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Though this series has meeting minutes from the main executive committee of the CWA, they are very sporadic; only one or two sets of minutes exist for some years. There is a much stronger selection of meeting minutes from the local's own executive committee. There are also financial papers featuring a long run of reports and statements from the local's certified accountants. Constitutions in this series contain information on the process of the union's affiliation with CWA beginning in the mid-1980s.

This series documents legal activities and relations between the union and telephone company management. Many of these files belonged to Donna Conroy, president, and Kim Young, executive vice president, of Local 1112. This includes agreements and contracts dating from the 1950s to the end of the 20th Century. The bulk of material in the series, however, relates to the 1989 strike, informational picketing, and ongoing mobilization efforts. The union mobilized its members during bargaining in support of new contracts, against office closures, and against robot technologies replacing operators. Although some files mention specific union members, the papers relate to broader union-wide action, such as the 1989 strike. See Series #6: Membership for files on individual union members pursuing their own legal action. The Local 1112 also created several photo albums of union activities such as strikes and informational picketing. The photos were removed from these albums for preservation purposes, placed in archival-quality photo sleeves, and filed within this series where appropriate.

The union kept its letters and memos according to those whose origins were national and those whose origins were local. Therefore, this series is divided into national and local subseries with folder titles retained exactly as the TTUU named them. Both subseries are arranged by year, then alphabetically by folder title within each year. The national subseries contains substantial incoming and outgoing correspondence from specific offices or people such as James Irvine (CWA vice-president) and Morton Bahr (CWA president) or presidents of locals in District One, which covers unions in New York, New Jersey, New England, and eastern Canada. The local subseries tend to be divided by group affiliation such as NYTel workers, stewards, and AT&T headquarters.

The bulk of the files in this series date from the 1980s and 1990s and belonged to Kim Young, executive vice president of Local 1112, with a smaller number of files originating from the office of the local's president Donna Conroy. The material documents ongoing union business, the local union's relations with AT&T and management, and day-to-day issues affecting unionized offices and members. Also included are efforts to prevent office closures and programs to assist union members when management decided to close offices. Other materials of interest are employee petitions, major company and union initiatives such as the "Safe Workplace Campaign"" which addressed ergonomic challenges faced by operators, and a run of the union's official newsletter, Traffic Calls, including its debut issue in 1949.

This series is arranged similarly to correspondence--the materials are grouped chronologically, then alphabetically within each year. There are brochures and other documents from many of the CWA annual conventions from the mid-1980s through 2000, but there are also many local events represented such as operator conventions, steward seminars, and other union-related seminars offered on topics including leadership and labor laws. The Local 1112 created many photo albums of conferences and union gatherings;the photos were removed from these albums for preservation purposes, placed in archival-quality photo sleeves, and filed withinthis series where appropriate.

These materials are divided into three subseries--membership services, local grievances, and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) grievances. The first subseries has information about retirements, applications for union membership, and daily problems that needed supervisory intervention but were not serious enough to warrant actual grievance procedure. Local grievances included, but are not limited to, issues such as dismissal for poor attendance, need for lengthy sick leave, and wage discrepancies. NLRB cases are more of a mixture of individual cases as well as cases where the entire local chose to grieve an issue on behalf of all its members.

This series contains a variety of artifacts from the TTUU's history, including buttons, bumper stickers, and banners. At least one banner is strike-related, dated 1989, while another is related to AT&T's replacement of live operators with voice-recorded menu options. There are also two hats, a fly swatter with a caption regarding the bugging of phone lines, and a recording of scab messages from a CWA officer's answering machine.