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AFT Organizing Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002654
Abstract
The Organizing Department facilitates the growth of local affiliates of the American Federation of Teachers. Under the tenures of David Selden and Albert Shanker, both of whom had extensive organizing experience prior to their respective presidencies, organizing efforts ramped up significantly in the 1960s and 1970s. The AFT was the fastest growing union in the mid-1970s when organizing became a distinct department. The department provides services and resources to state and local affiliates...
Dates:
1961 - 2004
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
AFT Secretary-Treasurer's Office Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000348_STO
Abstract
Papers covering the activities of various secretary-treasurers of the AFT. The secretary-treasurer oversees departments within the national office, collects per capita dues, responds to affiliates’ needs such as strike and collective bargaining assistance, and is closely involved with the AFT Executive Council and the AFL-CIO secretary-treasurers.
Part I topics of note include organizing, segregated locals, worker education, international teacher unions, federal aid to education, and academic...
Dates:
1916 - 2005
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Michigan Federation of Teachers Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000146
Abstract
Part I and II consists of correspondence, minutes, and reports. Subjects include Administrative Board meetings; American Federation of Teachers; conventions; Detroit Federation of Teachers; Executive Council meetings; Haven Hill conferences; legislative lobbying activities; membership campaigns; metropolitan teachers' institutes; Michigan AFL-CIO Council; Michigan Constitutional Convention (1961); teachers' salary and fringe benefits surveys; treasurer reports; White House Conference on...
Dates:
1934 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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