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- Description:
- Yellow background with bold black writing.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
- Description:
- Black with red center and black union eagle in center. White text
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
- Description:
- White Font with red background. United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Box 62, La Paz Keene, California 93531 (805) 822-5571.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
- Description:
- UFWOC si! Teamsters no!; union bug; white background with black text and red/black union flag
- Date Issued:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
- Description:
- UFW seals on bottom left and right sides. Black font with red background.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
- Description:
- Viva la huelga. Red background with black text and union eagle.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
- Description:
- At a Michigan State University "study away" class held in Washington, D.C., Scott Bryson from the AFL-CIO talks about political activism and young people's involvement in electoral politics and explains why organized labor advocates for all workers. Elizabeth Bunn, director of the AFL-CIO organizing Department, talks about the level of unionization in the U.S. and how it relates directly to income inequality and organized labor as a broad social movement. Rachel Babale from the National Labor Relations Board describes the experiences that motivated her to become involved in worker justice issues. They all answer questions from the class. Poor quality recording. Held at the AFL-CIO Building in Washington D.C.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Don tells of being hired in 1962 at Flint Chevrolet, AC Spark Plug and describes his first years and Army service. He talks about his educational accomplishments and entering skilled trades in 1982. Don explains why he declined to go on management several times and why he has always respected the union. He comments on the Flint strikes, wildcats, the differences between Flint and Lansing, UAW-management relations differences, females in skilled trades, and the 1984 change to small cars in Lansing.
- Date Issued:
- 2005-12-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Leslie Mitchell remembers REO Motor Car Company/Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc., in Lansing, MI, as a great place to work, in this interview conducted by historian Shirley Bradley. Mitchell discusses growing up across from the REO plant where both of his parents worked, starting his work life at the General Motors Oldsombile plant and later moving to REO. Mitchell describes a tragic death at the plant during his tenure which led to UAW Local 650 successfully organizing REO workers. Recorded as part of the commemoration of REO Motor Car Company’s 100th Anniversary.
- Date Issued:
- 2004-05-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Don Stevens, former Michigan State University trustee and AFL-CIO board member, reminisces about his childhood, family, farming, his early education, and his experiences with labor unions and union organizing. Stevens talks about his early work life, hearing about unions during the auto sit-down strikes in 1936 and 1937, listening to radio preachers condemn unions, and failed attempts to unionize a laundry where he worked and later success in organizing dairy and retail workers in the Grand Rapids area in the 1940s. Stevens also discusses CIO leadership during the war, union political efforts regarding health and safety, unemployment insurance, higher wages, and seniority rights and his own involvement in the growing union movement and labor organizing. Stevens is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor of Labor and Industrial Relations. Part one of four.
- Date Issued:
- 1983-02-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection