Selected Papers from the NYS Board of Inquiry on the dispute between Bell Aircraft and UAW Local 501 on Microfilm, 1949
Collection Number: 5408 mf

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Selected Papers from the NYS Board of Inquiry on the dispute between Bell Aircraft and UAW Local 501 on Microfilm, 1949
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5408 mf
Abstract:
Random Selection of Papers UAW & Bell Aircraft Corp.
Creator:
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)
United Automobile Workers (UAW)
Bell Aircraft
Quanitities:
0.22 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and in the country of Canada. Founded as part of the left-wing Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s, the UAW grew rapidly from 1936 to the 1950s. Under the leadership of Walter Reuther (president 1946-70) it played a major role in the liberal wing of the Democratic party, including the civil rights and anti- Communist movements. The UAW was especially known for gaining high wages and pensions for the auto workers, but it was unable to unionize auto plants built by foreign-based car-makers in the South after the 1970s, and went into a steady decline in membership increased automation, decreased use of labor, movements of manufacturing (including reaction to NAFTA), and increased Globalization all were factors.
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Preferred Citation

Selected Papers from the NYS Board of Inquiry on the dispute between Bell Aircraft and UAW Local 501 on Microfilm #5408 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 5094: Edmund Ezra Day Collection of Bell Aircraft Corporation and UAW, Local 501 Arbitration Files

SUBJECTS

Names:
Bell Aircraft Corporation.
International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America.
Subjects:
Arbitration, Industrial--United States--Sources.
Airlines--Employees--Labor unions--United States--Sources.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Reel 9
Record Group DH-NY-1 - Random Selection of Papers UAW & Bell Aircraft Corp.
Format: Microfilm
Scope and Contents
reel 1 of 2 -- microfilm no. 63-9 -- negative
Reel 10
Record Group DH-NY-1 - Random Selection of Papers UAW & Bell Aircraft Corp.
Format: Microfilm
Scope and Contents
reel 2 of 2 -- negative