Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States

Arbitration case files, correspondence, monthly reports and state legislation reports.

These records deal chiefly with the union during the presidential terms of office of A.F. Whitney (1928-1949), W.P. Kennedy (1949-1963), and Charles Luna (1963-1968).

Consists of two microfilm reels of correspondence of various officials of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad outlining management's strategy for dealing with the 1977 strike.

Documents on the organizing effort of the Southern Pacific Rail Road Operating Crafts (SPROC) Union, collected by Edward Heisler

This collection consists of the papers of James A. Paddock, former president of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, documenting the industry-wide effort to curb drug and alcohol abuse in railroad operating employees.

Consists of a manuscript notebook containing a poll of union members and union officials employed on the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The poll concerned the merger which created the United Transportation Union. Also included are miscellaneous materials from railroad companies.

Thirteen employees of the Santa Fe Railroad and the railroad obtained an injunction restraining the unions from striking to secure a union shop contract. The collection consists of company documents as the case moved through various courts as listed below.

Records accumulated by the Western, Eastern and Southeastern Carriers Conference Committees, which served as the collective bargaining units for the member railroads in their jurisdictions prior to the establishment of the National Railway Labor Conference.

Selected microfilmed records accumulated by the Western, Eastern and Southeastern Carriers Conference Committees which served as the collective bargaining units for the member railroads in their jurisdictions prior to the establishment of the National Railway Labor Conference.

This collection contains select general office files from the Railway Labor Executives' Association.