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Title: UAW Technical,
Office, Professional (TOP) Department Collection Type : Records Date : 1937-1985
(Predominantly, 1960-1985)
Size : 74 linear feet ID #: 704-uaw
OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs |
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The UAW TOP Department (then called the Office Workers Department) was set up at the 1953 convention under the direction of Walter Reuther to coordinate the organizing of auto industry workers not involved in shop floor production -- clerical workers, engineers, designers and technicians. Later, the TOP Department extended its organizing activities to white collar workers outside the auto industry, including health care professionals. In 1964, advisory councils were set up in selected geographic areas throughout Canada and the United States, the first one in Region 9, to provide a forum for white collar workers and engineers to discuss common needs.
The UAW TOP Department Collection contains correspondence; organizing and negotiations files (arranged both by company name and subject); TOP Department chron files; TOP advisory council and conference files; National War Labor Board and NLRB cases (arranged by company name); Management-Shop Committee minutes; and other material related to the organizing and servicing of UAW white collar members.
Automobile industry and trade
Automobile industry workers
Collective bargaining--White collar workers
Grievance arbitration--United States
National War Labor Board & NLRB cases
Trade-unions--Clerks
Trade-unions--Industrial technicians
Trade-unions--Nurses
Trade-unions--Organizing
UAW TOP Advisory Councils
White collar workers--Canada
White collar workers--United States
Women white collar workers
George Addes
Owen Bieber
Irving Bluestone
Omer Dillingham
Hubert Emerick
Richard Frankensteen
Douglas Fraser
Martin Gerber
Dave Gordon
Dick Hug
Olga Madar
Norman Matthews
Emil Mazey
Art Miller
Audrey Parman
Victor Reuther
Walter Reuther
Marc Stepp
Leonard Woodcock
Transferred
A few photographs have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collection, and a few issues of TOP Reporter and White Collar News and a large number of contracts have been transferred to the Archives Library
74 storage boxes
Series I, Company Files, 1937-1982, Boxes 1-59, To Series Index
Series II, Subject and Correspondence Files, 1940-1985, Boxes 59-74, To Series Index
PLEASE NOTE: Folders are computer-arranged alphabetically within each series in this finding aid, but may actually be dispersed throughout several boxes in the collection. Note carefully the box number for each folder heading.