AFL-CIO. Public Employee Dept.

AFSCME Communications Department Records

jruss — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:06:22 -0400

AFSCME has produced a regularly published magazine since its inception. Publication duties for this organ and other materials were accomplished by the Education and Publications Department for the first twenty years of AFSCME’s existence. The 1954 Convention, however, passed Resolution 14, establishing a Publications and Public Relations Department. This new department would continue to publish the AFSCME magazine and other materials and would also take on new media public relations duties both at headquarters, and importantly, in the field. Recognizing that current field staff’s duties did not include crafting AFSCME’s message during organizing campaigns and strikes, it was hoped that the new department would provide skilled public relations professionals on the ground. The new department was created on April 1, 1956. The Publications and Public Relations Department existed until 1971 when the name was changed to the Public Affairs Department. This existed until 2011 when the name was changed again to the Communications Department.

The AFSCME Communications Department Records document the public activities of the Department, AFSCME International, and AFSCME officials. Records include speech transcripts; press releases; surveys and polls; documents related to AFSCME biennial conventions such as transcripts of proceedings, correspondence, and planning documents; correspondence; publications; meeting minutes; clippings; photographs, slides, and negatives; audio and video recordings; and posters.

(27899) AFL-CIO Public Employee Department

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:52:00 -0500

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy speaks at the AFL-CIO Public Employee Department (PED) 1985 Convention.

(27900) AFL-CIO Public Employee Department

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:53:14 -0500

Officers are sworn in for the AFL-CIO’s Public Employee Department (PED) at its 1985 convention. Third from right is AFSCME President Gerald McEntee; fourth from right is AFGE President Kenneth Blaylock.

(27948) AFL-CIO Public Employee Department

jruss — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:55:13 -0500

AFGE President Kenneth Blaylock (left) hands the gavel to AFSCME President Gerald McEntee at the 1985 AFL-CIO Public Employees Department (PED) Convention.

(28000) Albert Shanker, Lane Kirkland, Andrei Sakarov, William Thorne

jhelpap — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:10:02 -0500

Albert Shanker, William Thorne, Andrei Sakarov and Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO at an AFL-CIO convention in Washington D.C.

(29811) Rodney Bower, Secretary-Treasurer, DPE and Peter Unterweger, research associate, UAW

jhelpap — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:44:49 -0500

Rodney Bower, left, secretary treasurer of the AFL-CIO Department of Professional Employees and Peter Unterweger, research associate for the UAW, lead a workshop on the impact of technological change.