Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ Photographs 1938-1984

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Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ Photographs 1938-1984

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This collection contains photographs of the Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ. The collection contains mostly black and white photographs from the late 1930s and 1940s of strikes and group portraits of union leaders.

1.25 linear feet; in one folder and one oversize flat box.

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331224

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Service Employees International Union. Local 32B-32J (New York, N.Y.)

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Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 32BJ is a New York based property service workers union, made up of approximately 120,000 workers (as of this writing in 2013). In 1921, a group of janitors formed the Building Service Employees International Union by William Quesse. Through winning two large strikes in the 1930s, the local had grown to 19,000 workers. The union was active during World War II supporting the war effort, they contributed $75,000 to the "labor war chest," ambulances, an...

Service Employees International Union. Local 32-B (New York, N.Y.).

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