AFSCME Archives Instructions

Why is preserving and using your Local's archives important?
- Understand intent of past decisions and policies
- Inspire creative organizing and bargaining strategies
- Learn from past failures and successes
- Encourage member involvement by promoting pride in accomplishments

Archives services available to AFSCME affiliates:
- Research assistance on your affiliate and individuals in your local
- Documents scans related to your affiliate, if available, such as contracts, correspondence, photographs
- Guidance on caring for your affiliate’s archives. Don’t know what to keep or for how long? How to store? We can help!
- Speaking at events
- Tours of the home of AFSCME’s archives: the Reuther Library located at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI

Attached below are the following PDFs:

AFSCME-Local-Archives: a one-page quick guide on types of documents to keep in your archives.
AFSCME-Archives-Instructions: a more detailed guide on archives and how to send them to the Reuther Library (please consult archivist before sending!)
Archives-Staff-transfer: archives considerations specifc to AFSCME staff

Some useful links for AFSCME material at the Reuther Library

AFSCME Collections
AFSCME Image Collection
I AM A MAN exhibit on the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

For questions about the AFSCME collections, contact the AFSCME Archivist and follow @AFSCMEArchivist on Twitter/X and @afscme-archivist.bsky.social on Bluesky.

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	AFSCME-Archives-Instructions.pdf	301.94 KB
	Archives-Staff-transfer.pdf	339.53 KB
	AFSCME-Local-labor-archives.pdf	57.64 KB