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Title:NEWSPAPER GUILD LOCAL 82: PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWSPAPER GUILD COLLECTION

Genre: Papers

Dates: 1937-1985 (Predominantly, 1950-1976)

Size: 6.5 linear feet

ID#: 1600

OCLC:

Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs

HEFA.01b.update

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SCOPE & CONTENTS

Ø Subjects

Ø Correspondents

SERIES STATEMENT

CONTENTS

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Scope & Contents

The papers of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in March of 1994 by the Guild and opened for research in September of 1996.

The papers of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild [Newspaper Guild Local 82] reflect the growth and activities of newspaper unionism.  Its earliest records as Seattle-Tacoma Newspaper Guild, Local 82 date from audits beginning in 1937.  In 1972, the local changed its name to Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild.  The minutes of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild are broken down into three different types:  executive board minutes, chapter minutes and membership minutes.  The bulk of the collection is the strike negotiations, beginning in 1947 and ending in 1978, the largest being the years from 1971-1974.  Negotiations material includes meeting minutes, inter-office memos explaining bargaining maneuvers, strike bulletins, and research that goes into a collective bargaining session such as monetary gains, health insurance, mileage, job classification and discrimination.  The collection also contains the 1972 Seattle-Tacoma Newspaper Guild, Local 82 vs. U.S. Bureau of Prisons suit.  This suit, with the help of the ACLU, was brought on by prisoner unrest and the demand by journalists to seek interviews with prisoners.

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Subjects

ACLU Suit                      

Discrimination

Collective Bargaining               

Washington Post Strike

Correspondents

Charles A Perlik Jr.                  

Shirley Caldwell

Wesley Bubb                           

Charlie Perlich

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Series Statement

13 Manuscript boxes

2 Negative Photographs

Series I, Financial Records, 1937-1985, Boxes 1-3. [Box1] [Box2] [Box3]

Audit records, budgets, financial reports, strike and defense funds, as well as other miscellaneous financial spending and income by the Guild.

Series II, Minutes, 1942-1985, Boxes 3-5. [Box3] [Box4] [Box5]

Minutes of the executive council meetings, chapter/unit meetings and membership meetings.

Series III, Strike Negotiations, 1947-1978, Boxes 5-13. [Box5] [Box6] [Box7] [Box8] [Box9] [Box10] [Box11][Box12][Box13]

Negotiation minutes, contracts, strike preparation, negotiation research topics and background materials, clippings, notes, pension, wage studies, exemptions, and bargaining and strike bulletins.  Other city strikes and collective bargaining agreements are also included.

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Contents

 

[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6] [Box7] [Box8] [Box9] [Box10]

[Box11][Box12][Box13]

 

Series I

Financial Records, 1937-1985

Boxes 1-3

Audit reports, budgets, financial reports which reflect the general fund, strike and defense funds, as well as other general financial spending and income by the TNG.  Files are arranged in chronological order.

[Box 1]

1.  Audits, 1937-1958

2.  Audits, 1959-1969

3.  Audits, 1970

4.  Audits, 1971

5.  Special Audit, Jan 1971-May 1971

6.  Audits, 1972

7.  Audits, 1973

8.  Audits, 1974

9.  Audits, 1975

10. Audits, 1976

11. Audits, 1977

12. Audits, 1978

13  Audits, 1979

14. Audit of Negotiations, 1980

15. Audit, 1980

16. Audit, 1981

17. Audit, 1982

18. Audit, 1983

19. Audit, 1984

20. Audit, 1985

 

[Box 2]

1.  Budgets, 1948-1980

2.  Financial Report, 1953

3.  Financial Reports, 1954-1964

4. Financial Reports, 1965-1969

5.  Financial Reports, 1970

6. Financial Reports, 1971

7.  Financial Reports, 1972

8.  Financial Reports, 1973

9.  Financial Reports, 1974

10. Financial Reports, 1975

11. Financial Reports, 1976

12. Financial Reports, 1977

13. Financial Reports, 1978

14. Financial Reports, 1979

15. Financial Reports, 1980

16.Financial Reports, 1981

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Series II

Minutes, 1942-1985

Boxes 3-5

This series contains the minutes of the executive council meetings, membership and unit meetings.  General minutes are all the minutes of meetings for that given year.  Files are arranged in chronological order.

[Box 3]

1.  Financial Reports, 1982 (cont’d from box 2)

2.  Financial Reports, 1983

3.  Financial Reports, 1984

4.  Financial Reports, 1985

5.  Minutes of ex. board, 1942-1950

6.  Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1951

7.  Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1952-1953

8.  Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1954

9.  Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1955

10. Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1956

11. Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1957

12. Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1958-1959

13. Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1960-1961

14. Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and chapter, 1961

15. Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and membership, 1962

16. Minutes of membership, 1962

17. Minutes of ex. board, 1962

18. Minutes of joint meeting with ex. board and membership, 1963

19. Minutes of membership, 1963

20. Minutes of ex. board, 1963

21. General minutes, 1964

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[Box 4]

1.  General minutes, 1965 (cont’d from box 3)

2.  General minutes, 1966

3.  General minutes, 1967

4   General minutes, 1968

5.  General minutes, 1969

6.  General minutes, 1970

7.  General minutes, 1971

8.  General minutes, 1972

9   General minutes, 1973

10. General minutes, 1974

11. General minutes, 1975

12. General minutes, 1976

13. General minutes, 1977

14. General minutes, 1978

15. General minutes, 1979

16. General minutes, 1980

17. General minutes, 1981

18. General minutes, 1982

19. General minutes, 1983

20. General minutes, 1984

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Series III

Strike negotiations 1947-1978

Boxes 5-13

Negotiation minutes contains valuable information about the collective bargaining procedure, with the minutes and notes taken at the meetings between management and the Guild.  Strike negotiations either focus on the Times, Post Intelligencer (P.I.), Tacoma or Seattle chapters of the Guild.  The series contains contracts, strike preparation, negotiation research and background material, and newspaper clippings.  Some topics covered in the negotiations are pension, wages, exemptions, mileage, discrimination, and automation.  Also, information on various newspapers’ bargaining and other papers wage scales.  Two points of interest in the series is the ACLU suit that involves the Guild suing the U.S. Prison Bureau for the right to interview prisoners, and the Washington Post Strike.  Files are arranged in chronological order.

 

[Box 5]

1.  Minutes, 1985 (cont’d from box 4)

2.  Unit minutes of the Times and PI Units, 1952-1961

3.  Times negotiation minutes, 1947

4.  Times negotiations, 1947

5. P.I. negotiations, 1937-1947

6   Times negotiations, 1948

7.  Tacoma negotiations, 1949

8.  Times negotiations, 1949

9.  Times negotiation minutes, 1949

10. P.I. negotiation minutes, 1949

11. P.I. negotiations, 1949

12  P.I. negotiations, 1950

13. P.I. negotiation minutes, 1950

14. Times negotiations, 1950 (1 of 2)

15.     Times negotiations, 1950 (2 of 2)

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[Box 6]

1. Tacoma negotiations, 1951

2.  P.I. negotiation minutes, 1951

3.  P.I. negotiations, 1951

4.  Times negotiation minutes, 1951

5.  Times negotiations, 1951

6.  Tacoma negotiations, 1952

7.  P.I. negotiation minutes, 1952

8.  P.I. negotiations, 1952

9.  Times negotiations, 1952

10. Times negotiation minutes, 1952

11. Times negotiation minutes, 1953

12. Times negotiations, 1953

13. Seattle strike information(Bulletins), 1953

14. P.I. negotiation minutes, 1953

15. P.I. negotiations, 1953

16. Tacoma negotiations, 1953

[Box 7]

1.  Tacoma negotiations, 1954

2.  P.I. negotiations, 1954

3.  P.I. negotiations, 1955

4.  Tacoma negotiations, 1955

5.  Times negotiations, 1955

6.  P.I. negotiation minutes, 1956

7.  Tacoma negotiations, 1958

8.  Times negotiations, 1959

9.  Times negotiations, 1959-1960

10. P.I. negotiations, 1959

11. P.I. negotiation minutes, 1959

12. Tacoma negotiations, 1960

13. P.I. Negotiation minutes, 1961

14. P.I. strike vote preparations, 1961

15. P.I. Pension, 1961

16.P.I. negotiation, 1961

17.   

[Box 8]

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1.  Seattle bulletins, 1955-1960

2.  Seattle bulletins, 1961-1966

3.  Seattle negotiation bulletins, 1965-1967

4.  Times negotiations minutes, 1961

5.  Times negotiations, 1961

6.  Tacoma negotiations, 1962

7   Seattle negotiations 1964

8.  Seattle negotiation bulletins, 1964

9.  Times negotiation minutes, 1964

10. P.I. Negotiation minutes, 1964

11. P.I. negotiation minutes, 1966

12.Times negotiation minutes, 1966

[Box 9]

1.  Tacoma negotiations, 1966

2.  Times and P.I. negotiations, 1966

3.  Times and P.I. contract proposals, 1966

4.  Times and P.I. negotiations, 1968

5.  Times and P.I. negotiation minutes, 1971

6.  Seattle negotiation bulletins, 1970-1971

7.  Times and P.I minutes, 1971

8.  Seattle; misc., 1971

9.  Seattle; current notes, 1971

10. Seattle; health and welfare, 1971

11. Seattle; publishers proposals, 1971

12.     Seattle; Kagel, 1971

13. Seattle; bulletins, 1971

14. Seattle; contracts, 1971

15. Seattle; wages, 1971

16. Seattle; pensions, 1971

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[Box10]

1.  Seattle; mileage, n.d.

2.  Tacoma negotiation bulletins, 1971

3.  Tacoma; pay board, 1971

4.  Tacoma negotiations, 1971

5.  ACLU suit, 1972

6.  TNT request for exemptions and wage control, 1972

7.  TNT negotiation minutes, 1974

8.  Tacoma negotiation minutes, 1975

9.  Tacoma negotiation bulletins, 1974-1975

10. TNT negotiations, 1974

11. Seattle agreements, 1974

12. Times negotiation minutes, 1974

[Box11]

1.  Guild negotiation minutes, 1974

2.  Seattle; vacations, 1974

3.  Seattle questionnaire summary and correspondence, 1974

4.  Seattle; discrimination, 1974

5.  Seattle; general bargaining, 1974

6.  Seattle; health and welfare, 1974

7.  Seattle; job classifications, 1974

8.  Seattle; mileage, 1974

9.  Times and P.I. negotiation bulletins, 1974

10. Seattle; strike preparation, 1974

11. Guild; proposals and general strike, 1974

12. Seattle; pensions, 1974

13. Times contract proposals, 1974

14. Seattle; automation, n.d.

15. P.I. negotiation minutes, 1974

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[Box12]

1.  Tacoma negotiation bulletins, 1976

2.  Tacoma negotiations, 1976

3.  Times and P.I. wage reopener, 1976

4.  Times and P.I. negotiation minutes, 1976

5.  Seattle Bargaining, 1976

6.  Seattle wage reopener, 1976

7.  Seattle strike preparation, 1976

8.  Picket teams, 1976

9.  Seattle bulletins, 1976

10. Times negotiations, 1977

11. P.I. negotiations, 1977

12.     Seattle; auto allowance, 1977

13. Times and P.I. negotiation minutes, 1977

14. P.I. negotiation minutes, 1977

15. Times negotiations, 1977

 

[Box13]

1.  Seattle strike preparation, 1977

2.  Seattle strike questionnaires, 1977

3.  Seattle; exclusions, 1977

4.  P.I. pension negotiations, 1977

5.  P.I. circulation negotiations, 1978

6.  Tacoma strike, 1978

7.  Tacoma negotiation bulletins, 1977-1978

8.  Other union negotiations, 1977-1978

9.  Tacoma negotiations, 1977-1978

10. Seattle reclassification negotiations, 1977

Ø 11. Seattle general negotiations, 1977

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