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Scenes from a Justice for Janitors march downtown as part of its campaign against Bradford Building Services, ca. 1989. Bradford was among J4J's first targets in Los Angeles and maintained 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. J4J organizer Bill Reagan pictured on the bottom right (holding banner).
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_58_downtown_reagan.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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In 1980, John Sweeney was elected president of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), vowing to make unionization of the building services sector a top priority of his leadership efforts. After test runs in Pittsburgh and Denver, the SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign officially launched in Los Angeles in 1988, and became the central theme of Local 399’s annual convention. Pictured here: Eliseo Medina addresses the crowd at the 1988 Convention of Local 399. A champion of immigrant workers, Medina had previously served as organizer director of the United Farmworkers, helped to rebuild SEIU Local 2028 in San Diego, and was a driving force in the Justice for Janitors campaign. He later became the first Mexican-American elected to the SEIU’s Executive Board.
Date: 1988
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1988_130_Convention4.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
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Among the tactics deployed by Justice for Janitors in their drive to unionize Bradford Building Services in 1989 was an action on Secretary's Day (April 22), when workers distributed flowers and fliers to clerical workers in buildings downtown. Their hope was that by targeting secretaries— who were often responsible for paying the bills to cleaning companies like Bradford, but unaware of how terribly they treated their workers—they might encourage them to pressure their bosses to demand better working conditions for the janitors who cleaned the building.
Date: ca. 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_50_SecretarysDay.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Local 399 organizers Jim Zellars (left) and Jono Shaffer (right) address the crowd at a rally downtown ca. 1989.
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_69_downtown.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
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: Janitorial workers marched to City Hall carrying signs and banners.
Date: June 15, 1994
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1994_174_J4Jday3.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
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Willie Wilson, long-time Local 399 steward for the downtown district (kneeling, center), celebrates a victory in the Justice for Janitors’ campaign circa 1989.
Date: ca. 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_55_downtown.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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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. J4J frequently used street theater to enliven their demonstrations and dramatize their cause.
Pictured here: a Local 399 member dressed as the fictive CEO of Bradford Building Services.
Date: 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_59_downtown_Bradford.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
At the Oscars awards ceremony in 1993, J4J held its own "Mopscar Awards" ceremony nearby where it awarded its opponents with prizes. These included awards for worksites refusing to sign union contracts (such as Toyota Corp., Mattel, the William Morris Agency, and LACMA) and the LAPD (for violence against janitors in Century City). Pictured here: as they waited for the Metro, members of the union revealed their banner for the “Mopscars” event, which read “L.A.’s Two Faces - Glamour and Wealth / Poverty and Despair.”
Date: 1993
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1993_163_oscars3.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
In 1980, John Sweeney was elected president of the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), vowing to make unionization of the building services sector a top priority of his leadership efforts. After test runs in Pittsburgh and Denver, the SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign officially launched in Los Angeles in 1988, and became the central theme of Local 399’s annual convention. Pictured here: delegates to the 1988 Convention of Local 399 seated in sections based on the building where they worked and/or the cleaning contractor they worked for.
Date: 1988
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1988_38_Convention2.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
On April 26, 1988, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of the janitors' fight for justice in L.A. Members of Local 399 marched to City Hall for the ceremony and gathered on the steps outside to receive a certificate of recognition from City Councilman Richard Alatorre.
Date: 1988
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1988_89_City Hall_1.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
The Justice for Janitors campaign was 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 and bang drums as they marched downtown ca. 1988. At the front of the march are longtime member-leader Raphael Estrada (left) and J4J organizer Bill Reagan.
Date: circa 1988
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_96_downtown.tif
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
On April 26, 1988, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of the janitors' fight for justice in L.A. Members of Local 399 marched to City Hall for the ceremony and gathered on the steps outside to receive a certificate of recognition from City Councilman Richard Alatorre.
Date: 1988
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1988_91_City Hall_2.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Los Angeles’ notorious downtown traffic proved helpful at times in increasing the visibility of the Justice for Janitors campaign. Pictured here, members of Local 399 march down Figueroa Street as part of their campaign downtown in 1988-1989.
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_99_downtown.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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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.
Pictured here: Willie Wilson, longtime steward for Local 399 downtown, directs traffic at a Justice for Janitors march downtown ca. 1989.
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_60_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
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
At the Oscars awards ceremony in 1993, J4J held its own "Mopscar Awards" ceremony nearby where it awarded its opponents with prizes. These included awards for worksites refusing to sign union contracts (such as Toyota Corp., Mattel, the William Morris Agency, and LACMA) and the LAPD (for violence against janitors in Century City). Pictured here: Mop Man being taken into custody by police after crashing the red carpet.
Date: 1993
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1993_161_oscars1.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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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
The Justice for Janitors campaign not only involved innovative organizing tactics, but also bottom-up strategic planning. Pictured here: Peter Olney (Director of Building Service Division of Local 399) strategizing with a group of workers at the union hall about how to best build power in their industry.
Date: ca. 1991
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_47_staff.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
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: Local 399 members filled the balconies above the rotunda while reporters (on the right) attempted to capture the scene below.
Date: June 15, 1994
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1994_173_J4Jday2.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Scenes from a Justice for Janitors march downtown as part of its campaign against Bradford Building Services, ca. 1989. Bradford was among J4J's first targets in Los Angeles and maintained 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.
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_56_downtown.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
After winning their first master agreement for buildings downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign hosted Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO, and John Sweeney, President of SEIU, for a march and rally downtown in August 1989. Following the march, Lane Kirkland addressed the crowd at a rally. Standing to his left is Eliseo Medina, then an organizer with SEIU in San Diego and a driving force in the Justice for Janitors campaign.
Date: 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_78_KirklandSweeney8.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
On April 26, 1988, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution in support of the janitors' fight for justice in L.A. Members of Local 399 marched to City Hall for the ceremony and gathered on the steps outside to receive a certificate of recognition from City Councilman Richard Alatorre.
Date: 1988
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1988_92_City Hall_4.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
After winning their first master agreement for buildings downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign hosted Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO, and John Sweeney, President of SEIU, for a march and rally downtown in August 1989. Images of the march like this one appeared in the Local 399 newsletter.
Date: 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_72_KirklandSweeney3.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
I 'dug' up this kit from a class at the MemoryWorks Retreat 2009 and the photos are of my husband's first titled GSP who passed away last year at 12 yrs old - she is just 1 in most of them.
Cardstock - Prism
Patterned Paper & Stickers - Sassafrass Lass
Scenes from a Justice for Janitors march downtown as part of its campaign against Bradford Building Services, ca. 1989. Bradford was among J4J's first targets in Los Angeles and maintained 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.
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_57_downtown.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
After winning their first master agreement for buildings downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign hosted Lane Kirkland, President of the AFL-CIO, and John Sweeney, President of SEIU, for a march and rally downtown in August 1989. After their visit to Los Angeles, John Sweeney (president SEIU) and Lane Kirkland (president AFL-CIO) travelled to San Francisco and joined a Justice for Janitors march down Market Street, along with Jim Zellars (Local 399) and then Mayor of San Francisco Art Agnos.
Date: 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_82_KirklandSweeneySF_4.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Having scored some big wins downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign initiated a second major campaign in Century City against the Danish-owned cleaning contractor ISS in the summer of 1989. ISS (International Services Systems) was the largest cleaning contracting company in the world at the time. This pamphlet detailed an array of unfair labor practice charges filed by the union in the months after ISS took over the Southern California based cleaning company Doral Industries in 1988.
Date: 1989
Creator: Local 399 (Justice for Janitors)
Image ID: ISS pamphlet 1.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: UCLA Library Special Collections
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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_111_century_June15.jpg
Collection: Service Employees International Union (SEIU), United Service Workers West (USWW) records, circa 1935-2008 (LSC.1940)
Repository: SEIU Flickr
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Having scored some big wins downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign initiated a second major campaign in Century City against the Danish-owned cleaning contractor ISS in the summer of 1989. ISS (International Services Systems) was the largest cleaning contracting company in the world at the time. Pictured here: janitorial workers and their allies gather for an action in a plaza across from the Century Plaza Hotel.
Date: 1990
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1990_116_century.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
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Notes: Learn more about the Justice for Janitors at Memory Work-Los Angeles
Having scored some big wins downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign initiated a second major campaign in Century City against the Danish-owned cleaning contractor ISS in the summer of 1989. ISS (International Services Systems) was the largest cleaning contracting company in the world at the time.
The Justice for Janitors’ campaign against ISS began months earlier downtown and included a series of actions at the International Tower, where 350 janitors had staged a sit-in in February 1989. After ISS took over the contract at the International Tower, they refused to hire any of the night janitors who had worked at the building for years, prompting J4J to rally outside.
Date: circa 1989
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1989_62_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
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: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1990_114_century_June15.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
In August 1995, several union janitors working at USC were fired and replaced by non-union subcontractors with Service Master, launching a years-long struggle among service workers at USC. The campaign at USC coincided with a reorganization of the Justice for Janitors, as the janitorial workers of Local 399 SEIU voted to merge with other SEIU members across the state to form a new local, SEIU Local 1877, to represent all janitorial workers in the state of California. In Jan. 1997, the new Local 1877 held a massive march and civil disobedience action at which both SEIU President Andy Stern and Local 1877 President Mike Garcia (pictured here leading the march) were arrested. In March, the janitors of USC voted to join the union, marking a victory in the Justice for Janitors’ years-long campaign.
Pictured here: Eliseo Medina, long-time supporter of the Justice for Janitors campaign, along with others engaged in the civil disobedience action. A champion of immigrant workers, Medina had previously served as organizer director of the United Farmworkers, helped to rebuild SEIU Local 2028 in San Diego, and later became the first Mexican-American elected to the SEIU’s Executive Board.
Date: 1997
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1997_246_USC_19.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
My mom and I went to Arizona and were photographed on "A" Mountain - 1986. I used the American Crafts Memory Marker for journaling (I love this marker!), My Mind's Eye and Pink Paislee rub-ons, and assorted cardstock. When I finished the layout, I realized that the colors are the same as my new window coverings :)
Having scored some big wins downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign initiated a second major campaign in Century City against the Danish-owned cleaning contractor ISS in the summer of 1989. ISS (International Services Systems) was the largest cleaning contracting company in the world at the time. After months of organizing, the Justice for Janitors began holding their first public actions against ISS in Century City in the spring of 1990.
Date: 1990
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1990_101_century.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
Children of janitorial workers address the crowd at a Justice for Janitors event in the early 1990s. Sociologist Cynthia Cranford has described that the Justice for Janitors campaign became “a family affair” because the union encouraged members to actively involve their children and families in actions and events.
Date: ca. 1990
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_199X_192.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
Having scored some big wins downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign initiated a second major campaign in Century City against the Danish-owned cleaning contractor ISS (International Services Systems), the largest cleaning contracting company in the world at the time. In May, janitors working for ISS in Century City unanimously voted to authorize a strike because, as one member described, “ISS’ greed leaves us no choice.” They also demonstrated their intentions to engage in non-violent civil disobedience during the strike by holding a public civil disobedience training in a plaza near their work sites.
Date: 1990
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1990_110_century_Civil Disobedience.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 August 1995, several union janitors working at USC were fired and replaced by non-union subcontractors with Service Master, launching a years-long struggle among service workers at USC. The campaign at USC coincided with a reorganization of the Justice for Janitors, as the janitorial workers of Local 399 SEIU voted to merge with other SEIU members across the state to form a new local, SEIU Local 1877, to represent all janitorial workers in the state of California. In Jan. 1997, the new Local 1877 held a massive march and civil disobedience action at which both SEIU President Andy Stern and Local 1877 President Mike Garcia (pictured here leading the march) were arrested. In March, the janitors of USC voted to join the union, marking a victory in the Justice for Janitors’ years-long campaign.
Date: 1997
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1997_243_USC_15.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
Members of the Justice for Janitors marching downtown c. 1991.
Date: ca. 1991
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1991_133_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
Members of the Justice for Janitors marching downtown c. 1991.
Date: ca. 1991
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1991_132_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
In February 1992, Local 399 hosted the first statewide convention of janitorial workers from across California in Westwood. The convention followed the inauguration of Republican Pete Wilson as Governor of California, who had pledged to revive the state’s ailing economy by slashing government spending. At the convention, the janitors called for real solutions that would address economic inequality and ensure every worker would be treated with dignity and respect. Pictured here: Maria Elena Durazo, President of HERE (Hotel and Restaurant Employees) Local 11, addresses the 1992 Convention.
Date: 1992
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1992_149_convention_MariaElenaDurazo.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
Having scored some big wins downtown, the Justice for Janitors campaign initiated a second major campaign in Century City against the Danish-owned cleaning contractor ISS (International Services Systems), the largest cleaning contracting company in the world at the time. In May, janitors working for ISS in Century City unanimously voted to authorize a strike because, as one member described, “ISS’ greed leaves us no choice.” They also demonstrated their intentions to engage in non-violent civil disobedience during the strike by holding a public civil disobedience training in a plaza near their work sites.
Date: 1990
Photographer: unknown
Image ID: J4J_1990_109_century_Civil Disobedience.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
Summer 2010: Slide + Pool = Fun!
Products used: MemoryWorks Simple Stories kit, Heidi Swapp edge distresser, brad, American Crafts memory marker, ribbon.
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