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Title: Welfare Employees Union Collection Genre: Records Dates: 1960-1979 (Predominantly 1967-1979) Size: 19 linear feet, 19 storage boxes ID#: 946 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs HEFA.01b.update |
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The Welfare Employees Union was organized in December of 1966 to represent clerks, caseworkers, typists and secretaries in the Wayne County Department of Social Services. Prior to that time, social service workers at the Wayne County Bureau of Social Aid belonged to Michigan Civil Service Employees Local 31-M of the SEIU. In 1978, the union affiliated with the Organization of Classified State Employees (OCSE)/MEA.
The Welfare Employees Union Collection contains correspondence, reports, minutes, newsletters, grievances and other material relating to the union activities of welfare workers in Detroit and Wayne County.
Organization of Classified State Employees (OCSE)
Michigan--Officials and employees
Michigan Civil Service Employees Local 31-M (SEIU)
Michigan Department of Social Services
National Federation of Social Service Employees
Social service--Michigan--Detroit
Trade-unions--Social workers--Michigan
Wayne County (Mich.) Department of Social Services
Welfare rights movement
Welfare Rights Organization
James Bish
Tom McGraw
David Shinn
Several photographs and buttons have been transferred to the Archives Audiovisual Collection.