United Transportation Union fonds [multiple media]

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United Transportation Union fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1886-2008.

Reference:

R2768-0-1-E, MG28-I216

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Maps and cartographic material, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105489

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United Transportation Union fonds
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Fonds includes:

25 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1886-2008.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

France, United States, Australia

Extent:

55.28 m of textual records.
50 photographs : 23 col. and 17 b&w prints; 10 col. negatives.
2 buttons : 5.0 x 5.0 cm ; 5.7 x 5.6 cm.
1 lapel pin : 1.5 x 1.1 cm.
1 map : 87.0 x 42.5 cm.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French
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United Transportation Union fonds [textual record]

United Transportation Union fonds [textual record]

United Transportation Union fonds [textual record]

United Transportation Union fonds [textual record]

United Transportation Union fonds [textual record, cartographic record]
Scope and content:

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Fonds documents the activities of the United Transportation Union (UTU) including lobbying, labour relations, collective agreements, organizing, certification, administration of the union, and other activities. Fonds includes legacy records of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLFE) and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT)., Fonds also contains panoramic photographs depicting delegates attending BRT conventions (1931-1954). Photos were taken by Cecil Thomson Studio, Mile High Studio, Ertler Photo, Miller-Ertler Studios, and Marchada Photo.

Provenance:

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United Transportation Union

Biography/Administrative history:

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United Transportation Union : The United Transportation Union (UTU) was formed in 1969 with the merger of four operating railway workers' unions: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (B of LF&E), Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (BRT), Order of Railway Conductors of America (ORC), and Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA). These unions had been founded in the United States in the late nineteenth century, primarily as insurance societies, and they soon spread into Canada. Until the introduction of the diesel locomotive and the relative decline of rail transport in the middle of the twentieth century, they were among the largest unions in North America. In 2008, the Canadian UTU merged with the Teamsters and became part of the Teamsters Rail Division. In 2011, in the United States in 2011, the UTU merged with the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (SMWIA) and established the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART).

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) MSS1004-1: The finding aid is a file list prepared by the staff of the Archives and copies of indexes prepared by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Part 1 provides file level information: file list for volumes 1 to 274: volume number, file number, file title and date. MSS1004-2: The finding aid is a copy of the union's subject index on card stock; and, a list of the missing files. Both finding aid can be viewed under the link below. MSS1004 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000153.pdf

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General Note:

Presented in 1975, 1976, 1979, 1985 and 1989 from various officers of the Union. A small accession was received from the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) in 1976. The President's subject files of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen were donated in 1978 by the New York State School of Industrial and Labour Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

Arrangement note:

There are 24 series in the fonds. The records of the UTU are arranged in the following 9 series: Administrative records; Agreements, Letters of Understanding and Ritual of Subordinate Lodges; Amalgamation, Mergers, and Re-Unification; Conferences, Committees, Conventions and Projects; Constitutions and By-Laws; Lobbying; Manuals and Reports; Organizing and Certification; Pre-Unification; and Railway Lines and Terminal, Yard and Railway Closures., The records of the BLFE are arranged in 10 series and the records of the BRT in 4 series. Oversize records of both the BLFE and BRT are arranged in 1 series.

Related material:

For related materials, see Louis J. Broten fonds (R4725 / MG31-B9).

For records related to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, see: Stanley G. Grizzle fonds (R12294, Mikan catalogue no. 3728356).

For records related to other railway unions, see: Brotherhood of Railway Carmen fonds (R16184, Mikan catalogue no. 5116990), Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers fonds (R2833, Mikan catalogue no. 100463), Canadian Railway Labour Association fonds (R3279, Mikan catalogue no. 105303), and Canadian Railway Mail Clerks' Federation fonds (R2869, Mikan catalogue no. 100017).

Container note(s):

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209 : This was found unbarcoded and unidentified in photo lab.
Subject heading:

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Central Vermont Railway Company

Trade-unions - Canada, 1886-1979 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 1886-1969

Trade-unions - Canada - History, 1886-1979 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1897-1969

Trade-unions - Law and legislation - Canada, 1907-1977 Canadian National Railways, [1909-1979]

Trade-unions - Officials and employees, 1886-1979 Montreal (Quebec), 1922-1967

Trade-unions - Railroads - Canada, 1886-1979 Canadian National Railways. Central Region, 1922-1967

Trade-unions - Salaries, etc. [1886-1979] Canadian National Railways. Eastern Region, 1917-1961

Trade-unions - Transport workers - Canada, 1886-1979 Canadian National Railways. Lines East, 1964-1979

Railroad companies - Canada, [1886-1979] Canadian National Railways. General Grievance Committee. Eastern Region, 1909-1968

Railroads - Employees, 1886-1979 Bunkhouse Survey, 1966

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen - History, 1886-1974 Emmett Hall, 1973-1974

Collective bargaining - Canada, 1907, 1917-1971 Freedman Inquiry, 1952-1968

Arbitration, Industrial - Canada, 1973-1974 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers - Canada, 1956-1979

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen - History, 1897-1971 International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, 1941, 1960-1961

Railroad terminals - Canada, 1952-1968 Quebec Central Railway Company, 1952-1955

Grievance arbitration - Canada, 1909-1985 Toronto Freight Yard, 1962

Industrial housing - Canada, 1966 VIA Rail Canada

Canadian Railway Board of Adjustment No. 1, 1918-1964

Canadian Railway Office of Arbitration, 1965-1985

Roberval and Saguenay Railway Company, 1946

Conrail, 1976-1977

Old Sydney Collieries Railway, 1958-1964

Temiscouata Railway, 1956-1962

Canadian Association Of Railwaymen

Montreal and Southern Counties Railway

Labour - unions and organizations - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1979/0323
1979/0584
1981-104 NPC
1985-00004-0
1985/0384
1986/0054
1986/0382
1989/0017
1989/0240
1998-00638-7
1998-00639-5
2000-00078-9
2003-01037-8
MG28-I216

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I216
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000154.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 1004] 92

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R2768] 209

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION 1981-104] 06202/X1--06202/X2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Object

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Terms of use:

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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United Transportation Union fonds [multiple media]

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