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Title: UAW Region 1B Collection Type: Records Dates: 1939-1985 Size: 337 linear feet ID#: 512-uaw OCLC: |
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UAW Region 1B, representing locals in the southeastern and thumb areas of Michigan, was created at the 1939 convention. At that time, it supervised four locals representing 1,000 members. William McAulay served as its first director until 1959, when the International Executive Board dissolved Region 1B, reallocating most of its local into Region 1. In 1966, the International Executive Board divided Regions 1 and 1A into 1, 1A, 1B, and 1E. Ken Morris, elected co-director of Region 1 in 1955 and director in 1959, became director of the newly-formed Region 1B in 1966 and served until his retirement in 1983, when he was succeeded by Bob Lent. When Morris retired, Region 1B supervised 34 locals with 80,000 active members and 27,000 retirees. In addition to the major automotive manufacturers, Region 1B locals represent or have represented workers at Huck Manufacturing, TRW, Briggs Manufacturing, Eaton Manufacturing, and Bohn Aluminum.
The records of UAW Region 1B consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, grievance files, contract negotiating and organizing files, conference proceedings, and clippings and other printed material related to the servicing of its locals and its political activities in the region.
AFL-CIO--Committee on Political Education
Afro-American automobile industry workers--Michigan--Detroit
American Motors Corporation
Automobile industry and trade--Michigan
Automobile industry workers--Health and hygiene
Automobile industry workers--Michigan
Automobile industry workers--Pensions
Automobile industry workers--Political activity--Michigan
Bohn Aluminum & Brass
Briggs Manufacturing Corporation
Chrysler Corporation
Collective bargaining--Automobile industry--Michigan
Discrimination in employment
Ford Motor Company
Fruehauf Corporation strike, 1970
General Motors Corporation
General Motors strike, 1970
Grievance arbitration
Huck Manufacturing Company
Insurance, Health
Jefferson Assembly Revolutionary Union Movement (JARUM)
Labor and laboring classes--Education
Michigan--Politics and government
Oakland County (Mich.)--Politics and government
Plant shutdowns--Michigan
Skilled labor--Michigan
Strikes and lockouts--Automobile industry--Michigan
Trade-unions--Automobile industry workers--Michigan
Trade-unions--Organizing--Michigan
UAW--Community Action Program
UAW Local 7
UAW Local 417
UAW Local 51
UAW Local 540
UAW Local 205
UAW Local 594
UAW Local 212
UAW Local 596
UAW Local 213
UAW Local 653
UAW Local 247
UAW Local 771
UAW Local 400
UAW Local 889
UAW--Retired Workers Centers
Women automobile industry workers--Michigan
A large number of contracts, by-laws, newspapers, and constitutions have been placed in the Archives Library and a few photographs, banners, stickers, and buttons have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection.
337 Storage Boxes
Series I, Communications with Locals, 1937-1985, Boxes 1-103, 105-114, 116-158, To Series Index
Series II, Administrative Files, 1939-1985, Boxes 115, 163-198, To Series Index
Series III, Political Affairs, 1941-1985, Boxes 159, 199-250, To Series Index
Series IV, Subject Files, 1935-1985, Boxes 104, 160, 251-339, To Series Index