AFSCME. District Council 25 (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.

(24710) James Glass and William Lucy

jruss — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:54:28 -0400

Michigan AFSCME District Council 25 President James Glass (left) shakes hands with AFSCME International Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy.

(24711) McEntee and Glass

jruss — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:19:52 -0400

AFSCME President Gerald McEntee (left) and Michigan Council 25 President James Glass meet at the podium at AFSCME’s 50th anniversary convention in Chicago.

(24712) McCullough and Glass

jruss — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:28:04 -0400

Michigan state senator Pat McCullough (left) presents the Michigan Legislature resolution honoring AFSCME’s 50th anniversary to James Glass, president of Michigan Council 25.

(24713) CBTU Committee Members

jruss — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:40:16 -0400

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) Brotherhood Ball Committee Members from left: James Glass, AFSCME Michigan Council 25; Dorothy Hughes, of the Ecorse Federation of Teachers and founding member of the Detroit chapter of CBTU; and Leon English, UAW.

(24714) Michigan Council 25 Officers

jruss — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:44:28 -0400

AFSCME Michigan Council 25 officers from left: International Vice President Marilyn LeClaire, Council 25 Secretary-Treasurer Larry Roehrig, Council 25 President James Glass, Director of Council 25 Legislative Department Ralph Liberato.

(29050) Carter and Johnson

jruss — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:14:09 -0400

AFSCME Michigan Council 25 President and International Vice President Robert Johnson assures President Jimmy Carter of AFSCME support for his reelection campaign.

(32319) AFSCME Council 25 negotiations

mcourtney — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 10:54:29 -0400

AFSCME Council 25 leader shakes hands across the negotiation table in 1980.

(32663) Hazel Edwards, AFSCME Local 457 President, 1979

mcourtney — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:57:59 -0500

Hazel Edwards, President of AFSCME Local 457 in Detroit, Michigan, speaking at a conference in 1979.

(32664) Samuel Turner, AFSCME Local 542, teaches welding in Bahrain

mcourtney — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:05:46 -0500

This photograph originally appeared in AFSCME's Magazine, the Public Employee, with the caption, "Detroit AFSCME member is Peace Corpsman: Samuel Turner, a Welder for the City of Detroit, has taken a two-year leave of absence to help others learn his skill. Turner (left) teaches welding at the Jidhafs Secondary Technical School in Bahrain, in the Persian Gulf."

(32665) AFSCME Local 542 members at work on the Detroit Zoo train

mcourtney — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:17:45 -0500

AFSCME Local 542 members at work on the train serving the Detroit Zoo.

(32689) Public Works Employees, AFSCME District Council 25

mcourtney — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:04:31 -0500

This photograph from the Department of Public Works, AFSCME District Council 25 is marked, “Local 867 Highway Maintainers Louis Landino (in truck) receiving strength in numbers flyer from Carl Ferrucci, Jr.”

(32819) Delegates to the AFSCME convention, 1996

mcourtney — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:04:53 -0500

Three women at AFSCME's 1996 convention. Flora Walker, President of AFSCME Michigan Council 25, stands at the far left.

(32826) AFSCME convention delegate, 1996

mcourtney — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:33:56 -0500

Judy Allison, A delegate to AFSCME's 1996 convention, wears a shirt supporting Walker and Cobbin for AFSCME International Vice Presidents from Michigan.

[Podcast] Bargaining for the Common Good: Milton Tambor Reflects on 50 Years in Labor and Social Activism

teller — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:23:33 -0500

Labor leader and social activist Milton Tambor discusses his life’s work in Detroit since the 1950s as a social worker; AFSCME local union president, staff representative and assistant education director; and teaching faculty in both labor studies and social work at Wayne State University and other institutions. read more »