| | Abstract: | Local 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers is a Northeast Ohio labor union representing employees involved in the sale or processing of food, especially butchers, packing-house workers and fur industry workers. It was known until 1979 as Meat Cutters District 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, when the international merged with the Retail Clerks International Union to become the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Sam Pollock served as president, 1953-73, and was succeeded by Frank Cimino, who later became an officer of the international body. The collection consists of records of District 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and its predecessor, District Union 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, and consists of correspondence, minutes, financial records, reports, contracts, and publications relating largely to the administration of the union, the provision of benefits to its members, and negotiations with employers, particularly the packing-house, meat, and fur industries, as well as independent and chain-operated retail food stores. The collection includes important material relating to the administration of the union's pension fund by the Board of Trustees, as well as the papers of district officials Sam Pollock and Frank Cimino. Included is material relating to health care and health maintenance organizations and low-income housing sponsored by the union. | |
