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Guide to the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME),
District Council 37 Records WAG.265
Descriptive Summary
| Creator:
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AFSCME. District Council 37 (New York, N.Y.) |
| Source:
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AFSCME. District Council 37 (New York, N.Y.) |
| Source
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Roberts, Lillian |
| Source
- dnr:
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Nash, Ken |
| Title: |
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), District Council
37 Records
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| Dates [inclusive]: |
1944-2014 |
| Dates [bulk]: |
1957-2000 |
| Abstract: |
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, District Council 37
is an umbrella group of 56 local unions representing public employees in New York
City. Chartered in 1944, DC 37 has grown from an organization of less than a thousand
employees in the city's parks, hospital, finance, and health departments to the country's
largest federation of public employees, with more than 125,000 members working in
the city's agencies and cultural institutions. The collection contains constitutions,
minutes, correspondence, reports, newsletters, leaflets, websites, and printed material
documenting the history of DC 37 from 1957 to 2004, with significant coverage of the
1950s to early 1980s. The materials chronicle the tenure of executive directors Jerry
Wurf, Calogero Taibi, Victor Gotbaum, and Stanley Hill, as well as the leadership
of associate director Lillian Roberts (who returned to DC 37 in 2002 as executive
director). Also represented are records of DC 37's Legal Department, including files
on its advocacy for women's pay equity, and records of the Communications Department,
documenting the union's newspaper, Public Employee Press. In addition, this collection contains eight boxes of audio reels and cassettes,
the bulk of which are recordings of DC 37's radio show "It's Your City, It's Our Job."
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| Quantity: |
80 Linear Feet in 90 boxes |
| Quantity: |
4 websites in 4 archived websites. |
| Language: |
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| Call Phrase: |
WAG.265 |
