Scenes from the 1988 Convention (2 of 3)
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
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
Scenes from the 1988 Convention (2 of 3)
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
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