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New York Metro Area Postal Union Records

Call Number

WAG.103

Date

1943-2013, inclusive

Creator

New York Metro Area Postal Union
New York Metro Area Postal Union (Role: Donor)

Extent

80 Linear Feet (80 boxes)
2 websites in 2 archived websites.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Abstract

The New York Metro Area Postal Union (American Postal Workers Union, Local 10) represents clerks, motor vehicle staff, maintenance workers and mail-handlers in the great New York City area. The collection includes minutes, administrative files, officers files, stewards files, bargaining files, grievances, affiliates files, publications of the local, reports, financial records, subject files, archived websites, and ephemera.

Historical/Biographical Note

The New York Metro Area Postal Union (American Postal Workers Union, Local 10) represents clerks, motor vehicle staff, maintenance workers and mail-handlers in the great New York City area. (Some mail-handlers, however, are represented by other unions.) By the 1980s the local enrolled more than 25,000 members. The local originated as Local 10 of the National Federation of Post Office Clerks. Officers and most of the members of this local seceded in 1958 to become the Postal Union of Manhattan-Bronx Clerks (later the Manhattan-Bronx Postal Union), with the aim of uniting many postal crafts in one industrial union. The local became part of the newly created American Postal Workers Union in 1971, after taking a leading role in the hard-fought national strike of postal workers in 1970. Under the dynamic presidencies of Moe Biller and Josie MacMillan from the 1958 through the 1980s, the local won significant gains for its members. Both the membership and the local union leadership became more diverse as post office jobs opened up to minorities and women as a result of civil rights initiatives of the 1960s.

Arrangement

This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.

Scope and Content Note

The collection includes minutes, administrative files, officers files, stewards files, bargaining files, grievances, affiliates files, publications of the local, reports, financial records, subject files, archived websites, and ephemera.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the New York Metro Area Postal Union was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; New York Metro Area Postal Union Records; WAG 103; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; New York Metro Area Postal Union Records; WAG 103; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by the New York Metro Area Postal Union, 1980. The accession number associated with this gift is 1950.053.

https://www.nymetro.org/ was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2009 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. In 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2020, https://www.facebook.com/2014nymetro/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2021.040.

Take Down Policy

Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.

If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.

Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.

Related Material at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

New York Metro Area Postal Union Oral History Collection (OH 3)

New York Metro Area Postal Union Photographs (PHOTOS 11)

American Postal Workers Union: Moe Biller Files (WAG 99)

Collection processed by

Adam Schafenberg

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-10-23 09:58:40 -0400.
Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information

In 2014, the archived website was added. In 2021, an additional website was added to the finding aid.

Revisions to this Guide

September 2021: edited by Nicole Greenhouse for compliance with DACS and ACM Required Elements for Archival Description and to add additional archived websites.

Note Statement

No Description; Brief EAD (Toolkit); Inventory, Box Level (Word)

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012