2 10 1888 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). AFSCME Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Oral history interviews with members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Gordon Chapman Oral History Description An account of the resource This interview is conducted in two parts. Part I discusses Chapman’s early years in Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1931 during the Depression. In 1934 a college fraternity brother asked Chapman to help him out with the Wisconsin Emergency Relief Administration, distributing surplus commodities to relief clients. Chapman recalls the origins of the AFSCME and how he became involved with the organization. He explains the missions on which the union was built and discusses his relationship with Arnold Zander, the first International president. In part II Chapman continues the discussion on the impact of WWII on the union. He recalls Zander’s interest in international affairs and how this concerned the union. The opposition to Zander and the origins of the opposition are mentioned as well as the 1964 conventions and the defeat of Zander. Chapman stepped down from his official union duties in 1966 but continued to attend conventions. He discusses his feelings on the events of the last ten years and closes with his views on Zander as a person and his feelings on collective bargaining. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 1979-03-26 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Chapman, Gordon Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Mason, Philip P. Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Grand Rapids, MI; 1966-2004 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). AFSCME Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Oral history interviews with members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Al Church Oral History Description An account of the resource This interview covers Al Church’s early years with the AFSCME. Church entered the service in 1942 and was discharged in 1946. He returned to Hibbing, MN and took a managerial position with a construction company until he found employment with the UPW-United Public Workers at the referral of a friend. Church discusses the UPW, its jurisdiction, and affiliation with the CIO. In 1950 the UPW was expelled from the CIO and Church eventually transitioned to work with the Government and Civic Employees Organizing Committee (GCEOC). The GCEOC merged with the AFSCME in 1956 and Church recalls the events after the merger and the formation of Council 65 which was chartered in 1959. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 1976-06-14 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Church, Al Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Mason, Philip P. Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Detroit, MI; 1989-2006 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Sara Willis Oral History Description An account of the resource Sara Willis is an electrician at the Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant. Willis grew up in Grand Rapids and moved to Detroit in the early 1980’s to care for her ailing grandmother. She applied for the Local 58 electrical apprenticeship at the urging of a friend and after two years was called to start the program. Willis describes the apprenticeship schooling and work experience, she did not recall any mistreatment caused by her sex or race. Willis started working at Chrysler after 8 year of working at Local 58 and she compares and contrasts her experiences with both. Willis joined the UAW Local 1700 when she started working for Chrysler and is a member of CBTU-Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, CLUW-Coalition of Labor Union Women, co-chair of Women's Council Region 1, and chair of her Women's Committee. Willis explains what her official duties and activities with the groups are. At the time of this interview Willis was working towards a Bachelors degree in Management at Cornerstone College and did not plan on retiring from Chrysler. Willis closes by discussing the changes she would like to make in the local and the trades and how to make them more inclusive for women. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2004-02-16 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Willis, Sara, 1960- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Detroit, MI; 1978-2004 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). J.W. Oral History Description An account of the resource J.W. is a metal model maker and a trainer with the UAW. Born and raised in Flint, MI J.W. went to work on the line at Delphi East in the mid 1970’s. She worked on the line for 10 years, took the skilled trades test and scored very high. J.W. chose to be model maker because she was afraid of the heights involved with electrical work. J.W. describes her apprenticeship and the mistreatment she had to endure not only because she was not only a woman but because she was African American. J.W. decided to get involved in the union increase the representation of women and minorities. She won the position of recording secretary and in 1997 she was appointed to International staff for the UAW, the first African American woman in the history of the UAW to come out of her region to the International staff. J.W. closes the interview with her thoughts on what the union can do to get more women into the trades, the future of the trades at GM, Chrysler and Ford, and the impact that new technology has made on the trades. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2005-08-15 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed J.W., 1955- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Metro Detroit; 1980's-2005 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Carrie Wells Oral History Description An account of the resource In this interview Carrie Wells, a tile setter from Detroit recalls how she entered the tile setting trade after attending college and working in a radio station. Wells explains the apprenticeship program’s mandate to accept women and minorities and the high turnover of these minorities upon completion of their training. Wells cites the multiple generations and the persistence of racism, sexism, and nepotism in the trade as factors in the high turnover. Wells sustained a herniated disc on the job and at the time of the interview was out on disability. She discusses the physical toll the tile setting profession can put on the body, the high rate of injury to tile setters, and job safety issues. Wells discusses her union, its membership policy, and her feelings of dissatisfaction about the union’s policies and politics. At the time of the interview Wells was out on disability and was using the time to complete her degree at Wayne State University, she was unsure if she would return to work after her injury has heeled. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2004-03-24 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Wells, Carrie, 1972- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Ann Arbor, MI; Detroit, MI; 1973-2005 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Jola Stone Oral History Description An account of the resource Jola Stone attended art school and worked in the engineering and drafting departments of Consumers Power in Grand Rapids, MI before a friend referred her to an opening at MichCon (now DTE). Stone was the first women hired into the drafting department. Stone discusses the technical aspects of drafting and compares the way drafting was done by hand when she entered the field in 1975 to the current practice of drafting on computers. A year into her employment the drafting department joined the International Chemical Workers Union (currently under the United Food and Commercial Workers) and Jola became active in the union. Stone was vice president of her union until 1987 when she became president. She is the only female officer in her union and she discusses the underrepresentation of women in the union and the lack of encouragement for women to advance in the union. Stone ends the interview with a discussion on the benefits of being in a union and her hopes for more women to become involved in union activities. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2004-10-18 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Stone, Jola, 1948- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Taylor, MI; 1985-2005 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Terri Patterson Oral History Description An account of the resource Terri Patterson is a structural ironworker with Ironworkers Local 25 and a third generation Native American ironworker. In this interview Terri describes the apprentice program and the classes. Many of her male relatives are in the field and she describes some of her experiences working with them. Patterson emphasizes that feminism and women’s rights never played a role or affected her desire to work in the iron field and that her relatives in the trade, her tomboy nature, and appearance probably factored into her success. Patterson questions her future in the profession as she is not sure how much longer she wants to work in the field because of the physical abuse the work inflicts on her body. Patterson mentions her activity in the union and closes the interview with her hopes for the future including plans to run for sergeant at arms, get involved as a mentor to female apprentices, and to form a support group for women ironworkers. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2006-03-06 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Patterson, Terri, 1971- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Owosso, MI; 1996-2005 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Pat Nuznov Oral History Description An account of the resource Pat Nuznov is an electrician with IBEW-International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 58 Detroit. In 1978, thanks to President Carter and affirmative action, Nuznov applied for and was accepted into IBEW Local 58’s apprenticeship program. Nuznov recalls her apprentice schooling and the sexist treatment she and the other female apprentices had to tolerate from their teacher. She describes her experiences in the field, the working conditions, and the lack of accommodation on the job site for women. Nuznov was appointed steward and explains that duties that position entails. She discusses the difficulties she has had in becoming active with her union and explains the problems she and other tradeswomen have had forming the Detroit tradeswomen group. Nuznov discusses why she feels there are so few women in the trades, why they are not being recruited, and why so few female union members are active in their unions. Nuznov closes the interview with her thoughts on the role of affirmative action in the trades and her hopes for the future Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2004-01-05 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Nuznov, Pat, 1954- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Flint, Saginaw, MI; 1988-2005 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). T.M. Oral History Description An account of the resource T.M., a non-union roofer and general contractor, was born and raised in Trenton, MI. T.M. got into the construction trade at age 18 after buying a house, realizing she could not afford to hire help she learned how to do the repair work herself. At the same time she became involved in drag racing and raced cars with her husband in the professional circuit for twelve years. T.M. returned to Michigan after her divorce and worked for her brothers roofing company until she remarried and started a company of her own. T.M. explains some of the roofing work she has done, the roofing process and the various materials involved. She discusses being a licensed business owner and what it entails to get a license. T.M. stresses that her position as the boss and business owner were important factors in her being treated as an equal as compared to most women in the trades. At the time of the interview T.M. had just begun teaching in the building trades program at Lincoln Park High School and hopes to continue teacher in the program. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2005-03-31 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed T.M., 1963- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Ypsilanti, MI; 1998-2004 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Metro Detroit Skilled Tradeswomen Oral History Project Description An account of the resource Interviews with women in a variety of construction and maintenance trades conducted between 2004 and 2006. CWIS Item Migration This Item Type takes in metadata from CWIS' database. Title, Description, and Coverage are added to the same Omeka Metadata fields. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (repository, collection, or item). Sue Jantschak Oral History Description An account of the resource Sue Jantschak is a business agent with the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters and Millwrights. After graduating from Michigan State University with a degree in veterinary technology and working in that field for thirteen years Sue developed allergies to the animals and had to leave the profession. Jantschak worked briefly in a bank but soon applied for the Carpenters apprenticeship after learning of the program. Jantschak recalls the difficulties she had during her apprenticeship and the general bias against women in the trades. Sue explains how she started attending union meetings to see where her dues were going and discusses the volunteer work she has done with the union. Jantschak completes the interview by discussing how and why she transitioned into a business agent, mentions that she was the first female business agent in Michigan and in the Carpenters, describes the job process and the danger the job poses. Oral History Item Metadata Specific to Oral History Items. Date Recorded Date of Record Creation (Imported from CWIS DateRecordedBegin field) 2005-05-16 Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed Jantschak, Sue,1955- Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview Raucher, Margaret; Advisory Group Members Coverage Coverage (Imported from CWIS Coverage field) Flint, MI; 1977-2006