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Research Guide Main Page > List of Record Surveys >
BOILERMAKERS’
LOCAL 237
267 Burnside Ave.
East Hartford, CT 06108
The Local was chartered in 1956. It covers the entire state of Connecticut. Its precursor was Local 5, which now covers New York State. The Local’s original office was in North Haven, where there was a fire which destroyed all records. Next, there was an office in Glastonbury, but in 1983, the Local purchased the building on Burnside Avenue in East Hartford, where it is now located.
According to Business Manager Anthony DeFrancesco, the most important event in the Local’s history was gaining its independence from Local 5 and setting up its own charter. Its greatest successes are “its strong, loyal membership; and maintaining good wages and one of the strongest pension plans in the country.” Its most pressing concern today is “being able to recruit new apprentices with a genuine belief in unions and a good work ethic to carry on the trade.”
THE RECORDS
Mr. DeFrancesco says that the Local keeps certain types of records going back to the mid 1960s. They keep copies of contracts going back “at least” to 1973, “probably later.” The President keeps copies of his own correspondence, and the Recording Secretary is responsible for keeping all the meeting minutes. Membership records going back to the 1980s and other types of more recent records are kept on the office computer. These records include general information on the member, as well as the member’s pay history and employment record. While older apprentice program records were kept as part of the general union records, the apprentice program now keeps its own, separate, records. The bulk of the older records are stored in boxes in a large basement room. These include:
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Bills and ledger books from the 1990s
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A variety of records pertaining to former or deceased apprentices, dating from 1961
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Phone messages and secretary notebooks and steno pads, as well as officials’ desk notebooks, 1986-1997
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Correspondence with the international, with the AFL-CIO, with the Building Trades Council, 1970s-1990s
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Copies of contracts and notes about contract negotiations, 1964-1990s
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Ledger books and hand-written meeting minutes (1972-1985)
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Accident reports 1969-1985
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Bank statements and pension fund reports, 1990s
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A variety of records pertaining to the Building Trades Council itself
For further information about access to the records, contact: Anthony DeFrancesco, Business Manager, 860-528-9087
Once given permission to access the records, researchers may contact Joan Cavanagh, Project Archivist at the Greater New Haven Labor History Association, 203-776-4098, or labor_history@hotmail.com for a more detailed inventory.