Jack Sheehan oral history interview transcript, 1998 September 18.

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Jack Sheehan oral history interview transcript, 1998 September 18.

This collection consists of a transcript of an interview of Jack Sheehan by Gilbert J. Gall, 18 September 1998. Sheehan discusses the political actions of the steelworkers' union, with emphasis on civil rights, immigration reform, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

60 p.

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Sheehan, Jack (John J.)

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Jack Sheehan worked for the United Steelworkers (USWA) beginning in 1951, becoming director of the Legislative Department in 1966 after I.W. Abel became President of the USWA. Sheehan retired in 1996 after serving as assistant to USWA presidents Lloyd McBride, Lynn Williams, and George Becker. From the description of Jack Sheehan oral history interview transcript, 1998 September 18. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233576621 ...

United Steelworkers of America

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The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

Gall, Gilbert J.

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