Series I: Arizona Carpenters Union

This collection documents the AFL-CIO's work in Arizona (under the name Arizona AFL-CIO) supporting organizations like the Arizona Carpenters Union; the United Steelworkers of America Local Union #938; the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Division 1223; and the Committee on Political Education. Materials include federal and local laws and regulations; workshop and convention proceedings; budget information; COPE papers; public employee information; correspondence; studies; newspaper articles; AFL-CIO handbooks; speeches; posters; awards; scrapbooks; subject files; business records; and a wide variety of audio-visual materials.

Series I: Arizona Carpenters Union houses day books, correspondence, charges against individual members, applications for membership, financial records, grievance records, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, and other materials documenting the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America in Arizona. The local entities appearing most frequently include Local Union #471 (Safford, Ariz.), Local Union #857 (Tucson, Ariz.), and the Southeastern Arizona District Council of Carpenters.

Series II: State and National AFL-CIO includes publications, correspondence, meeting minutes, membership records, financial records, ledgers, newspaper clippings, receipts, invoices, and other materials showing the Arizona AFL-CIO's association with such national bodies as the National Labor Relations Board and the American Arbitration Association; its work with its subsidiary Committee on Political Education; its participation in political research and voting drives; its efforts to oppose laws it perceived to be hostile to workers (including Arizona's Right-to-Work law); its development of training programs on such topics as unemployment insurance and occupational safety; and its efforts to publicize its efforts to improve working conditions and workers' salaries. Also included are records showing a number of local unions, including the United Packinghouse Food and Allied Workers Local Union #667 and the Journeymen Barbers, Hairdressers and Cosmetologists' International Union of America Local Union #628 (Phoenix, Ariz.).

Series III: United Steelworkers of America, Local Union #938 houses a membership card file, arbitration records, discharge case records, communications with Magma Copper Company (which owned the mine in Superior), employee publications, strike assistance applications, industrial case records, and other materials documenting the local union representing miners in Superior, Arizona.

Series IV: Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Division 1223 houses membership applications, bus condition reports, receipts, contract records, company bulletins, Executive Board minutes, bills and invoices, run sheets, and Employee Absence or Change in Position Reports showing the union that represented bus drivers and street railroad operators across the southwestern United States. Among the states documented are Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Series V: Committee on Political Education (COPE) houses Executive Board materials, workshop records, mailing lists, political research, financial records, newspaper clippings, convention materials, scholarship information, and other materials documenting COPE's efforts to educate union members and its advocacy for laws and elected representatives supportive of labor.

Series VI: Audiovisual houses photographs, reel-to-reel film and audio tapes, and other materials removed from Series I-V.