Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Records, mainly 1939-1977, of the Associated Unions of America (AUA), a labor organization which was formed in 1939 as the Wisconsin Association of Independent Unions and which eventually represented factory and office workers in independent company unions throughout the the midwest; AUA, whose members included a large proportion of women, became part of the Office and Professional Employees International Union in 1972. Most extensively documented are locals comprised of office and professional employees of Bucyrus-Erie, Cutler-Hammer, Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the Old Line Life Insurance Company, although some files concern factory workers employed by companies such as Appleton Coated Paper Company. Several files concern labor activities at Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company prior to the formation of AUA. The union's bulletin, AUA Report, is available on microfilm in the Society Library.