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

Biographical / Historical

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."

Biographical / Historical

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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Preferred Citation

Tom Walls Clever Hans Workers Association Union Drive Papers #6400m. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 6392: Kathy Yoselson Clever Hans Bakery and Oasis Natural Grocery Unionization Papers

SUBJECTS

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
Description
Date
Box 1 Folder 1
CHWA Union Drive
1982
Scope and Contents
Publicity, newspaper clippings, narratives, and other materials pertaining to the 1982 unionization drive at Clever Hans Bakery. 14 pieces.