Mary Jane Barry's TWU Local 553 Air Transport Division Memorabilia
Collection Number: 6994 MB
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Mary Jane Barry''s TWU Local 553
Air Transport Division Memorabilia,
Collection Number:
6994 MB
Creator:
Barry, Mary Jane;
Transport Workers Union of America (TWU)
Transport Workers Union of America (TWU)
Quantity:
1.1 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Memorabilia.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
This is a collection of memorabilia related to the Transport
Workers Union of America, Local 553 (New York, NY). Included in this collection are
political/labor buttons, bumper stickers, union pins, gift sets and some union
labeled clothing.
Language:
Collection material in English
Mary Jane Barry, president of TWU Local 553, and an organizer for the flight
attendants in the fight against Eastern Airlines in 1987. She was elected to the
position of president in 1986, narrowly defeating Robert V. Callahan. She had worked
as a flight attendant for 16 years and had previously served as chair for TWU's
Chicago base for flight attendants.
Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) is a United States labor union that was
founded in 1934 by subway workers in New York City, then expanded to represent
transit employees in other cities, primarily in the eastern U.S. This article
discusses the parent union and its largest local, Local 100, which represents the
transport workers of New York City. TWU is a member of the AFL-CIO.
TWU established a reputation for militancy and for left-wing politics and was one of
the first unions to join the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Its president,
Mike Quill, renounced his former Communist allies in the early days of the Cold War,
avoiding expulsion from the CIO.
TWU began representing airline employees in 1945, when it organized ground service
employees at Pan American World Airways in Miami; it then expanded to represent
flight attendants and airline maintenance employees as well. The American Airlines
flight attendants in its membership seceded to form their own union, the Association
of Professional Flight Attendants, in the 1970s. TWU represents ground service
employees, maintenance workers, flight attendants and other employees at a number of
different airlines, including American Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest
Airlines, and Alaska Airlines.
It also represents employees of Amtrak, Conrail and several small short line
carriers. TWU began representing railway employees in 1954, when it absorbed the
United Railroad Workers Organizing Committee, an organizing committee formed by the
CIO in 1943 as a rival to the railway brotherhoods within the American Federation of
Labor.
Local 553 is based in New York City, New York.
Names:
Barry, Mary Jane
Lorenzo, Frank
Air Line Pilots Association
Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association
Eastern Airlines
International Union, United Automobile,
Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America
International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers
NSZZ "Solidarnosc" (Labor organization)
Transport Workers Union of America
United Mine Workers of America
Transport Workers Union of America. Local 553
United Steelworkers of America
Subjects:
Labor unions
Flight attendants
Strikebreakers
Strikes and lockouts
Form and Genre Terms:
Memorabilia
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Mary Jane Barry''s TWU Local 553 Air Transport Division Memorabilia #6994 MB.
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Related Collections:
6994: Mary Jane Barry's TWU Local 553 Air Transport Division Files
6994 PUBS: Mary Jane Barry's TWU Local 553 Air Transport Division Publications
6994: Mary Jane Barry's TWU Local 553 Air Transport Division Files
6994 PUBS: Mary Jane Barry's TWU Local 553 Air Transport Division Publications
Container
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Box 1 | Folder 1 | |
Box 1 | Folder 2 | |
ALSSA; Allen-Bradley Workers, Union UE, Local 1111; ATU, Local 998, AFL-CIO
CLC, Milwaukee; Shit Happened; I /'heart' Eastern; /Lorenzo/; Stop Worker
Abuse; FRANKyou gotta believe Flight Attendants are People too.; I Hate
Scabs; Working Together; My Hat's in the ring; TWU IAM ALPA, I walked the
line in '89; We'll strike it RICH with Ritchie; Democracy in the work place;
Labor Day
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Box 1 | Folder 3 | |
One Day Longer; /Liquidation without negotiation/; ALPA IAM TWU, Local 1487
/Lorenzo/, Don't fly Continental, Eastern & SAS; /Liquidation
without negotiation/; /Lorenzo/ I walked the line at Eastern; America Tour
Nov. 13-19, 1989, Lech Walsea; (2) Stand up to Lorenzo America, Don't Fly
Continental; UAW /Lorenzo/; Jobs with Justice; United we stand divided we
fall UMWA; It's great to be a Democrat; EAL IAM #1; Feminists don't fly
Eastern/Continental
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Box 1 | Folder 4 | |
Ask me about Barry Currier Coughlin; VOTE! Maria Juana Barry, Presidente por
la Unidad!; I invested $25 to fight Lorenzo; Don't fly continental, Eastern
SAS; Working together, Non-Contract; Welcome to my Airline Eastern; Same
SHITdifferent FRANK; Vote Democratic the you save may be your own!; WEENIE;
SYF; I walked the line in 89 ALPA; IAM ALPA TWU (with an American flag and
heart); Unions Proudly supporting America; We obey America's Laws why
doesn't Lorenzo?; Miners aid Chicago
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Box 1 | Folder 5 | |
Box 1 | Folder 6 | |
Box 1 | Folder 7 | |
Box 1 | Folder 8 | |
Box 1 | Folder 9 | |
Box 1 | Folder 10 | |
case with strap; mini case; blindfold; razor; shave cream; tooth brush; tooth
paste; hand lotion; listermint mouth freshener; woolite spot remover (all
liquid items have been destroyed) - see photo for complete depiction
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Box 1 | Folder 11 | |
Box 1 | Folder 12 | |
Box 1 | Folder 13 | |
Box 1 | Folder 14 | |
includes - bag with strap; tooth brush; tooth paste (with mini box); razor;
shaving cream (with mini box); comb with case; and listermint mouth wash -
(all liquid contents were destroyed, see photo included for complete
contents)
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Box 1 | Folder 15 | |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |