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IAM vs. Northwest Airlines and Miscellaneous others Arbitration Proceedings

 Collection
Identifier: 5298

Scope and Contents

This collection reflects the Board's decision-making and internal communication processes, and documents Board policy on no-strike pledges, grievance and arbitration procedures, union security, management rights, maintenance of membership, anti-inflationary wage control policy, and fringe benefits.

The bulk of the collection consists of materials pertaining to labor dispute settlement cases. Includes awards, decisions, and reports and recommendations of mediation panels; hearings transcripts, and documents used as evidence in hearings; and statements, briefs and answers of employers and unions. Documents generated by the War Labor Board also include memoranda, press releases, bulletins and reports concerning directives for case handling, administrative procedures and regulations, and summaries of Board actions and decisions.

Dates

  • 1940-1949

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The National War Labor Board, a tripartite body established in 1942 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was charged with acting as an arbitration tribunal in labor-management dispute cases, thereby preventing work stoppages which might hinder the war effort. It was also responsible for determining wage adjustments in accordance with anti-inflationary wage stabilization criteria and policies.

The Board was initially divided into 12 Regional Administrative Boards which handled both labor dispute settlement and wage stabilization functions for specific geographic regions. The National Board further decentralized in 1943, when it established special tripartite commissions and panels to deal with particular industries on a national basis.

Extent

2 cubic feet

Additional Description

Abstract

Records consist of documentation of labor-management dispute settlement and wage stabilization cases brought before various mediation panels of the National and Region 2 War Labor Boards, as well as the Non-Ferrous Metals Commission of the U.S. National War Labor Board.

Quantity:

2 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Reports, pamphlets, correspondence, transcripts.

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff, February 25, 2014
EAD encoding:
Kheel Staff, March 11, 2015

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
IAM vs. Northwest Airlines and Miscellaneous others Arbitration Proceedings
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
March 11, 2015
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
Contact:
227 Ives Hall Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3183

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