Records About Major Collective Bargaining Agreements

While the signatories provided the agreements to the Bureau of Labor Statistics voluntarily, the files contain information on virtually all collective bargaining agreements except for those in the railroad and airline industries. Each record identifies the employer, the labor union, the Standard Industrial Classification code for the industry, the type of bargaining unit, the region or state and plant location covered by the agreement, the number of employees, the date negotiations began, the effective date of the agreement, its expiration date, the reopening date for negotiations for a new agreement, information related to any escalator clauses in the agreement, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) base year, CPI formula applied in the agreement, dates of cost of living reviews, and beginning and ending date of any related work stoppage.

This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.