Street theater downtown, 1989
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
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
Street theater downtown, 1989
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
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