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Service Employees International Union Committee of Interns and Residents Records

Call Number

TAM.640

Dates

1980-2007, bulk
; 1980-2007, 2010-ongoing, inclusive

Creator

van Raan-Welch, Rachel (Role: Donor)
Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare.

Extent

3 Linear Feet 3 Record Cartons
4 websites in 4 archived websites.

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Abstract

This collection contains newsletters and photographs from the Service Employees International Union Committee of Interns and Residents between 1980 and 2006. The Service Employees International Union Committee of Interns and Residents is a union founded in 1957 by interns and residents in New York City's public hospitals. The collection is primarily made up of union newsletters, The Housestaff Voice and CIR News. The collection also contains a large number of photographs depicting Committee of Interns and Residents events, rallies, campaigns, and images from union publications.

Historical Note

The Service Employees International Union Committee of Interns and Residents is the largest housestaff union in the United States. It was founded in 1957 as the Committee of Interns and Residents to represent interns and residents in New York City hospitals. In May 1997, the Committee of Interns and Residents affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, and currently represents over on million health care workers across the United States.

In 1958, the Committee of Interns and Residents achieved the first collective bargaining agreement for housestaff anywhere in the U.S. and by the mid-1960s, it had established the only housestaff-administered benefit plan. Between 1969-70, members in the private, or voluntary, sectors began to organize and join the Committee of Interns and Residents, and in 1975 reached it a landmark achievement when it won contractual limits for on-call schedules of one night in three in New York City. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it successfully negotiated innovative maternity leave clauses, won pay for housestaff covering for absent colleagues, and in 1989 helped shape New York State's regulations that set maximum work hour limits for housestaff. In the 1999 Boston Medical Center case, Committee of Interns and Residents won a National Labor Relations Board decision guaranteeing residents in private teaching hospitals the right to join a union.

Committee of Interns and Residents members have historically played an active role in advocating for access to care for the uninsured and for important services like interpreters. The union lobbied for passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act and works with teaching hospital employers to secure vital funding for safety net hospitals. The union also collaborates with teaching hospitals to better integrate residents into hospital safety and quality improvement projects to increase the value of care provided to patients.

Arrangement

The order in which these materials were sent to the Tamiment Library has been maintained.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains newsletters and photographs from the Service Employees International Union Committee of Interns and Residents. The collection is primarily comprised union newsletters The Housestaff Voice, Spring 1989- Fall 1992, and CIR News October 1980 - March 2006. The collection also contains 1 box of photographs that is comprised of prints of images included in CIR News issues between 1980 and 1997 and assorted prints depicting Committee of Interns and Residents events, rallies, campaigns and meetings between 1998 and 2002.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are opn without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by Van Raan-Welch, 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 Committee of Interns and Residents Records; TAM 640; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Service Employees International Union Committee of Interns and Residents Records; TAM 640; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Van Raan-Welch in 2013. The accession number associated with this gift is 2013.049.

http://www.cirseiu.org/ was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2014 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. In November 2015, this website was 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 November 2021, https://anewrealitynow.com/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.021. In June 2023, https://twitter.com/cirseiu/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.060.

Appraisal

No materials were separated from this collection.

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 special.collections@nyu.edu.

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

Heather Mulliner

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:39:46 -0400.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information

At the time of accessioning, materials were moved into archival housing, a preliminary box list was created, and a collection-level finding aid was created to describe these materials. No physical processing or arrangement was done at this time.

In 2014, the archived website was added as a series. In 2022-2023, additional websites were added to the finding aid and description was updated.

Revisions to this Guide

July 2023: Edited by Nicole Greenhouse to add additional archived websites and updated administrative information

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