Title: UAW Local 1604 Collection

Type  : Papers,                     

Dates: 1943-1981 (Predominantly, 1950s-1960s)                     

Size   : 29 linear feet, 29 storage boxes

ID    #: 1091-uaw              

OCLC:                    

©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs

 

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UAW Local 1604 originated as the Scovill Brass Workers Union, Local 569 of the International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (CIO), in Waterbury, Connecticut in or about 1941; it was chartered as a UAW local representing metalworkers in 1950.  Local 1604 members were employed by Scovill Manufacturing Company until 1976, when the company sold its Metals and General Products Divisions to Century Brass.

 

The records of UAW Local 1604 consist of correspondence with various companies, the National Labor Relations Board, community organizations, and local, state and national labor organizations.  In addition, the collection contains minutes (microfilm and hard copy), reports, membership data, grievances, material related to contract negotiations and a number of company, union and state labor publications.

 

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Subjects

Apprentices

Collective bargaining--Metal-workers--Connecticut

Connecticut State CIO Council

Grievance arbitration--Connecticut

Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America (IUMSWA)

Insurance, Health--Connecticut

Insurance, Unemployment--Connecticut

Office of Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Local 376

Political action committees--Connecticut

Progressive Metalworkers Council (PMC)

Retirees--Connecticut

Scovill Manufacturing Company--Connecticut--Waterbury

Seniority, Employee--Connecticut

Skilled labor--Connecticut

Trade-unions--Local unions--Connecticut--Waterbury

Trade-unions--Metal-workers--Connecticut

UAW Region 9A

U. S. Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959

Wage Stabilization Board (WSB)

Workers’ compensation--Connecticut

Correspondents

Thomas Cooke               Michael Exarhou

Thomas Curtain             Charles Kerrigan

John Driscoll                  Sid Monti

 

Transferred

A few contracts and issues of UAW publications and a microfilm copy of the local’s minutes from July, 1949 to November, 1972 have been transferred to the Archives Library.  A few photographs were placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection.

Related Collections

UAW Region 9A Collection        0842-uaw

UAW Holdings

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