1959: Hearings are held for unit determinations of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority‘s labor bargaining units
Under the LAMTA Act, the agency is required to recognize and negotiate with unions.
Up to this point, the representative unions have carried over from Los Angeles Transit Lines and Metropolitan Coach Lines which hinders efficient consolidation of LAMTA operations.
Harvard law professor Archibald Cox is hired to determine the employee groupings.
The outcome of these hearings, Cox’s work and elections that follow establish and certify three unions:
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for operators
Amalgamated Transit Union for mechanics
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks for clerical employees
More information can be found in the May, 1959 issue of The Emblem, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority employee news magazine.