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Photo of me on New Year's Eve, Layout created for LOAD211 Day 24: Lists. I cheated a bit today...I started this layout early in the month for MemoryWorks and when I saw today's prompt, I knew it would help me finish the page. I made a timeline of my life so far with various highlights and added journaling.
LOAD9: Home Sweet Home - According to my mom, I rarely slept as a young child and when I did, I would bang my head to go to sleep. It was so bad that there was a long dent in the wall from my crib hitting it repeatedly.
Supplies: assorted paper scraps (April 2011 MemoryWorks Express Kit), Pink Paislee twine, sticers (October Afternoon, Crate Paper). Scraplifted from a Daily Digi layout found on Pinterest: pinterest.com/pin/106819822381178977/
Layout A Day Day 28: Scrapbooking your passion. My Girls: 2010. MemoryWorks Express Kit (April 2011). Cell phone pics.
NOTE: OH YEAH! OH YEAH! Downloaded my camera software and Picasa onto hubby's laptop and I'm back in action!! And his computer is sooooooo much faster than mine! Also why I re-added today's layout, along with the layouts from the past three days...much better photos than those from my cell phone. HAPPY DANCE!!
I loved today's challenge! I've been wanting to make flowers with Jenni Bowlin's chipboard buttons and used paper scraps, ribbon from my wedding (10 yrs ago!), Scenic Route sticker, cut apart Making Memories letter die-cuts). The words are both handwritten using American Crafts Memory Marker and Paper Craft word stickers. The arrow is Scenic Route. Photo taken by Rick Sheridan www.lamsweddings.com
Layout inspired by Stephanie Ackerman's layout "today is happily" (http://homegrownhospitality.typepad.com/). I loved hearing her interview today and learning all about her. I used the last of my Jenni Bowlin chipboard buttons and DCWV La Creme Stack paper. Photo was taken by Rick Sheridan (http://www.lamsweddings.com)
Adapted from the three following sources: See wp.me/p1TTs-ki
Original concept: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. 1999. Wikipedia graphics @ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arousal
Plus adaption by Klingberg, Torkel. 2009. "The Information Flood and Flow."
When I saw katieplus4's layout: www.flickr.com/photos/katieplus4/4347021262/ I knew it would be perfect for my girls. I love the colors she used and had to scraplift the button heart. Products: Pebbles Inc. paper, MemoryWorks Simple Stories letter stickers, Heidi Swapp edge distresser, assorted buttons, brown Memory Marker
Charlie Gordon was Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University when I was working on my PhD in Sociology. He knew Marybell Mitchell well and had followed and admired her PhD dissertation on Inuit politico-social history. My work was closely linked to hers and he followed it with genuine interest. When I graduated with my MA in Canadian Studies (1995) I was uniquely situated as an unofficial but very engaged liaison between the university, the National Gallery of Canada, the urban Inuit community, the Inuit Art Foundation, particularly their Cultural Industries Training Program (1995-2004) and Qaggit. John Shepherd was the first to help me find free classroom space and access free resources on campus to introduce urban Inuit to university life, to make an unfamiliar space a little less intimidating and to take advantage of human and material resources such as the map library, the film library (Michael Jackson), the slide library, and new technologies (Nestor Querido and Carol Dence). Once I began my PhD c. 2000, John Shepherd, Dennis Forcese and Charlie were the three people who had influence who helped the most in facilitating ongoing access.
This photo was taken as we did one of our first walk-about on campus. It meant a great deal to me that Charlie would take time to make these students feel so warmly welcomed on campus. This was the last group of CITP students I taught so perhaps for this reason they are particularly special. Or perhaps I learned the most from them?
The message on Charlie's door was a note that said something like, "We are all intelligent here, be kind." He was.
At one point that had become extremely discouraging for me as I tried to teach a course without any resources [1] and with what seemed to me to be unnecessary blocks put it my path by the departmental administrator. He seemed to go out of his way to make it difficult for me to have an office. I was meeting with students in the cafeteria. When I finally did get a shared office it was so cluttered and messy I had to move things around so there was some room for Carleton University students let alone for the Inuit students. A retired professor from the Classics department ( who had been offered the space by a friend in Sociology and Anthropology, when he lost his in his old department) also had access to this room. One of the more humorous encounters occurred when he arrived in the tiny office, claimed his comfortable chair and sat there and read as I met with these Inuit students! Finally in exasperation I asked Charlie, do I have an office or not? He replied that I did and he offered to make a sign for me in calligraphy with my name on it! He never actually did but it was a sweet thought.
Tom Sherwood, the University's chaplain and a close friend of Gordon's described how Charlie was always helping people make connections with each other. On any given day he would talk to 10 different students from 10 different departments."
Donna, my PhD supervisor and I had met with him on Thursday, xx and we discussed ways in which I could complete my PhD in a sustainable fashion. It was an exciting meeting because we were all on the same wave length. Charlie at first suggested I work as his research assistant which was an amazing offer. And Donna made the counter offer that I work with her as her RA and that my skills with new technologies be exploited. Nothing was put in writing but with these new possibilities it seemed as though I could finish my dissertation even without the OGS and SSHRC. The next day Charlie went to see his oncologist and was told he only had a few weeks to live. He was immediately sent to the Bruyere Hospice where he spent his final days surrounded by many friends and his sister. He received thousands of emails and letters from people all around the world who expressed appreciation for his teaching and mentoring. He died very peacefully.
At the gathering after a memorial service held for him on October 3 in Southam Hall I met his sister and his close friend from California, Sharon, who told me that he often shared updates on my work with the Inuit community as he really believed in it.
In my last months at Carleton as I struggled to find a way to complete my PhD was dealing with Secondary Post Traumatic Stress from working too closely without adequate support with those devastated by the Inuit youth suicide epidemic, Charlie was always there to listen.
Perhaps I wasn't clear at that time or I wasn't communicating well enough or perhaps I was really just one of many students that he chatted with in his office everyday . . .
With his death there seemed to be no one who remembered. There was no institutional memory . . Nothing was written . . .
After two years of unproductive meetings with the ombudsman, meetings with Deans, the new Department Chair, letters to the President`s office, conflict resolution with Carleton`s human resources lawyer it was obvious that after Charlie there would never be a creative and fair solution for me that would allow me to complete my PhD in a sustainable fashion. It would have required so little on their part. I had so many unique skills and so much unique professional experience.
The work I had done for Carleton in Nunavut was completely forgotten.
Notes
1. I learned in the course of that year from the Human Resources Lawyer that there was a $50,000 fund set aside for teaching resources sessional lectures like myself. It was a policy to not tell sessional lecturers since $50,000 was not enough to go around. It is not surprising that the departmental administrator was completely unaware of the existence of the fund.
Webliography and Bibliography
Charlie Gordon's (died 2004-09-27) memorial
1966 - 2004 Charlie Gordon taught at Carleton University. Was he one of the first in the wave of Viet Nam war protesters? Professor Gordon taught at Carleton for 37 years and was renowned for his scholarly research in industrial sociology, and the sociology of the environment. He also studied the nature of movement as seen in social terms, crime and the environment, building codes, and the relationship between design, work, and politics. He was the author of many articles, book chapters, and papers often choosing intriguing titles such as "Goldilocks and the Three Sociologists". In honour of his countless contributions to the University, Gordon's legion of friends established an endowment fund to support an annual lecture series in his name. To date, more than 300 faculty, staff and friends have made a contribution.
In an seamless blend of mountaineering, history, botany and fiction, Edmonton author Thomas Wharton revisits the shifting social and cultural events that took place on the edge of the Columbia icefields in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1898 while on an expedition in the Columbia (Arcturus) glacier, doctor and amateur botanist Edward Bryne fell through a crevasse where he was held upside down in the icy grip of the narrowing walls of the chasm suspended in a liminal state between reality and dreams.
Using Adobe Photoshop I created this digitage inspired by descriptions and interpretations of the angel in Dr. Bryne's icy vision. I layered images of ice taken at the Glenmore reservoir in Calgary, a Calypso orchid taken on Heart Mountain in June 2008 and my mother's portrait from the early 1900s.
The Calypso orchid was elegantly selected as a character in the novel, as the origin of its name signifies concealment. It is a fragile plant with a wide, circumpolar distribution, that requires a highly specific ecosystem. Once it was an edible and medicinal plant for the First Nations who gathered plants in the Rockies but with increased traffic on what were once remote montaine trails, it is now an endangered species. At a certain height on Heart Mountain Trail when the scree became too difficult for me to manage, I was looking for an easier route a bit farther back from the steep edge of the trail when I came across a couple of these tiny purple orchids in a delicate floral embrace.
stoney, concealment, edible, circumpolar, ethnobotany, fairy slipper, Venus's slipper, tagging, taxonomy, walkingtrails, wildflowersnorthamerica, wfgna, rockymountains, rockies, geotagging, geotagged, geotag, creativecommons, calgarydaytrips, alberta, CalypsoFairySlipper, Calypso.Bulbosa,
Citations:
"bare, windswept slope of ice ... projecting spine of ice ... stepped backward into the abyss . . . (Wharton 1995 [2007:2]) . . . deep blue gloom p.3 . . . "
"I prefer words on a page. They don't gesticulate."
"restless crowd with its panoply of cameras (Wharton 1995 [2007:274])."
Wharton, Thomas. 1995 [2007]. Icefields. Nunatak Fiction. NeWest Press. Edmonton, AB.
Notes
1. The calypso orchid The Calypso bulbosa, Calypso orchid, Fairy's slipper, Venus's slipper or Plantae < Magnoliophyta < Liliopsida < Asparagales < Orchidaceae < Epidendroideae < Calypsoeae < Calypso < Salisb. < Calypso bulbosa
Nunatak is a word in Inuktitut meaning "lonely peak," a rock or mountain rising above ice. During Quaternary glaciation in North America, peaks stood above the ice sheet and so became refuge for plant and animal life. Magnificent nunataks, their bases scoured by glaciers, can be seen along the Highwood Pass in the Alberta Rocky Mountains and on Ellesmere Island. The Nunatak fiction series are especially selected works of fiction by new western authors. Editors for Nunataks for NeWest Press are Aritha van Herk and Ruby Wiebe.
Sexsmith's expedition is based on the 1859-1860 expedition undertaken by James Carnegie, Earl of Southesk.
Bibliography of research resources acknowledged by auhtor Thomas Wharton
Adassiz, Louis. 1967. Studies on Glaciers. Trans. Albert Carozzi. New York: Hafner.
Carnegie, James. 1875. Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains.
Gadd, Benn. 1987. Handbook of the Canadian Rockies, Jasper, Alberta: Corax.
Kagami, Yoshiro. 1951. "Edward Bryne: a Life on Ice." Journal of Alpine Exploration. ii:6.
Stuffield, Hugh; Collie, J. Norman. 1903. Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies. London: Longmans, Green and Company.
This valentine's day was our first as a married couple. To commemorate, I made Jason a "card" from my MemoryWorks Express kit for February. The card actually was four "lacing" chipboard cards that I covered with paper. I included our vows on the card.
This valentine's day was our first as a married couple. To commemorate, I made Jason a "card" from my MemoryWorks Express kit for February. The card actually was four "lacing" chipboard cards that I covered with paper. I included our vows on the card.
This valentine's day was our first as a married couple. To commemorate, I made Jason a "card" from my MemoryWorks Express kit for February. The card actually was four "lacing" chipboard cards that I covered with paper. I included our vows on the card.
This valentine's day was our first as a married couple. To commemorate, I made Jason a "card" from my MemoryWorks Express kit for February. The card actually was four "lacing" chipboard cards that I covered with paper. I included our vows on the card.
This valentine's day was our first as a married couple. To commemorate, I made Jason a "card" from my MemoryWorks Express kit for February. The card actually was four "lacing" chipboard cards that I covered with paper. I included our vows on the card.
MemoryWorks products used: American Crafts Memory Marker, Tim Holtz distress ink, Heidi Swapp edge distresser, Glue Dots, My Mind's Eye paper, etc. Photo of my daughter and I was taken by Rick Sheridan (Look At Me Studios www.lamsweddings.com).
This valentine's day was our first as a married couple. To commemorate, I made Jason a "card" from my MemoryWorks Express kit for February. The card actually was four "lacing" chipboard cards that I covered with paper. I included our vows on the card.
31 days of scrapbook layouts!! Thanks to everyone who stopped to take a look at my layouts and left wonderful comments!!
This is my back. Kanji tattoos: wisdom, beauty, happiness, love and cherry blossoms. I can't seem to leave black and white alone and always have to add a splash of color...in my scrapbooking, in my home and even with my tattoos.
I traced some of the designs in the background paper, made little cherry blossoms so they will pop off the page, handwritten text on leftover photo pieces, distressed and inked layout edges.
What's my passion? My two little girls!
Here's a cell phone pic with a layout using cell phone pics. It's based off a sketch from a ScrapTiffany design team member (I'm ahead of myself, but I'll be having lots of catching up to do once I get my laptop back from the shop). This is probably the closest I've come to following a sketch without getting annoyed. Supplies are from the MemoryWorks Express Kit (April 2011).
This is my attempt at a May 2010 PageMap. The original sketch was an 8 1/2x11 but I converted it into a 12x12. I usually avoid sketches/templates, but I really liked how they were presented on PageMaps.com. Supplies: Scenic Route paper scraps, MemoryWorks Simple Stories stickers, American Crafts Memory Marker
On June 15, 1994, members of SEIU and their allies honored International Justice for Janitors Day commemorating the 4 year anniversary of the LAPD's violent attack on their action in Century City. They marched through downtown and into City Hall where they held a rally in the rotunda to demand that the city settle the union’s lawsuit against the LAPD and reform police practices in the city. Pictured here: Peter Olney (Director of Local 399’s Building Services Division) standing in the center of the rotunda leading a chant. To his right, Mop Man, the luchador mascot of the Justice for Janitors campaign.
Date: June 15, 1994
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1994_172_J4Jday1.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
On June 15, 1990, the Justice for Janitors mobilized their largest action against ISS: a march down Olympic Boulevard in Century City. Although the marchers remained peaceful, police officers reacted violently, first forcing protestors into the street and then attacking them with their batons, sending several union members to the hospital. Video of the violent confrontation circulated internationally, the widespread outrage eventually resulting in an official inquiry into police officers’ actions by the City of Los Angeles and a settlement between janitors and their employers.
Watch an eye witness account of the J4J march in Century City at vimeo.com/1098656677
Date: 1990
Photographer: SEIU
Image ID: J4J_1990_112_century_June15.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: SEIU Flickr
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to SEIU.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Longtime Justice for Janitors member-leader Rosa Ayala carrying her famous baby bottle—intended to lift up the janitors' needs for healthcare—at a protest in the 1990s.
Date: ca. 1990s
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_199X_187_RosaAyala.tiff
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Members of the Justice for Janitors walk the picketline proudly displaying the flags of their home countries, including Mexico and El Salvador, reflecting the many diasporic communities represented in the janitorial workforce.
Date: ca. 1992
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_199X_195.tiff
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Following the first statewide janitorial convention in 1992, the Justice for Janitors launched a campaign in Beverly Hills. Pictured here: janitors carrying a banner at an action that captured the theme of the Justice for Janitors unionization drive “Beverly Hills: Luxury by Day, Sweatshop by Night.”
Date: 1992
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1992_154_beverlyhills.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Justice for Janitors organizer Rocio Saenz speaks with a police officer at a protest in the 1990s. After helping to lead the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles, Saenz moved to Boston, where she led a month-long strike among janitorial workers in 2002. She was subsequently elected President of SEIU Local 615 in Boston and then as an Executive Vice President of SEIU in 2013, playing an instrumental role in the Fight for $15 campaign.
Date: ca. 1990s
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_199X_184_RocioSaenz_1.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
In the fall of 1993, Justice for Janitors launched a unionization drive in Pasadena, which began with the city government itself. On the occasion of Halloween, members dressed in costume marched through the center of Old Town (Colorado Blvd.) to call on the city to demand their cleaning service contractors sign with the union.
Date: October 1993
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1993_165_Pasadena_Halloween1.tif
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Justice for Janitors organizer Rocio Saenz addresses the crowd at a protest in the 1990s. After helping to lead the Justice for Janitors campaign in Los Angeles, Saenz moved to Boston, where she led a month-long strike among janitorial workers in 2002. She was subsequently elected President of SEIU Local 615 in Boston and then as an Executive Vice President of SEIU in 2013, playing an instrumental role in the Fight for $15 campaign.
Date: ca. 1990
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_199X_185_RocioSaenz_2.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Marchers carry signs and banners from a variety of Los Angeles community organizations and unions, including one from SEIU Local 399 reading “No Hay Paz sin Justicia Social” (No Peace without Social Justice). Other organizations and campaigns represented include CIWA (California Immigrant Workers Association), Jobs with Peace, and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph appears to read “J for J Rent Protest 5/92” suggesting a connection to the civil unrest of April 29-May 4, 1992.
Date: 1992
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1992_155_rebuild1.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
CA Assemblyman Ricardo Polanco addressed a crowd of janitors and allies at a protest at the offices of ReBuild LA, a nonprofit formed in the wake of the 1992 Uprising.
Date: 1992
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1992_156_rebuild2.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
On Dec. 10, 1994, Local 399 hosted another statewide convention in Pasadena, where they launched their "April One" ("One Industry, One Union, One Contract") campaign. After the convention, they held a march and rally near Pasadena City Hall.
Date: December 1994
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1994_199_convention1.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Page 1 - LO was made in a class by Fancy Pants at the MemoryWorks Retreat. I LOVE this and it is totally something I would do on my own (well not so much that color of ribbon )
I blogged about naked Barbies and my essential scrapbooking supplies: scrappindanielle.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-are-naked-barb...
I love this Scenic Route paper! Letters are by Making Memories. I usually don't do large titles, but I did today!
Page 2 - LO was made in a class by Fancy Pants at the MemoryWorks Retreat. I LOVE this and it is totally something I would do on my own (well not so much that color of ribbon )
Following the passage of IRCA (Immigration Reform and Control Act), the union representing building service workers (Local 399 SEIU) launched a campaign to unionize janitors at the Gas Company, one of the largest buildings in Los Angeles. While it did not result in a union contract, the campaign served as a “test run” for how to approach and mobilize the growing number of Central American immigrants, many of them female and/or undocumented, who worked as janitors in the glittering skyscrapers downtown. Pictured here janitorial workers hold picket signs at a rally outside the Southern California Gas Company in 1987.
Date: 1987
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1987_43_GasCompany3.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Julian Bonder, the Associate Professor of at Roger Williams University, spoke at the design building in UMass on Wednesday afternoon. Photo by Jong Man Kim
Following the passage of IRCA (Immigration Reform and Control Act), the union representing building service workers (Local 399 SEIU) launched a campaign to unionize janitors at the Gas Company, one of the largest buildings in Los Angeles. While it did not result in a union contract, the campaign served as a “test run” for how to approach and mobilize the growing number of Central American immigrants, many of them female and/or undocumented, who worked as janitors in the glittering skyscrapers downtown. Pictured here a child joins the picket line at the at the Southern California Gas Company in 1987.
Date: 1987
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1987_41_GasCompany2.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Following the passage of IRCA (Immigration Reform and Control Act), the union representing building service workers (Local 399 SEIU) launched a campaign to unionize janitors at the Gas Company, one of the largest buildings in Los Angeles. While it did not result in a union contract, the campaign served as a “test run” for how to approach and mobilize the growing number of Central American immigrants, many of them female and/or undocumented, who worked as janitors in the glittering skyscrapers downtown. Pictured here: George Hardy (President of Local 399) joins janitorial workers at an action in 1988 where they presented the "Turkey of the Year" award to Jonel C. Hill, president of the Southern California Gas Company.
Date: 1987
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1987_48_GasCompany5_Turkey.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
The biggest challenge in the janitorial industry was subcontracting, which severed long-standing union contracts and drove down wages and working conditions. Subcontracted janitors often worked late at night, isolated from one another, forcing union organizers to find creative ways to bring them together and inform them of their rights. Pictured here: an organizer from the Justice for Janitors campaign meets with workers in a boiler room, circa 1989.
Date: ca. 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_51_downtown.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Among the Justice for Janitors campaign’s first targets in Los Angeles was Bradford Building Services, a cleaning services company with dozens of contracts in skyscrapers downtown. Janitors claimed Bradford was taking illegal deductions out of their paychecks, firing union organizers, and refusing to pay overtime. The Justice for Janitors became well known for its lively demonstrations, which aimed to make the invisible labor of janitors (who often cleaned alone late at night) visible to the people who worked in the buildings during the day. Pictured here, members carried colorful balloons, musical instruments, and mops as they marched downtown circa 1989.
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_76_downtown,jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
Collection Information: oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84b30md
Copyright: Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles