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Canadian Food and Allied Workers fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1919-1985.

Reference:

R4343-0-2-E, MG28-I186

Type of material:

Photographs, Textual material, Objects (including medals and pins), Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105475

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Canadian Food and Allied Workers fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1919-1985.

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Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

Florida, California, Illinois, United States

Extent:

25.77 m of textual records.
346 photographs : 178 b&w, 168 col. ; 35 x 48 cm, 21 x 48 cm or smaller.
1 plan : 80 x 61 cm.
1 microfiche (43 frames).
2 bumper stickers : col. ; 8 x 45 cm and 6 x 8 cm.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French, Italian, Yiddish, Portuguese, Japanese
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Canadian Food and Allied Workers fonds [multiple media]

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union fonds [textual record]
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Fonds consists of records that document the Canadian Food and Allied Workers (CFAW) and predecessor unions including the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (PWOC), United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America (AMCBW). The records document labour relations with employers, negotiations and collective bargaining, the Canadian National Office, correspondence and communication with the head office of the International union, collective agreements, and other activities.

Photographs in the fonds depict meetings, banquets and other union events, documenting the union at the local, provincial, national and international levels. Fonds also includes photographs related to the fur industry union and related labour unions.

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Canadian Food and Allied Workers. National Office
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Associated name: United Food and Commercial Workers International Union

Associated name: Federman, Max, 1902-1991
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Canadian Food and Allied Workers. National Office : In 1939, the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (PWOC) of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) began organizing workers in Canadian meat processing plants. The Canadian Committee, first under the direction of Charles H. Millard and later Fred Dowling, established new locals in large Toronto and Vancouver meat processing firms and re-organized plants in other cities that had been affiliated with other federations. In 1943, the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) was formed and Canada became a major portion of its District 10, with Fred Dowling elected as the first Director. In 1946-1947, the UPWA established the principle of company-wide collective bargaining with Swift Canadian, Burns and Canada Packers. Subsequently, the union expanded its jurisdiction into other food processing industries and related fields.

In 1958, Canada became the sole territory of a newly organized District 8. The name of the union was changed in 1961 to the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers to reflect the changing nature of its membership. In 1953, the UPWA and their strongest rival, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen (AMCBW, AFL-CIO), had signed a no-raiding agreement and a merger of the two organizations was almost completed in 1956. In 1968, the finalised the merger. The U.S. section of the new union was called the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen while the Canadian section became the Canadian Food and Allied Workers (CFAW).

In 1979, the AMCBW merged with the Retail Clerks International Union (RCIU) to form the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).

Finding aid:

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Textual records, architecture, object and photographs (Electronic) This finding aid describes volumes 1 to 64 and 66 to 140 at the file level. MSS0389 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003338.pdf

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General note:

Additional material, not described here, is in process. Those wishing to use this material should consult the archival staff.
Textual records received in 1973 from the union through Ms. Iona Samis, National secretary-treasurer. Photographs received from Kevin Corporon.

Related material:

Related materials can be found in the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) fonds (R15805 - the successor union to the CFAW) and the Max Federman fonds (R15869).
Subject heading:

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Trade-unions - Officials and employees

Canadian Food and Allied Workers - History, [1941-1970] Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, [1941-1970]

Trade-unions - Canada - History, [1941-1970] United Packinghouse Workers of America, [1941-1970]

Trade-unions - Canada - Congresses, [1941-1969

Trade-unions - Congresses, [1941-1969]

Trade-unions - Accounting, [1941-1969]

Grievance arbitration - Canada, [1942-1969]

Arbitration, Industrial - Canada, [1942 - 1969]

Trade-unions - Minutes, [1941-1969]

Trade-union meetings, [1941-1969]

Trade-unions - Food industry employees, 1941-1970

Trade-unions - Packing-house workers, 1941-1970

International labour activities, [1941-1970]

Trade-unions - Packing-house workers - Organizing, [1941-1970]

Labour - unions and organizations - archival fonds
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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120-020030-6
1984/0536
1992-642 DAP
1992/0101
1992/0101 MSS
92-266
MG28-I186

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I186
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Access restriction document

http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000139.pdf

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 389] 42

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Object

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation18 Restricted]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyrights.

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