Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1961

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  Departments - Employee Relations - Union Campaign - 1956

  Manuscripts

  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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  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 - 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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  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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