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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)
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
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.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Office and Professional Employees Local 23 represented workers in the Tacoma area until the organization merged into OPEIU Local 8 of Seattle in 2015.

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Content Description

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.

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Other Descriptive Information

Forms part of the Labor Archives of Washington.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

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Administrative Information

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/

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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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

  • Corporate Names

    • Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (curator)


2018 (Last modified: 7/15/2022)

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