AFT Archivist

The Shanker Travel Fellowship 2026 is up! reuther.wayne.edu/opportunity
This grant helps with grad students or faculty who wish to utilize the AFT collections or related collections dealing with history of edu at the Reuther Library. @lawcha.bsky.social @histedresearch.bsky.social #laborhistory

Margert Haley

Margaret Haley, 1861 – 1939. Founder of the Chicago Teachers Federation @ctulocal1.bsky.social , co-founder of the @aft.org. The Lady Labor Slugger. The Princesses of Petitions. Learn more this #laborday #laborhistory www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmJ...

If you used our collections for your last book, hell yea you can be on. Google scholar has been missing hits on books so I might have missed your book. Did you use us in your book?

Awesome chat on Tales from the Reuther about paraprofessionals with Nick Juravich reuther.wayne.edu/node/15421 @aft.org‬ @uftnyc.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
#unionpower #education #laborhistory

Its another podcast!!! reuther.wayne.edu/node/15420 about Eddie Sadlowski, a charismatic and progressive Chicago steelworker who led a highly visible yet unsuccessful dissident campaign in the contentious election for the USWA’s presidency in 1977. #laborhistory #1U @steelworkers.bsky.social

300 teachers from Minneapolis FT Local 59, protest in front of school admin building April 1965. Y you ask?! The admin tacked on 3 extra days to the school day without additional pay!! This was life for teachers before a strong union contract ‪@educationmn.bsky.social‬ #1U #union

Happy to open the Mobile Federation of Teachers Local 777 records. These records document how this local tried to protect tenure and maternity rights all under the issue of integration in the 1970s. And so much more! archives.wayne.edu/repositories... @aft.org #1u #historyeducation

Tales from the Reuther's new podcast talking about child care and the the Worthy Wages movement centered in Seattle from the 1980s through the 2000s with Dr. Justine Modica. reuther.wayne.edu/node/15385 @aftunion.bsky.social @afscme.bsky.social #daycare #childcare #fairwage

Hands Off protesters rally in Ferndale Hands Off protesters rally in Ferndale on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

What did you do today? I went to a #handsoff protest in Ferndale, Michigan, one of thousands of national protests.

Check out this video from Detroit Free Press:

Hands Off protesters rally in Ferndale

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Poster on top of a pile of other papers contains illustrations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the text: “The man remembered, King, April 4, 1987 Memphis, Tennessee, equality has not yet come. AFSCME.”

During the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike fifty-seven years ago #OTD, Martin Luther King, Jr. lost his life in the fight for life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for all Americans. Poster from 1987 memorial march, @afscme.bsky.social archives, @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. #MartinLutherKingJr

Research Guides: Law - Milliken v. Bradley: Background Research Guides: Law - Milliken v. Bradley: Background

My colleague created this research guide on Milliken vs. Bradley! guides.lib.wayne.edu/c.php?g=1435... #integration #education #segregation

West Virginia teachers unions vote to combine and form 'Education WV' - WV MetroNews The West Virginia Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia announced last year that they would merge into one organization.

We're excited to announce the WV Education Association and American Federation of Teachers-WV, who have taken a historic vote to merge our unions.

Together, we can fight funding cuts and attacks on public education.

1972-73 Teachers Strike The 1970s were a turbulent time in American and Philadelphia history. Amidst stagnant wages, inflation, and a new law allowing public sector strikes, Philly school teachers took matters into their own hands fighting the district, mayor, and state. Episodes 44-45 originally aired: March 7 and 20, 2023. Support the show www.laborjawn.com

1972-73 Teachers Strike

The 1970s were a turbulent time in American and Philadelphia history. Amidst stagnant wages, inflation, and a new law allowing public sector strikes, Philly school teachers took matters into their own hands fighting the district, mayor, and state. Episodes 44-45 originally

Roy Reuther biography

Reuther and Fain

Shawn Fain

Alan Reuther

Great evening last night @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Alan Reuther shared the story of his father, Roy, in anticipation of his new book. UAW President Shawn Fain made introductory remarks.

Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register. Cutting-edge techniques have revealed it for the first time.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Led to Significant Improvements at Worksites The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 was a tragic industrial disaster in New York City that claimed 146 lives, mostly young immigrant women.

Today marks the observance of the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, where 146 workers - mostly young immigrant women - died on the job. As we remember these workers, let's recommit to organizing for safe working conditions. @sharemylesson.bsky.social

Trump issued an order that the Institute of Museum and Library Services and other agencies be eliminated.The agency provides financial support to a wide array of USA cultural and educational institutions, including art, science & history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens & historic sites.

YouTube video by American Postal Workers Union, APWU 50th Anniversary of The Great Postal Strike

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeht...

@aftunion.bsky.social president from 1968-1974, David Selden wrote a essay about vouchers. Does his arguments still hold true? #education #vouchers
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Cox inks bills to ban public sector collective bargaining, limit transgender student access to dorms Gov. Spencer Cox inked the first batch of bills from the ongoing 2025 legislative session on Friday, making two of the session's more controversial bills official.

www.ksl.com/article/5125...

National Archives head resigns as Trump takes control of records Sources name conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and far-right journalist John Solomon as potential replacements.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Flyer: Keep DOGE out of DOL rally, February 5 at 3pm at 200 Constitution Ave NW

🚨ALL OUT FOR WORKERS RIGHTS! Tomorrow in D.C. at the Department of Labor—show Elon Musk and his lackeys that workers are ready and willing to fight back!! 🚨

NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination.

“We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

Hey folks on this podcast Tales from the Reuther. Dr. Harris Dousemetzis shares the extraordinary impact of U.S. President Jimmy Carter on gay rights in the 1970s and early 1980s from his book The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights. reuther.wayne.edu/node/15363 #lgbtq #jimmycarter #humanrights

Last podcast of the year! And we chat with audiovisual archivist Mary Wallace about her 27 year career at the Reuther library as she prepares to retire in January 2025.

reuther.wayne.edu/node/15362

December 19 - Greyhound Strike Ends in Bitter Defeat On this day in labor history the year was 1983. That was the day that a bitter national strike of Greyhound Workers came to a close. Nearly 13,000 bus drivers, mechanics and clerks had gone on strike. They were members of the Amalgamated Transit Union.

December 19 - Greyhound Strike Ends in Bitter Defeat

On this day in labor history the year was 1983. That was the day that a bitter national strike of Greyhound Workers came to a close. Nearly 13,000 bus drivers, mechanics and clerks had gone on strike. They were members of the Amalgamated Transi

"We Are the Union" with Eric Blanc "We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" is Eric Blanc's latest book. In this interview, he talks about how recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable power by gi...

"We Are the Union" with Eric Blanc

"We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big" is Eric Blanc's latest book. In this interview, he talks about how recent struggles have developed a new organizing model, worker-to-worker unionism, which builds scalable

Yes it is!!

A new Midwest Coalition Of Labor's The Workers' Mic goes on the air at 8:00 AM Central time on @wgnradio.bsky.social 720 AM in #Chicago. hear it at

wgnradio.com/on-air/

#1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod

Say What! SCOTUS 6-3 decision in the Gilbert case 1976 distinguished between pregnant persons and non-pregnant persons and concluded that because women fall into both categories, discrimination based on pregnancy did not occur because of sex therefore, did not violate Title VII.