Personnel records
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Personnel Department records, 1950-1975
Contains departmental correspondence files as well as records of contract negotiations, arbitration, grievance, and National Labor Relations Board Proceedings.
Personnel records, 1916-1960
Consists of employee records from Delaware Coach Co., also covering the period when the company was known as the Delaware Electric Power Co. and Wilmington & Philadelphia Traction Co. Includes disciplinary records, medical exams for employment and military service, evaluations, accident reports, applications and reference letters, insurance policies, and pension applications. Some files contain a photograph of the employee.
Personnel Records, 1876-1993
Includes payroll records showing salaries of individual workers, and registers of employees, from executives to sales girls and "cash boys" who ran merchandise and money between the wrapping desks and the cashiers. There are also records of the Strawbridge & Clothier Athletic Association, the Strawbridge & Clothier Pension Fund Association, the Strawbridge & Clothier Relief Association, the Strawbridge & Clothier Chorus, the Christmas & Vacation Fund Association, the Noon Day Club (for women workers), and the Quarter Century Club, which document the Quaker-inspired welfare work programs aimed at all members of the "Store Family." There is a set of the employee magazine STORE CHAT (1906-1993), files and scrapbooks of biographical information on both executives and representative regular employees (1902-1952), employee rules and service codes, and clippings on a 1938 warehouse strike.