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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L1986-44
Abstract: The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees(AFSCME), Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) represents public sector workers in the metropolitan Atlanta area, including hospital, sanitation, and other municipal workers. The records of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.), 1949-2001, include correspondence, meeting minutes, membership lists, petitions, constitutions, policy and procedures manuals, grievances, newspaper...
Dates: 1949-2001
Found in: Special Collections

Chet Kisling papers

 Collection
Identifier: L2005-17
Abstract:

Chet Kisling (born 1943) worked as an air traffic controller at the Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center in Hampton, Georgia. A member of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), he was fired after the organization's 1981 strike, along with 11,000 other U.S. controllers. The bulk of his papers consist of clippings, documentation of the lawsuit he was party to regarding his dismissal, and correspondence.

Dates: 1978-1996; Majority of material found within 1981 - 1982
Found in: Special Collections

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Southeast Regional Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1990-18
Abstract:

The Southeast Region office of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union opened in 1937. Its records, circa 1950s-1970s, contain correspondence, collective bargaining contracts, contract and strike negotiations, agreements, National Labor Relations Board materials, and strike materials. The bulk of the material relates to a strike against Marlene Industries in Westmoreland, Tennessee.

Dates: 1950s-1970s
Found in: Special Collections

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Southeast Regional Office records

 Collection
Identifier: L1980-18
Abstract: The collection consists of the records of the Southeastern Regional Office of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from 1945-1980. Includes administrative records (1945-1977) containing correspondence to or from Jack Handler, Regional Counsel, Directors E.T. Kehrer, Martin J. Morand and Nick Bonanno; subject files relating to farm workers, the General Electric strike (1960), organizing activities in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and; the 1960 Presidential election; financial...
Dates: 1945-1978
Found in: Special Collections

Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization records, Membership Files [Series VII]

 Series
Identifier: L1986-45_07
Abstract The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was formed in 1968 to represent the interests of federally employed air traffic controllers and was dissolved in 1981, after a strike against the United States government resulted in all PATCO members being fired from their Federal Aviation Administration jobs. This finding aid (number 7 of 18) describes Series VII, Membership Files, 1971-1981 (20 linear feet of records in 73 boxes), from the the administrative office in...
Dates: 1957-1985
Found in: Special Collections

United Auto Workers, Local 882 (Atlanta, Ga.) records

 Collection
Identifier: L2005-29
Abstract: Chartered in July 1941, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) Local No. 882 is located in Atlanta, Georgia. It represented workers at Ford Motor Company's Atlanta Assembly Plant in Hapeville, Georgia, during its operation (1947-2006). The records include minutes and resolutions, correspondence, financial material, strike material, grievances, arbitration, agreements, and education materials, 1940s-1980s. Topics include the...
Dates: 1940s-1980s
Found in: Special Collections

United Steelworkers of America, Local 309 (Alcoa, Tenn.) collection

 Collection
Identifier: L1983-30
Abstract:

Alcoa, Tennessee was incorporated in 1919 as a company town for the Aluminum Company of America. Workers there first organized an independent union in 1933. The United Steelworkers of America, Local 309 (Alcoa, Tenn.) collection, 1971-1983, consists of printed material recounting the history of Alcoa, Tennessee, its aluminum industry, and African American workers in the town.

Dates: 1971-1983
Found in: Special Collections

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DeKalb County (Ga.) 1
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Hampton (Ga.) 1
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Sanitation workers 1
Sanitation workers -- Labor unions 1
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Westmoreland (Tenn.) 1
clippings (information artifacts) 1
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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Southeast Region 2
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (Washington, D.C.) 2
United States. National Labor Relations Board 2
AFSCME 1
AFSCME. District Council 14 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
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AFSCME. Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Aluminum Workers International Union 1
Bonanno, Nicholas S. 1
Brewton Fashions 1
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (U.S.) 1
Eads, Gary 1
Ford Motor Company 1
Ford Motor Company. Atlanta Assembly Plant (Hapeville, Ga.) 1
General Electric Company 1
Handler, Jack G. 1
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America 1
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 882 (Atlanta, Ga.) 1
Kehrer, E. T. 1
Kisling, Chet 1
Leyden, John F. 1
Loray Corporation 1
Marlene Industries Corporation 1
Meyers, Robert E. 1
Morand, Martin J. 1
National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees. District 1199 1
Oneita Knitting Mills (Andrews, S.C.) 1
PATCO Lives (Organization) 1
Poli, Robert 1
Torchia, Domenic 1
United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Southern Region 1
United States. Merit Systems Protection Board 1
United Steelworkers of America. Local 309 (Alcoa, Tenn.) 1
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