UAW Local 1604 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001091

Staff Only

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

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)

Additional Description

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.

Related Materials

UAW collections

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.