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AFSCME Communications Department Records

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Identifier: LR002204

Abstract 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 first twenty years of AFSCME’s existence. The 1954 Convention, however, passed Resolution 14, establishing a Publications and Public Relations Department. This new department would continue to publish the AFSCME magazine and other materials and would also take on new media public relations duties both...

Dates: 1967 - 2002

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: William Lucy Records

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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 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 Power to the Public Worker Oral Histories

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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

Joseph Goulden Papers

Collection

Identifier: LP001093

Abstract Joseph C. Goulden’s biography of AFSCME president Jerry Wurf was published in 1982. Wurf, a controversial figure in the labor movement, served as president from 1964 until his death in 1981. He gave Goulden permission to write about him, “warts and all,” and facilitated access to AFSCME records and employees. Goulden interviewed AFSCME staff including Al Bilik, Victor Gotbaum, Joseph Ames, William Hamilton, Leamon Hood, Donovan McClure, Gerald McEntee, and Ernest Rewolinski, as well as United...

Dates: 1981 - 1982

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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Names: Ames, Joseph Lynn, 1925- X

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