(12489) Mendoza, Jones, AFSCME District Council 19, Chicago, 1971

Carmen Mendoza, left, and Johnnie Jones shake hands at an AFSCME Council 19 event in Chicago. Jones had been a hospital attendant with no options for promotion before graduating from the AFSCME Hospital Career Development Program and becoming a psychiatric aide at the Rosewood State Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. Jones’s experience was used to illustrate AFSCME benefits to Cook County Hospital Employees, Local 1111 and Local 2041. After an election on September 1-2, 1971, Local 1111 won representation of clerical workers, while Local 2041 service employees lost out to another union.