Research Catalog

Title

[Zim's Workers for a Decent Contract : pamphlets and ephemera].

Publication

1977-1978.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union.

Description

57 items : ill.; 17-44 cm.

Summary

Materials from the rank-and-file led strike by members of Local 2 of the San Francisco Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union.

Subject

• Strikes and lockouts > Food industry and trade > San Francisco
• Food service employees > Labor unions > San Francisco
• Labor unions > San Francisco
• Collective labor agreements > Food service

Note

• Title supplied by cataloger.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Stop Zim's union busting : no to a sell out (leaflet no. 2 ; 1977) -- Local 2 notice to Zim's workers (leaflet no. 4 ; 1977) -- Zim's workers : organize to win -- ARF News, no. 4 (Nov.-Dec. 1978, 8 p.) -- Zim's workers demand contract and human treatment / Nick Jacobs (The Rebel Worker, vol. 2, no. 6, Sept. 1978, pp. 10-11), To All Zim's employees who have not reported for work since August 4, 1978 / Mauro J. Olivieri, Vice President/Finance, Zim's Restaurants Executive Offices, August 15, 1978 -- Statement by David McDonald, President, Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, Local 2, November 9, 1978 (4 p.) --
• Zims [sic] is unfair to its workers [picket line handout] -- Zim's Restaurants plan vs. Union plan ([3] p.) -- General considerations in mass work [strategy document], ([9] p.) -- Letter to Mr. Harry Meharry, President, Golden Gate Restaurant Association from Steven D. Zimmerman, Executive Vice President, Zim's Restaurants, April 18, 1977 -- Letter to Joseph Belardi, President, Hotel & Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union, Local 2 from Steven D. Zimmerman, Executive Vice President, Zim's Restaurants, April 18, 1977 -- Letter to Joseph Belardi, Chairman of S.F. Culinary, Bartenders & Service Employees Pension Plan from Kenneth M. Vix, Vice President/Operations, Zim's Restaurants, April 18, 1977 -- Letter to Zim's Restaurants, Inc. from Joseph Belardi, President, Hotel and Restaurant Employees' and Bartenders International Union, June 6, 1977 -- Letter to Steven Zimmerman of Zim's Restaurants, Inc. from Steven L. Stemerman of Davis, Cowell & Bowe, July 15, 1977 -- Letter to Joseph Belardi of Local 2 from Roger R. Mulholland of Mulholland, Bernstein & Peterson, July 20, 1977 -- Letter to Natalie Allen, Regional Director, National Labor Relations Board, Region 20 from Roger R. Mulholland of Mullholland, Bernstein & Peterson, August 11, 1977 (2 p.) -- Letter to Steven L. Stemerman of Davis, Cowell & Bowe from Jonathan J. Seagle of the National Labor Relations Board, Region 20, September 23, 1977 -- Letter to Steven L. Stemerman of Davis Cowell & Bowe from Natalie P. Allen, Regional Director, National Labor Relations Board, Region 20, September 27, 1977 (2 p.) --
• Health and welfare and pension proposals (handwritten date of July 7, 1977) -- Charge against employer form (National Labor Relations Board, filed by Steven L. Stemerman, July 26, 1977) -- Negotiations [meeting summary], (June 3, 1977) -- Undated letter to Local 2 union workers asking them to report for picket duty, from David McDonald, President, and Phyllis M. Foley, Financial Secretary Treasurer -- Local 2 Reporter newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1978 (8 p.) -- "An open letter about the strike from Zim's president to its thousands of faithful customers...", newspaper ad with handwritten date Friday, September 15, 1978, ad signed by Art Zimmerman, President, Zim's Restaurants -- Zim's union shops remain strong -- fight the open shop! (mimeographed flyer, Zim's Workers for a Decent Contract) -- Vote no!, leaflet dated October 8, 1978, "66th day On Strike" -- Local 2 coalition against trusteeship, no trustee!, [notice of union meeting on September 19], (handwritten date September 18, 1978) -- San Francisco Zim's workers on strike!, "Boycott Zim's!" flyer [2 copies, one with official stamped Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union, Local 2 letterhead, one without] -- How greedy can Art really be?, [flyer with photo of Art Zimmerman, "owner of Zim's"] --
• An open letter to Mr. Zim's, [printed flyer] / produced by Public Media Center, San Francisco, identifying striking workers as members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 2 -- Zim's wants you to know the facts / [Zim's Restaurants flyer, dated 8/78) -- Zim's Gazette newsletter, volume 1, issue 3, December 1977 ([6] p.) -- Memo to the file on August 21, 1977 -- Memo to the file on August 28, 1977 -- Memo to the file on September 2, 1977 -- Memo to the file on September 19, 1977 -- Statement by Joseph Belardi, president and executive officer of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union, Local 2, dated September 2, 1977 ([5] p.) -- Telegraphic message to Steven L. Stemerman of Davis , Cowell & Bowe from Jonathan J. Seagle at the NLRB (photocopy), dated September 15, 1977 -- Zim's Strike Bulletin / printed by Local 2, numbers 1-4, 6-11 (August 10-September 16, 1978) -- Affadavit (unsigned) of Kenneth M. Vix, Vice Presdent of Operations of Zim's Restaurants, Inc., dated March 17, 1977 (8 p.) -- Affadavit (unsigned) of Roger R. Mulholland of Bergstrom, Geram & Mulholland, lawyer representing Zim's Restaurants, dated August 11, 1977 with attached memo to file describing a negotiation session with Local 2 on July 5, 1977 ([2] p.) -- Affadavit (unsigned) of Kenneth M. Vix, Vice President of Operations of Zim's Restaurants, Inc., dated August 11, 1977 (3 p.) -- United States Government memorandum regarding cases involving the Pam Pam East Restaurant and Rosebud's, addressed to Agenda Committee from Paula J. Paley, FX, dated July 15, 1977 ([11] p.) -- Information to charging party on reasons for proposed dismissal, NLRB form signed by Jonathan J. Seagle, Board Agent, detailing reasons for dismissal of the union's complaint against Zim's, dated September 15, 1977 ([3] p.).

OCLC

908993982

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library