United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110 Records
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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 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. They have won benefits such as childcare, flex-time, job classification, domestic partner benefits and family leave and organize and negotiate for "white collar" workers. 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 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 for are healthcare 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 Contents
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 also some emails related to when NYU which was officially part of UAW 2110 from 2000-2004.
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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 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; 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/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites are 2024.041. In October 2024, https://x.com/hcpunion/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2024.056. In Spring 2025, https://www.instagram.com/noguchiunion/ and https://linktr.ee/abramsunion/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2025.039. In late 2025, https://metunion.org/, https://www.instagram.com/metunion/, and https://linktr.ee/metunion/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites 2026.022.
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About this Guide
Processing Information
In 2014, the archived website was added as series II. The inventory was adapted into EAD from the original inventory. From 2023-2026, additional websites were added.
Revisions to this Guide
Repository
Series I: Papers and Audiovisual Materials, 1942-2004, inclusive
District 65 Finances, 1980s, inclusive
District 65 Finances, 1980s, inclusive
Political Action, 1989-1990, inclusive
NYS Community Action Program, 1993-1995, inclusive
Silent Watchman/General Office, 1978-1992, inclusive
Labor Law Reform, 1993-1994, inclusive
Lobbying, 1995, inclusive
Social Issues, 1993-1995, inclusive
Substance Abuse, 1993, inclusive
Health and Safety — Video Display Units, 1980s, inclusive
Health and Safety — Video Display Units, 1980s, inclusive
Women's Issues, 1985, inclusive
Air Express International, 1992, inclusive
Withdraw! Liability, 1982-1986, inclusive
Sexual Harassment, undated, inclusive
Strike Info, undated, inclusive
Labor Laws, 1994, inclusive
Union Related Services, undated, inclusive
Labor Lit/Solidarity, 1993, inclusive
NYS Dept of Labor, 1995, inclusive
Leaflets, 1980s, inclusive
D 65 Elections, 1989, inclusive
Duty to Bargaining in Good Faith, undated, inclusive
Sexual Harassment, 1981-1983, inclusive
Health and Safety/General Info, 1983-1984, inclusive
Local 1199, 1989-1993, inclusive
D 65 Finances, 1990-1991, inclusive
Women's Issues, 1994, inclusive
Child Care, 1992-1994, inclusive
Worker's Rights Board, 1994-1995, inclusive
Family Leave and Medical Act, 1994, inclusive
NY Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, 1986, inclusive
Organizing, undated, inclusive
Black Lake Retreat, 1989, inclusive
Child Care, undated, inclusive
Union Programs, 1985-1992, inclusive
Union Busting, 1977-1980, inclusive
Health Care Reform, 1993-1994, inclusive
Academic Council, 1982-1985, inclusive
Local Union Press Assoc., 1995, inclusive
Conferences, 1992-1995, inclusive
Bob Califf, 1991, inclusive
Correspondence between Rudy Thomas and Don Bendinelli, 1991, inclusive
International Union Business — UAW, 1993-1994, inclusive
NY Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, 1990-1992, inclusive
Union Lit, 1982-1995, inclusive
General Office/Silent Watchman, 1987-1988, inclusive
Silent Watchman/Negotations, 1991, inclusive
General Office/Silent Watchman Negotiations, 1987, inclusive
General Office/Silent Watchman Negotiations, 1991, inclusive
Silent Watchman, 1943-1981, inclusive
National Guardian/Reorg/RestRuc, 1993, inclusive
Silent Watchman and United Warehouse Employees, 1942-1984, inclusive
Silent Watchman Agreements, 1947-1993, inclusive
Brooklyn Historical Society, 1990-1991, inclusive
Long Island Historical Society, 1985-1988, inclusive
National Jewish Hospital, 1983-1992, inclusive
National Guardian, 1946-1990, inclusive
Science and Society/Publishing, 1976-1986, inclusive
National Writers Union, 1990-1992, inclusive
National Law Journal, 1984, inclusive
Brooklyn Historical Society, 1985, inclusive
Royal Business School, 1987, inclusive
Riverside Church, 1992, inclusive
Glemby Corp. Retirements, 1990-1991, inclusive
Glemby Corp. Stress Workshop Survey, 1989, inclusive
Joseph Chinapen, 1990, inclusive
Glemby Contracts, 1985-1991, inclusive
Glemby, 1989-1991, inclusive
CBTU Convention VHS
Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker VHS
Boycott Shell VHS
Security Plan Conference VHS
Democracy At Work: Labor Looks at 1988 Presidential Candidates VHS
D 65 at Hofstra VHS
Security Plan Conference/Jim Bell VHS
Anti-Apartheid PSA VHS
Jim Bell/Hagles/Herns Fight VHS
Former Bargaining Units VHS
Club Med, 1989-1990, inclusive
Kamini Gandhi, 1990, inclusive
Job Descriptions, 1983-1989, inclusive
Layoff Severence Letters, 1983-1989, inclusive
Club Med/General, 1984, inclusive
Contracts, 1988-1990, inclusive
Club Med/Contracts, 1989-1991, inclusive
Non Traditional Employment Women (NEW), 1990-1992, inclusive
Catholic Guardian Society, 1991-1993, inclusive
General Office/Metropolitan News Co, 1992, inclusive
Glemby, 1989-91, inclusive
DCA Food Industries Inc, 1987, inclusive
DCA Food Industries Contract and Index, undated, inclusive
Citizen Action, 1992, inclusive
D 65 UAW Organizing in Non Traditional Areas, 1991, inclusive
Other Union Correspondence/Literature, 1991, inclusive
UMWA, 1989, inclusive
Rub Sheets/Union Busting, 1976-79, inclusive
Boston University Union and Anti Union, 1970s, inclusive
Anti Union Material-Yale, 1969, inclusive
Boston Anti Union Lit, 1970s, inclusive
List Of All Shops and Info on TOP Division, undated, inclusive
General 65 Info, undated, inclusive
New Tech, 1984-1985, inclusive
TOP, 1988-1989, inclusive
Benefit Tickets, undated, inclusive
New York Emergency Co., 1990-1993, inclusive
Women's Committee, 1987, inclusive
Yale ARB Award, 1985, inclusive
University Organizing Contracts, 1980s, inclusive
D 65 Health and Safety Dept of Labor Grant, 1994-1995, inclusive
Series II: Archived Websites
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Scope and Contents
This series contains the main website for the Technical, Office and Professional (TOP) Union, Local 2110 and its active units. The website includes a listing of affiliated workplaces and organizing committees, workshops and classes, and collective bargaining agreements. From 2009-2012, the website had more of a focus on action and organizing campaigns, such as the 2008 presidential election, TA & RA Bargaining Rights Act, Tenement Museum Educators organizing, NYU graduate employees union recognition, UAW Gimme 5 program, Harper's Magazine organizing, Wisconsin workers solidarity, Occupy Wall Street solidarity, and contract negotiations at Columbia University, Teachers College, and Barnard College.
From 2012 onwards the website redesigned and mostly consisted of PDFs of contracts and memoranda of agreements for the Local's workplaces. Workplaces represented over time have included the American Civil Liberties Union, Ames & Rollinson, AMSCO School Publications, Asian American Writers Workshop, Barnard College, Barnard Contingent Faculty, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Friends School, Center for Reproductive Rights, Children's Museum of the Arts, Church World Service, Columbia University, DASNY: Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, GOLES: Good Old Lower East Side, HarperCollins Publishers, Harper's Magazine, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, HFA: New York State Housing Finance Agency, ICCR: Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Mercy College, Monthly Review, Ms. Foundation for Women, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Council of Churches, New Press, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York University & NYU Poly Graduate Assistants (GSOC-UAW), New-York Historical Society, NYSHCR: New York State Homes and Community Renewal, Pearson Longman Publishers, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Inc., SONYMA: State of New York Mortgage Agency, Stamford Advocate, State Bank of India, TCI: Technical Careers Institute, Teachers College, Tenement Museum, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Shed, Transportation Alternatives, Union Theological Seminary, the Village Voice, Film Forum, Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheum Museum, Studio in a School, Portland Museum of Art, Hispanic Society, Whitney Museum, MASS MoCA, Film at Lincoln Center, the Noguchi Museum, Abrams Books, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 2023, the Facebook page was added to capture materials related to unit strikes and other news.
Websites of the union's units were also captured to document union formation and recognition, strike activities, and elections.
Arrangement
Series arranged by capture date, then alphabetically by name.
Accruals
New site crawls are accrued semiannually.
Appraisal
Crawl was limited to domains, subdomains, and units of www.2110uaw.org in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://www.2110uaw.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.facebook.com/people/UAW-Local-2110/100063493332901/
BAMunion
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.bamunion.org/
Brooklyn Friends School Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://bfsunion.org/
HarperCollins Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://linktr.ee/hcpunion/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://twitter.com/hcpunion/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://x.com/hcpunion/
Maine PMA Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://mainepmaunion.org/
Studio in a School Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://studioinaschoolunion.org/
Transportation Alternatives Union
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://taunion.org/
Film Forum Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.filmforumunion.org/
Brooklyn Museum Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://brooklynmuseumunion.org/
Guggenheim Museum Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://guggenheimmuseumunion.org/
Hispanic Society Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://linktr.ee/hispanicsocietyunion/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FV_5FAJsHkbj-Sh1eFyVwQFy_V6uAibv/view
Whitney Museum Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://whitneymuseumunion.org/
American Folk Art Museum Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.instagram.com/afam_union/
Film at Lincoln Center Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://flcunion.org/
MASS MoCA Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://www.massmocaunion.org/
Noguchi Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.instagram.com/noguchiunion/
Abrams Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://linktr.ee/abramsunion/
Met Union
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://metunion.org/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://linktr.ee/metunion/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.instagram.com/metunion/