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United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110 Records

Call Number

WAG.188

Dates

1942-2024, ongoing, inclusive
; 1942-2004, bulk

Creator

International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 2110 (New York, N.Y.)
Rosenstein, Maida (Role: Donor)

Extent

5.5 Linear Feet
in 4 record cartons and 3 manuscript boxes

Extent

18 websites
in 18 archived websites.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Abstract

The Technical, Office and Professional (TOP) Union, Local 2110, is an amalgamated union with over 30 contracts covering workers in universities, publishing, museums, law firms and other offices. They represent teachers, secretaries, administrators, editors, computer operators, librarians, museum curators, typesetters and graphic artists, and other workers. The records of UAW 2110, 1942-2004 consist of contracts and agreements between organizations and their employees, pamphlets and brochures, correspondence including emails, shop files, reports, financial material, archived websites, and VHS tapes.

Historical Note

The Technical, Office and Professional (TOP) Union, Local 2110, is an amalgamated union with 30 contracts covering over 3,000 workers in universities, publishing, museums, law firms and other offices. They represent teachers, secretaries, administrators, editors, computer operators, librarians, museum curators, typesetters and graphic artists, among many others. The union claims that they've taken the lead in organizing women and workers in non—profits who never had been organized before. UAW 2110's focus on establishing these non-traditional affiliations and servicing their needs is a quality that makes this local unique. They have broken new ground in winning benefits such as childcare, flex—time, job classification, domestic partner benefits and family leave and claim to have the experience necessary to organize and negotiate for "white collar" workers. Their offices are at two locations in New York City, 256 West 38th Street, Suite 704 and 430 W. 119"' Street in Morningside Heights, their area of representation includes New England, Washington D.C., New York metropolitan area, and Puerto Rico. Some organizations they work with are:

Addison—Wesley Longman Publishers
Ames & Rollinson
AMSCO School Publications
Barnard College
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Church World Service
Columbia University
DASNY: Dormitory Authority of the State of New York
Feminist Press
GOLES: Good Old Lower East Side
HarperCollins Publishers
HFA: New York State Housing Finance Agency
ICCR: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Mercy College
Monthly Review
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Council of Churches
New Press
NYANA: New York Association for New Americans
New York Civil Liberties Union
New—York Historical Society
Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C.
SONYMA: State of New York Mortgage Agency
Stamford Advocate
State Bank of India
TCI: Technical Careers Institute
Teachers College
Union Theological Seminary
Village Voice

District 65 traces its origins to the Wholesale Dry Goods Workers Union and New York's Lower East Side. It was one of many unions formed during the early years of the Great Depression. For a considerable period its membership consisted of primarily Jewish garment workers. The Union has a progressive and politically active history. It stood against McCarthyism during the virulent anti-communist, red scare era and stood against the Vietnam War decades later. In 1992, District 65 merged with Local 2110. Local 2110 acquired the records of former bargaining units, including academic records primarily addressing organizing campaigns at Yale and Boston University. The Historical Societies, Church Organizations, and Misc are primarily former bargaining units of D 65.

Some current organizing campaigns include: the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York University Graduate Student Organizing Committee, Columbia University Teaching and Research Assistants (GSEU), the Hispanic Society, the Guggenheim, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Film Forum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the American Folk Museum. Local 2110 is actively involved in ongoing struggles to unionize each of these institutions.

Some of the issues UAW 2110 advocates are health care reform, the rights of employees when faced with intimidation by employers for participating in Union activities, and bargaining rights.

Arrangement

The collection is divided into two series:


Series I: Papers and Audiovisual Materials
Series II: Archived Websites

Folders are generally arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110 Records consist of contracts and agreements between organizations and their employees, pamphlets and brochures, correspondence including emails, shop files, reports, financial material, archived websites, and VHS tapes. The UAW 2110 records reflect their affiliations with a variety of institutional associations. The Brooklyn Historical Society, Long Island Historical Society, National Law Journal, Royal Business School and Riverside Church are among them. Club Med, the vacation company, the Silent Watchman, a home alarm company, and the Glemby Corporation, which in the 1990s was the nation's largest department store hair salon chain all had distinct subseries in the collection. Glemby Corporation records include occupational safety surveys, as well as negotiations and employee claims. The Silent Watchman negotiations concern the United Wholesale and Warehouse Employees. The records related to District 65 are primarily financial, but also include an election, general information and a Black Lake retreat. The time period covered is from 1980-1989.

In 2002, NYU's teaching, research and graduate assistants won major economic gains and a first-ever union contract with UAW 2110. In 2004 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned the decision. There are a few records primarily email correspondence related to NYU which was officially part of UAW 2110 from 2000 to 2004.

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 International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Local 2110, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110; WAG 188; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110; WAG 188; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Maida Rosenstein, President of the United Automobile Workers, Local 2110, in 1999. The accession number associated with this gift is 1999.024.

https://www.2110uaw.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, this website was 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 January 2023, https://linktr.ee/hcpunion/ and https://twitter.com/hcpunion/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2023.007. In March 2023, https://www.filmforumunion.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.029. In April 2023, http://brooklynmuseumunion.org/, http://guggenheimmuseumunion.org/, https://taunion.org/, http://studioinaschoolunion.org/, http://mainepmaunion.org/, https://bfsunion.org/, https://www.bamunion.org/, and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FV_5FAJsHkbj-Sh1eFyVwQFy_V6uAibv/view were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2023.043. In May 2023, https://www.facebook.com/people/UAW-Local-2110/100063493332901/, https://linktr.ee/hispanicsocietyunion/, and http://whitneymuseumunion.org/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2023.046. In June 2024, https://www.instagram.com/afam_union/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2024.040. In July 2024, http://flcunion.org/ and http://www.massmocaunion.org/ was added. The accession number associated with these websites are 2024.041.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Audiovisual materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu, (212) 998-2630 with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.

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 Archival Materials

United Automobile Workers (UAW), Local 2110: Adjunct and Graduate Students Organizing Records. (WAG 285)
United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Oral History Collection (OH 19)
United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Photographs — Part I Negatives. (PHOTOS 023)
United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Records. (WAG 006)
Yale Graduate Student Union Records (TAM 233)

Collection processed by

Nicole Greenhouse

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-08-21 12:10:30 -0400.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information note

In 2014, the archived website was added as series II. The inventory was adapted into EAD from the original inventory. In 2023-2024, additional websites were added.

Revisions to this Guide

August 2024: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to add updated administrative information and additional websites
September 2023: Edited by Anna Björnsson McCormick to reflect the rehousing of materials

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