Lucy, William

AFSCME Career Development Program Records

jruss — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:51:45 -0400

Seeing success in a program run by AFSCME District Council 37 in New York City that upgraded Nursing Aides to Licensed Practical Nurses, the International union wished to bring career development training to its members who were hospital employees. As such, in 1967, AFSCME began investigating how to develop hospital career development training programs. In 1969, AFSCME was awarded a grant from the Department of Labor and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to work with hospitals in Boston, Cleveland, and Maryland. In 1971, AFSCME received a second grant to take the Hospital Career Development Program (HCDP) to three new cities, Memphis, Detroit, and St. Paul. At this point, language guaranteeing funding for continuing career development began to enter negotiated contracts. In 1973, AFSCME received its third grant, which brought HCDP to three more cities, Houston, Milwaukee, and the District of Columbia.

This collection documents the planning, execution, and evaluation of the AFSCME Career Development Program, 1966-1975, which primarily involved the Hospital Career Development Program (HCDP). HCDP developed and implemented career ladders and training curricula for hospital employees. The records are comprised of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, curricula, job descriptions, organizational charts, contracts, press releases, news clippings, lesson plans, course schedules, graduation invitations and announcements, recruitment material, newsletters, and a small number of photographs.

AFSCME Central Files Department Records

jruss — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:09:27 -0400

The AFSCME Central Files Department was established in 1966 to which all departments within the international headquarters contributed correspondence and reports so all material related to a particular incident would be filed together. In 1974, Dr. Philip Mason of the Reuther Library at Wayne State completed a thorough records management survey of AFSCME and recommended that the Central Files Department be dissolved and that individual departments maintain their own records. His recommendation was enacted that same year.

The material in this collection reflects the broad range of operational activities undertaken by the AFSCME International Headquarters in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The records reveal information on most aspects of the union’s procedures, on councils and locals throughout North America, and on AFSCME’s dealings with organizations, government entities, and other unions. The records are primarily comprised of correspondence, but other types of records also appear including legal and policy memoranda, financial statements, legal decisions, transcripts from hearings and proceedings, meeting minutes, procedures, by-laws, grievance claims, membership lists, staff activity reports, press releases, and news clippings.

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.

AFSCME International Executive Board (I.E.B.) Records

jruss — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:46:46 -0400

The International Executive Board (IEB) is the top level legislative and policy-making body within AFSCME, except when the convention is in session. The IEB is responsible for interpreting the union’s constitution. The records of the IEB are maintained by the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer. Materials in this collection were pulled together from various shipments from the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer to make a comprehensive record of the proceedings of the AFSCME IEB. Some IEB-related information can still be found in the Secretary-Treasurer’s records.

This collection includes minutes, agendas, and transcripts of the meetings of the International Executive Board of AFSCME from 1935 to 1993. Reports presented to the IEB from various entities and offices like the Office of the President and the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer also appear in the collection. Correspondence on planning the meetings and on various issues that Locals and Councils brought before the IEB appears as well. Resolutions, budgets, judicial panel hearing reports, and other miscellaneous material related to individual IEB meetings also appear in the collection. Materials are arranged chronologically, and are grouped by convention location and date.

AFSCME Local 1733: Memphis, Tennessee Records

jruss — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:40:48 -0400

Sanitation workers in AFSCME Local 1733 in Memphis, Tennessee led a strike in 1968 to gain union recognition. The strike lasted for 65 days and garnered national attention as Local 1733's campaign for labor rights became fused with the struggle for civil rights. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. lent his support to the strikers by visiting Memphis and leading marches. While there, on April 4, 1968, King was assassinated. The strike was settled soon after King's death. Local 1733 went on to wage other campaigns for workers' rights, including a push to raise wages for public employees in the summer of 1969, a school boycott in the fall of 1969 that corresponded to the NAACP's drive for more racially diverse representation on the Memphis City Council, and a push to unionize workers at St. Joseph Hospital in the fall of 1969.

The vast majority of this collection consists of newspaper clippings that follow these campaigns in both local and national publications. Some additional material relating to the strikers' strategies and the organizations formed to support the strikers such as Community on the Move for Equality (C.O.M.E.) and Memphis U.S.A. also appears.

AFSCME Office of the President: Gerald W. McEntee Records

jruss — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:07:42 -0400

Gerald W. McEntee became president of AFSCME in 1981. Some of the issues reflected in Part I of this collection include the anti-apartheid movement; health care reform, especially under the Clinton White House; affirmative action; AIDS; presidential politics and union campaign support; international labor relations; and legislative affairs. The records also include information on state locals and councils, AFSCME's relationship to other labor unions and organizations, and AFSCME's judicial panel cases.

Part II of the AFSCME Office of the President: Gerald McEntee Records consists of documents created mostly between 1996 and 2003, while the bulk of Part I was created between 1981 and 1995. As a result, Part II contains evidence of AFSCME’s reactions to changes in the labor movement in a post-NAFTA economy. These changes are evident in the internal functions of AFSCME’s Executive Office, affiliates, and in the union’s work within the AFL-CIO and allied organizations.

AFSCME Office of the President: Jack Howard Records

jruss — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:25:52 -0500

International affairs were handled out of the AFSCME Office of the President. Sometime after 1969, Jack Howard joined the AFSCME staff. When Gerald McEntee became president of AFSCME in late 1981, Jack Howard became his executive assistant. In this role, Howard was responsible for, among other things, international affairs. As such, Howard also worked closely with Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy who was heavily involved in international affairs, eventually becoming president of Public Services International (PSI) in the mid-1990s. The records in this collection reflect Howard’s supervision of AFSCME’s international affairs in the 1980s and 1990s. Howard retired from AFSCME in the early 2000s.

This collection contains correspondence, schedules, publications, planning documents,
photographs, workshop materials, and reports related to AFSCME’s activities in foreign
countries, both as a union itself and in interaction with foreign public employee unions and
international organizations. Also covered are exchange visits between AFSCME and
foreign public employee union leaders.

AFSCME Office of the President: Jerry Wurf Records

jruss — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:29:17 -0400

This collection focuses on Jerry Wurf's tenure as AFSCME International President from 1964 until his death in 1981. Some information appears on an AFSCME affordable housing project that began prior to Wurf's election to the presidency. This housing project was one of the issues that led to a rift among AFSCME members and to Wurf's winning the presidency from incumbent president Arnold Zander. The bulk of the collection, though, represents the Office of the President's records during Wurf's tenure.

Information appears on International Executive Board (IEB) meetings; AFSCME councils and locals; the Committee on Public Education (COPE); the Coalition of American Public Employees (CAPE); Public Employees Organized to Promote Legislative Equality (PEOPLE); public employee legislation; international public employee unions; the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike; the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination; Wurf speeches; the Vietnam War; Wurf and AFSCME's relations to larger AFL-CIO issues; AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy; AFL-CIO President George Meany; and Communication Workers President Joseph Beirne.

AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Gordon Chapman/Joseph Ames Records

jruss — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:47:43 -0500

This collection primarily covers the end of Gordon Chapman’s tenure as Secretary-Treasurer, and all of Joseph Ames’s tenure. These years saw turbulence in the International Union’s politics where founding incumbent president Arnold Zander faced challenges from an opposing faction called the Committee on Union Responsibility (COUR). COUR candidate Jerry Wurf won the presidency at the 1964 convention. Gordon Chapman held the office of Secretary-Treasurer. In 1966, Chapman retired due to poor health. He was replaced by Joseph Ames who had been President Wurf's assistant. Ames served as Secretary-Treasurer until 1972 when he became Judicial Panel Chairman, and William Lucy, then President Wurf's assistant, became Secretary-Treasurer.

The early records in this collection document the activities of President Zander's assistant Leo Kramer and COUR, illustrating their rival campaigns. The later records in this collection document the activities of the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer, including finances, conventions, International Executive Board meetings, correspondence and speeches, political activities, legislation, files on councils and locals, and files on various associations with which AFSCME had relationships.

AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: William Lucy Records

jruss — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:21:25 -0400

The AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer oversees the general financial health of the international union, keeping records for its locals, councils, and the headquarters staff. The Office keeps files on council and local trusteeships, maintains per capita dues payments by locals and councils, issues charters to new locals, and suspends and disbands locals or councils when problems arise. William Lucy held this position for 38 years, 1972-2010.

Lucy joined AFSCME as a civil engineer in Contra Costa, CA in 1956. A decade later, he was working for the International in Washington, D.C. Proving his leadership abilities during the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, during which Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, Lucy became AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer in 1972. Alongside his work with AFSCME, Lucy also served with countless labor, civil rights, and civic organizations to advance causes for blacks, women, and workers locally in Washington, D.C., nationally, and internationally. Lucy helped found the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) in 1972 to represent African Americans in the labor movement. He was instrumental in the Free South Africa Movement's efforts to end apartheid in South Africa. He served as president of Public Services International (PSI) and as a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council. These activities are reflected in the Records. Lucy retired from the position of Secretary-Treasurer in July 2010 at the AFSCME biennial convention.

The AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: William Lucy Records document the activities and operations of AFSCME International, the Office of the Secretary-Treasurer, and AFSCME’s state and local councils. The Records also convey the actions of William Lucy in a number of labor and civil rights organizations, including TransAfrica, the NAACP, CBTU, PSI, and the AFL-CIO. The Records include correspondence, reports, speeches, financial information, legal documents, convention transcripts and proceedings, publications, and meeting minutes. Several boxes of audio recordings of International Executive Board meetings are included, and a very small number of photographs appear in the collection.

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Records

drice — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:08:37 -0400

The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists was founded at a conference in Chicago in 1972 attended by more than 1,200 black union officials and rank-and-file members. By 2001, CBTU counted more than fifty chapters, including one in Ontario, Canada. The organization committed itself to using political action and union organizing campaigns to increase black
participation and influence in the labor movement and insure social and economic progress for working people and the poor. The collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, convention material, speeches, publicity and other items documenting the national CBTU's and its chapters' lobbying activity for labor and civil rights issues, support for strikes, involvement in the anti-apartheid movement and sponsorship of projects to develop leadership and improve the quality of life within the African American community.

1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

scaloia — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:57:03 -0400

Thomas Oliver “T.O.” Jones believed a union for sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee was a necessity. A sanitation worker himself, he experienced the unfair working conditions and accompanying low pay. It was the 1960s and forty percent of full-time Memphis sanitation workers qualified for welfare assistance. The men had to carry heavy trash bins, often leaking waste, from residents’ yards to the trucks in sweltering Memphis heat. Black workers did not read more »

African Americans and the UAW

mosmith — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:53:30 -0500

The Reuther Library celebrates African American History Month with a brief review of the important role that African Americans have played in the formation and growth of the United Automobile Workers of America (UAW), one of the most powerful unions in American history, and the influence of black UAW members within the polity of Detroit. read more »

In Memoriam: William "Bill" Lucy

scaloia — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:30:02 -0400

The staff of the Reuther Library is saddened by the passing of long-time AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer and Coalition of Black Trade Unionists co-founder, William “Bill” Lucy. He passed away September 24, 2024 at the age of 90.

Lucy grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and Richmond, California. He worked for Contra Costa County, CA, where he joined with his coworkers to form an AFSCME local in 1956. He later became the local’s president. AFSCME International president Jerry Wurf recognized Lucy as a rising star and invited him to work at AFSCME headquarters in 1966. In 1972, Lucy became AFSCME’s Secretary-Treasurer, the International’s second in command spot. He held that office for 38 years before retiring. read more »

Nelson Mandela, AFSCME, and Detroit in 1990

mcourtney — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:35:56 -0400

On June 28, 1990, AFSCME members welcomed Nelson Mandela to their biannual convention in Miami, Florida, chanting, “Mandela, yes! Apartheid, no!” read more »

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

jruss — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:25:59 -0400

“It is a crime to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages.”–Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the beginning of 1968, working conditions for sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, especially African Americans, were atrocious. Employees were given no benefits, no vacation pay, no pensions; forty percent qualified for welfare, and many worked second jobs. During bad weather, black workers were sent home without pay, while white workers collected a full day’s wages. The Memphis Sanitation Department refused to modernize the equipment used by black workers. read more »

The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

cdavis — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 09:24:10 -0400

At the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) International Convention, held in St. Louis, Missouri, May 23-28, 2012, the CBTU membership voted in Terrance (Terry) Melvin as its new President. Terry Melvin is the second president in CBTU’s 40 year history. William (Bill) Lucy had been CBTU president since the organization’s founding in 1972. Lucy also served for 38 years as the Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME before retiring in 2010. read more »

Web Exhibit Announcement: I AM a Man

jruss — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:00:57 -0400

April 4, 2012 marks the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King had traveled to Memphis in the spring of 1968 to lend his support to striking sanitation workers, members of AFSCME Local 1733. We're pleased to announce the launch of a new web exhibit, created in conjunction with the Wayne State University Library System, explaining the events of that spring. Please visit the exhibit and share widely: (http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/iamaman/).

Johanna Russ was the Archivist for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 2008 until 2013.

AFSCME News Release, Leaders found in contempt

scaloia — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:42:57 -0500

A news release from AFSCME describers contempt charges against AFSCME President Jerry Wurf and other leaders, including P.J. Ciampa and Bill Lucy, during the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike.

(7478) Lucy, March for Jobs, Peace, Freedom,

jruss — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:23:15 -0400

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy speaks at the March for Jobs, Peace, Freedom in Washington, D.C. in 1983.

(7479) Lucy testifies before Senate Finance Committee

jruss — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:26:03 -0400

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William (Bill) Lucy testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on the Reagan administration's tax reform proposal in 1985.

(7485) AFSCME leaders in contempt of court, Memphis

jruss — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:42:59 -0400

AFSCME International Field Staff Director P.J. Ciampa (left), AFSCME International President Jerry Wurf (middle, with back turned), and then executive assistant to Wurf, William (Bill) Lucy (far right with pipe), receive contempt of court charges on March 6, 1968, during the Memphis Local 1733 sanitation workers’ strike.

(7529) AFSCME staffers watch King in Memphis

jruss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:50:44 -0400

AFSCME International Field Director P.J. Ciampa (left), and AFSCME staffer Bill Lucy (center, in checked suit) watch as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. greets a crowd while in Memphis for the sanitation workers’ strike in late March or early April 1968.

(7531) Free South Africa Movement march

jruss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:13:42 -0400

On August 12, 1985, the Free South Africa Movement, of which AFSCME’s Bill Lucy was a leader, organized this symbolic funeral march after the Apartheid government in South Africa banned public funerals. The march took place in Washington, D.C., and the protesters objected to the Reagan Administration’s policy of constructive engagement with South Africa. Pictured here, left to right, are actor Paul Newman, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, National Education Association President Mary Futrell, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy, and Gary, Indiana Mayor Richard Hatcher.

(7536) Mandela arrives, 1990 AFSCME Convention

jruss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:29:48 -0400

AFSCME International President Gerald McEntee (shaking Mandela's hand) and AFSCME International Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy (left, with back to camera) greet Nelson Mandela as he arrives to address the 1990 AFSCME International Convention.

(7537) Mandela speaks, 1990 AFSCME Convention

jruss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:33:07 -0400

AFSCME International Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy chats with Nelson and Winnie Mandela before Nelson Mandela addresses the 1990 AFSCME International Convention.

(7629) Miami Beach organizational strike

jruss — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:06:45 -0400

AFSCME International leaders P.J. Ciampa (left) and William Lucy (with bullhorn) speak to a crowd of city employees during the strike for union recognition of Miami Beach Local 1544 in 1968.

(7635) Atlanta sanitation workers prepare to march

jruss — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:42:58 -0400

In 1970, sanitation workers of Atlanta Local 1644 picket for justice and dignity with AFSCME organizer William Lucy (far right).

(7636) Atlanta sanitation workers march

jruss — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:41:05 -0400

AFSCME leaders P.J. Ciampa (center, front) and William Lucy (center, right in sunglasses) lead a march of Atlanta Local 1644 demonstrators in 1970.

(7637) AFSCME negotiates Atlanta strike

jruss — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:29:47 -0400

AFSCME leaders William Lucy (left) and President Jerry Wurf (middle) negotiate with Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell (far right) during the 1970 sanitation workers’ strike of Local 1644.

(7642) Atlanta sanitation workers march

jruss — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:37:10 -0400

AFSCME leaders P.J. Ciampa (left) and William Lucy (right) appear in the foreground during a march for Atlanta Local 1644 sanitation workers in 1970.

(10513) AFL-CIO Convention

jruss — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:59:06 -0400

The AFSCME delegation at the 1969 AFL-CIO Convention in New York. From left, clockwise: two unknown members, President Jerry Wurf, Vice President Father Albert Blatz, assistant to the president Fred Jordan, Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Ames, assistant to the president Bill Lucy, and International Vice President Ethelrie Harper.

(10518) 1971 AFL-CIO Convention

jruss — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:21:52 -0400

AFSCME leader William Lucy speaks at the November 1971 AFL-CIO Convention in Bal Harbour, Florida.

(10520) AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department

jruss — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:36:22 -0400

Recently elected AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy meets with students from the Harry Lundberg School of Seamanship in Piney Point, Maryland after addressing the 1972 AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department luncheon.

(10702) 1974 Convention

jruss — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:12:26 -0400

AFSCME leaders appear on stage at the 1974 International Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. From left: Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy, Gerald McEntee who became International President in 1981, Judicial Panel head Joseph Ames, and William McEntee, father of president McEntee, former president of District Council 33 in Philadelphia, and former International Vice President.

(11306) 1971 AFSCME Area Directors Meeting

jruss — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:46:13 -0400

AFSCME leaders meet at the 1971 Area Directors Meeting in Washington, D.C. Seated at the back table, facing the camera, from left to right, are AFSCME International officers William Lucy, Jerry Wurf, P.J. Ciampa, and Joseph Ames.

(11381) Senator Ted Kennedy at 1980 AFSCME Legislative Conference

jruss — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:26:58 -0400

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy (left) and President Jerry Wurf (right) greet Senator Ted Kennedy at the annual 1980 AFSCME legislative conference in Washington, D.C.

(11557) Canadian Union of Public Employees

jruss — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:23:56 -0400

Secretary Treasurer of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Grace Hartman, shares a laugh with AFSCME’s Bill Lucy at the CUPE Convention in Edmonton, Alberta in December 1973.

(11651) Coalition of American Public Employees

jruss — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:46:39 -0500

The Coalition of American Public Employees (CAPE) was created as a joint effort between AFSCME and the National Education Association (NEA). Leaders of the newly formed group speak at a press conference in March 1971. From left: NEA Executive Secretary Sam Lambert, NEA President Helen Bain, AFSCME President Jerry Wurf, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Ames, and AFSCME Executive Assistant Bill Lucy.

(11654) Coalition of American Public Employees

jruss — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:02:25 -0500

Leaders of the Coalition of American Public Employees (CAPE), a group formed by AFSCME and the NEA (National Education Association), give a press conference. From right: AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy, NEA President Catherine Barrett, AFSCME President Jerry Wurf, and NEA Acting Executive Secretary Allan West.

(11689) Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination

jruss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:50:23 -0500

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy addresses a 1973 meeting of the Interim Committee on Sex Discrimination in Washington, D.C.

(11705) Women's Regional Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:21:08 -0500

Georgia McGhee, an AFSCME Women’s Rights Committee leader, speaks at the May 1979 Women’s Regional Conference in Washington, D.C.

(11709) Women's Conference

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:37:52 -0500

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy speaks at the Women’s Conference in Boston in June 1979.

(11710) Women's Advisory Committee

jruss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:48:43 -0500

AFSCME Women’s Advisory Committee member Louise DeBow (Council 37, New York) thanks Committee Chair and International Vice President Georgia McGhee (standing left) for her contributions to the four regional conferences. Other committee members stand left to right: Carol Dimmock (Council 4, Connecticut), Irene Carr (CSEA, New York), Pat Taylor (CSEA, New York), Kay Dimond (Council 13, Pennsylvania), Bettye Roberts (Council 1707, New York), and Betty McLeod (Local 3178, Florida). Secretary-Treasurer Bill Lucy is seated at left. This image appeared in the February 1984 issue of AFSCME's Public Employee magazine.

(11734) Free South Africa Movement

jruss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:53:57 -0500

Labor leaders march against South African apartheid in Washington, D.C. as part of the Free South Africa movement. From left: AFSCME President Gerald McEntee, NEA President Mary Futrell, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy, Gary, Indiana Mayor Richard Hatcher.

(11735) Michigan Council 77

jruss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:00:59 -0500

International Union Area Director Tom Fitzpatrick speaks to members of Michigan’s Council 77 in Detroit. Seated beside Fitzpatrick from left: Council 77 Administrator William Lucy; Council 77 Vice President and Educational Committee Chairman Bill Van Zandt; and Council 77 observer Mary Jane Wyers.

(11736) AFSCME Staff

jruss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:07:11 -0500

AFSCME headquarters staff work in Washington, D.C. in August 1966. Seated is associate director of community action William Lucy. Standing is assistant to President Jerry Wurf, Al Bilik.

(11737) City of Peace Award

jruss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:06 -0500

Charles H. Dade, Sr. (left), president of AFSCME District Council 33 in Philadelphia, accepts a City of Peace Award from Emanuel Shimoni (right), consul general of Israel. Joining them at the State of Israel tribute dinner in Philadelphia are AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy (center left) and President Jerry Wurf (center right).

(11738) AFL-CIO Civil Rights Conference

jruss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:45:19 -0500

In early 1986, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer William Lucy addresses the 11th biennial AFL-CIO Civil Rights Conference in Columbus, Ohio.

(11739) Solidarity Day

jruss — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:49:51 -0500

AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer marches in a Solidarity Day demonstration in Washington, D.C.