Employee Evaluations in the Southerners for Economic Justice Records

Southerners for Economic Justice (SEJ) was founded in 1976 during a successful campaign to help J. P. Stevens and Co.'s textile workers unionize. Since then SEJ has focused on empowerment of the unemployed and working poor to develop community-based strategies to solve social problems associated with economic crisis. The records, dating from 1977 to 2001, document the administrative and programmatic work and related interests of the organization. Identified sensitive materials in this collection include personnel files.

The personnel files can be found chiefly with the administrative materials, but personnel information is also interspersed throughout the programmatic files. For example, the personnel review of a particular employee may be found in that employee’s personnel file, in the supervisor’s personnel file, in loose papers, and in other programmatic files. It would be impossible to segregate these materials without an item by item review of the entire collection. These sensitive materials are valuable as documentation of the culture of non-profit work, especially a grassroots organization.

Personel Information Questions