Guide to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 325, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records 1931-1997 AIS.1997.15
1931-1997
Metadata Details
- Title
- Records of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 325 (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1931-1997, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 325 (Pittsburgh, Pa.) records, 1931-1997
- Creator
- Subject
- Cypher, Frances , 1910-, Heidenreich, Charles , 1933-, Koontz, John , 1911-, Vinski, David , 1951-, Ware, Elizabeth , 1943-, Warwick, John , 1931-, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Local 325 (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., Canning and Pickle Workers Union. Local 325 (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America., H.J. Heinz Company, Food industry and trade--Employees--Labor unions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Labor unions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Collective labor agreements--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- These papers include contract books, union constitutions and by-laws, a job description book and other documents relating to working conditions and union activities, and the newsletters of united Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 325. Also included are background material, photographs, and oral histories. Some materials are photocopies of material in possession of the union. This collection has been arranged as follows: I. Historical Material, 1930s-1940s; II. Contracts, Job Descriptions, and Employee Documents, 1941-1996; III. Oral Histories, 1997; IV. H.J. Heinz Company Publications, 1961-1996; V. Union Newsletters, 1944-1996., Records of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 325 (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1931-1997, AIS 1997:15, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh., Deposited by Robert E. Timmons, Jr., President/Business Agent, UFCW Local 325, 1997., On May 17, 1937, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (AFL) issued a charter to Canning and Pickle Workers Union Local 325, where a union organizing committee had recently been formed. Also in May 1937, the Union was victorious in an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, but the H.J. Heinz Company refused to sign a written contract, and from August 15, 1937 to January 6, 1941, employees of the company worked without one. Following a protracted legal battle, the company was ordered by the United States Supreme Court to sign an agreement with the Union reached through collective bargaining. The Supreme Court ruling established a paramount precedence for all collective bargaining agreements in the United States. In an immediate upshot locally, Westinghouse Electric Corporation was similarly obligated to sign an agreement with the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Local 601. A merger of unions in 1979 created the United Food and Commercial Workers and the name of the local was changed accordingly., Finding aid Available in repository and on Internet; Folder level control; http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais199715
- Publisher
- Contributor
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 325 (Pittsburgh, Pa.)., University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
- Date
- 1931-1997
- Type
- Collection, Annual reports., Bylaws (Administrative records)., Collective labor agreements., Constitutions., Newsletters., Oral histories (Document genres).
- Format
- Identifier
- pitt:US-PPiU-ais199715, oclc: ocn128288309, oclc: 128288309, pitt: US-PPiU-ais199715
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-ais199715, pdcp_noharvest
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/