White House Office of Records Management Subject Files: Labor - Management, Non-Government (LA)

A primary subject category containing information pertaining to the general subject of non-Federal labor; employment status; unemployment; wage rates; earnings; labor statistics; arbitration; national and independent labor unions; labor/management relations; and investigations of labor racketeering. (Partial)

File Code Description Research
Availability
LA001 Boards – Panels (Labor)

Partial
LA001-01 Emergency Boards – Commissions None
LA001-02 Inquiry, Boards of Partial
LA0002 Conditions – Employment – Unemployment Partial
LA002-01 Aged Employment Partial
LA002-02 Handicapped Labor None
LA002-03 Youth Employment Partial
LA003 Unions – Fair Labor Standards (2 l.ft.)

This secondary subject category contains materials relating to the role of unions, weekly reports on major union negotiations, correspondence on National Labor Relations Board cases, and local government officials’ concern over the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

 Open
LA004 Migratory – Seasonal Labor Partial
LA005

Strikes – Work Stoppages – Arbitration (.2 l.ft.)

This secondary subject category consists of material relating to baseball and railroad strikes, collective bargaining issues, and a Department of Commerce personal income report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

 Open
LA005-01 Aerospace Strikes None
LA005-02 Chemicals and Allied Products – Strikes None
LA005-03 Coal, Strikes None
LA005-04 Communications, Strikes None
LA005-05 Construction – Housing Strikes None
LA005-06 Food and Kindred Products, Strikes None
LA005-07 Furniture – Fixtures – Strikes None
LA005-08 Lumber – Wood – Papers Strikes None
LA005-09 Machinery Strikes None
LA005-10 Metals Strikes None
LA005-11 Petroleum Strikes None
LA005-12 Plastics – Rubber – Leather Products None
LA005-13 Services Strikes Partial
LA005-14 Textiles – Apparel Strikes None
LA005-15 Transportation Strikes Partial
LA006

Wages – Hours (1.8 l.ft; 5 Boxes)
This secondary subject category contains materials relating to the Davis-Bacon Act governing wages paid for Federal construction contracts (including Administration statements and policies, and proposed regulations and exemptions for the Act), reports on American individual and family incomes from the Census Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors, the “gender gap” in wages and earnings, the issue of raising the federal minimum wage, proposals for a sub-minimum wage for minors in the workforce (e.g., Youth Employment Opportunity Wage), a 1987 study of farm income, and correspondence from the public regarding wage issues.

 Open
LA007 Welfare – Pensions -- Retirement Partial

Research Availability:
Open - all records in the subject category have been processed and are available for research
Partial - some of the records in the subject category have been processed and available for research
None - no records in the subject category have been processed nor made available for research