Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees Union Local 5 and Stern Brothers Arbitration Transcript
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Scope and Contents
Consists of transcripts and exhibits in department store arbitration cases between New York City locals of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees and Stern Brothers, heard by Paul Raymond Hays, and with Gimbel Brothers Department Store, heard by Edward W. Carter.
Documents in the Stern Brothers case consist of the transcript of the arbitration proceedings (9 vol.) and exhibits (49) submitted by the company and by Local 5 of the union, describing department store wages, hours of work, and working conditions. The issues involved in this case include entry level wages and group health insurance.
The Gimbel Brothers case file contains transcripts of the arbitration proceedings between the company and Local 2 (7 vol.). Issues in this case include minimum level of wages, position classification, job status, and a dispute over contract language regarding discharge.
Dates
- 1948
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
The United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees had its beginnings as an aggressive union which evolved out of the venerable but conservative Retail Clerks International Association and the Congress of Industrial Organizations' Department Store Organizing Committee in the 1930s.
In the period 1937-1940, the union, then known as the United Retail Employees of America, made major gains in New York City which included not only organizing the large department stores there, but also establishing a forty hour week for retail clerks in the city. A right-left struggle over the leadership of the union was dormant during World War II, only to arise with new violence in 1948. This internecine rivalry resulted in a decline in the union, to the benefit of its old rival, the Retail Clerks International Association. In 1954, the union's name changed to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
Extent
1 cubic feet
Abstract
Consist of transcripts and exhibits in department store arbitration cases between New York City locals of the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees and Stern Brothers, heard by Paul Raymond Hays, and with Gimbel Brothers Department Store, heard by Edward W. Carter.
Quantity:
1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Proceedings, transcripts .
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, July 24, 2013
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 07, 2019
- Title
- Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Employees Union Local 5 and Stern Brothers Arbitration Transcript
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 07, 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
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853