Hubert Albertz Local 32E Archives (SEIU)
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, indictments, interviews and financial records (chiefly on 1 microfilm reel) documenting Albertz's fight to be reinstated in Local 32E and the history of corruption in the BSEIU, both within Local 32E and the International. Individual union figures documented include Local 32E presidents Sam "Firpo" Abrams, Thomas F. "Tommy" Lewis, and Henry F. Chartier and BSEIU presidents George Scalise and David Sullivan. The collection also includes an unpublished manuscript by George Albertz entitled "Local 32E : BSEIU in the Bronx : a chronicle of corruption."
Dates
- 1948-2009
Creator
- Service Employees International Union (creator, Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Custodian and member of the Building Service Employees International Union (BSEIU) Local 32E. New York City custodian Hubert Albertz defied BSEIU union leadership by publicly protesting a dues increase. He wassubsequently fired from his job and removed from his Local in the Bronx. He spent over 30 years documenting and publicizing corruption in the BSEIU and fighting for reinstatement in Local 32E.
Extent
0.5 cubic feet
Abstract
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, indictments, interviews and financial records (chiefly on 1 microfilm reel) documenting Albertz's fight to be reinstated in Local 32E and the history of corruption in the BSEIU, both within Local 32E and the International.
Quantity:
0.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Clippings, correspondence, interviews.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, July 15, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, August 18, 2015
- Title
- Albertz, Hubert Local 32E Archives (SEIU)
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- August 18, 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853