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Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ Photographs and Archived Websites

Call Number

PHOTOS.256

Date

1938-1945, 2009-ongoing, inclusive

Creator

Service Employees International Union. Local 32B-32J (New York, N.Y.)
Ferranti, Kate (Role: Donor)

Extent

1.25 Linear Feet
in one folder and one oversize flat box.

Extent

7 websites
in 7 archived websites.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English. https://protectallimmigrants.org/ is in Spanish and English.

Abstract

This collection contains photographs and websites of the Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ. The collection contains mostly black and white photographs from the late 1930s and 1940s of strikes and group portraits of union leaders.

Historical Note

Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 32BJ is a New York based property service workers union, made up of approximately 120,000 workers (as of this writing in 2013). In 1921, a group of janitors formed the Building Service Employees International Union by William Quesse. Through winning two large strikes in the 1930s, the local had grown to 19,000 workers. The union was active during World War II supporting the war effort, they contributed $75,000 to the "labor war chest," ambulances, and a bomber, "The Spirit of 32B," to the Army Air Corps. In 1968 the union was renamed the Service Employees International Union and in 1977, the Local 32B union had merged with Local 32J. Today, the union's members consists of primarily janitors, property maintenance workers, doormen, security officers, window cleaners, building engineers, and school and food service workers.

Arrangement

The photographs have not been arranged by an archivist.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains 29 black and white photographs of the Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ. The photographs document strikes, office scenes, the organization's headquarters, group portraits, and other events. The bulk of the photographs are from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Some photographs have captions on sticky notes or directly written on the back of the photographs, captions usually denote the names of the figures or describe the event. The collection also contains archived websites, the main Service Employees International Union 32BJ website and benefits website, COVID-19 related websites, and their YouTube channel and Twitter feed.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ Photographs; PHOTOS 256; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Identification of item, date; International Union, Local 32BJ Photographs; PHOTOS 256; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Kate Ferranti, Deputy Director of Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ, in 2007. The accession numbers associated with this gift are 1985.018 and NPA.2008.032.

http://www.seiu32bj.org/ was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2013 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. n 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2018, http://www.32bjfunds.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2019.101. In April 2020, https://protectallworkers.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2020.025. In May 2020, https://protectallimmigrants.org/ was added. The accession number associated with this website 2020.041. In Spring 2022, https://www.youtube.com/c/32BJSEIU/videos/ and https://twitter.com/32BJSEIU/ were added to better capture materials related to the website after the main website redesigned. The accession number associated with these websites is 2022.047. In September 2023, https://www.youtube.com/@32BJSEIU/videos/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.078.

Take Down Policy

Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.

If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.

If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the repository email.

Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.

Collection processed by

Nicole Greenhouse

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-02-06 13:59:42 -0500.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information

Materials were put in new archival folders with like-sized photographs in the collection.

In 2014, the archived website was added to the collection. In 2019, an additional website was added to the collection. In 2020 and 2022-2023, additional websites were added to the collection.

Revisions to this Guide

October 2023: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to reflect additional administrative information and added archived websites

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012