Manuscripts
Pressmen negotiations (3 of 3)
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Agreement -- Company counter proposal with INPP&A
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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.
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Contract
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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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Pressroom Negotiations
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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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Pressmen negotiations (2 of 3)
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1 item: approx. 40-pp. - another copy or version of "Agreement" in previous folder.
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Pressmen negotiations (1 of 3)
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5 items: handwritten and typed versions of a note dated "3/18," addressed to "Sparks" ; 2-pp. list headed "Preliminary statement of matters to be considered in connection with coming negotiations with pressmen's union" ; single-sheet, "Agenda of matters to be discussed at Times meeting...March 20 at 2:00 p.m." ; approx. 45-pp. headed "Agreement."
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Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1963
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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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