United Auto Workers District 65, Boston University Local Collection 1980s

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United Auto Workers District 65, Boston University Local Collection 1980s

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The decision of clerical and technical workers at Boston University to organize with District 65 of the UAW was as rooted in the labor movement as it was in the womens movement. By the early 1970s, office workers at B.U. were dissatsified with working conditions that included -- among other grievances -- sexual harassment and a classification system that did not value "women's work." In 1979 after an intense struggle with the administration, B.U. finally recognized the union and signed their first contract. The collection includes a printed history and videotape documenting unionization activities at Boston University's Medical Campus.

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Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries

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District 65, United Automobile Workers (UAW) began as the Wholesale Dry Goods Workers Union organized in September 1933 by Arthur Osman and a group of Jewish workers at a dry goods warehouse on New York City's Lower East Side. Originally affiliated with the United Hebrew Trades, the union obtained a charter from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) early in 1935 to become Federal Local 19932, Wholesale Dry Good Employees Union. Between 1937-1942, Local 65 was at the ce...

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United Auto Workers. District 65

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The decision of clerical and technical workers at Boston University to organize with District 65 of the UAW was as rooted in the labor movement as it was in the womens movement. By the early 1970s, office workers at B.U. were dissatsified with working conditions that included -- among other grievances -- sexual harassment and a classification system that did not value "women's work." In 1979 after an intense struggle with the administration, B.U. finally recognized the union and signed their fir...