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SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001542
Abstract
For many, John Sweeney is known as the now former head of the AFL-CIO, a position from which he retired in 2009 after 14 years of service. For most of the previous 35 years, though, he was a member turned officer of the Service Employees International Union, having served 15 of those years as its President. The SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records document his tenure during these 15 years, although portions of these records predate his tenure in that office.
The records...
Dates:
1921 - 1995
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
SEIU Local 32B-32J Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001893
Abstract
Local 32B, located in New York, NY, was founded on April 19, 1934 and within months the young union was on strike in the garment district; within days the union won rights to a closed shop and gained a substantial number of new members. Local 32J had been charted in 1936 and was composed largely of women building service workers. The two unions merged in 1977, and the new 32B-32J had over 46,000 members. Part I of this collection is comprised entirely of correspondence from the members of the...
Dates:
1961 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1986 - 1994
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
SEIU Local 502 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002194
Abstract
The Wayne County Sheriff Employee Local 502 was founded in 1960 by Graten Little Jr. It became one of Michigan’s largest unions and was based out of Livonia, MI. The collection contains material from the Local 502 up until its affiliation around 2009 with the Police Officers Association of Michigan (POAM). It comprises arbitration and grievance records, office files, and photographs.
Dates:
1960 - 2008
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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