CSUN Receives L.A. County Federation of Labor Collection

A large addition to the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Collection has recently been made available to researchers. Approximately 192 linear feet of recently-donated materials were rehoused into 389 boxes that are now open for research! Its archives provide great insight into labor organizing and workers rights in Los Angeles County starting in 1860 through the present day. Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's Union Label Council | CSUN University Library

Collection Overview 

Collection Contents 

• Series I: Files of the Executive Secretaries
• Series II: Employer-Employee Relations Initiative, "Right-To-Work"
• Series III: Pre-Merger Records
• Series IV. Post-Merger Records
• Series V: Photographic Materials
  • Subseries A: Negatives and Contact Sheets
  • Subseries B: Photographs   
    • Example: Box 476, Folder 13 Historic Labor Union Photographs, 1920-1980 
  • Series VI: Audiovisual Materials,

The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the umbrella organization for an alliance of hundreds of affiliated local labor unions and labor organizations in Los Angeles County, California. It was established in 1894. The LACFL is the local-level central body which is affiliated with the state-level, California Labor Federation (previously California State Federation of Labor) as well as the national-level, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). Their mission is to support organized labor and collective bargaining in order to improve the lives of workers. They also work to ensure that progressive political leaders who support workers' rights are elected to office.  Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Collection (cdlib.org)

A 1956 pamphlet for the second annual Los Angeles Union Products and Services Show highlights the purpose of the convention: “To encourage union members and their families to patronize union products and services and to familiarize union families with those products and services supplied under union contracts.”

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