BLS Collection of Collective Bargaining Agreements (Part 13)
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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
- 1950- 1974
Creator
- United States. Department of Labor (creator, Organization)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) (creator, Organization)
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
3.5 cubic feet
Arrangement
Series I: Industry Code #21, Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Series II: Industry Code # 22, Utilities
Series III: Industry Code # 23, Construction
Series IV: Industry Code #31, Manufacturing
Series V: Industry Code #32, Manufacturing
Series VI: Industry Code #33, Manufacturing
Series VII: Industry Code #42, Wholesale Trade
Series VIII: Industry Code #44, Retail
Series IX: Industry Code #48, Transportation and Warehousing
Series X: Industry Code #49, Transportation and Warehousing
Series XI: Industry Code #51, Information
Series XII: Industry Code #54, Realt Estate and Rental and Leasing
Series XIII: Industry Code #56, Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Quantity:
3.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents), collective labor agreements.
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 30, 2005
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, October 21, 2016
- Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
- Collective labor agreements -- United States
- Industrial relations -- United States
- International Association of Machinists
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
- Labor unions -- United States
- Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union
- United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Title
- BLS Collection of Collective Bargaining Agreements (Part 13)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- October 21, 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