Kin Hing, copies of claims, 1992

The collection contains discrete material from the various locals that merged to create the Pacific Northwest District Council. The overwhelming majority of the material consists of meeting minutes from the locals. While there are some hand written notes, most of the minutes are final versions which have been typed up into forms with sections for agendas, approval of previous meeting minutes, communications, and committee reports. Minutes of the San Francisco Joint Board (composed of Locals 101, 213, 8) are mixed in with the meeting minutes for the several locals represented in the collection and there are also minutes of the Board of Directors meetings.



Records of the Pacific Northwest District Council include minutes of meetings for the Finance and Steering Committee and the Shop Steward Council and Executive Committee, along with general correspondence with other unions and organizations. There is also material of the Bay Area ILGWU Health, Welfare and Vacation Fund Board of Trustees Meetings, financial and asset statements, correspondence, and benefit summaries.



Another component of the collection includes correspondence files. Kate Quan was the manager of the Pacific Northwest District Council and an administrator of the Bay Area ILGWU Health, Welfare and Vacation Fund, and her files contain correspondence, meeting information, and reports regarding the General Advisory Council, as well as meeting material and correspondence regarding the General Executive Board (GEB) meetings she attended (1991). Steve Nutter was the vice-president and Regional Director of the Western States Region and present are his reports to the GEB. Mattie Jackson was the first manager Pacific Northwest District Council, and her files contain correspondence, notes and administrative material during her time as manager. Also available are the correspondence files of Myrtle Banks, the Business Representative of the Pacific Northwest District Council.



Within the collection is agreements, reports from commissions and other organizations such as the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, as well as articles and clippings of local interest. There are files on various garment companies and lists of shops in cities and areas from the Organizing Department as they tried to organize non-union shops in the Pacific Northwest. Much information is present on Kong Enterprises, a company that operated 10 garment shops in the San Francisco area when the owners declared bankruptcy, closed the shops, and left town. Many of the workers not only lost back pay, but also life savings that were lent to the owners, recounted through correspondence, clippings of articles, as well as information on claims and the case from 1991.



Much of the collection is composed of the locals that form the Pacific Northwest District. Locals represented in the records include: Local 8, Local 101, Local 213, Local 214 and Local 215. Records from Local 8 are comprised of correspondence; letters and memos from the San Francisco Labor Council of the AFL-CIO and California Labor Federation (regarding political action, strike sanctions, other labor unions, conventions and proceedings); union business such as minutes from the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Joint Board meetings; monthly meeting minutes from the Executive Board of Local 8; the general monthly meeting of the membership of Local 8 minutes; and special meetings. Records from Local 101 (Oakland section 101-A) are comprised of correspondence; minutes of the regular monthly meeting of the membership; minutes from the Executive Board meetings; and San Francisco Joint Board minutes. Records from Local 213 (Cutters) contain by-laws, correspondence, committee reports, election results, and memos; minutes of the general membership meeting and the Executive Board meeting; and minutes and material from the San Francisco Joint Board. And finally the records of Local 214 feature minutes from the general membership meetings and the Executive Board meetings.