Utility Workers Union of America, Local 1-2 Records
1927, 1935-2006, 2009-ongoing, inclusive
; 1960-2000, bulk
Utility Workers Union of America. Local 1-2
Utility Workers Union of America. Local 1-2 (Role: Donor)
Materials primarily in English, with one item in Spanish and one item in Polish.
The Utility Workers Union of America, Local 1-2 Records document the history of the Local from its beginnings as an employee representation plan for Consolidated Edison employees to a modern Local representing workers at ConEd and other companies in the electric, gas, water, and nuclear industries across the New York area. The collection contains correspondence, memoranda, and minutes documenting the origins of the Local and its expansion to include employees at companies other than ConEd. These materials date from 1927 to 2004, with the bulk of the materials dating from the 1960s to late 1990s.
Elections of officers and of changes to the Local's bylaws are documented through correspondence, notices, posters, polling lists, and election results. These include materials documenting the 1940 election which resulted in the creation of Local 1-2 as a separate local representing ConEd workers.
Contract negotiations from the origins of Local 1-2 through the 2000s are well documented. Negotiations surrounding the creation of Local 1-2 in 1940 include correspondence and memoranda between the Brotherhood of Consolidated Edison Employees, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, and the National Labor Relations Board. Contract negotiations from the late 1950s through the early 2000s are documented through minutes of the negotiations; issues of Bargaining Bulletin, The Record, and Utility Workers' Light; handbooks on mobilizing members; and surveys of union members regarding where they work and what issues in the contract are important to them.
Materials related to strikes include correspondence, newsletters, notices, and posters regarding planning of strikes and positions taken by different political parties within the Local on the strike or possibility of the strike, as well as picket duty lists, schedules, and photographs of demonstrations and rallies. The strikes that took place in the early 1990s are well documented through picket duty lists, schedules, and newsletters.
Struggles between various political parties within the Local are documented through notices, posters, and newsletters, with a large portion documenting the clash between the Members 1st Party and the Justice Party over the trusteeship of the Local. Other political parties represented include the New Directions Caucus, Administration, and the Unity Party.
Maria Concepcion, Jane Latour and Gail Malmgreen
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