John Sweeney is president of the American Federal of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). As president of SEIU in the 1980’s he expanded 925 from a local in Boston to District 925, a union with a national jurisdiction.
Special Project 150 Stories for 150 Years. Several different interviewers, including staff and volunteers of the Joint Archives of Holland, with 170 different interviewees about their impressions of Holland, Michigan. Tracy Bednarick (1996) and…
Interviews conducted by Judith Stepan-Norris and Maurice Zeitlin for their book, Talking Union, a history of the organization and early years of UAW Local 600., the local representing workers at Ford’s Rouge plant.
John Gabbard joined the Photoengravers’ Union in 1954 when he was working as a mask-out artist and then as a permit man for Advertisers Engraving in Cincinnati, Ohio. In there was a four week strike at Advertisers Engraving. As a result of his…
Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews…