Cornell and United Auto Workers Negotiation Records
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Abstract
This collection consists of mailings, primarily newsletters, sent by Cornell University to faculty and staff to inform them about organizing efforts by and contract negotiations with the UAW between 1981 and 1987. The UAW represented the service and maintenance units at Cornell in these negotiations. Also included in this collection is a copy of the Summary of Agreement between the UAW and Cornell, and a letter from Cornell to the Mayor of Ithaca in 1987, declining their help in returning both parties to the negotiating table.
Dates
- 1981-1987
Creator
- Cornell University (creator, Organization)
- International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) (creator, Organization)
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Biographical / Historical
The Active Concerned Employees (ACE) committee was formed in early 1979 in an effort to improve the working life of Cornell employees. By 1980, their efforts began to take the form of unionization and ACE started an organizing campaign. District 65 initially led the drive, but as the drive progressed District 65 affiliated with UAW. By the end of the drive, organizing at Cornell had become a UAW effort.
Althought the organizing drive initially included a wide array of employees differences in the card-signing rates led to a split. The service and maintenance employees were ready to vote for unionization by the end of 1980, well before the technical or the clerical and library employees were. The service and maintenance employees held a union election on February 24, 1981. The majority voted to unionize, forming UAW Local 2300. After difficult negotiations with the University, which included a strike, a contract was ratified in October, 1981.
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Language of Materials
English
- Collective bargaining -- United States
- Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- New York (State) -- Ithaca
- Collective labor agreements -- Education, Higher -- New York (State) -- Ithaca
- Cornell University
- International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)
- International Union, United Automobile Workers of America. Cornell Service and Maintenance Unit
- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States -- Ithaca
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository