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On the march downtown (5 of 8)

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

 

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Uploaded on August 7, 2025
Taken circa 1989