Communications Workers of America, District 2 Arbitration Cases

Call Number

WAG.218

Date

1951-1991, inclusive

Creator

Communications Workers of America. District 2

Communications Workers of America. District 2 (Role: Donor)

Extent

72 Linear Feet in 72 boxes.

3 websites in 3 archived websites.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Abstract

Communications Workers of America, District 2 is responsible for servicing all CWA locals in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC. The collection mostly contains grievances and arbitration cases.

Historical/Biographical Note

Communications Workers of America, District 2 is responsible for servicing all CWA locals in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC. The district represents workers in telecommunications, airlines, broadcast and cable television, health care, public service, printing and news media, food service, higher education and law enforcement. The district was ran by Vice President Peter G. Catucci from 1986-2008. In 2011, District 2 merged with District 13 and Edward Mooney was elected Vice President.

Arrangement

This collection has not been arranged by an archivist.

Scope and Contents note

The collection mostly contains grievances and arbitration cases with telecommunication companies, including C&P Telephone and AT&T, settled by the district. The collection also includes agreements, as well as the district's website from 2009 onwards.

Subjects

Organizations

Communications Workers of America. District 2 (Role: Donor)

Topics

Donors

Communications Workers of America. District 2

Conditions Governing Access

Arbitration and grievance files are closed. These files appear in boxes 1-12, 26-30, 38-40, 42-45, 47, 49-55, 57, 58, 60-62, and 64.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the Communications Workers of America, District 2, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Communications Workers of America, District 2 Arbitration Cases; WAG 218; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Collection Name; Communications Workers of America, District 2 Arbitration Cases; WAG 218; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Location of Materials

Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact special.collections@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to research visit.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

http://district2.cwa-union.org/ was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2009 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. In 2011, the website redirected to https://district2-13.cwa-union.org/. In 2015, this website was migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2021, the website redirected to https://cwad2-13.org/ and was added to the web archives. The accession number associated with this URL is 2021.061.

Donated by the Communications Workers of America, District 2, in 1994. The accession number associated with this gift is 1994.022.

Take Down Policy

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If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.

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Other Finding Aids

A more detailed inventory is available in the repository.

Collection processed by

Nicole Greenhouse

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:35:48 -0400.

Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information

In 2014, the archived websites were added as a series. Additional websites were added in 2021. The original finding aid was reformatted from a Word document to EAD in 2014.

Revisions to this Guide

October 2021: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect additional administrative information and added archived websites

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives