BLS Collection of Collective Bargaining Agreements (Part 1)
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Scope and Contents
The US Department of Labor Historical Collective Bargaining Agreements Collection, 6178, is made up of 21 series of expired public- and private-sector collective bargaining agreements dating from 1887 to 2003 and totals 685 linear feet plus 10 CDs of digitized documents and 320 reels of microfilm. In addition to the CBAs, a small volume of related documents such as union constitutions, pension and health plans submitted to the BLS, are also available.
Selected collective bargaining agreements from this collection were digitized with generous funding from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Because documents other than collective bargaining agreements were also collected and preserved here by the US Department of Labor, a folder containing material that has been digitized, may also contain material which has not been digitized such as constitutions, bylaws, working rules, life insurance plans, or other organizational documents. For access to non-digitized material, contact Kheel Center staff.
Dates
- 1942- 1981
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was established in 1884 to collect information about employment and labor in the United States. As mandated by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, the BLS was formally tasked with responsibility for soliciting, collecting, and analyzing collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) from public and private establishments, and making the agreements publicly available. In the early 1980s, this was function was limited to union contracts made with employers of 1000 or more employees.
In 2002, the National Archives and Records Administration authorized the BLS to donate inactive, non-confidential agreements which were 5 years or more past their expiration date to the Kheel Center where they would be preserved and made available to the public. The Office of Labor-Management Services took over responsibility for collecting and analyzing CBAs in 2011, and continues this donor relationship with the Kheel Center.
Extent
22 cubic feet
Arrangement
Series I: Industry Code #11, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting
Series II: Industry Code #21, Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Series III: Industry Code #22, Utilities
Series IV: Industry Code #23, Construction
Series V: Industry Code #31, Manufacturing
Series VI: Industry Code #32, Manufacturing
Series VII: Industry Code #33, Manufacturing
Series VIII: Industry Code #42, Wholesale Trade
Series IX: Industry Code #44, Retail Trade
Series X: Industry Code #45, Retail Trade
Series XI: Industry Code #48, Transportation and Warehousing
Series XII: Industry Code #49, Transportation and Warehousing
Series XIII: Industry Code #51, Information
Series XIV: Industry Code #52, Finance and Insurance
Series XV: Industry Code #54, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Series XVI: Industry Code #55, Management of Companies and Enterprises
Series XVII: Industry Code #56, Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Series XVIII: Code #62, Health Care and Social Assistance
Series XIX: Code #71, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Series XX: Code #72, Accommodation and Food Services
Series XXI: Code #81, Other Services (except Public Administration)
Quantity:
22 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), collective labor agreements.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, May 02, 2006
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 17, 2016
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- Title
- BLS Collection of Collective Bargaining Agreements (Part 1)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 17, 2016
- 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
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853