(7649) Cuyahoga County, Ohio strike

AFSCME Local 1746 members and supporters picket in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1967. The strike at Sunny Acres Hospital lasted 11 weeks and resulted in recognition of the local and a contract.

One sign reads "Who is behind the Sunny Acres plot?" In a bulletin to members, AFSCME Council 78 director Paul DeGrandis wrote "The AFSCME strike situation at Sunny Acres has now become a plot by certain elements of the community to destroy the honor, prestige, and dignity of Organized Labor in the Cleveland area....Due to the "Sunny Acres Plot", President Wurf will now arrive in Cleveland on Wednesday" (March 8, 1967). (see LR002503 AFSCME publications, box 54 folder 11).