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AFSCME District Council 48 Constitutions and Contract

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Identifier: LR002969

Abstract AFSCME Local 58 (Milwaukee County, Wisconsin employees) and Local 2 (Milwaukee City employees), both in existence at the time of AFSCME’s AFL charter, merged to form District Council 48 in 1946. After Act 10 went into effect in 2011, AFSCME’s three Wisconsin councils – 24, 40, and 48 – merged to form Council 32. This collection contains constitutions from DC 48 and affiliated Local 1091 as well as a contract between DC 48 and the City of Milwaukee.

Dates: 1970 - 1989; 2001

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Education and Leadership Training Department Records

Collection

Identifier: LR002636

Abstract 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 International Union had established the Education and Leadership Training Department, later known simply as the Education Department. This collection contains records of the Education Department, particularly in regards to the department's collaboration with the AFSCME Organizing Department, and...

Dates: 1950 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1986

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME International Executive Board (I.E.B.) Records

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Identifier: LR001991

Abstract 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 constitution. The records of the IEB are maintained by the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer. Materials in this collection were pulled together from various shipments from the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer to make a comprehensive record of the proceedings of the AFSCME IEB. Some IEB-related...

Dates: 1935 - 2003

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Legislation and Political Education Department Records

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Identifier: LR000682_LPE

Abstract This collection focuses on the efforts of the Legislation and Political Education Department to establish programs within AFSCME, government agencies and alongside other unions and agencies. The Department's activities can be divided into five areas: legislation, political action, community affairs, relations with government agencies, and international affairs. Important subjects covered in this collection are the Hatch Act, voter registration, fund raising and contribution rules and...

Dates: 1969 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1975

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Local 1: Washington D.C. Records

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Identifier: LR002935

Abstract 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 became an AFSCME affiliate after the AFL-CIO merger in 1955. By 1960, the Local was focused on organizing efforts, particularly in the Department of Sanitation, intended to eliminate racial discrimination in hiring and promotion for skilled positions and pay increases.The records consist...

Dates: 1954 - 1970

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Local 496: Genesee County, Michigan Records

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Identifier: LR001122

Abstract AFSCME Local 496 was established in December 1970 in Flint, Michigan. It was composed of maintenance, custodial, and clerical employees of Genesee County and was under the jurisdiction of AFSCME Flint Metro Area Council 29. Local 496's first president was Christine Daros, and its first secretary-treasurer was David Barkey. The records in the collection consist of routine office files reflecting the activities of Local 496; council and international convention materials; per capita payments to...

Dates: 1983

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Local 771 Wayne County, Michigan Library Employees Records

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Identifier: LR000396

Abstract 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 AFSCME Local 771 in 1943 and operated out of the Scripps Branch of the Detroit Public Library at 3661 Trumbull in Detroit. Activities included navigating the newly-established Wayne County Civil Service program. The local was active until 1964 when it disbanded. The county system disbanded in 2015, at...

Dates: 1943 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1943 - 1952

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Local 1259: Detroit Public Library Records

Collection

Identifier: LR002374

Abstract 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 professional librarians, as well as clerical and maintenance employees. A staff association existed for some years before union certification, and failed attempts to unionize were made before 1949. In 1970, the Association of Professional Librarians won the right to represent the professional...

Dates: 1920 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1972

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Local 1733: Memphis, Tennessee Records

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Identifier: LR001992

Abstract 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 labor rights became fused with the struggle for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lent his support to the strikers by visiting Memphis and leading marches. While there, on April 4, 1968, King was assassinated. The strike was settled soon after King's death. Local 1733 went on to wage other...

Dates: 1962 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1970

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Michigan Council 25 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000884

Abstract 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 geographic area than locals, and locals report to councils. AFSCME Council 25, previously Council 29, had offices in Lansing, Detroit, and Southfield. Upon consolidation in the mid-1980s, these records were deposited at the Reuther. This collection spans 1973-1980 and contains meeting minutes...

Dates: 1973 - 1980

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the President: Arnold S. Zander Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001986

Abstract This collection encompasses the Office of the President's records during the tenure of AFSCME's first and founding president, Arnold S. Zander, from 1935 to 1964. Information on the formation of AFSCME and early AFSCME history can be found in this collection. Additionally, the collection reflects the organizing efforts of AFSCME throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and the relations between AFSCME and the AFL, CIO, AFL-CIO, and other unions and organizations. Further, Zander's particular...

Dates: 1927 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1936 - 1964

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the President: Gerald W. McEntee Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001988

Abstract Gerald W. McEntee became president of AFSCME in 1981. Some of the issues reflected in Part I of this collection include the anti-apartheid movement; health care reform, especially under the Clinton White House; affirmative action; AIDS; presidential politics and union campaign support; international labor relations; and legislative affairs. The records also include information on state locals and councils, AFSCME's relationship to other labor unions and organizations, and AFSCME's judicial...

Dates: 1977 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1982 - 2003

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the President: Jack Howard Records

Collection

Identifier: LR002367

Abstract 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 Howard became his executive assistant. In this role, Howard was responsible for, among other things, international affairs. As such, Howard also worked closely with Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy who was heavily involved in international affairs, eventually becoming president of Public Services...

Dates: 1976 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1991

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the President: Jerry Wurf Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001987

Abstract This collection focuses on Jerry Wurf's tenure as AFSCME International President from 1964 until his death in 1981. Some information appears on an AFSCME affordable housing project that began prior to Wurf's election to the presidency. This housing project was one of the issues that led to a rift among AFSCME members and to Wurf's winning the presidency from incumbent president Arnold Zander. The bulk of the collection, though, represents the Office of the President's records during Wurf's...

Dates: 1959 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1968 - 1980

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Gordon Chapman Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001990

Abstract Gordon W. Chapman was elected secretary-treasurer of AFSCME in 1937. He served until 1944 when he became executive assistant to AFSCME president Arnold Zander. In 1948, he was reelected to the office of secretary-treasurer. Chapman resigned from AFSCME in 1961 to accept a State Department appointment as special assistant for the coordination of international labor affairs. In 1962, he was once again elected as secretary-treasurer of AFSMCE where he served until his retirement in 1966 due to...

Dates: 1926 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1936 - 1961

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Gordon Chapman/Joseph Ames Records

Collection

Identifier: LR002096

Abstract 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 founding incumbent president Arnold Zander faced challenges from an opposing faction called the Committee on Union Responsibility (COUR). COUR candidate Jerry Wurf won the presidency at the 1964 convention. Gordon Chapman held the office of Secretary-Treasurer. In 1966, Chapman retired due to poor...

Dates: 1944 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1972

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000682_GEOC

Abstract In early 1950, the United Public Workers union was expelled from the CIO for alleged communist activities, leaving behind an anti-communist group called the Government Workers Union. In February of 1950, the CIO chartered the Government Workers Union as the Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee (GCEOC) and gave the new committee jurisdiction over federal, state, and local employees. In the next five years, GCEOC aggressively attempted to reach full union status within the CIO but...

Dates: 1939 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1957

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: William Lucy Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001989

Abstract 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 files on council and local trusteeships, maintains per capita dues payments by locals and councils, issues charters to new locals, and suspends and disbands locals or councils when problems arise. William Lucy held this position for 38 years, 1972-2010. Lucy joined AFSCME as a civil...

Dates: 1970 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1972 - 2000

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Oral Histories

Collection

Identifier: LOH002240

Abstract Between 1975 and 1985, the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University and AFSCME undertook a cooperative oral history project to gather and preserve the memories of key persons who witnessed or played a major role in the development of AFSCME. Professor of History Philip Mason headed the project and interviewed several leading AFSCME members. Collection consists of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with seven of AFSCME's important early figures: Gordon Chapman,...

Dates: 1976-06-13 - 1985-09-30

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Organizing Department Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000682_OO

Abstract This collection reflects the work done by and through the AFSCME Organizing Department, 1967-1972. Important subjects and people that appear in the collection include public employee organizing; recruitment; organizations; elections; strikes; Chairman of the AFSCME Judicial Panel Joseph L. Ames; International Field Director P.J. Ciampa; and International President Jerry Wurf.

Dates: 1967 - 1972

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Political Action Department Records

Collection

Identifier: LR002343

Abstract 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. The AFSCME Political Action Department records relate to these activities and contain correspondence, memos, notes, reports, fliers, scripts, surveys, survey data, training manuals, and VHS and audiocassette tapes. Includes information on candidates and AFSCME member views.

Dates: 1972-2003

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Power to the Public Worker Oral Histories

Collection

Identifier: LOH002243

Abstract In 1973, Richard N. Billings and John Greenya contracted with AFSCME to write a history of the union, resulting in the 1974 book

Dates: 1973-03-26 - 1973-07-26

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Program Development Department Records, Part 1 and 2

Collection

Identifier: LR002203

Abstract 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 development, and sex discrimination. It was funded by federal grant money until 1975 when the funds ran out, the department was disbanded, and its several functions were taken over by other AFSCME departments. The records in Part I reflect the Department's concerns with women's issues, sex...

Dates: 1964 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1975

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Public Policy Analysis Department Records

Collection

Identifier: LR001994

Abstract 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 County, Michigan, approximately 16 miles west of downtown Detroit. Deinstitutionalization represented a major change in philosophy for mental health treatment delivery and was the term given to the process whereby mentally ill patients were moved out of large public hospitals and into smaller...

Dates: 1963 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1981

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

AFSCME Publications

Collection

Identifier: LR002503

Abstract 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 biannual international conventions and articles published about AFSCME from an academic standpoint. The publications in this collection arrived at the Reuther Library over time and came from multiple sources. The collection features AFSCME’s official publication, which was first known...

Dates: 1935 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1973

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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