The personal papers of Peter Radcliff have been arranged in chronological order. Types of material within the collection include personal correspondence, AFT College Council publications, AFT local publications, San Francisco and San Jose State Strike material circa 1968-1969 and documents from the UPC local at San Francisco State. UPC material includes memos, publications, election information and executive committee minutes and agendas.

The earliest articles contained in the collection are 1959 AFT testimony on the need for collective bargaining and information from the same time period on the Academic Senate - the then major organ of communication between faculty, Chancellor and Trustees. Other early material traces the start up of the AFT Collective Bargaining Drive at San Francisco State campus. The most current documents concern the UPC in 1984 after the loss of the election to determine the choice of bargaining agent to represent CSU campuses. The bulk of the collection covers the years 1965 to 1984.

Researchers may find this collection of particular interest because it chronicles an individual's participation in the labor movement over the course of a twenty year period and as such may provide some understanding as to the attraction of collective bargaining and organized labor for formerly 'labor resistant' "white collar" groups such as academics. The material on the San Francisco and San Jose Strikes is also likely to be of interest to any researcher of the labor movement of the 1960's and 1970's. Further material on the State strikes may be found in the Labor Archives collections for Tim Sampson, Arthur K. Bierman and the UPC. The J. Paul Leonard Library also maintains a collection on the strike, including issues of the student published Gater and Open Process from that time period.

Arrangement of the collection has been chronological with the exception of a series of publications and information about UPC rivals which has been put at the end of this collection. Other groupings within the chronological format include a section on the AFT Collective Bargaining Drive of 1966, The San Francisco and San Jose Strike series, and information on the UPC which is arranged in folders for the years 1970-1984. Two relocation forms have been placed in box no.2 describing items removed to other locations within the Archives. AFT "E Pluribus Union" buttons are now housed in the LARC button collection. Oversize materials, which include issues of the San Francisco State College Strike Daily (1968), hand lettered strike signs and various UPC posters have been placed in the LARC oversize collection. Duplicate materials within the collection have not been preserved.