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Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada, Locals 2 and 4 fonds
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Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada, Locals 2 and 4 fonds

Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada, Locals 2 and 4 fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1491
  • Fonds
  • 1972 - 1986

The fonds consists of records related to the Service, Office, and Retail Workers Union of Canada’s (SORWUC’s) local chapters 2 and 4 administrative activities, organizing endeavours and legal proceedings. Although the records are primarily related to the United Bank Works (UBW), local 2, and Bank and Finance Workers Union, local 4, many records are related to SORWUC’s national activities as a trade union. These activities include organization and certification of new bargaining units, filing unfair labour practices on behalf of union members, pamphleting and raising funds for the union as a whole, organizing strikes, and fighting court battles for the right to organize in new sectors, such as the banks. Additionally, SORWUC kept various reference materials on topics related to feminism and the rights of laborers. The fonds reflect these different organizational activities in three series: Legal, Organizing, and Administration.

The Legal series consists of records related to the union’s legal activities. These records include Unfair Labour Practice (ULP) charges filed against banks and heard by the Canadian Labour Relations Board (CLRB), applications for certification in the CLRB, notes, correspondence, news clippings, and legal briefs.

The Organizing series consists of material relating to the organizing activities of SORWUC, including correspondence, research, membership forms, sign-up sheets and information relating to bank branches seeking certification. Also included are contract proposals, organizing committee papers by branch, and minutes of negotiation meetings, press clippings and press releases.

The Administration series relates to the various administrative activities of SORWUC locals 2 and 4; including financial activities, research for court cases, as well as related issues to the union such as unemployment and racism; public relations documents including press releases; and minutes of meetings.

Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada (SORWUC)

Administration

The series relates to the major administrative activities of the union. These consisted of financial administration, research, public relations, correspondence and executive affairs. The series has been divided into the following sub-series to reflect these activities: Finance, Research, Public Relations, General Correspondence, and Executive Affairs.

Legal Papers

This series consists of records related to the legal activities of the union. Major legal activities included the documenting of Unfair Labour Practices (ULPs), applying for the certification of new bargaining units through the Canada Labour Relations Board (CLRB), legal research, and proceedings of court hearings between various banking and finance institutions and SORWUC on behalf of union members.Record types include notes, correspondence, news-clippings, legal briefs, applications for certification and decertification of bargaining units, court hearings of cases and appeals, copies of anti-union material produced by banking institutions, press statements, and research reports.

Organizing

The series consists of material relating to the organizing activities of SORWUC. Primary organizing activities included pamphleting, formation of regional committees, conducting research, educating current members and the public, negotiating contracts, organizing strikes and picket lines, creation and distribution of fliers and newsletters, and drafting of union by-laws. Record types include: correspondence, membership forms, sign-up sheets, fliers, newsletters, pamphlets, contract proposals, minutes of meetings, press clippings, press releases. Files 8-16 to 8-63 and files 9-4 to 9-45 contain records of the various organizing committees at different bank branches. Records in these files relate to branches of the following banks: Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and Toronto Dominion.

Finance

The sub-series consists of material reflecting the administration of finances within SORWUC. Many of the finance materials are related to the national SORWUC union, rather than specifically locals 2 and 4. Financial activities included fund-raising, especially the specific funding of the ongoing Muckamuck strike, and the keeping receipt books, cash receipts, check deposit books, payroll information, and financial reports. Record types include deposit books, receipts, bank statements, cheque stubs, and receipt books.

Research

The sub-series includes information collected in regards to the activities which SORWUC carried out. The union concentrated on women’s issues, feminism, and women’s rights in the workplace, health and hygiene issues. Material includes press clippings and releases in regard to banking business; brochures and pamphlets on unemployment, racism and women’s issues; constitutions of other unions, paste ups, bulletins, anti-union literature, annual reports by banks and Canada Labour Relations Board (CLRB) reports.

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