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ABRAMOWITZ, HOWARD, labor historian
Papers, 1937-85, .33 ft. (APAP-062)
Includes copies of union leaflets and correspondence, 1937-55; drafts
of papers by Abramowitz, 1981-85; and a carbon copy of an unpublished biography
of Walter Reuther by John W. Anderson, an acquaintance of his and member
of the UAW. These papers consist of files kept by Abramowitz when researching
the history of the CIO and its affiliates, especially the UAW and the furniture
workers. Abramowitz was a labor historian who studied radical movements
in the United States and taught at Skidmore College in Saratoga, New York.
ALBANY, N.Y. ALLIED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL
Records, 1908-90, .5 ft.
Contains minutes, 1908-88; by-laws, 1910-90; and correspondence, 1959-85.
The Council is an organization of local unions involved in all aspects
of the printing trade in Albany, NY. The composition of the council
included those local unions whose members were printers, bookbinders, stereotypers,
electrotypers, photoengravers, and mailers.
ALBANY, N.Y. PRINTING PRESSMEN, ASSISTANTS,
AND OFFSET WORKERS UNION, NO. 23-C
Records, 1951-89, 1 reel of microfilm (APAP-006)
Contains constitutions and by-laws, 1954, 1968; and minutes, 1951-89.
In 1886 pressmen who belonged to the Albany Typographical Union No. 4,
formed a printing pressmen's local affiliated with the International Typographical
Union. By 1890, the union had reorganized as the Albany Printing Pressmen's
Union, No. 23, affiliated with the International Printing Pressmen's Union
of North America. In 1896 Local 23 added "Assistants'" to its title when
the international became the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants'
Union of North America (IPPAU). In 1973 the IPPAU merged with the International
Stereotypers', Electrotypers', and Platemakers' Union of North America
(ISE&PU) to form the International Printing and Graphic Communications
Union (IPGCU). With merger of the IPGCU and the Graphic Arts International
Union (GAIU) in 1983, the union became Local 23-C of the Graphic Communications
International Union (GCIU). The union represents employees involved with
commercial and newspaper presswork in the Capital District.
ALBANY, N.Y. TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION, NO.
4
Records, 1850-1988, 28 reels of microfilm (APAP-007)
Includes minutes, 1850-1955, 1874-1988; contracts, 1893-1972; constitutions,
1850-1955; membership records, 1907-88; the Albany Citizen, a strike
newspaper, 1928-29; and photographs and memorabilia, 1872-1950. Founded
in 1850 as the Printers' Union of the City of Albany, the union's name
was changed four years later to the Albany Typographical Union, when it
affiliated with the National Typographical Union (later the International
Typographical Union, which in 1986 merged with the Communication Workers
of America). The Albany Typographical Union is the oldest union in the
New York State Capital District and represents compositors in the newspaper
and commercial printing trades.
BLOCH, ED, union organizer, activist
Papers, 1939-2001, 2.15 ft. (APAP-115)
The records in this collection are currently being processed.
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION
(CSEA), LOCAL 1000, AFSCME
Records, 1925-89, 45 reels of microfilm (APAP-015)
Contains board meeting transcripts, 1933-80; board meeting minutes,
1979-81; delegate meeting transcripts, 1947-80; committee minutes, 1948-84;
Legal Files, 1974-83; and CSEA's newspapers (Civil Service Leader,
then The Public Sector), 1944-89. The Civil Service Employees Association
(CSEA), New York State's largest public employee union, was formed 1910
and the first union organized solely for State workers. A dramatic increase
in membership occurred in 1947, when employees of Westchester County won
a CSEA charter in 1947 and membership was open to local government workers.
With the 1967 implementation of the New York State Taylor Law, the State
goverment was required to bargain with employees, and CSEA's power and
status increased considerably. At midnight on March 31, 1972, CSEA began
the first strike by New York State employees. Although strikes are illegal
under the New York State Taylor Law, the strike ended two days later with
CSEA winning many improvements in its contract. In 1974 CSEA divided itself
into six geographic regions (Long Island, Metropolitan, Southern, Capital,
Central and Western), each with its own office. CSEA began a trial
affiliation with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees (AFSCME) in 1978. This affiliation became permanent in 1981,
making CSEA, Local 1000, AFSCME, the largest affiliate of AFSCME.
COLUMBIA COUNTY TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION,
NO. 896
Records, 1927, 1936-68, 1 ft. (APAP-013)
Contains minutes, 1936-66; correspondence, 1941, 1948-68; and contracts,
1937-66; apprentice record book, 1955-64; and annual banquet programs,
1927, 1951, 1964. The Hudson Typographical Union, No. 896 was chartered
in August 1925 and surrendered its charter during the Great Depression.
In December 1936 the local's charter was restored, and the local became
the Columbia County Typographical Union, No. 896, expanding its jurisdiction
as it began to organize printers outside of Hudson, N.Y., including Chatham
and Catskill N.Y. By the 1960s the typographical workers' union, which
was always small, suffered from the introduction of greater automation
and more stringent reporting procedures from the government. In 1966
the local merged with the Albany N.Y. Typographical Union No. 4.
COUNCIL 82, SECURITY AND LAW ENFORCEMENT
EMPLOYEES, AFSCME
Records, 1968-89, 10.5 ft. (APAP-066)
Contains executive committee minutes, 1978-85; legal files, 1976-85;
subject files, 1968-85; and Council 82's newspapers (Council 82 Review,
then Council 82 Enforcer), 1971-89. Also included are the records
of Council 82's Sing Sing Local 1413, 1972-80. Up until 1999, Council 82
was the exclusive bargaining representative of over 22,000 Security and
Law Enforcement employees, with the exception of the State Police.
On April 29, 1999, The NYS Correction Officers and Police Benevlolent Association
won an election giving it the right to represent the Security Services
Unit. The state prison supervisors voted to remain with Council 82. Council
82 was formed from the merger of Councils 30 and 50 in 1969. In September
1971 a riot at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York, left
11 corrections officers and 32 inmates dead. Council 82 used this incident
to petition the state for more satisfactory working conditions and an increase
in staff. In April 1979 Council 82 went on strike for 16 days and was fined
$2.5 million for contempt of court under New York's Taylor Law. In 1984
the Union of Federated Corrections Officers (TUFCO) challenged Council
82 as the exclusive representative of the state's Security and Law Enforcement
Employees, but Council 82 won the PERB election.
EMPIRE TYPOGRAPHICAL AND MAILER CONFERENCE
Records, 1919-90, 1 reel of microfilm (APAP-016)
Contains proceedings of semi-annual conferences, 1934, 1938-75; bulletins,
1919-20, 1930-38; official calls to conferences, 1983-90; and newspaper
clippings, 1929-37. Originally called the Empire Typographical Conference,
the conference organized in September 1918 as a means for typographical
unions to discuss common problems, to assist each other, and to promote
unionism in general. In 1972 the name was changed to the Empire Typographical
and Mailer Conference to recognize the contribution of the member mailers'
unions. Originally an affiliate of the International Typographical Union
(ITU), the conference affiliated with the Communications Workers of America
when the ITU merged into that union in 1986.
FULTON COUNTY TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION,
NO. 268
Records, 1894-1963, 1.25 ft. (APAP-018)
Contains minutes, 1894-1963; contracts, 1901-30, 1953-63; and constitution,
1954. The Fulton County Typographical Union was chartered in 1894 as an
affiliate of the International Typographical Union (ITU) to represent printers
working primarily in Gloversville and Johnstown, N.Y. In 1932 the union
experienced difficult negotiations with a local newspaper, and the Open
Shop Department of the American Newspaper Publishers Association filled
the composing room with replacement workers. The ITU merged with Communications
Workers of America in 1988, and Fulton County Typographical Union, No.
268, became an affiliate of CWA.
GLOVE CITIES AREA JOINT BOARD, AMALGAMATED
CLOTHING AND TEXTILE WORKERS UNION (ACTWU)
Records, 1933-89, 10 ft. and 6 reels of microfilm (APAP-017)
Contains the records of the Glove Cities Area Joint Board of the ACTWU,
including minutes, 1954-87; subject files, 1941-86; and contracts, 1946-86,
and minutes, 1939-87, of affiliated locals. Also contains the records of
the New York State Capital District Joint Board: minutes, 1966-72, 1981-83;
membership card file, 1933-83; minutes of affiliated locals, 1942-89; and
the records of the New York State Capital District Union Label and Service
Trades Council, 1960-81. The Glove Cities Area Joint Board of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) was founded in Gloversville, N.Y., in
1954. This Joint Board originally had jurisdiction over the clothing workers'
unions in Gloversville, N.Y., Johnstown, N.Y., and nearby villages. These
locals were primarily locals of glove and leather goods workers. The Capital
District Joint Board of the Shirt, Collar and Pajama Workers of Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) was founded in Troy, N.Y. in 1934 with
jurisdiction over locals of clothing workers in Albany, Schenectady, and
Rensselaer counties. In 1976 both joint boards were affected by the merger
of ACWA with the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA), which produced
the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). In 1985 the
joint boards merged into one, keeping the title Glove Cities Area Joint
Board. These records are particularly important for the information contained
on labor strife in Fulton County, N.Y., from the 1930s to the 1950s. For
related records, see the records of the Hudson Valley Area Joint Board,
ACTWU. Records document the decline of textile and leather goods industries
in the New York State Capital District in the 1970s and 1980s.
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL
UNION, LOCAL 10-B (BOOKBINDERS)
Records, 1892-89, 2 reels of microfilm (APAP-020)
Contains the charter, 1892; minutes, 1907-89; constitutions, 1960-82;
and contracts, 1962-69. Local 10 of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders
(IBB) was chartered in Albany N.Y in 1892, the year the IBB was formed.
This local most likely was comprised of bookbinders affiliated with Albany
Typographical Union No. 4. When the IBB merged with the Lithographers and
Photoengravers International Union (LPIU) in 1972 to form the Graphic Arts
International Union (GAIU), the local became number 10-B. When the
GAIU merged with the International Printing and Graphic Communications
Union (IPGCU) in 1983, Local 10-B became a local of the Graphic Communications
International Union (GCIU).
GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL
UNION, LOCAL 259-M
Records, 1941-88, 5 reels of microfilm (APAP-021)
Contains minutes of general membership meetings, 1947-88; minutes of
executive board, 1950-88; meeting agenda, 1973-85; arbitration files, 1973-80;
bylaws, 1951-83; correspondence, 1947-48, 1976; and contracts, 1980-88.
Also included are the records of Local 58-C, which contain contracts and
arbitration files, 1941-86. Graphic Communications International Union
(GCIU), Local 259-M was created through the mergers of many other locals
over the years, including the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants'
of North America (IPPAU), Local 58, chartered in 1898 in Utica, N.Y.; the
Albany N.Y. Photo-Engravers Union No. 21, chartered in Albany in 1921;
the International Association of Amalgamated Lithographers of America (ALA),
Local No. 59, chartered in Albany N.Y. in 1943; and Lithographers and Photoengravers
International Union (LPIU), Local 259, formed from a merger of ALA Local
59-L, an. International Photo Engravers Union of North America (IPUENA),
Local 21-P. Local 259 was involved in a number of legal cases against printing
plants in the 1970s, including one at Amsterdam Printing and Litho Corporation
that set a legal precedent for the repayment of wages lost due to unfair
dismissal. Local 58 was involved in a strike against the Utica Observer-Dispatch
in 1967 that included four other unions and closed down the newspaper for
a hundred days.
GREATER GLENS FALLS CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL,
AFL-CIO
Records, 1959, 1969, 1977-90, .5 ft. (APAP-019)
Contains minutes, 1977-90; correspondence, 1977-83; charters, 1959,
1969; and constitution, 1978. The Greater Glens Falls Central Labor Council
was first organized in 1901. In 1959 the labor council was chartered as
the Glens Falls N.Y. Trades and Labor Assembly. The charter was amended
in 1969 when the council changed to its current name. The Labor Council
is a delegate organization for labor union locals in Glens Falls N.Y. and
vicinity.
HELSBY, ROBERT D., public servant
Papers, 1967-77, .5 ft.
Typescript and published writing on labor relations, materials on New
York State Taylor Law, photographs, and clippings concerning Helsby's service
as first chairman of the New York State Public Employment Relations Board,
1967-77.
HUDSON VALLEY AREA JOINT BOARD, AMALGAMATED
CLOTHING AND TEXTILE WORKERS UNION (ACTWU)
Records, 1919-20, 1938-89, 14 ft. (APAP-050)
Includes minutes, 1944-89; contracts, 1938-89; arbitration files, 1948-89;
and memorabilia, 1945-85. Includes the records of the predecessor joint
boards of the Hudson Valley Area Joint Board: the Amsterdam N.Y. Joint
Board, 1948-81; Mid-Hudson Valley Joint Board, 1944-57; New York State
Capital District Joint Board, 1919-20, 1940-65; and Columbia County Joint
Board, 1938-57. Also includes minutes and other records of defunct
locals administered by these joint boards. Also includes the records kept
by a TWUA International Representative, 1950-57; and a TWUA Assistant State
Director, 1938-75, related to organizing locals; and the retained records
of the Berkshire Joint Board, 1949-71. Because the managers of these joint
boards were officers on regional labor councils, these records also include
the retained records of the Upper Hudson Area Industrial Union Council,
1952-58; Upper Hudson Area Central Labor Council, 1956-84; Central Labor
Union of Newburgh, New York, 1960-65; and Troy Area Industrial Union Council,
1948-60. These joint boards belong to the ACTWU and to its predecessor,
the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). For related records, see the
records of the Glove Cities Area Joint Board, ACTWU.
HUDSON VALLEY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS
Records, 1887-1989, 19.5 ft. (APAP-049)
Contains minutes of the council, 1966-81; contracts, 1954-87; and membership
ledgers, 1975-83, and minutes of the Kingston N.Y. District Council of
Carpenters, 1908-09. Also included are the records of many affiliated locals
from the counties of Columbia, Chenango, Delaware, Greene, Otsego, Sullivan
and Ulster, and parts of Orange and Schoharie counties; minutes, 1889-79;
and membership ledgers. The Hudson Valley District Council of Carpenters
was chartered in 1955 in order to consolidate the numerous small district
councils and independent carpenters' locals in the Hudson Valley. In 1974,
all the local unions in the district council were consolidated into Local
255 of Bloomington, N.Y. Local 258 of Oneonta, N.Y. and Local 265 of Saugerties,
N.Y. At this time Locals 301, 574, and 729 were consolidated into Local
255.
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL
WORKERS, LOCAL 166
Records, 1909-11, 1942-80, 2 reels of microfilm (APAP-022)
Contains minutes of regular meetings, 1942-62, 1966-83; minutes of
executive board meetings, 1964-85; minutes of meetings with representatives
for the employers, 1977-80; and minutes of meetings of District Council
4 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), 1909-11.
IBEW Local 166 was chartered on March 20, 1934, as a local with jurisdiction
over interior electrical work in Schenectady and its vicinity. Among the
shops where Local 166 members work are General Electric in Schenectady,
N.Y. and WTEN Channel 10 in Albany, N.Y.
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS
AND ALLIED TRADES OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, LOCAL 201
Records, 1900, 1922-82, 2 ft. (APAP-052)
Contains records of Local 201 and its predecessor locals: Local 12
(Troy, N.Y.), membership ledgers, 1922-51; Local 62 (Schenectady, N.Y.),
minutes, 1936-44, 1965-82; Local 201 (Albany, N.Y.), minutes, 1962-81;
and contracts, 1965-82. Local 201 now represents painters in Albany, Schenectady,
and Rensselaer counties. Merging the three original locals had been discussed
at least since 1979, and in 1982 the merger was completed and resulted
in a more centralized and efficient management of the union.
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BRICKLAYERS
AND ALLIED CRAFTSMEN (BAC), LOCAL 16
Records, 1886-92, 1917-30, 1953-86, 3 reels of microfilm (APAP-010)
Contains minutes, 1886-92, 1917-30, 1973-86; contracts, 1953-85; and
by-laws. Bricklayers' Local 16 was formed in Schenectady, N.Y. during
the summer of 1886. The union was involved with masonry work in that
city, including work at General Electric's Schenectady plant, American
Locomotive Company, and Union College. In 1986, the union merged with Bricklayers'
Local 6 of Albany, N.Y.
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELECTRONIC,
ELECTRICAL, SALARIED, MACHINE AND FURNITURE WORKERS (IUE), LOCAL 301
Records, 1949-89, 7 reels of microfilm (APAP-023)
Includes minutes of membership meetings, 1979-85, and of Officer and
Executive Board meetings, 1969-85; subject files, including correspondence,
press releases, contract negotiations, bulletins, constitutions, and bylaws,
1949-81; audio tapes, 1964-66; photographs, 1971-79; Local 301 News,
1954-89; printed histories, 1968, 1987. As a local of UE (United Electrical,
Radio, and Machine Workers of America), Local 301 was one of the first
locals to join the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). However,
the CIO expelled the UE in 1949 accusing the union of being Communist-dominated.
In 1954 Local 301 joined the IUE, which replaced the UE in the CIO. Local
301 has been a pioneer in the U.S. labor movement, winning an agreement
in 1941 providing pay equity for women, and successfully contesting unfair
labor practices at General Electric's Schenectady, N.Y. plant in court.
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ELECTRONIC,
ELECTRICAL, TECHNICAL, SALARIED AND MACHINE WORKERS (IUE), LOCAL 379, MATCH WORKERS'
UNION
Records, 1944, 1946-87, 1 ft. (APAP-024)
Contains minutes, 1946-87; state contracts, 1946-87; state bylaws,
1962-82; and sample constitutions and contracts from other match workers'
unions, 1947-65. The match workers at the Universal Match plant in
Hudson, N.Y., were first organized in 1946 as Federal Labor Union No. 24122.
Federal Labor Unions were unions chartered and administered directly by
the AFL (and afterwards the AFL-CIO) in trades that otherwise would not
have been organized. In 1971 the local voted to affiliate with IUE
over the Textile Workers Union of America (whose organizing drive was run
by the Hudson Valley Area Joint Board) and became IUE Local 379.
In 1981 Swedish Match bought Universal Match Corporation, and by 1989 the
firm had closed its Hudson plant, marking the end of Local 379.
LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, LOCAL 157
Records, 1912-14, 1937-80, 1 ft.
Contains minutes, 1937-72; membership register, 1912-14; and contracts,
1965-80. Chartered in 1912 as an affiliate of the International Hod Carriers',
Building and Common Laborers' Union of America, Local 157 represents laborers
in Schenectady, N.Y. and vicinity. For the early part of its history, the
local's members were almost exclusively Italian.
LINK, EUGENE P. PAPERS (1907-
) professor of history, activist
Papers, 1941-91, 6.8 ft. (APAP-025)
Correspondence with Herbert Aptheker, Lee H. Ball, Merle Curti, Buell
Gallagher, Corliss Lamont, and others, 1941-91; lecture notes and course
papers, 1951-77; and research files on Harry F. Ward (1873-1966), American
medical history, and other subjects, undated Link retained the records
of the Religious Freedom Committee for the years 1955-64, including minutes
of its Administrative Committee, financial and membership records, its
newsletter Religious Freedom News, and occasional publications.
The Religious Freedom Committee was an interfaith, interracial group founded
in New York City to work for the free exercise of religion under the First
Amendment. Eugene P. Link received a B.D. from Union Theological
Seminary, 1933, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, 1941; he taught history
at the State University of New York colleges at New Paltz, 1950-63, and
Plattsburgh, 1964-77, among other schools. Link has been an activist for
unionism, joining the American Federation of Teachers in 1930s and United
University Professions in the 1970s.
NEWSPAPER GUILD OF ALBANY, NEW YORK,
LOCAL 34
Records, 1936-89, 3 ft. (APAP-005)
Contains executive board and membership minutes, 1936-87; unit minutes,
1942-87; bulletins, 1936-84; contracts, 1937-89; and organizing and
litigation files, 1935-88. The Newspaper Guild of Albany, N.Y.,
Local 34 was chartered on March 20, 1934, as the Tri-City Newspaper Guild
of Albany, Schenectady, and Troy, N.Y. as well as nearby cities.
In 1937, the guild won its first agreement and the first Newspaper Guild
agreement in upstate New York when it signed a contract with the Albany
Times Union. The Albany Guild's last strike in 1964 formed the basis
for The Ink Truck, the first published novel of William Kennedy,
who was one of the strikers. The local began as a union of reporters and
editors, but over the years other newspaper occupations have been organized
as the guild has subsumed independent unions. Currently, janitors and drivers,
as well as employees from the business office and sales and circulation
departments are represented by the guild. Although the guild has
confined most of its activities to the tri-cities, it has opened offices
in Hudson and Glens Falls, N.Y.
PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FEDERATION (PEF) - ENCON DIVISION
Records, 1971-1999, 26.0 ft. (APAP-114)
The records in this collection are currently being processed.
QUIRINI, HELEN,
labor and community activist, 1941-98
(APAP-102)
A portion of the finding aid is now available documenting Quirini's work at General Electric (GE) in
Schenectady and her involvement with the union at the GE plant.
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. AREA CENTRAL LABOR
COUNCIL, AFL-CIO
Records, 1921-88, 2 reels of microfilm (APAP-034)
Includes records of the Schenectady Area Central Labor Council and
of its predecessor organizations: Schenectady Federation of Labor, AFL;
Schenectady Area Industrial Union Council, CIO; and Schenectady Trades
Assembly, AFL. Also includes minutes and general files of the Schenectady
Trades Assembly, 1928-32; correspondence of the Schenectady Trades Assembly,
1921-23, 1944-49; charters of the Schenectady Federation of Labor, 1941,
and the Schenectady Area Central Labor Council, 1959; printed constitutions
of the Schenectady Area Industrial Union Council, 1952, and Schenectady
Federation of Labor, 1955; and general files, which include meeting minutes,
of the Schenectady Area Central Labor Council, 1970-86. The Schenectady
Trades Assembly was chartered on July 25, 1898, and was replaced in 1941
by the Schenectady Federation of Labor. In the late 1950s, the Schenectady
Federation of Labor, AFL, and the Schenectady Area Industrial Union Council,
CIO, merged to form the Schenectady Area Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.
This council is a delegate organization composed of union locals from the
Schenectady area.
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION
TRADES COUNCIL
Minutes, 1960-61, 1966-78, 1 reel of microfilm (APAP-033)
The Schenectady Building and Construction Trades Council was a delegate
organization of labor union locals representing those trades. In
1978, the Schenectady Council joined with its counterparts in Albany and
Troy, N.Y. to form the Tri-Cities Building and Construction Trades Council.
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. FEDERATION OF TEACHERS,
NYSUT/AFT, LOCAL 803
Records, 1918-89, 6 reels of microfilm (APAP-036)
Includes minutes, 1944-89; newsletters, 1956-89; general files, which
contain newsletters and correspondence, 1944-53, 1975; president's files
similar to the general files, 1944-55; and contracts, 1967-80. Also
contains the records of the predecessor City Teachers Association of Schenectady,
including the minutes of the regular and special meetings, 1918-34, and
of the Delegate Assembly of the Department of Public Instruction of Schenectady,
1928-31; general files, 1937-53; and newspaper clippings, 1933. The
City Teachers Association of Schenectady was founded in 1918 to promote
standards of professionalism in teaching. From 1941 to 1944, teachers
(alone among city employees) were not granted cost of living adjustments.
The association, however, was unsuccessful in convincing the Common Council
to award these adjustments, so the teachers decided to form a union, the
Schenectady Federation of Teachers, chartered in 1944. Local 803
went on strike in 1975 in violation of the NYS Taylor Law. The local is
affiliated with New York State United Teachers, American Federation of
Teachers.
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. LABOR TEMPLE ASSOCIATION
Records, 1912-77, 1 ft. (APAP-035)
Contains minutes of meetings, 1912-58; labor and business directories
and yearbooks, 1931-67; and bylaws, 1940s, 1960s. Incorporated in
1907, the Schenectady Labor Temple Association has been primarily interested
in first the erection and then the management of the Schenectady Labor
Temple. However, the Association has also been involved in promoting
labor interests in Schenectady, N.Y., most obviously through the publication
of an annual labor and business directory.
SHEET METAL WORKERS' INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 83
Records, 1892-1989, 15 ft. (APAP-047)
Includes minutes of meetings, 1892-1989; committee records, 1931-82;
files on jurisdictional disputes with other building and construction trades
unions, 1952-77; NLRB case file on the 1965 lockout, 1965-69; and dues
ledgers, 1892-1980. Local 83 was organized in 1892 as an affiliate
of the Tin, Sheet Iron and Cornice Workers' International Association,
which itself was organized only four years previously. The depression
of 1893 weakened the fledgling international, and its AFL charter was revoked
in 1896, but Local 83 continued through these hard times. In 1899
the international union was rechartered as the Amalgamated Sheet-Metal
Workers' International Association. In 1903 this international merged
with the Sheet Metal Workers National Alliance, creating the Amalgamated
Sheet Metal Workers' International Alliance, which in 1924 granted Local
83 a charter with jurisdiction over Saratoga, Albany, and Rensselaer counties
of New York. The jurisdiction of Local 83 has since expanded to include
twelve counties in the New York State Capital Region.
SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE OF THE CAPITAL
DISTRICT (New York State)
Records, 1980-99, 10.0 ft. (APAP-042)
Contains minutes and administrative files, 1983-99; subject files, 1980-90; Solidarity
Notes, the committee's newsletter, 1984-97; and photographs. During the 1983 Greyhound
strike by the Amalgamated Transit Union, a coalition of labor unions was
formed under the name the Greyhound Strikers Solidarity Committee of the
Capital District. At the end of this strike, the committee, believing
that solidarity within the labor movement was essential to its survival,
decided to continue as the Solidarity Committee of the Capital District.
Since that time, the committee has worked to support hundreds of strikes
and labor activities, most of them in Eastern New York, but including many
across the country and in Latin America.
STUDER, NORMAN
Papers, 1933-1985, 30.0 ft. and 200 reel-to-reel tapes (APAP-116)
Studer was founder of Camp Woodland in Phoenica, New York, and and Downtown Community
School, New York City. The records in this collection are currently being processed.
TROY, N.Y. AREA LABOR COUNCIL, AFL-CIO
Records, 1942, 1969-89, .25 ft. (APAP-037)
Contains minutes, 1981-89; correspondence, 1975-88; constitution and
by-laws, 1987; and dinner journals, 1969-83. The Troy Area Labor
Council is a delegate organization for labor unions in Troy, N.Y., and
vicinity. The labor council is the successor to either the Troy Trades'
Assembly (founded in 1864) or the Workingmen's Trades' Assembly (founded
in 1882).
UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN AND
APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING AND PIPE FITTING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES
AND CANADA, LOCAL 105
Records, 1893-1989, 1.25 ft. (APAP-053)
Includes minutes, 1893-1989; contracts, 1929-89; and by-laws, 1976-87.
Also includes the records of Local 253: minutes, 1949-72; contracts, 1959-70;
and by-laws, 1966. Local 105 was organized in 1893 with jurisdiction over
plumbing and pipe fitting work in Schenectady County, NY. The local has
had a typical history for a labor union, marked by occasional strikes,
periodic struggles to survive economic downturns, and the widening of its
geographic jurisdiction. Local 376 of Amsterdam, NY merged into Local 105
in 1962, and Local 253 followed suit in 1972.
UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL
IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA (UAW), FORD LOCAL 930
Records, 1944-89, 2 ft. (APAP-038)
Contains minutes, 1944-66, 1975-89; correspondence, 1971-88; newsletters,
1971-72, 1984-85; contracts, 1961, 1970-87; constitutions and by-laws,
1964, 1974-83; photographs, 1944, ca. 1985; audio tapes, 1985; a published
history, 1988; and memorabilia, 1968, 1982-88. Also contains the
records of the UAW New York Capital Area Political Action Committee, 1971,
1977-87. UAW Local 930 was chartered on August 7, 1941. The
Ford Motors plant at Green Island, New York, produced automobile parts
that were shipped to Ford assembly plants in the United States and Canada.
During the last twenty years of operation, the plant produced leaf springs,
radiators and heater cores. The Ford plant closed in December 1988
and Local 930 in October 1989.
UNITED ELECTRICAL, RADIO, MACHINE WORKERS OF AMERICA (UE)
Newsletters, 1935-54, 7 reels of microfilm
Includes People's Press (Schenectady, N.Y. and U.E.R. &
M.W. editions), Dec. 21, 1935-Sept. 4, 1937 (2 reels) and People's Press
(U.E. edition), Feb. 15, 1936-Dec. 31, 1938 (2 reels). Also includes Electrical
Union News, 1939-54, filmed with the Local 301 News, 8/12/55-12/21/62
(3 reels).
UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA (USWA), LOCAL 8652
Records, 1977-89, .25 ft.
Contains contracts, 1977-89; minutes, 1982; and a scrapbook, 1986-89.
USWA Local 8652 was chartered in 1977, and was apparently the first union
since the 1800's to represent steelworkers at what had become the Portec
Corporation, Railway Products Division, in Troy, N.Y. In 1989 Portec
closed its Troy plant and moved the operation to the South, ending Local
8652's brief history.
UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS (UUP)
Records, 1968-2000, 161.17 cubic feet and 6 reels of microfilm of microfilm (APAP-039)
The records of United University Professions (UUP) document the activities
the union of the faculty and non-teaching professionals of the State University
of New York since 1973. They begin in the 1960s with UUP's antecedents,
the State University Professional Association (SUPA) and the Senate Professional
Association (SPA), and continue through June 2000 for the Communications
Department, and through May 1993 (the end of the administration of President John M.
(Tim) Reilly) for most other series. Virtually all aspects of UUP's activities are
covered by the records, including the actions of its policy-making bodies (the Delegate
Assembly and the Executive Board); the activities of UUP as seen through the
correspondence of its President and members, and through project and subject files;
activities on and issues of concern to individual campus chapters seen through
correspondence between chapter representatives and chapter members to UUP's
Administrative Office and through newsletters created by individual chapters;
contract negotiations between UUP and the State; UUP as presented in its
publications; and photographs, video, and audio tape records of its activities.
UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS (UUP) ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
Collection, ca. 1970-ca. 1990, 2.0 cubic feet and 53 audio tapes (APAP-099)
Consists of audio tapes of 37 of 42 conducted oral history interviews, transcripts of those 37
interviews; the interviewer's research files, and the project's administrative files.
The interviews primarily focus on the establishment of United University Professions and
the early years of its existence. The bulk of the events and personalities discussed
occurred prior to UUP's creation and during the first three presidential administrations
(Lawrence DeLucia, Samuel Wakshull, and Nuala McGann Drescher, covering from
May 1973 to May 1987). In a few of the interviews, some references are made to the
administration of UUP's fourth president, John M. Reilly, who was president at the
time the interviews were conducted.
UNITED UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONS (UUP), ALBANY, N.Y. CHAPTER
Records, 1968-90, .75 ft. (APAP-54)
Correspondence, 1973-78; memoranda, 1973-86; and newsletters, 1973-76,
of the bargaining agent for academic and professional employees of the
University at Albany, SUNY. Also includes the records of the local
predecessor organizations, the Senate Professional Association, 1968-74;
and the State University Professional Association, 1973-74. Affiliated
with New York State United Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers,
United University Professions was founded in 1974.
WITTNER, DR. LAWRENCE
Social Activism Collection, 1977-99, 3.0 cubic feet (APAP-100)
The Wittner Collection is a personal and organizational history of the Albany Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America,
the United University Professions (UUP) Solidarity Committee, and other activist groups in the Capital Region of New York State. The Albany Chapter of
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) records (1980-87) and the United University Professions (UUP) Solidarity Committee (1986-99) records are
primarily made up of minutes of meetings, agendas, plans of action, flyers, financial statements, correspondence, photographs and other documents
that provide information about the inner workings of these organizations and issues that they were working on. The records also include issues of The Albany Anvil,
the DSA's monthly newsletter, from May 1981 to December 1986 and documentation of UUP's support of labor struggles in the Capital District from 1986 to 1999.
There is some information on Dr. Wittner's participation in other area groups such as the Labor-Religion Coalition and the Anti-Nuclear Alliance as well as work
on the Leon Van Dyke, Ed Bloch and Nancy Burton political campaigns in the 1980s. The collection also contains twelve photographs of Dr. Wittner and some members
of the DSA spanning from 1980-1985. Included are photos of demonstrations that took place under the auspices of these various groups and photos of an annual Eugene V. Debs Awards Dinner.
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