United States. National Labor Relations Board.

NALC Office of the President: Vincent Sombrotto Records

kschmeling — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:31:50 -0400

Vincent R. Sombrotto was elected the 16th president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) in 1978, serving nearly 24 years until his retirement in December 2002. Bolstered by the rank and file movement in the early 1970s, Sombrotto was overwhelmingly elected president following the adoption of reforms he advocated to make the union leadership more responsive to its members. His accomplishments included wage increases, improving working conditions, passing reform of the Hatch Act, and actively promoting community service and charity fund raising including the annual NALC Food Drive.

Parts 1 and 2 of NALC President’s Office: Vincent R. Sombrotto Records document his presidency, beginning with his first term in 1979. The materials in the collection create a cohesive picture of his time in office, detailing day-to-day activities and administration, organizational affiliations, political action, community service, and interaction with the union membership.

SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records

ljones — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:52:45 -0500

For many, John Sweeney is known as the now former head of the AFL-CIO, a position from which he retired in 2009 after 14 years of service. For most of the previous 35 years, though, he was a member turned officer of the Service Employees International Union, having served 15 of those years as its President. The SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records document his tenure during these 15 years, although portions of these records predate his tenure in that office.

The records contain files documenting the activities of SEIU local unions, joint councils and other SEIU affiliates. In addition, the files of SEIU executive board members, vice presidents, divisions, departments and staff members are also found within the collection, often within series identified in this manner. Researchers can also review records documenting the meetings, hearings, conventions and conferences Sweeney attended and at which he often spoke or testified. Records documenting SEIU's conventions from its inception in 1921 until 1992 are also found within these records. The records of the conventions reveal the major policy shifts of the union. Sweeney's interest in healthcare are also found within these records in addition to the union's external relationships with labor organizations and others.

UAW Local 1604 Records

drice — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:34:43 -0400

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. Its records reflect routine operations and activities of the local as well as its relationships with Scovill Manufacturing Company and other companies; community organizations; and local, state, and national labor organizations.

UAW Local 833 Records

drice — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:48:34 -0400

United Auto Workers Local 833 has had divisive history between workers at the Kohler Co. in Kohler, WI and their employers. First organized in 1933 by the American Federation of Labor, workers were soon embroiled in a jurisdictional dispute with a company-formed union, the Kohler Workers' Association (KWA). Following a strike, the KWA won the bid from the NLRB to represent workers, but leadership soon became dissatisfied and voted in 1952 to join the UAW. The local's records mainly document the strike and NLRB case that shortly followed their affiliation with the UAW, but also touch on the 1934 strike, the original Kohler strike in 1897, and the years before the union's chartering by the UAW.

UAW Region 8 Records

drice — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:39:17 -0500

Subjects include: southeastern U.S. UAW locals; racial discrimination

Morris Weisz Papers

abarker — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:58:19 -0400

Labor economist Morris Weisz worked for the National Labor Relations Board, the War Production Board, held various positions in the U.S. Department of Labor, and taught courses on international and U.S. labor history at various domestic and foreign universities. Mr. Weisz’s papers relate to his intellectual interests and professional activities, particularly concerning his work with labor and industrial relations groups in India. The Bannockburn Cooperative Housing Community of Maryland, the Foreign Service Institute Labor Attaché Training Program, the Labor Diplomacy Oral History Project, and UAW factionalism are among important subjects addressed in the collection.

(11457) UAW-CIO, NLRB, Elections, Detroit, Michigan, 1940

eclemens — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:21:11 -0400

John L. Lewis speaks before General Motors workers at an National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rally in support of the UAW-CIO, State Fair Grounds, Detroit, Michigan.

Left to right: Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis, Mayor Edward Jeffries, Sidney Hillman, Phillip Murray.

(11458) UAW-CIO, NLRB, Elections, Flint, Michigan, 1940

eclemens — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:36:51 -0400

Members of the yet unrecognized Dearborn Ford Local 600 demonstrate in support of the UAW-CIO voter drive, Flint, Michigan.

(11492) UAW-CIO, NLRB, Elections, Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, 1941

eclemens — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:08:32 -0400

Ford workers vote for union representation, Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan.

(11493) UAW-CIO, NLRB, Elections, Ford, Dearborn, Michigan, 1941

eclemens — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:11:02 -0400

Auto worker celebrate the victory of the UAW-CIO in the Ford National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election.

[Podcast] Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976

teller — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0400

John Miles Branch discusses the National Labor Relations Board’s policy to dismiss union petitions at charitable organizations in the decades following the Second World War, and the policy’s reversal in 1976 when the board acknowledged nonprofit institutions as a “third sector” of the economy linked with the nation’s commercial life. read more »

AFT Convention 1980 State of the Union Speech

jruss — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:21:18 -0500

Al Shanker addresses union members and guests at the AFT annual convention. He discusses at great length legal, political, and judicial issues that affect public education including: a recent Supreme Court decision in the case National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) v. Yeshiva University in which professors were deemed management and thus unable to unionize; Lau Regulations, named for a court case, Lau v. Nichols, which mandated bilingual education; Youth Employment Programs that created publicly funded private institutions for high school students; the presidential Democratic Convention at which Jimmy Carter won the nomination over the AFT's endorsed candidate, Ted Kennedy; and the NEA's support of the Department of Education. Additionally, Shanker welcomed to the convention union members who were not involved in education as the AFT had recently added members from the health care and civil service fields. Shanker also welcomed international members and asserted the AFT's commitment to human rights and international aid. Shanker warned against tuition tax credits and vouchers. He also discussed partnerships with the business community to address dire economic conditions in the nation's cities, enlisting corporate help to support schools. Finally, Shanker states that education cannot be improved by political action alone, insisting that teachers commit to improving educational quality and relationships with parents.