George Hardy, 1987
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
George Hardy, 1987
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