Organization Department files [textual record (some microform)]
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Record information Organization Department files [textual record (some microform)]
Date:1941-1992.Reference:R5699-54-5-E, MG28-I103Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:107946Date(s):1941-1992.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:10.11 m of textual records.
209 microfilm reels positive 16 mm.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Series consists of files of the Organization Department documenting the department's principal activities, functions, and concerns, such as affiliated national and international unions and their organizational issues, such as organizing campaigns, certification, jurisdictional questions, negotiations, strikes and lockouts, appeals for support, mergers, and affiliation with the CLC; jurisdictional disputes and raids involving affiliated unions, and the CLC's efforts to resolve these disputes; raids involving non-affiliated unions; directly chartered local unions, and their transfer to affiliated national and international unions; organizing campaigns led by the CLC or by affiliated unions, and related topics such as organizing conferences and analysis of the organizing potential in various regions and industries; the CLC's major campaign of the 1960s and 1970s to organize white-collar office and technical workers, and the new union established as part of this campaign (the Association of Commercial and Technical Employees); strikes, including the 1959 strike of Newfoundland loggers represented by the International Woodworkers of America; other labour federations, including the Confédération des syndicats nationaux / Confederation of National Trade Unions, and its organizational rivalry with the CLC; federal and provincial labour relations boards and legislation; CLC industry councils of unions, such as the National Council of Broadcast Unions; meetings of organizing staff and of regional directors; the activities and reports of the department's representatives, directors, and other staff; the autonomy of Canadian branches of international unions; independent unions and company unions; the Ditchley Foundation's Anglo-American-Canadian Trade Union Conferences; "The Examiner: Voice of Labour in Newfoundland"; inter-office correspondence; staff meetings and seminars; personnel and general administrative matters; and other topics.
The files contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, proceedings, briefs, submissions, charters, constitutions, membership and dues records, certification and conciliation records, negotiations papers, records of votes, lists of officers, collective agreements, decisions, determinations, financial records, organizing and strike literature, publicity material, print matter, financial records, notes, and other material. Included are files created by the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL) Organization Department prior to the 1956 merger, including files on the CCL Public Service Workers Organizing Committee, the Department Store Organizing Committee, the General Organizing Committee, the National Organization of Civic, Utility and Electric Workers, and other CCL affiliates. Most other records pre-dating the 1956 merger pertain to directly chartered local unions originally affiliated to the CCL or the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada.
Microfilm reels H-17 to H-22, H-34 to H-39, H-79 to H-81, H-97 to H-102, H-105 to H-128, H-141 to H-142, H-209 to H-218, H-238, H-296 to H-311, H-330 to H-335, H-344 to H-352, H-362, H-397 to H-398, H-440 to H-455, H-457 to H-464, H-493 to H-494, H-497, H-525, H-533 to H-536, H-576 to H-578, H-580 to H-582, H-588 to H-595, H-610 to H-611, H-643, H-653 to H-656, H-665 to H-671, H-727 to H-731, H-758 to H-759, H-777, H-788 to H-816, H-822, H-876 to H-879, H-894 to H-900, H-902 to H-905, H-908, H-914 to H-916.
The Organization Department files concerning provincial federations of labour and municipal labour councils (for which the department became responsible in 1977) are described in the Federations and Councils Files series.Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Canadian Labour Congress. Organization Dept : The Organization Department was established at the CLC's founding in 1956. For much of the CLC's history it was the largest department, with a national director and staff as well as regional directors based in the regional offices of the CLC (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairie, and Pacific), where they supervised CLC representatives in the regions. The department was initially responsible for the organization and servicing of directly chartered local unions, including assistance with conciliations, contract negotiations, and arbitrations; the transfer of directly chartered locals to affiliated unions; assisting affiliated unions in organizing campaigns and other organizational matters, including strike action, boycotts, and developing their jurisdictions; preparing organizing manuals, pamphlets, and other aids to organizing work; co-ordinating special organizing committees and campaigns, such as those directed at bank employees and other white-collar office and technical workers; facilitating the formation of new local labour councils, and encouraging local unions to affiliate to labour councils; and the investigation, mediation, and settlement of jurisdictional disputes and raids between CLC affiliates (which could, if necessary, be referred to the CLC Executive Council for resolution). The Organization Department also assisted CLC industry committees and councils, such as the Maritime Committee and the National Council of Broadcast Unions. In collaboration with other CLC departments, staff representatives in the Organization Department would also assist in the regions with CLC programmes in such areas as labour education and political education. The Organization Department assumed responsibility for provincial federations of labour and local labour councils when the Federations and Councils Department was dissolved in 1977, and became officially known as the Organization and Chartered Bodies Department (although the original name remained in general use). In the 1990s, it assumed responsibility for the CLC's labour education activities, and was renamed the Organization and Educational Services Department. Joseph MacKenzie was director from 1956 to 1975. He was followed by Ed Johnston (1975 to ca. 1987) and Len Ruel (appointed ca. 1987).Additional information:Arrangement note:The Organization Department series is, for the most part, further arranged into sub-series according to the principal activities of the department. Some groups of Organization Department files are general and undifferentiated in nature, and are described only at the series level; such files are listed in the finding aid as "Organization Department - General".Availability of other formats note:Certain files available as originals were microfilmed by the CLC as part of its records management programme. The microfilm version of these files was acquired by the National Archives separately from the originals. Appendix D of finding aid MSS492 (part 1) provides most of the details of corresponding container and reel numbers in this series (and related sub-series); in addition to Appendix D, note that originals from container 586, folder 15, to container 588, folder 4, correspond with reels H-894 to H-896. While the originals and microfilm correspond closely, researchers should not assume that they are identical.Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG28-I103 -
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