Summary Information

Title: Retail Clerks International Union Records
Inclusive Dates: 1890-1990 (bulk 1899-1982)

Creator:

• Retail Clerks International Union

Call Number: M81-250; M81-490; M82-125; M82-482; M87-070; M89-181; M93-009; M94-220; M95-242; Micro 980; Audio 1536A; DE 358-DE 359

Quantity: 75.6 cubic feet, 48 volumes, 931 reels of microfilm (16 mm), 7 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 3 tape recordings, 4 disc recordings, 5 dictabelts, and 2 film reels (16 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Records, 1890-1990 (bulk 1899-1982), of the Retail Clerks International Union (most of which are on microfilm produced by the RCIU) documenting various departments and levels of the organization, from the executive office to the union locals. The RCIU began as the Retail Clerks International Protective Association around 1891, and eventually merged with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America in 1979 to become the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). The collection spans the organization's history and includes organizing materials, financial records, collective bargaining files, correspondence, reports, memos, trusteeship files, convention proceedings, extensive administrative files, information on strikes and the Meat Cutters union, photographs, and sound recordings.

Note:

This collection has been assigned Mss 1138.

Numerous films and sound recordings created by the RCIA and related to materials in this collections are still part of the UFCW collection (M80-582, et al.).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss01138

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