UAW Local 686 (Lockport, NY) Records on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
A negative copy is available upon request.
Dates
- 1940-1977
Creator
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) (creator, Organization)
- International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (creator, Organization)
- UAW Local 686 (creator, Organization)
- International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.
Originally founded as part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930's. While Walter Reuther was president (1946-1970) it was very politically active.
The UAW was well known for getting high wages and pensions for the auto workers, but, had trouble getting the foregin car auto plants to join.
After the 1970's the membership declined, blamed in part by the increase in automation, decrease in labor and the increase in Globalization.
Now the UAW represents workers in industries from autos and auto parts to health care and casino gambling, as well as higher education. The union is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and has approximately 390,000 active members and more than 600,000 retired members, belonging to 750 local unions.
Extent
0.11 cubic feet
Abstract
Microfilm reel of Union Leader, 1947-1950.
Quantity:
1 microfilm reel
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, June 06, 2019
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, June 06, 2019
- Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- New York (State) -- Sources
- International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 686 (Lockport, NY)
- Title
- UAW Local 686 (Lockport, NY) Records on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- June 06, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository