Manuscripts
Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1967
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1962
Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and other LAT tactics to persuade pressmen to reject unionization in 1962. One item, a mock-up of a newspaper is labeled "Los Angeles Times PRESSMAN," 4/9/1962, with Pg.1 headline, "Union is seeking control of Times pressroom jobs." The election was held 4/13, and an LAT story for 4/15/1962 ran the headline "Pressmen vote for union in Times election." The National Labor Relations Board sponsored the election. The LAT pressmen had rejected the union's representation in 1944, 1957 and 1959.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1963
Manuscripts
Approx. 45 items. Materials include: LAT materials--memos, open letters, flyers--aimed at discouraging pressroom employees from supporting union representation. An LAT article (copy in folder) for 6/29/1963 was headlined "Pressmen vote against union at L.A. Times." The story read, in part, "Pressmen at (LAT) have voted 202 to 187 against the AFL-CIO International Printing Pressmen and Assistant's Union Local 18 as their bargaining agent....The pressmen voted for the union in an NLRB election in April, 1962, but 58 subsequent negotiation meetings failed to bring about a contract agreement...In April the pressroom employees petitioned the NLRB for a new election..."
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1959
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items. Materials include: memos and form letters from LAT / Norman Chandler to pressmen asking them, as one letter puts it, "whether you desire to...deal directly with your company as you have in the past, or whether you wish to entrust your future welfare to the domination and control of an impersonal union shop." The vote by the pressmen was on 4/16/1959. A story in the 4/17/1959 L.A. Mirror-News was headlined, "Pressmen at Times again refuse union." The vote was 218 to 112.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1944
Manuscripts
9 items. Materials include: several copied LAT articles, 1943 - 1944, and one L.A. Citizen article on union campaign for start-up of union of pressmen at LAT; two letters, both over Philip Chandler signature, related to retroactive pay and wage adjustments for LAT press room employees, etc.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1970
Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items. Materials include: memos, form letters, cover letters, etc., from the period of time leading up to the 1970 pressmen's vote at LAT. The vote was conducted on 7/9/1970. The result of the vote was decertification of the pressman's union at LAT. The news brief that ran 7/10/1970 had the headline: "Times pressmen vote to leave union, 213 to 134."
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1957
Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items. Materials include: memos, form letters and news reports related to the National Labor Relations Board-sponsored election, in which the employees were asked to accept or reject unionizing. The LAT pressmen voted on 2/28, the results were released 3/2/1957. The L.A. Mirror-News story carried the headline, "Times-Mirror pressmen reject union, 247-104." A number of persuasive memos distributed to the pressmen in the weeks leading up to the vote are also in the file.
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