Working conditions. Arbitration, Industrial. United States

Scope and Contents

Includes over 1500 arbitration awards, decisions, and related documents for cases arbitrated primarily in the industries of transportation, steel, men's clothing, retail food and retail trade, manufacturing, publishing, health care, bakery and confectionery, television, coal and oil, construction and electronics. Also, arbitration for various education and civil service agencies, primarily of the state of New York and New York City.

Abstract This collection consists of William L. Standard's files as General Counsel for the National Maritime Union [NMU]. It documents public policy toward the NMU during World War II; the status of the Merchant Marine under the U.S. War Shipping Administration; the politics of Joseph E. Curran (president, NMU); collective negotiations between the NMU and various railroads and shipping companies; and work stoppages conducted by the NMU. This collection also documents Standard's duties as the union's...