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Title: UAW Aerospace Department Collection Type: Records Dates: 1941-1984 Size: 71 linear feet, 71 storage boxes, 5 scrapbooks ID#: 60-uaw OCLC: |
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The United Automobile Workers began organizing aircraft plants in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1943, The Aircraft Department was officially established to coordinate organizing and bargaining in the aircraft industry. During the 1940s and fifties, the UAW competed with the International Association of Machinists, an AFL union which had organized many west coast aircraft plants, in organizing aircraft workers. In 1956, the IAM and UAW made peace and created the Joint Planning and Coordinating Committee, which played an important role in subsequent aircraft negotiations. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, when the aircraft industry began producing missiles and space technology, the UAW Aircraft Department changed its name to the Aerospace Department.
The UAW Aerospace Department Collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, studies, grievances and other material related to organizing, collective bargaining, strikes, legislative lobbying and company practices in the aerospace and defense industries.
Aerospace industries--Canada
Aerospace industries--United States
Collective bargaining--Aerospace industries--United States
Defense contracts--United States
International Association of Machinists
Pensions--United States
Strikes and lockouts--Aerospace industries--United States
Trade-unions--Aerospace industry employees--Canada
Trade-unions--Aerospace industry employees--United States
United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures
Wages--Aerospace industry employees--Canada
Wages--Aerospace industry employees--United States
Ken Bannon
Irving Bluestone
Joe Ferraro
George Frogillo
Wise Stone
Leonard Woodcock
A number of photographs, audio tapes, buttons and badges were transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection. Some contracts and local constitutions and bylaws have been placed in the Archives Library.
Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout several boxes in the collection. Note carefully the box number for each folder heading.