Manuscripts

Agreement -- Company counter proposal with INPP&A

Description: 1 item: one copy of "Company counterproposal - May 2, 1967." Approximately 50 sheets are stapled together, but the paging does not match all the way through--this may be incomplete. The cover sheet is headed, "Agreement," and reads in part, "This agreement (is) by and between THE TIMES MIRROR COMPANY...and INTER-NATIONAL PRINTING PRESSMEN & ASSISTANTS' UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, AFL-CIO," etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1967
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Pressmen negotiations (3 of 3)

Manuscripts

Approx. 6 items: stapled, 53-pp. "Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America, AFL-CIO and..." ; several related items.

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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Contract

Manuscripts

One copy of the entire pressroom contract: "Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America, AFL-CIO, and its subordinate union, L.A. Newspaper Web Printing Pressmen's Union No. 18." (dated 8/7/1967)

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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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WFT Hosted Lunches

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items, including: planning materials, guest lists and other items related to Thomas' hosted lunches at Times Mirror Square (Director's Suite and Norman Chandler Pavilion). Notable names on the guest lists: William Webster (FBI), Rose Bird (Chief Just., CA Supreme Ct.), Warren Christopher (Dpt. Sec. of State), George Meany (Pres. - AFL-CIO), Tom Lasorda (Dodgers manager), Lane Kirkland (AFL-CIO), Nguyen Cao Ky (ex-Vietnam Prime Minister), Abba Eban (Israel), Simcha Dinitz (Israeli Ambassador to U.S.), more.

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"Survey of press freedom in Latin America, 1985 - 1986"

Manuscripts

1 item: 64-pp. booklet, "A survey of press freedom in Latin America, 1985 - 1986," compiled by The Council on Hemispheric Affairs and The Newspaper Guild (AFL-CIO, CLC), 12/1986.

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Pressroom Negotiations

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items. Materials include: 3-pp. letter (8/2/1967) addressed "Fellow Pressmen," from "Times Open Shop Committee"; 3-pp. letter (8/11/1967) from Otis Chandler to "Times Employees," reading in part, "I would like to make sure you understand the effect of this agreement [with the Pressman's Union]"; copy, 53-pp., "Proposed Agreement between The Times Mirror Company and International Printing Pressmen..." 7/25/1967; 57-pp. Company counterproposal," dated 5/2/1967; letters exchanged between TM executives and legal firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker; progress reports on negotiations; 1-pp. chart, 5/11/1967, "Mgmn't Services - Press Room Study - Observation Schedule; etc.

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Agreement -- Company counter proposal with INPP&A

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