All records preserved in this series could help researchers to carry out an in-depth study on industrial relations from the management side. These records are vital to understanding various decision-making made by managers for salary revisions, allowances and job analysis. The records also help to illustrate the employee's progress in wages, in benefits, and in labor conditions. They are useful for studying relations between the company and its unions.
This series contains no individual employee files. Files preserved consist of various lists describing groups of employees recorded by offices, departments and mills. In January 1950, Stelco used the American Iron and Steel Institute Formula for calculating the number of employees on both general and works salary rolls. The information produced served many purposes and provided managers the possibility of greatly statistics on the evolution of number of employees, hours worked, wages and salaries paid length of service, welfare expenditures, comparative labor growth and turnover, pension, benefits expenses, salaries costs per hour versus production costs and net sales.
Records related to difficult labor relations are preserved in this series. They consist of correspondence, minutes of meetings, proposals and agreements produced from 1936 to 1970.
Other documents in this series pertain to:
- Employees benefit plans and insurance policies from 1928 to 1970;
- Labor conditions from 1934 to 1970;
- Labor relations from 1936 to 1966;
- Lists of employees from 1909 to 1964;
- Payrolls from 1931 to 1967;
- Wage rates for all offices, departments and works from 1911 to 1967;
- Pension books, actuarial reports and minutes of pension committee from 1911 to 1974;
- Salary and benefit books, ledgers, cards, expenditures and other statements from 1919 to 1972;
- Salary manuals and job descriptions from 1956 to 1977.
A large corporation usually invests money into team events and activities that help employees to work together cohesively and to improve group performance. Employees were involved in sports, social and cultural activities. They created many kind of clubs. Each mill or location had its own sports team. Competitions between teams were organized. They became promotional activities. Results, athlete successes and social events were published into the internal magazine "Stelco Flashes" with photographs. These activities became a symbol of unification, diffused a team spirit, and solidarity.
Records in this series relate to the annual Stelco picnic, the Stelco's chorus, the Stelco Quarter Century Club (every year this club celebrated the 25 years of service (1936-1972), the Stelco hockey team (from 1928), the football team (from 1937), the softball team (from 1936), the golf and curling teams. The Stelco's chorus file consists of the directors' chorus album of souvenirs and contains entertainment programs, lists of engagements, letters, photographs and clippings.
Photographs in this series consist of portraits of Stelco's presidents and other officers, photographs of groups of employees, photographs taken at sales conferences, awards, picnics, gathering of pensioners and other celebrations. There are also albums of photographs showing the strike of 1946.
