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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.
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
Thomas Cooke Michael Exarhou
Thomas Curtain Charles Kerrigan
John Driscoll Sid Monti
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.
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