California State Employees'Association Collection, 1928-1989

Summary

Title:

California State Employees' Association

Dates:

1928-1989

Creators:

California State University, Fresno

Abstract:

The California State Employees’ Association collection contains its own correspondence, constitutions, meeting minutes, reports, and bulletins from 199 through 1938. It also includes correspondence and union newsletters from American Federation of Teachers from the 1960s; the United Professors of California Advocate (1971-1989) and collective bargaining source material from the 1960s; California College and University Faculty Association correspondence; California Teachers Association bulletin from 1928; The Scope, a newsletter from the Faculty of the California State Colleges (1966-1970); and flyers from the 1970s from the Clerical and Allied Services Employees and College and University Service Employees.

Extent:

2 boxes [2 linear ft]

Language:

Collection material is in English

Preferred citation:

[Title of item], INVENTORY OF CALIFORNIA STATE EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections. University Library. California State University, Dominguez Hills

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains constitutions, meeting minutes, reports, and correspondence from the California State Employees Association, with dates ranging from 1929-1957. It also contains bulletins for the California Association of State Teachers and College Instructors, which later became part of the California Teachers Association, Bulletin from 1931-1938; the California Teachers Association constitution from 1928; American Federation of Teachers correspondence and newsletters from the 1960s; The Scope, a newsletter from the Faculty of California State Colleges from 1966-1970; The United Professors of California newspaper the Advocate from 1971-1989; flyers from 1976-1978 Clerical and Allied Services Employees College and University Service Employees; and resource material for collective bargaining 1967-1971.

Biographical / historical:

The California State Employees’ Association was founded in 1931 and is California's largest state employee organization, representing almost 140,000 state and university workers, managers, supervisors, and retirees. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is an American labor union founded in 1916 that represents teachers, paraprofessionals, and school-related personnel; local, state, and federal employees; higher education faculty and staff; and healthcare workers. The AFT is the second-largest education labor union in the United States, representing over one million members. The United Professors of California, a college faculty union, was founded in 1970 as the result of a coalition between the AFT and the Association of California State College Professors (ACSCP). In 1932 the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) began from a small group of professional state employees in Madison, Wisconsin. Their focus was to promote, defend, and enrich the civil service system across the country.

Acquisition information:

This collection was donated by Fresno State University to the Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Processing information:

Materials were processed and arranged by Erica Watson in 2011.

Arrangement:

Arranged in chronological order within organizations.

Rules or conventions:

Finding Aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Related resources

Related material:

[material related to the collection]

Separated material:

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Indexed terms

Subjects:

California Federation of Teachers
California State Employees' Association
Collective bargaining
Teachers' Union--United States

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:

Finding aid prepared by Erica Watson.

Date Prepared:

©2011

Date Encoded:

Machine-readable finding aid created by Erica Watson. September 28, 2011

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