Summary Information

Title: United Transportation Union. Local 720: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1946-1994

Creator:

• United Transportation Union. Local 720 (Green Bay, Wis.)

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 163

Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (3 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Incomplete records of the Green Bay local of the UTU that represented employees of the Green Bay and Western Railroad. The local was dissolved by court action shortly after the purchase of the GB&W by the Wisconsin Central Railroad. Included is extensive correspondence concerning agreements, contract maintenance, crew composition, and other rules; and issues such as the abandonment of the Lake Michigan car ferry service. Files concerning the impact of acquisition of the Green Bay & Western and the Fox River Valley Railroad by the Wisconsin Central in 1992-1993 are particularly extensive. Also included are transcripts of investigatory hearings about violations of work rules and accidents during the 1960s. Some records document the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodge 445. None of the standard organizational records such as minutes, financial records, or membership files are included in the records.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0163

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