All Unions Committee to Shorten the Work Week Records
Records of the proceedings of the First National All Unions Committee to Shorten the Work Week held in Dearborn, Michigan on April 11, 1978. Frank R. Runnels, president of United Auto Workers Local 22...
View ArticleRichard Alatorre Papers
Richard Alatorre was born and raised in Los Angeles, graduating from James A. Garfield High School in 1961. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Los Angeles, in 1965....
View ArticleAl Barnes Photograph Collection
The Al Barnes Photographs consist of 17 black and white negatives that document life in Northern Michigan during the late 19th-century. The negatives include scenes of local landmarks, both man-made...
View ArticleAgricultural Workers History Collection
The United Farm Workers of America (predecessor name, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee) is a 20th Century union, created when the National Farm Workers Association and Agricultural Workers...
View ArticleAFT Research Department: Contracts
The Research Department of the American Federation of Teachers is one of the oldest departments of within the AFT and this particular collection contains collective bargaining contracts negotiated by...
View ArticleAFTRA Detroit President's Office: Mary Lou Zieve Records
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) merged in 2012 with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and is now known as SAG-AFTRA. The union represents more than 160,000 actors,...
View ArticleAmerican Federation of Teachers Publications
The American Federation of Teachers was founded in 1916 and immediately made the American Teacher, published by the New York City Teachers Union, as its official organ. Since then the AFT has published...
View ArticleAmerican Federation of Teachers: Northeast Regional Office Records
These records represent roughly a decade’s worth of general business including correspondence with state offices, meeting minutes, conference materials, policy documents and other items relevant to...
View ArticleAmerican Federation of Teachers: International Affairs Department Records
The AFT has always maintained a close relationship with unions from across the globe. The AFT was very active with the World Federation of Education Association and the International Federation of Free...
View ArticleAFT Higher Education Department: Graduate Student Organizing Files
The AFT Higher Education department was started in the late 1960s to focus on organizing faculty and staff on campuses across the country. This collection focuses on the organizing drives with graduate...
View ArticleAFT Southern Regional Office Records
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was founded in 1916 to improve the working lives of teachers through-out the country and has grown to be one of the largest unions in the United States that...
View ArticleAFT Secretary-Treasurer's Office Records
Papers covering the activities of various secretary-treasurers of the AFT. The secretary-treasurer oversees departments within the national office, collects per capita dues, responds to affiliates’...
View ArticleAFT President's Office: Assistant to the President Bella Rosenberg Records
Bella Rosenberg served as the assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1984-2005, under Albert Shanker and Sandra Feldman. Albert Shanker was president of the AFT from...
View ArticleAFT Organizing Department Records
The Organizing Department facilitates the growth of local affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers. Under the tenures of David Selden and Albert Shanker, both of whom had extensive organizing...
View ArticleAFT Ohio Federation of Teachers Records
The Ohio Federation of Teachers is a state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and represents primary and secondary school teachers, college and university professors, adjuncts, graduate...
View ArticleMichigan Federation of Teachers Records
Parts 1 and 2 consist of correspondence, minutes, and reports. Subjects include Administrative Board meetings; American Federation of Teachers; conventions; Detroit Federation of Teachers; Executive...
View ArticleLocal 1175: Alaska Federation of Teachers Records
The Alaska Federation of Teachers Local 1175, originally named the Alaska State Employees Association, formed in 1959 before state employees were allowed to bargain collectively. In 1972 Alaska passed...
View ArticleAFT Local 2003: Hawaii Federation of College Teachers
At the time of deposit, the Hawaii Federation of College Teachers, Local 2003 of AFT, included all nine campuses in the University of Hawaii system. The records include bulletins and correspondence...
View ArticleAFT: Human Rights and Community Relations Records
The Human Rights and Community Relations Department of the American Federation of Teachers was created by Vice President Richard Parrish October 2, 1966. Before the official department was created it...
View ArticleAFT Great Lakes Regional Office Records
The American Federation of Teachers is a labor union representing primary and secondary school teachers, paraprofessionals, higher education faculty, professional staff, and nurses and other health...
View ArticleAFT Educational Issues Department Records
The American Federation of Teachers is a labor union representing primary and secondary school teachers, paraprofessionals, higher education faculty and professional staff, and nurses and other health...
View ArticleDearborn Federation of Teachers Local 681 Records
Part of the national American Federation of Teachers and statewide Michigan Federation of Teachers, the Dearborn Federation of Teachers, was chartered on February 28, 1945. Twenty years later, in1965,...
View ArticleCincinnati Federation of Teachers Local 1560
The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers Collection contains information about this unique local of the American Federation of Teachers. The local reformed in 1964 as the Cincinnati Teachers Union and...
View ArticleAFT Affiliate Lake County Federation of Teachers Records
The American Federation of Teachers chartered Local 504, the Lake County Teachers’ Federation, in 1937. The Local began with teachers from Waukegan High School, but in 1977 it federated with seven...
View ArticleAFSCME Retiree Department Records
The Retiree Department of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) was created in June of 1978. A movement within AFSCME began as early as 1973 to create an entity to...
View ArticleAFSCME Publications
AFSCME Publications is a collection comprised of serials created and collected by AFSCME International, District Councils, and Locals. The collection also contains material produced as part of AFSCME’s...
View ArticleAFSCME Public Policy Analysis Department Records
Part 1 of the AFSCME Public Policy Analysis Department Records focuses on Deinstitutionalization, particularly at Wayne County General Hospital (WCGH). The hospital complex was located in western Wayne...
View ArticleAFSCME Program Development Department Records, Part 1 & 2
The AFSCME Program Development Department was created in January of 1973 to deal with matters such as health care, the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill, employee protections, career...
View ArticleAFSCME Political Action Department Records
The Political Action department at AFSCME monitors political campaigns and ballot measures at the national, state, and local levels, and works to mobilize voters on issues related to public employees....
View ArticleAFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: William Lucy Records
The AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer oversees the general financial health of the international union, keeping records for its locals, councils, and the headquarters staff. The Office keeps...
View ArticleAFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Gordon Chapman/Joseph Ames Records
This collection primarily covers the end of Gordon Chapman’s tenure as Secretary-Treasurer, and all of Joseph Ames’s tenure. These years saw turbulence in the International Union’s politics where...
View ArticleAFSCME Office of the President: Jack Howard Records
International affairs were handled out of the AFSCME Office of the President. Sometime after 1969, Jack Howard joined the AFSCME staff. When Gerald McEntee became president of AFSCME in late 1981, Jack...
View ArticleAFSCME Michigan Council 25 Records
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is an international union that maintains affiliates at the council and local level. Councils generally cover a greater...
View ArticleAFSCME Local 771 Wayne County, Michigan Library Employees Records
The Wayne County, Michigan Library System was established in 1920 and built branches in the then-far flung rural areas of the county. Librarians in the system organized and received a charter for...
View ArticleAFSCME Local 1: Washington, D.C. Records
AFSCME Government Workers Union Local 1 represented public employees within Washington D.C. The founding local of the Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee-CIO (GCEOC) in 1950, Local 1...
View ArticleAFSCME Local 1733: Memphis, Tennessee Records
Sanitation workers in AFSCME Local 1733 in Memphis, Tennessee led a strike in 1968 to gain union recognition. The strike lasted for 65 days and garnered national attention as Local 1733's campaign for...
View ArticleAFSCME Local 1259: Detroit Public Library Records
Local 1259, representing Detroit Public Library (DPL) employees, affiliated in 1949 with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Michigan Council 77. It represented...
View ArticleAFSCME International Executive Board (I.E.B.) Records
The International Executive Board (IEB) is the top level legislative and policy-making body within AFSCME, except when the convention is in session. The IEB is responsible for interpreting the union’s...
View ArticleAFSCME Education and Leadership Training Department Records
The 1960s began a period of significant growth for AFSCME, which meant an increased need for knowledgeable members and staff. AFSCME began an education program around 1962, and by 1966 the...
View ArticleAFSCME Communications Department Records
AFSCME has produced a regularly published magazine since its inception. Publication duties for this organ and other materials were accomplished by the Education and Publications Department for the...
View ArticleAFSCME Central Regional Office: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
AFSCME Local 698, chartered in 1944, initially consisted of laboratory mechanics and agricultural employees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), with other groups later joining....
View ArticleAFSCME Central Files Department Records
The AFSCME Central Files Department was established in 1966 to which all departments within the international headquarters contributed correspondence and reports so all material related to a particular...
View ArticleAFSCME Career Development Program Records
Seeing success in a program run by AFSCME District Council 37 in New York City that upgraded Nursing Aides to Licensed Practical Nurses, the International union wished to bring career development...
View ArticleAFSCME Business Office Records
The AFSCME Business Office historically has handled financial matters for the union, and its activities are largely reported on by the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer. For a time, it was involved in...
View ArticleAFSCME Administration Department Records
The Administration Office existed for a number of years in the 1960s and 1970s. When it dissolved, its duties were transferred to other departments. Its convention planning duties were handled by the...
View ArticleAFA Washington, D.C.: McDonald v. UAL Case Records
McDonald v. UAL was part of a series of legal cases involving United Air Lines (UAL), their former flight attendants, and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA). The cases centered around flight...
View ArticleAFA Chicago/Rosemont: McDonald v. UAL Case Records
McDonald v. UAL was part of a series of legal cases involving United Air Lines (UAL), their former flight attendants, and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA). The cases centered around flight...
View ArticleAdam Shakoor Papers
Adam Shakoor papers document his career as the Chief Judge to the 36th District Court and as Deputy Mayor of Detroit. His work as a judge included many administrative and policy decisions regarding the...
View ArticleAction Coalition of Strikers Records
The Action Coalition of Strikers (ACOS) was a rank-and-file group of strikers and their families who were active during the Detroit Newspaper Strike. Representing reporters, editors, pressmen, and...
View ArticleAAUW Detroit Records
The American Association of University Women Detroit (AAUW Detroit) is a branch of the AAUW, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower women and improve their lives. Established in 1889,...
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