Labor
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
AFSCME Central Files Department Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002070
Abstract
The AFSCME Central Files Department was established in 1966 to which all departments within the international headquarters contributed correspondence and reports so all material related to a particular incident would be filed together. In 1974, Dr. Philip Mason of the Reuther Library at Wayne State completed a thorough records management survey of AFSCME and recommended that the Central Files Department be dissolved and that individual departments maintain their own records. His recommendation...
Dates:
1944 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1962 - 1973
AFSCME International Executive Board (I.E.B.) Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001991
Abstract
The International Executive Board (IEB) is the top level legislative and policy-making body within AFSCME, except when the convention is in session. The IEB is responsible for interpreting the union’s constitution. The records of the IEB are maintained by the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer. Materials in this collection were pulled together from various shipments from the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer to make a comprehensive record of the proceedings of the AFSCME IEB. Some IEB-related...
Dates:
1935 - 2003
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001754
Abstract
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists was founded at a conference in Chicago in 1972 attended by more than 1,200 black union officials and rank-and-file members. By 2001, CBTU counted more than fifty chapters, including one in Ontario, Canada. The organization committed itself to using political action and union organizing campaigns to increase black
participation and influence in the labor movement and insure social and economic progress for working people and the poor. The collection...
Dates:
1972 - 1995