Strike votes

SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records

ljones — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:52:45 -0500

For many, John Sweeney is known as the now former head of the AFL-CIO, a position from which he retired in 2009 after 14 years of service. For most of the previous 35 years, though, he was a member turned officer of the Service Employees International Union, having served 15 of those years as its President. The SEIU Executive Office: John Sweeney Records document his tenure during these 15 years, although portions of these records predate his tenure in that office.

The records contain files documenting the activities of SEIU local unions, joint councils and other SEIU affiliates. In addition, the files of SEIU executive board members, vice presidents, divisions, departments and staff members are also found within the collection, often within series identified in this manner. Researchers can also review records documenting the meetings, hearings, conventions and conferences Sweeney attended and at which he often spoke or testified. Records documenting SEIU's conventions from its inception in 1921 until 1992 are also found within these records. The records of the conventions reveal the major policy shifts of the union. Sweeney's interest in healthcare are also found within these records in addition to the union's external relationships with labor organizations and others.

SEIU International Affairs Records

aorchard — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:30:15 -0500

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was founded in 1921 as a union of flat janitors. Over the years it has grown in size and scope, now comprising three divisions: healthcare, property services, and public services. While most of SEIU’s members reside in the United States, the SEIU is an international union with members and affiliates in countries all over the world. The records of SEIU’s International Affairs Department document the SEIU’s relationships with companies, unions, organizations, and labor activists in other countries, as well as detail departmental operations. Document formats found within the records primarily include correspondence, meeting minutes and agenda, booklets, and reports.

AFSCME Oral History Transcript; Joan Goddard (President of Local 101), interviewed by Johanna Russ

mcourtney — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 15:57:13 -0400

Joan Goddard served as President of AFSCME Local 101 after the Union’s 1981 contract fight centered on narrowing the gap between male and female municipal workers’ pay in San Jose, California.

In this interview, she discusses her role in the negotiations and eventual strike during the 1981 contract struggle. Debate at the bargaining table focused on the Hay study, which compared jobs with similar levels of complexity in predominantly male and predominantly female fields to reveal a large pay gap.

Local 101’s strike is known as the first strike over comparable worth, which argues that a pay gap can only be closed when classifications with similar skill levels earn equivalent pay.

(4788) Colorado Coal Strike, IWW Hall, Raids, Trinidad, 1927

eclemens — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:06:23 -0400

Interior of the IWW Hall in Trinidad, Colorado after a raid.

(6570) Strikes, New Orleans Street Car Strike, Violence, 1929

eclemens — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:27:12 -0500

The scene along Canal street during the New Orleans Street Car Strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “A series of tumultuous riots in which two striking carmen were seriously wounded by bullets and scores of other persons were less seriously hurt, marked the attempt of the New Orleans Public Service to resume street car service and stirred all New Orleans to a pitch of tense excitement. The riot reached a climax when strikers and their sympathizers wrecked several of the public service buildings and set fire to a trolley.”

Photograoph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(6591) Strikes, Violence, Cannery Workers, Stockton, California, 1937

eclemens — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:52:52 -0500

Tear gas besieges pickets and their supporters during the Stockton cannery strike.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Upwards of 50 persons, including an undetermined number of women, were injured in violent outbreaks as strikebound canneries reopened. This picture shows a cloud of tear gas beating back some of the rioters.”

Photograph courtesy of the Edward Levinson Collection

(28056) Demonstrations, Strikes, Detroit Public Schools, 1998-1999

eclemens — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:22:49 -0500

A young girl decorates the sidewalk outside of the School Center Building during a vote for the 1998-1999 American Federation of Teachers/Detroit Federation of Teachers Strike.

(29546) Local 399, Strike Vote, 1977

aorchard — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:31:59 -0500

Members of Local 399 count strike vote ballots, April, 1977.

(29549) Local 399, Kaiser Strike Vote

aorchard — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:58:13 -0500

Members of Local 399 count ballots from the Kaiser strike vote.

(29559) Strike Vote, 1976

aorchard — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:58:14 -0500

SEIU members from an unidentified local take a strike authorization vote, June 1, 1976.

(31914) SEIU Local 82 Members on Strike

aorchard — Sat, 31 May 2014 16:02:47 -0400

SEIU Local 82 general maintenance company employees on striking.

(32585) Reclaim America protest

gstrassel — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 11:49:46 -0500

Reclaim America protest with Local 1199 OH versus Congressman John Kacik, 1995.

Members of SEIU 1199 protest as part of the Reclaim America campaign in Columbus, Ohio.

(46020) Strike vote meeting

gstrassel — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:47:31 -0500

Jack Conway, UAW international representative, speaking at a strike vote meeting of UAW Local 719. At Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois. Seated behind him are "Woody" Downey (left), shop chairman of Local 719, and John Malzone (right), president of Local 719.