Collection Scope and Content Note

Contract proposals for Act III, Andrea Knit, Debra Knit, Roanoke Fashions, Butte Kitting Mills, Calhoun Mfg. Kingston Dress, Mercer Dress, Modern Juniors, Kim Fashions, Act II, and Transportation Dept; master agreement with Jonathan Logan; audit report showing Butte/Jonathon piece rate schedule, 1979-82; correspondence re use and misuse of union labels; complaint filed with NLRB v. Oxford Fashions (Oxford, Alabama), 1980; notification of David Knit plant closing (Northumberland, PA); memo to president Sol Chaikin from exec VP Wilbur Daniels re meeting with Jonathan Logan president Richard Schwartz re outsourcing to nonunion shops; Department of Labor decisions granting (1970, 1979) and denying (1982) worker adjustment assistance for plant closings, comment by union legal dept.; lists of jobs lost at closed plants; analysis of salaries and pension benefits, Malden Mills, Lawrence plant, comparison with other union plants; correspondence re Kingston Dress internal union litigation, 1983-84