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.

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.

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.