International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Community Action Program
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1969
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Peter Eckstein Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001997
Abstract
Peter Eckstein has been involved with labor unions in the state of Michigan since the 1960s. Eckstein served as the research director for Michigan UAW-CAP; executive director of the Governor’s Commission on Jobs and Economic Development, where he drafted several important pieces of worker’s compensation legislation; and finally as research director of the Michigan AFL-CIO. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Economics and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Mr....
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Peter Eckstein Papers
UAW Community Action Program (CAP) Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000498
Abstract
The UAW Community Action Program (CAP) Department was formed in 1969 when, after
disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO, the union set up CAP Councils throughout the United States to replace the Citizenship-Legislative Department. The CAP Councils’ stated purpose was to work in community, civic, welfare, educational, environmental, cultural, citizenship-legislative, and consumer protection activities to improve the economic and social conditions of UAW members and families. From the 1940s through the...