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Long Island Railroad Strike Newspaper Clippings

 Collection
Identifier: 5963m

Scope and Contents

Inclusive date range: 1994

Bulk date: 1994



This collection consists of newspaper clippings from various New York City newspapers documenting the Long Island Railroad strike in 1994.

Dates

  • 1994

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

On June 17, 1994, the conductors and maintenance workers of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) went on strike, after two and a half years without a contract. The strike was led by the United Transportation Union (UTU) after negotiations concerning pay rates and work rules between the UTU and the Metropolitan Tranportation Authority (MTA), the LIRR's parent company, broke down. The strike lasted for two days until New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo and his aides stepped in to impose a contract settlement on the LIRR management, ending the contract dispute.

Extent

1 folders

Additional Description

Abstract

Newspaper clippings documenting the Long Island Railroad strike in 1994.

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Quantity:

1 file folder.

Forms of Material:

Records (documents).

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:
E. Parker, December 23, 2016
EAD encoding:
E. Parker, March 09, 2017

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Long Island Railroad Strike Newspaper Clippings
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by E. Parker
Date
March 09, 2017
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Sponsor
This collection was processed with the help of generous funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

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

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
Contact:
227 Ives Hall Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3183

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