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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
SEIU Local 535 Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002109
Abstract
The formation of SEIU Local 535 began when members of the Social Workers Action Committee of #434, SEIU united with the Social Workers Standards Committee in Los Angeles, California. In 1964, these Los Angeles County social workers led a successful strike against the county, the result of which was SEIU chartering Local 535 as the social workers union. As more California public employees continued to strike and join Local 535, the union grew. Eventually Local 535 helped pass the...
Dates:
1967 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1995 - 2006
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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- Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
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- Wurf, Jerry, 1919- 1
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