Research Library

96-043 Ala Ike in Paerl City, HI

http://clear.uhwo.hawaii.edu email: clear@hawaii.edu

The Center maintains two research collections, a labor law library and a labor history archive. Materials in these collections are for use at the Center only and will not be loaned out. However, a copy machine is available and materials (within reason) may be duplicated there at no cost to the user.

To access the labor history archive an appointment must be arranged in advance with Dr. Puette [call 454-4774]. First time or inexperienced users of the labor law library are strongly advised to make an advance appointment as well so that CLEAR staff can instruct the user on the proper use of the indices and files.

CLEAR Labor Law Library

photo of archive

The law library contains the following major series:

Labor Relations Reference Manual (LRRM) -BNA
Labor Arbitration Reports (LA) -BNA
Labor Relations Expediter (LRX) -BNA
Union Labor Report (ULR) -BNA
Fair Employment Practices (FEP) -BNA
Individual Employment Rights (IER) -BNA
Wage & Hour Cases and Manual -BNA
Occupational Safety & Health Report (OSHR) -BNA
Americans with Disabilities Act Cases & Manual -BNA
Collective Bargaining Negotiations and Contracts -BNA
Workers Compensation Report -BNA
Government Employee Relations Report (GERR) -BNA
EEOC Compliance Manual -BNA
Occupational Safety & Health Reference File -BNA
Hawai'i Occupational Safety & Health Standards -DLIR/HIOSH
HPERB/HLRB Decisions -IRC
Hawai'i Revised Statutes & Session Laws

In addition to these up-dated services, CLEAR also maintains article files on a wide variety of labor-management issues. CLEAR staff can preview the topical index to these articles which are culled from the local papers, the Wall Street Journal, the National Law Journal, Business Week, Pacific Business News, Hawaii Business magazine and many others.

Union Density Statistics: State by State Comparisons

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CLEAR Labor History Archive

The labor history archive contains a clipping file on each local union in Hawai'i as well as an ever-growing collection of contracts, union newsletters, books and pamphlets focusing on Hawai'i's labor history.

Among the most highly prized components of this collection are:

The Honolulu Record - see also online version, in progress.

The correspondence file of the Hawai'i office of the AFL-CIO from 1940 to 1982.

The files of the Honolulu Central Labor Council

Production files and tapes from our Special Research Projects:

The authors' notes and research files for CLEAR's publications:

Edward Beechert's Aupuni i La'au: A History of Hawai'i's Carpenters Union, Local 745 (1993)

William Puette's The Hilo Massacre: Hawaii's Bloody Monday August 1st, 1938 (1988)

Bernard Stern's Rutledge Unionism: Labor Relations in the Honolulu Transit Industry (1986) and The Aloha Trade: Labor Relations in Hawaii's Hotel Industry 1941-1987 (1989)

LABOR CONTRACT DATABASE
(http://iir.berkeley.edu/library/contracts)
Finally someone (Lcushing@library.berkeley.edu) has decided to try and put collective bargaining contracts on the Internet. Using the facilities of the Institute of Ind. Relations at UC- Berkeley, he has begun to list a number of contracts. He is encouraging other unions to include their contracts - it accepts material in any digital format, including those in work-processing programs.

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