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Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 23 records, 1936-2015
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Office and Professional Employees International Union. Local 23 (Tacoma, Wash.)
- Title
- Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 23 records
- Dates
- 1936-2015 (inclusive)19362015
- Quantity
- 10.62 cubic feet ( 10 boxes and 1 oversize vertical file)
- Collection Number
- 6202 (Accession No. 6202-001)
- Summary
- Materials related to the Office and Professional Employees Inernational Union Local 23, Tacoma, Washington
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
No restrictions on access. Records stored offsite; advance notice is required.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Office and Professional Employees Local 23 represented workers in the Tacoma area until the organization merged into OPEIU Local 8 of Seattle in 2015.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Records of the Tacoma local of the Office and Professional Employees International Union, including files on organizing campaigns, collective bargaining files and correspondence with employers; meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs & press clippings. Meeting minutes also include minutes from the Office Workers Local 20360 and OPEIU Local 132.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
Forms part of the Labor Archives of Washington.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Arranged in 6 series.
- Series 1, Meeting Minutes and Financial Statements, 1937-2002
- Series 2, Discontinued CBA files and Miscellaneous papers, 1936-1997
- Series 3, Organizing Campaigns and miscellaneous, 1954-1994
- Series 4, Former Employer (Retail Store A-U) CBAs & Correspondence, 1937-2007
- Series5, Newsletters, 1956-2015
- Series 6, Miscellaneous, photographs and newspaper clippings, 1936-2009
Acquisition Information
Donated by Libby Alejandro and Cindy Shu of OPEIU Local 8. Local 23 merged into Local 8 in June of 2018.
Related Materials
Office and Professional Employees Local 23 web archive
The OPIEU Local 23 website was regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from 2014 to May 2015. After that date, captures after are of the OPIEU Local 8 website as the two unions merged. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/3988/*/http://www.opeiulocal23 .org/
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series 1: Meeting Minutes and Financial Statements, 1937-2002Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | Office Workers Union Local 20360, Reports of Secretary
Treasurer George P. Firth |
1937-1939 |
| 1/2 | Office Workers Union Local 20360 Constitution and
By-Laws; Resume of Union History, Minutes of Regular Meetings |
1936-1943 |
| 1/3 | Office Workers Union Local 20360 & Office Employees
International Union Local 23 Minutes of Regular Meetings |
January 1944-December 1947 |
| 1/4 | Office Employees International Union Local 23 Executive
Board Meeting Minutes |
1944-1948 |
| 1/5 | Office Employees International Union Local 23 Minutes of
the Recording Secretary |
1944-1953 |
| 1/6 | Office Employees International Union Local 23 Minutes of
Regular Meetings and Executive Board Meetings |
January 1944-December 1947 |
| 1/7 | Trial Board Transcript of Proceedings Re Walter
Huntsman |
February 27, 1948 |
| 1/8 | Office Employees International Union Local 23 Executive
Board Meeting Minutes, Partial 1948 |
1948-1965 |
| 1/9 | Office Employees International Union Local 23 Minutes of
Regular Meetings and Executive Board Meetings |
January 1948-December 1960 |
| 1/10 | OPEIU Local 132 Bremerton Meeting Minutes (Merged with
OPEIU Local 23 1969) |
October 1957, 1969 |
| 1/11-1/15 | OPEIU Local 23 General Membershi Meeting Minutes
|
January 1975-November 2002 |
| 1/16-2/2 | OPEIU Local 23 Executive Board Meeting
Minutes |
January 1981-October 2002 |
| 2/3 | OEIU Constitutional Convention Amendments |
1949-1955 |
| 2/4 | OPEIU International Convention |
2004-2010 |
| 2/5 | OPEIU Local 23 Model Constitution and
By-Laws |
2007 |
Series 2: Discontinued CBA files and Miscellaneous papers, 1936-1997Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/6 | Kitsap County Commissioners |
1960-1966 |
| 2/7 | B&I Sales |
1955-1956 |
| 2/8 | Precision Machine Works |
1957-1960 |
| 2/9 | Port of Tacoma |
1964-1967 |
| 2/10 | Hotels-Lincolnshire, Olympius and Tacoma |
1937-1950 |
| 2/11 | Winthrop Hotel |
1962-1963 |
| 2/12 | Fisher's/ Bon Marche |
1957-1978 |
| 2/13 | Nalley's |
1942-1972 |
| 2/14 | Weber Plumbing |
1971-1972 |
| 2/15 | Tacoma Transit Company |
1937-1946 |
| 2/16 | J.C. Penny |
1965-1978 |
| 2/17 | J.C. Penny |
1973-1978 |
| 2/18 | Retail Stores Negotiations |
1944-1948 |
| 2/19 | Local 20360 Charter, misc. papers |
1936 |
| 2/20 | Organizing Campaigns |
1947-1949 |
| 2/21 | OPEIU Local 11 Merger Exploration |
1978 |
| 2/22 | Washington State Office Worker minimum wage
hearing |
1941 |
| 2/23 | OPEIU Local 23 Wage surveys |
1940-1962, 1972 |
| 2/24 | Union Bank |
1977-1987 |
| 2/25 | Samaritan Hospital Organzing Committee
Brochure |
undated |
| 2/26 | Budget and Finance committee |
1943-1949 |
| 2/27 | Elections |
1944-1949 |
| 2/28-2/29 | Constitution and By-Laws Correspondence with
international |
1948-1979 |
| 2/30 | Mary Kresevich Hegland case |
1951 |
| 2/31 | W.L. Huntsman case |
1948 |
| 2/32 | Kerschner, Floyd S. case |
1974 |
| 2/33 | McIntyre case |
1949 |
| 2/34 | C.H. Atteberry wage claim |
1948 |
| 2/35 | Retail Stores Shop Stewards Committee |
1961 |
| 2/36 | Tacoma Retail Stores strike |
1948 |
| 2/37 | War efforts |
1945 |
| 2/38 | Initiative 198 |
1955-1956 |
| 2/39 | Scholarship Committee |
1978 |
| 2/40 | Tacoma Mini committee |
1983 |
| 2/41 | Blood Bank membership drive |
1952-1982 |
| 2/42 | Peoples Department Store |
1978-1981 |
| 2/43 | Foreman & Clark |
1973-1974 |
| 2/44 | Sears |
1956-1966 |
| 2/45 | Community Bank of Renton |
1973-1974 |
| 2/46 | Bridge Clinic |
1942 |
| 3/1 | Kitsap Federal Credit Union, Negotiations |
1987 |
| 3/2 | United Way of Kitsap County |
1988-1989 |
| 3/3 | Kitsap Physicians Service |
1991-1994 |
| 3/4 | Washington Natural Gas Company |
1994 |
| 3/5 | Washington Natural Gas Company |
1948-1992 |
| 3/6 | Washington Natural Gas Company |
1995 |
| 3/7 | Washington Natural Gas Company |
1996 |
| 3/8 | Washington Natural Gas Company |
1997 |
| 3/9 | Hunt Foods, Inc. |
1950-1956 |
| 3/10 | Graham Blue Print |
1948-1958 |
| 3/11 | Credit Bureau of Tacoma |
1955-1968 |
| 3/12 | J. Hoffert Co, |
1970-1982 |
| 3/13 | Western clinic |
1975-1980 |
| 3/14 | Trade Union Offices, misc papers |
1968-1974 |
| 3/15 | Misc. Discountinued CBAs |
1948-1981 |
| 3/16 | Seattle Retail Store employees |
1972 |
| 3/17 | Andrews Letter Shop |
1954-1971 |
| 3/18 | Attorney Offices |
1961-1974 |
| 3/19 | Auto Clearing House |
1961-1968 |
| 3/20 | B-B's Washer Service and Appliances |
1954-1959 |
| 3/21 | B&I Sales Co. |
1955-1958 |
| 3/22 | Boyle and Eller, Attorneys |
1971-1974 |
| 3/23 | Bridge Clinic |
1942-1944 |
| 3/24 | Broadway Furniture |
1946-1949 |
| 3/25 | C and Electric Co., |
1946-1947 |
| 3/26 | Community Bank of Renton |
1973-1974 |
| 3/27 | Consolidated Freightways |
1956-1958 |
| 3/28 | Cowlitz Medical Service (King County Blue
Shield) |
1983-1995 |
| 3/29 | Cowlitz Medical Service (King County Blue
Shield) |
1982-1988 |
| 3/30 | Cowlitz Medical Service (King County Blue
Shield) |
1989-1995 |
| 3/31 | Craig Furniture |
1946-1948 |
| 3/32 | Credit Bureau of Tacoma |
1955-1969 |
| 4/1 | Dairies |
1955-1960 |
| 4/2 | Graham Blue Print |
1942-1959 |
| 4/3 | Griffin & Enslow, Attorneys |
1971 |
| 4/4 | Harmon Mfg. Co. |
1960 |
| 4/5 | J. Hofert Co. |
1960 |
| 4/6 | Home Electric Co. |
1959-1960 |
| 4/7 | Home Furniture Co. |
1946-1947 |
| 4/8 | Hopper-Kelley Co. |
1946-1947 |
| 4/9 | Hotels |
1937-1957 |
| 4/10 | Hunt Foods |
1950-1956 |
| 4/11 | Interstate Freight Lines |
1945-1946 |
| 4/12 | Lakewood Pacific Ambulance |
1968-1969 |
| 4/13-4/14 | Lent's Inc. |
1975-1982 |
| 4/15 | Nalley's, Signed Agreements |
1942-1959 |
| 4/16 | Nalley's, Correspondence/Negotiations |
1946-1949, 1959 |
| 4/17 | Nalley's Correspondence |
1959-1932 |
| 4/18 | Nalley's organizing |
1972 |
| 4/19 | Old Tacoma Electric Company |
1946-1948 |
| 4/20 | Otto's North End Electric Shop |
1947-1948 |
| 4/21 | Overland Furniture & Investment Co. |
1946-1950 |
| 4/22 | Plumbing & Heating Service, Inc. |
1967-1969 |
| 4/23 | Port of Tacoma |
1961-1970 |
| 4/24 | Percision Machine Works |
1957-1969 |
| 4/25 | C.J. Rockey Co. |
1968-1969 |
| 4/26 | Sepic Electric Co. |
1946-1948 |
| 4/27 | Seymour's Store |
1953-1955 |
| 4/28 | Tacoma Railway & Power Co. |
1937-1949 |
| 4/29 | Thurston County Medical Bureau |
1981-1982 |
| 4/30 | United Way of Kitsap County,
correspondence/negotiations |
1958-1989 |
| 4/31 | United Way of Kitsap County, correspondence |
1958-1997 |
| 4/32 | WA Coop Egg & Poultry Assoc., Unsigned
agreements/correspondence |
1937-1946 |
| 4/33 | WA Steel Products |
1960-1961 |
| 4/34 | Weber Plumbing |
1970-1972 |
| 4/35 | Western Clinic, signed
agreements/correspondence |
1975-1980 |
| 4/36 | Western Clinic, organizing and unsigned
agreement |
1955-1956 |
| 4/37 | Wible Radio Supply |
1946-1948 |
| 5/1 | Winthrop Hotel, correspondence/negotiations |
1946-1964 |
| 5/2 | Winthrop Hotel, signed agreements |
1940-1963 |
| 5/3 | YWCA, signed agreements |
1942-1982 |
| 5/4 | Office Employees News, Tacoma |
October 1945-November 1945 |
| 5/5 | Pierce County Labor: To Live in Dignity |
1989 |
| 5/6 | Retail Stores Strike |
1948-1965 |
| 5/7 | Bon Marche Strike |
1958 |
| 5/8 | Washintgon State Labor Council |
1977, 1979-1985 |
| 5/9 | Sears-Bellingham OEIU Local 134
Correspondence |
1955 |
| 5/10 | Tacoma Labor Advocate |
1972, 1976 |
| 5/11 | Grays Harbor CLC Affiliation |
1963 |
| 5/12 | War Labor Board Panel , Case No. 111-3496-D Tacoma
Offices Bldgs. & Bldg. Service Employees Int't Union Local 38 |
1943 |
| 5/13 | Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Conference |
1945 |
| 5/14 | Pacific Advance Base Depot |
1945 |
| 5/15 | Seattle Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation |
1939-1951 |
| 5/16 | American Smelting & Refining, signed
agreements |
1948-1967 |
| 5/17 | American Smelting & Refining, Grievances and
negotiations |
1957-1967 |
| 5/18 | American Smelting & Refining,Arbitrations and
Correspondence |
1946-1956 |
| 5/19 | Associated Retailers, Signed Agreements |
1948-1978 |
| 5/20 | Conference of Northwest OEIU Locals |
1947-1949, 1954-1960 |
| 5/21 | Donations |
1945-1984 |
| 5/22 | Office Emloyes International Union |
1944-1948 |
| 5/23 | Screen Office Employees Guild |
1945-1946 |
| 5/24 | Pamphlets |
1968-1971 |
| 5/25 | Bon Marche,
Contracts/neogtiations/grievances |
1980-1987 |
| 5/26 | Financial Statements |
1947-1975 |
| 5/27 | Know Your Union |
1970-1991 |
| 5/28 | Retail Stores agreement |
1963-1965 |
Series 3: Organizing Campaigns and miscellaneous, 1954-1994Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 6/1 | AVRE Plasma Center, Certification of election
results |
1985 |
| 6/2 | Centralia Convalescent Center,
Correspondence |
1988-1989 |
| 6/3 | Clover Park School District |
1973 |
| 6/4 | Comprehensive Metal Health Center |
1986 |
| 6/5 | Day's, Inc., |
1954, 1974 |
| 6/6 | Ebasco Services Inc. NLRB Case No. 19-RC-9410
Petitioners Brief |
1979 |
| 6/7 | Ebasco Services Inc. NLRB Case No. 19-RC-9410 Hrng.
Transcript Pt. 1 |
1979 |
| 6/8 | Ebasco Services Inc. NLRB Case No. 19-RC-9410 Hrng.
Transcript Pt. 2 |
1979 |
| 6/9 | Ebasco Services Inc. General Correspondence |
1979-1981 |
| 6/10 | Ebasco Services Inc. Union Correspondence to
Employees |
1979-1981 |
| 6/11 | Ebasco Services Inc. Objections to Election |
1981 |
| 6/12 | Ebasco Services Inc. General Correspondence |
1982-1983 |
| 6/13 | Federal Collectors |
1972-1973 |
| 6/14 | Forks State Bank |
1973-1974 |
| 6/15 | Grays Harbor Juvenile Department |
1976-1977 |
| 6/16 | Gray's Harbor County Medical Bureau |
1980-1981 |
| 6/17 | Hahn Co. (Capital Mall |
1993 |
| 6/18 | Hollyridge |
1994 |
| 6/19 | Lakewood General Hospital |
1979-1980 |
| 6/20 | Monitor Cabinets |
1971-1973 |
| 6/21 | Pacific National Bank of Washington |
1969-1971 |
| 6/22 | Pacific National Bank of Washingotn, Tacoma EIS
Center |
1970-1971 |
| 6/23 | Nationwide Cablevision, Corespondence |
1979-1980 |
Series 4: Former Employer (Retail Store A-U) CBAs & Correspondence, 1937-2007Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 6/24 | Associated Retailers of Tacoma,
Correspondence |
1953-1970 |
| 6/25 | Associated Retailers of Tacoma, Negotiations and
Grievances |
1948-1961 |
| 6/26 | Bon Marche, Agreements |
1953-1987 |
| 7/1 | Bon Marche, Negotiations/ Grievances |
1964-1978 |
| 7/2 | Retail Stores, Negotiations |
1937-1947 |
| 7/3 | Retail Stores, Signed Agreements |
1944-1963 |
| 7/4 | Retail Stores, Negotiations |
1944-1963 |
| 7/5 | J.C. Penney (Tacoma Mall) |
1965-1975 |
| 7/6 | J.C. Penney Decertification |
1975-1978 |
| 7/7 | J.C. Penney, Strike |
1975 |
| 7/8 | J.C. Penney, Strike, Signed Agreements |
1948, 1965-1978 |
| 7/9 | People Store |
1971-1981 |
| 7/10 | Rhodes |
1970-1972 |
| 7/11 | Schoenfelds |
1969-1981 |
| 7/12 | Schoenfelds agreements |
1969-1981 |
| 7/13 | Sears, Roebuck & Co., Agreements |
1953-1966 |
| 7/14 | Sears, Roebuck & Co., Correspondence |
1952-1966 |
| 7/15 | Selden's, Inc. |
1946-1969 |
| 7/16 | Weisfield, Goldberg, Inc., Agreements |
1946-1969 |
| 7/17 | Weisfield, Goldberg, Inc., Correspondence |
1947-1966 |
| 7/18 | Woolworth |
1963-1966 |
| 7/19 | Foreman and Clark |
1958-1972 |
| 7/20 | Helen Davis Apparel Shop |
1946-1952 |
| 7/21 | Irving's Clothes Shop |
1958-1961 |
| 7/22 | Knettle's Corsetry |
1950-1952 |
| 7/23 | Lerner Shops |
1972-1975 |
| 7/24 | S.H. Kress & Company |
1961-1969 |
| 7/25 | Lundquist-Lilly Men's Wear |
1946-1953 |
| 7/26 | Lyons Apparel |
1952-1971 |
| 7/27 | Nordstrom |
1966-1979 |
| 7/28 | Norman's Apparel Shop |
1946-1953 |
| 7/29 | Tacoma Grocery Co. |
1938-1955 |
| 7/30 | Valu-Mart |
1960-1975 |
| 7/31 | White Front |
1968-1973 |
| 7/32 | Kitsap Administrative Services |
1978-1982 |
| 7/33 | KitsapCounty CLC |
1969-1979 |
| 7/34 | Kitsap Federal Credit Union, Arbitration |
1987 |
| 7/35 | Kitsap Federal Credit Union |
1960-1988 |
| 7/36 | Kitsap Physicians Service |
1992-2000 |
| 7/37 | Kitsap Physicians Service |
1985-2001 |
| 7/38 | Kitsap Physicians Service |
1977-1984 |
| 7/39 | Kitsap Physicians Service |
1961-1977 |
| 8/1 | Labor Advocate |
1959-1978 |
| 8/2 | Laborers Local 486 |
1972-1977 |
| 8/3 | Laundry Workers Local 42 |
1968-1972 |
| 8/4 | McDaniel & Hallstrom, CPAs |
1980-1981 |
| 8/5 | Millmens Local 1689 |
1977-1992 |
| 8/6 | Olympic Peninsula Bldg. & Construction Trades
Council |
1959-2007 |
| 8/7 | Painters Local 64 |
1968-1972 |
| 8/8 | Pierce County Bldg. & Contrcution Trades
Council |
1963-1983 |
| 8/9 | Pierce County Fire District #2 Terminiation |
2005 |
| 8/10 | Pierce County Fire District #2 |
1998-2005 |
| 8/11 | Pierce County Fire District #3 |
1998-2000 |
| 8/12 | Pierce County HERE Trust Fund |
1971-1987 |
| 8/13 | Pierce County Medical Bureau, agreements |
1955-1980 |
| 8/14 | Pierce County Medical Bureau |
1981-1991 |
| 8/15 | SEIU Local 123 |
1963-1996 |
| 8/16 | SEIU Local 262 |
1972-1976 |
| 8/17 | Sheet Metal Workers Local 99 |
1975-1982 |
| 8/18 | Sheet Metal Workers Local 150 |
1963-1988 |
| 8/19 | Tacoma Radiology Associates |
1972-1986 |
| 8/20 | UFCW Local 381 Bremerton (Retail Clerks) Signed
agreements |
1972-2005 |
| 8/21 | UFCW Local 553 |
1967-1983 |
| 8/22 | UFCW Local 554 |
1968-1994 |
| 8/23 | Union Bank |
1975-1985 |
Series5: Newsletters, 1956-2015Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 9/1 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1956-1974 |
| 9/2 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1975-1980 |
| 9/3 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1964-1968 |
| 9/4 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1969-1976 |
| 9/5 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1981-1985 |
| 9/6 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1986-1991 |
| 9/7 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1992-2002 |
| 9/8 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
2003-2015 |
| 9/9 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1993-2003 |
| 9/10 | OPEIU Local 23 Newsletters |
1960-1992 |
Series 6: Miscellaneous, photographs and newspaper clippings , 1936-2009Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 8/24 | Miscellaneous old agreements |
1946-2011 |
| 8/25 | Manuals and regualtions |
1976-1982 |
| 8/26 | Notes and letters |
1989-1996 |
| 8/27 | Certificates |
1982 |
| 8/28 | Flyers |
undated |
| 8/29 | OPEIU Photographs |
1980-2009 |
| 8/30 | Photographs |
1980-1990s |
| 8/31 | Photographs |
1988-1992 |
| 8/32 | Photographs |
1980s-1990s |
| 8/33 | Photographs |
2000-2010 |
| 8/34 | Photographs |
|
| 9/11 | OPEIU Local 23 History & Special
Articles |
1986-1990s |
| 9/12 | OPEIU Local 23 Duplicate newsletters |
1948-1992 |
| 9/13 | Newspaper clippings |
1938-2005 |
| 9/14 | Historical pictures, newspaper clippings |
1981-1992 |
| 9/15 | Scholarship Committee |
1978-1988 |
| 9/16 | OPEIU Local 23 History Notes |
1937-2004 |
| 9/17 | Bank Employees |
1968-1969 |
| 9/18 | Newspaper clippings |
1935-1957 |
| 9/19 | Membership |
1937-1945 |
| 9/20 | Newspaper articles |
1995-1996 |
| 10/1 | Photographs |
1981-1986 |
| 10/2 | Photographs |
1991 |
| 10/3 | Photographs |
2000-2010 |
| 10/4 | Photographs |
1981 |
| 10/5 | Photographs |
1988-1990 |
| 10/6 | Photographs |
1991-1996 |
| 10/7 | Photographs |
1996-1999 |
| 10/8 | Photographs |
1970 |
| 10/9 | Photographs |
1991, 1986 |
| VF:oversize | ||
| OSVF 177 | Group photo |
1960s |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Labor movement--Washington (State)--History--Sources
- Labor unions--Washington (State)--History--Sources
- Labor--Washington (State)--History--Sources
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
- White collar workers--Washington (State)--History--Sources
Corporate Names
- Office and Professional Employees International Union--History--Sources
- Office and Professional Employees International Union. Local 23 (Tacoma, Wash.)--Archives
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (curator)
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