AFSCME. District Council 77 (Detroit, Mich.)

AFSCME Publications

mcourtney — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:10:47 -0400

AFSCME Publications is a collection comprised of serials created and collected by AFSCME International, District Councils, and Locals. The collection also contains material produced as part of AFSCME’s biannual international conventions and articles published about AFSCME from an academic standpoint. The publications in this collection arrived at the Reuther Library over time and came from multiple sources.

The collection features AFSCME’s official publication, which was first known as The Journal of State and Local Government Employees (1937-1947), then Public Employee (1947-2007), and later, AFSCME WORKS (2007-2017). Much of the collection is made up of newsletters produced at the Council or Local level between 1968 and 1974, illustrating the issues relevant to different types of AFSCME workers during a formative time for the Union.

Note that this collection was updated in September 2019 with the final issues of AFSCME Works and issues of Council 5's Stepping Up.

Milton Tambor Papers

jruss — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:45:23 -0400

Milton Tambor was born in New York City in 1938. He earned a Hebrew Teachers degree from Yeshiva University in 1957. He completed his bachelor’s in Psychology at Wayne State University in 1959, his Master of Social Work at Wayne in 1963, and his PhD in Sociology at Wayne in 1991. Throughout his scholarly career, he has focused on teaching and writing about organizing social workers and non-profit and agency employees. He also had a long career in unionism, holding staff and leadership positions in AFSCME Detroit Local 1640, AFSCME Michigan Council 77, and AFSCME Michigan Council 25. Throughout his career, Tambor was also involved in other labor and leftist organizations in Detroit, most notably the anti-Vietnam War group Detroit Coalition to End the War Now and the Michigan Labor Committee on Central America. In 2001, Tambor retired and moved to Atlanta where he continues to work in the progressive movement.

The Milton Tambor Papers document Tambor’s academic career, work for AFSCME, and participation in labor, leftist, and progressive organizations in Detroit. They include articles, newspaper clippings, publications, fliers, meeting minutes, reports, and training material.

(12292) Union Industry Show

jruss — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:49:41 -0400

The AFSCME District Council 77 display at a 1961 union industry show in Detroit, Michigan.

(12293) Union Industry Show

jruss — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:54:14 -0400

AFSCME staff members interact with visitors to the AFSCME District Council 77 display booth at the 1961 union industries show in Detroit.

(24709) AFSCME meets with UAW

jruss — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:36:41 -0400

UAW Vice President Doug Fraser (seated) looks over an AFSCME organization chart during a meeting between the unions at UAW’s Solidarity House in Detroit. Around him, from left: Irving Bluestone, aide to UAW President Walter Reuther; Alton Cobb, director of Detroit Public Employees, AFSCME Council 77; A. L. Zwerdling, legal counsel for AFSCME; Robert Grosvenor, director of AFSCME Michigan Council 7; Robert Crittenden, president of AFSCME Council 55; William Charron, president of AFSMCE Michigan Council 23; William Van Zandt, AFSCME International representative; and Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, AFSCME Michigan Area Director.

(24815) Mazey, Chapman, Stengel

jruss — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:27:13 -0400

Union leaders meet at an event at AFSCME Council 77 in Michigan. Left to right: UAW Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Gordon Chapman, and AFSCME Michigan Council 77 President Ernest Stengel.

(25544) Romney speaks to picketers

jruss — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:53:52 -0400

Michigan Governor George Romney spoke to AFSCME Council 77 demonstrators from atop his limousine outside of a republican fundraising meeting at the Lapeer, Michigan County Center. Romney told picketers he could not solve their problems with Michigan’s Civil Service Commission.

(25545) Romney speaks to picketers

jruss — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:57:05 -0400