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Wayne State University Announces the Opening of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 925 Collection
WHAT: SEIU District 925 Collection WHEN: June 15, 2004 WHERE: Walter P. Reuther Library, 5401 Cass Avenue, Detroit, MI 48237 Wayne State University’s Walter P. Reuther Library of the College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs is pleased to announce the opening of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 925 Collection. Comprising 15 linear feet and spanning the years 1973 to 2004, this collection is an invaluable resource for historians and other scholars seeking to understand the interplay between the women’s movement and the labor movement in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The collection is a significant addition to the Reuther Library’s substantial holdings on women and work, including the papers of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Mildred Jeffrey and the 20th Century Trade Union Woman oral histories. For twenty years, until its restructuring and merger with other SEIU locals in 2001, District 925 successfully organized thousands of librarians, college and university support staff, day care workers, local government workers and other office, technical and professional employees. This organizing took place in hard-fought campaigns primarily in Massachusetts, Ohio and Washington. Along with 9to5, the National Association of Working Women, it lobbied for equal pay, affirmative action, child care, office health and safety and against age discrimination and sexual harassment. In launching District 925, SEIU signaled its recognition of the growing presence of women in the workforce and of clerical work as the single largest sector in that workforce. To meet the needs of both these constituencies, the International simultaneously announced the creation of its Clerical Division, later called the Office Worker Division. The “SEIU District 925 Collection” documents the activities of this effort and is sure to attract scholars pursuing research on this SEIU affiliate and related subjects. For more information contact SEIU archivist Louis Jones at (313) 577-0263, louis.jones@wayne.edu or visit the Walter P. Reuther Library website at www.reuther.wayne.edu. |
 Table of Contents Raises, Rights & Respect Origins The Office Worker Organizing & Activism Politics & Public Policy Victories An Important Legacy
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