Title: UAW Ford Department Collection Type : Records Date : 1941-1981 Size : 62 linear feet ID #: 105-uaw OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01d.update |
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Scope & Contents
The UAW signed its first contract with Ford Motor Company in 1941 after years of confrontation between labor and management. The first director of the UAW Ford Department was Richard Leonard, a welder from Ohio who had been active in organizing automobile industry workers since the 1930s. A casualty of UAW factionalism, Leonard lost his position to Highland Park Local 400 president Ken Bannon in 1947, who remained director until his retirement in 1980. The UAW Ford Department achieved many gains for Ford employees, including a pension plan, health care benefits, workplace health and safety protection, skilled trades recognition, a shortened work week, more paid days off, supplemental unemployment benefits, and a guaranteed annual income credit.
Apprentices--United States
Automobile industry and trade--Safety measures
Automobile industry workers--effect of automation on
Automobile industry workers--health and hygiene
Collective bargaining--Automobile industry
Ford Motor Company
Industrial hygiene
Industrial safety
Insurance, Health
Pensions
Skilled trades
Social security
Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry
Wages--Automobile industry workers
Ken Bannon
Jesus Chantres
Malcolm Denise
Dan Forchione
John Forsythe
Richard Leonard
Emil Mazey
John Orr
Vern Parrington
Eugene Prato
Victor Reuther
Walter Reuther
Nelson Samp
Carl Stellato
Peter Vranich
A large number of Ford local contracts have been placed in the Archives Library, and a few photographs, audio tapes and buttons may be found in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
18 manuscript boxes
53 storage boxes
Part 1
Manuscript Boxes
The papers in Part 1 of the UAW Ford Department Collection consist of contract negotiations, correspondence with locals, and other files related to department affairs under the leadership of Richard Leonard.
Part 2 [Large Files]
Storage Boxes
The papers in Part 2 of the UAW Ford Department Collection consist of general correspondence, reports, minutes, correspondence with locals, negotiations material, especially relative to the 1976 contract, benefits packages, and other files documenting the activities of the department under the leadership of both Richard Leonard and Ken Bannon.
Series I, Administration, 1948-81, Boxes 1-6, To Series Index
Series II, Locals and Regions, 1942-81, Boxes 6-30 and 47-53, To Series Index
Series III, Negotiations, 1941-76, Boxes 30-35, To Series Index
Series IV, Subject Files, 1941-78, Boxes 35-47, To Series Index