Walls, Tom Clever Hans Workers Association Union Drive Papers, 1982
Collection Number: 6400m
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Tom Walls Clever Hans Workers Association Union Drive Papers, 1982
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6400m
Abstract:
Publicity and other materials regarding the union organization and strike by the employees
of a small privately-owned bakery, Claverr hans Bakery, in Ithaca, NY, during the
summer of 1982.
Creator:
Walls, Thomas L.
Cleve Hans Workers Association
Quanitities:
1 folders
Language:
Collection material in English
Tom Walls was an employee of Clever Hans Bakery and an active member of the organizing
drive. He later was a member of the Moosewood Restaurant Collective and retired from
Cornell University after many years of managing one of the University's dining facilities,
"The Temple of Zues."
The Clever Hans Workers Association was a grass-roots unionization effort and as such
interested the UAW. However since the UAW was, at that time, in the midst of an organizing
drive at Cornell University and had not yet established Local 22300 in Ithaca, NY
the union could not participate in the drive. Kurt Edelman, a former Cornell ILR School
student and UAW employee organizer, volunteered to help with the organizing, strike,
and negotiations. The stike against the bakery began on June 4, 1982 and was settled
on July 2, 1982 with the signing of a 1-year contract.
Consists mostly of broadsides and handbills advertising the 1982 Clever Hans Workers
Association (CHWA) organizing drive and strike against Clever Hans Bakery (CHB). Also
included: An open letter from then Ithaca City Alderrman, Dan Hoffman, to the "Ithaca
Real Food Coop Members, Clever Hans Bakery Workers, and Others;" Handwritten affidavit
dated July 1, 1982 stating that will be "no further substantive changes" to the agreement,
signed by Tom Walls; A short narative by Tom Walls of the organizing drive, which
includes a list of the CHWA members,; Newspaper clippings from the Ithaca Journal.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Tom Walls Clever Hans Workers Association Union Drive Papers #6400m. Kheel Center
for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Related Collections: 6392: Kathy Yoselson Clever Hans Bakery and Oasis Natural Grocery
Unionization Papers
Names:
Berrnstein, Jonathan
Cederstrom, Jake
Cummings, Blaise
Dill, Cathy
Edelman, Kurt
Fredell, Joel
Hoffman, Daniel L.
Hurwitz, Susan
Janowsky, Jay
Lightbody, Rick
Metrulis, Lynn
Miller, Susan
Parkhurst, Michael
Patterson, Bert
Shewchuck, Wayne
Stratton, Deborah
Walls, Thomas L.
Yoselson, Kathy
Clever Hans Bakery
Clever Hans Workers Association
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Subjects:
Labor unions
Ithaca, New York
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
CHWA Union Drive
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1982 |
Scope and Contents
Publicity, newspaper clippings, narratives, and other materials pertaining to the
1982 unionization drive at Clever Hans Bakery. 14 pieces.
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