UAW Local 1604 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001091
Scope and Content
The records of UAW Local 1604 consist of correspondence with various companies, the National Labor Relations Board, community organizations, and local, state and national labor organizations. In addition, the collection contains minutes (microfilm and hard copy), reports, membership data, grievances, material related to contract negotiations and a number of company, union and state labor publications.
Important correspondents: Thomas Cooke, Michael Exarhou, Thomas Curtain, Charles Kerrigan, John Driscoll, Sid Monti
Important correspondents: Thomas Cooke, Michael Exarhou, Thomas Curtain, Charles Kerrigan, John Driscoll, Sid Monti
Dates
- 1943 - 1981
- Majority of material found within 1950 - 1969
Creator
- International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 1604 (Organization)
Language of Materials
Material entirely in English.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Use
Refer to the Walter P. Reuther Library
Rules for Use of Archival Materials.Restrictions: Researchers may encounter records of a sensitive nature – personnel files, case records and those involving investigations, legal and other private matters. Privacy laws and restrictions imposed by the Library prohibit the use of names and other personal information which might identify an individual, except with written permission from the Director and/or the donor.
Extent
29 Linear Feet (29 SB)
Abstract
Originally Scovill Brass Workers Union, Local 569 of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (CIO), United Auto Workers Local 1604 was chartered in 1950 and represented metal workers in Waterbury, Conn.
Arrangement
Folders are listed by their location within each box. They are not necessarily arranged, so any given subject may be dispersed throughout the entire collection.
Acquisition
The records of UAW 1604 were deposited in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs on June 16, 1982.
Transfers
A few contracts and issues of UAW publications and a microfilm copy of the local’s minutes from July, 1949 to November, 1972 have been transferred to the Archives Library. A few
photographs were placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
Processing History
Processed and finding aid written by G. Bessemer on June 5, 1996.
- Apprentices
- Arbitration, Industrial
- Collective bargaining
- Grievance procedures
- Health insurance
- Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
- Political action committees
- Politics, Practical
- Retirees
- Unemployment insurance
- United States. National Labor Relations Board
- Workers' compensation
- Title
- Guide to the UAW Local 1604 Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Walter P. Reuther Library.
- Date
- 1996-08-01
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Walter P. Reuther Library Repository
Contact:
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Detroit MI 48202 USA
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Detroit MI 48202 USA