Jonathan Hiatt is General Counsel to the AFL-CIO, and Director of the Legal Department. Robert Welsh is Executive Assistant to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. This interview discusses their involvement with SEIU 925.
AFT-sponsored series of interviews with leading figures in the union. Topics discussed include the rise of the militant teacher, early collective bargaining and strikes, AFT political structure, Shanker vs. Selden fight and Oceanhill-Brownsville.
Conducted by Jack W. Skeels between 1959 and 1963 as part of a University of Michigan - Wayne State University Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations project to document the early years of the United Automobile Workers union. All interviews…