Trades Council (later known as the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council) and the San Francisco Building Trades Council's Temple Association. Neither series contain complete records for...
The Records in this collection primarily reflect the activities of the SFLC during the 1960s and early 1970s. A number of individual items and files, two of the record series, and most of the long newspaper runs document earlier history...
The collection offers a glimpse into the world of a maritime organizer's life during the late 1940s. The bulk of the material spans from 1940 to 1950. Possibly the most valuable portion of the collection can be found in the...
The material within this collection chiefly focuses on William Schneiderman's involvement in the Communist Party from 1931 until his retirement in the late 1960s. The types of material in the collection include: official and personal correspondence; court transcripts; newspaper clippings;...
Contents of the collection are primarily newspaper clipping scrapbooks and files maintained by Shelley's office staff and provided by a professional clipping service. Newspapers represented include the San Francisco Chronicle, Examiner and Call-Bulletin, the Sacramento Bee and as well as...
The collection largely consists of textual records, primarily minutes and office correspondence of Shipwrights Local 1149. Also included are union/employer agreements, conference summaries, books on shipbuilding in WWII, dues books and one waterfront pass. ...
Except for the minutebook, Pension Trust records, printed price lists and misc. papers, the physical bulk of the material included in this collection concerns the technical training, methods, materials and styles studied and used by the members of Local 510....
The Union W.A.G.E. collection contains the office files of this feminist organization. Types of materials include the minutes and correspondence of the Executive Board, the organization's constitutions, convention documents, administrative records, membership documentation, general correspondence, information on other feminist groups...
This collection consists of the office files of UE Local 1412. The bulk of the records date from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. The earliest material is UE Local 1412's charter dated June 3, 1938. The files show...
The office files of the UPC are divided into sixteen series. Types of materials within the collection include the minutes of the executive board, constitution and bylaws, membership documentation, publications of the UPC and its locals, grievance files, committee records,...
The Clark Kerr Collection records the full range of labor relations during World War II. Over half of the material is dispute cases brought before the Tenth Regional War Labor Board. These case files may include directive orders, briefs, opinions,...
The Working Group Collection contains production, research, outreach, and financial records generated by the The Working Group in producing the television series , and The collection also contains materials created in the production of contract documentaries and films for...
The Elaine Black Yoneda Collection is divided into eleven series: ...