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Stereotype campaign 1967


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    Stereotype NLRB Election

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 40 items. Materials include: form letters to stereotype employees; memos on new equipment for the task; manning for packing mats; workloads, work issues including overtime; 3-pp. "Remarks to Stereotypers" (by "O / C" - Otis Chandler); memos from immediately before and after the 4/6/1961 vote by stereotypers; photographs of stereotyping equipment at The Oregonian (Portland); 1-pp. "Stereotype Seniority as of 11-1-'60"; etc.

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    Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1967

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    Approx. 50 items. Materials include: two booklets, "Know the Facts," and "Just the Facts," providing financial data designed to convince pressmen to support LAT in the election; memos, form letters, flyers, cartoon strips, etc. in support of LAT being union-free; copies of two LAT news brief, 3/18/1967, "Union chosen agent by Times pressmen," and "Pressmen at Times OK union pact."

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    Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1956

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    Approx. 10 items. Materials include: form letter, 8//1/1956, "To all Times-Mirror stereotype employees and their families," urging these employees to vote "No" on joining a union; letter 8/2/1956, to "All division and department heads" (attached to previous letter) providing information about the polling of LAT employees; article copy, LAT, 8/4/1956, "Stereotypers at Times-Mirror turn down union in election"; letter, 8/21/1956, by Norman Chandler, "To all Times-Mirror stereotypers and members of their families," thanking them for rejecting the union; related items.

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    Pressroom 1967 Campaign

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 45 items. Materials include: various memos, form letters, flyers, originating with Times Mirror and with the Pressmen's Union. Times Mirror-produced materials urge pressmen not to "fall under the control of Local 18," while the union materials urge the pressmen to "stand with your fellow pressmen" under union representation: copies of 3-part series in Nation's Business, (11/1966 - 1/1967), "What to do when the union knocks"; related materials.

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    Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1991

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    6 items. Materials include: two editions of a so-called "Times Union Bulletin" headed "UPDATE," (one undated, the other 12/5/1991), the Dec. 5 issue refers to Publisher David Laventhol as "the bald-headed race track tout from Long Island... foisted upon us two years ago," continuing to remark that he "more closely approximates Attila the Hun than Tom Johnson or Otis Chandler,"; pre-election memo to "All pressroom employees," 11/13/1991; memo, 11/27/1991, to "Management personnel"; two flyers from Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, including union registration cards to fill out and mail.

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    Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1961

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 18 items. Materials include: LAT memos and form letters to staffers in the stereotype department who would be voting on unionization on 4/6/1961. A copy of LAT story of 4/8/1961, "Times stereotypers again reject union." Other materials.

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