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Grainy black and white photo of a group of young (ish) men and women. IN the center, they hold a banner reading "L.A. Jobs with Peace", Many others in the photo are displaying signs with a large "V" on them (signs also say "Register to Vote here") or making a V sign with their fingers. They are posing outside the entrance of a building. IN the bottom corner, the photo is captioned "Los Angeles organizers during the campaign."
Activists with the 1986 Los Angeles Jobs with Peace campaign hold signs for Proposition V outside the International Ladies Garment Workers union hall on MacArthur Park.
Black and white image appears as a negative, with perforated strips on top and bottom. It depicts a group of workers in an alley outside a garment factory with a visible marquee reading "Dresses." The workers carry signs reading "IBEW joins ILGWU to Keep Americans Working" and "Stop Exporting Jobs". Mariachi musicians play trumpets and violins for the crowd from a stage.
A STOP-WORK PROTEST–A band plays as members of International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union here hold a rally that was part of a nationwide protest against the importation of textiles.
Black and white image appears as a negative with perforated strips on top and bottom. It depicts a large demonstration down a street with a street light and signs reading "Arizona Ave." Marchers carry banners in Spanish. The sign in the front reads "Coalición Pro Leyes y Prácticas Justas de Inmigración." Another, held up high behind it reads " íAmnistia ya! / Abajo Bakke / Comite Nacional In Defensa De José J. Medina" /Asilo Politico Ahora."
Immigrant rights activists march in East Los Angeles, 1977

Black and white image featuring a group of men raise their fists in celebration. The hold a sign in Spanish reading, "Union, Yes!"
Immigrant factory workers cheer their union election victory at American Racing Equipment. The workers had staged a wildcat strike in the summer of 1990.
A group of men raise their fists and make victory signs. Some hold paper checks.
ILGWU organizer Miguel Machuca and Somma waterbed factory workers celebrate back-pay awards ordered by the NLRB after the company fired union activists.
Workers celebrate a union victory outside of a garment factory in Los Angeles, 1980. They stand waving and smiling while holding a sign that indicates that 149 workers voted for the union and 10 against it.
Garment workers affiliated with the ILGWU celebrate an overwhelming victory in their union election at Glydons High Fashion Intimate Apparel, February 1980.

Students read from files drawn from archival boxes
UCLA students examine documents and photographs from the records of UNITE HERE Local 11, the Justice for Janitors campaign, and the LA Alliance for a New Economy, winter 2019.
Students pose with historically themed creations
Labor Studies students pose with art works inspired by their encounter with archival records of Los Angeles labor history.
Black and white image shows a group of Latinx workers gathered around Cesar Chavez, who is kneeling wearing a silken jacket. To his right is Maria Elena Durazo. Everyone is smiling enthusiastically.
Leaders of HERE Local 11 pose with Cesar Chavez, 1993

Black and white image of a classroom full of women, some seated at sewing machines, others standing. Signs on the back wall read "Spanish Fiesta- Dancing" and "Sign up now - New Mandolin Class"
Lola Patina of the ILGWU addresses workers attending a special class at the union hall, 1940
Black and white image of the interior of a garment shop in downtown LA. The workers, all women, sit at sewing machines, many of which have power cords extending above them to the ceiling. There is lots of surplus fabric around and florescent lights hanging with the cords from the machines. the work stations are numbered. One woman looks over her shoulder and catches the camera's eye.
Black and white image of women garment workers on the picket line. All are wearing overcoats and have pinned and curled hard. Their signs read "Stabilization of the Industry through uniform wage scales" "Our Aim: Abolition of Cut-throat competition," and "DOn't Patronize Non-Union Shops - for Prompt Deliveries order from Union Shops - ILGWU." One woman (Rose Pesotta) faces the camera directly and appears to be speaking.
Rose Pesotta and fellow strikers confront a police officer while picketing in Los Angeles during a strike in the late 1940s.

Slightly blurry color image of workers picketing inside an airport terminal. The men wear signs reading "Respect at LAX - Justice for LAX Workers." The Duty Free store can be seen in the background.
Airport workers protest low wages at Los Angeles International Airport
Black and white image of photo negative of a portrait of Maria Elena Durazo
Hotel union leader Maria Elena Durazo, 1989.
Black and white film negative of photograph of Mayor Tom Bradley speaking with members of the Justice for Janitors standing behind him. The two Latinx men standing directly behind Mayor Bradley are wearing union T-shirts with the Justice for Janitor's logo of a raised fist holding a mop.
Mayor Tom Bradley speaks to a union audience.

Black and white image of photo negative shows a crowd of workers, some wearing union t-shirts, gathered around a costumed figure in suit. They are wearing a full face mask of an old man with exaggerated features. The janitors laugh as they perform a street speaking skit.
Supporters of the Justice for Janitors campaign join in street theater during a protest against a building service contractor.
In the foreground, Jim Zellers speaks into a microphone while holding a picket sign. In the background, workers stand holding the same picket sign, which reads "L.A. Shoulw Work for Everyone" and features a cartoon strong arm raising a mop into the air.
Los Angeles janitors’ protest
Black and white photo negative of a crowd of workers holding picket signs, which reads "L.A. Shoulw Work for Everyone" and features a cartoon strong arm raising a mop into the air.
Supporters of the Justice for Janitors campaign hold signs that read, “L.A. Should Work for Everyone.” Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Special Collections.

Black and white image of photo negative showing Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley addresses the public at city hall. Members of the hotel and janitors unions stand behind him with signs while union officials stand by his side.
Tom Bradley addresses union supporters
Black and white image of a demonstration with many people cheering. They hold signs representing many organizations, including: "Unión = Fuerza" (from CIWA), "Unidos Venceremos" (Jobs With Peace", "Stop Sweatshops" (ILGWU) and "L.A. Should Work for Everyone" (Justice for Janitors).
Union and immigrant rights advocates march in Los Angeles, c. 1992.
Low-resolution black and white image of two smiling people, Miguel Contreras and Maria Elena Durazo, near a Local 11 picket line. Durazo is holding an HERE Local 11 picket sign.
Miguel Contreras and Maria Elena Durazo together on the picket line, 1988.

On the right, Dave Clennon dressed in a full costume, complete with chains and make up, addressing the media as Jacob Marley on his way to address the City Council. Rev. James Lawson holds the microphone for him.
Rev. James Lawson and Dave Clennon portraying a ghostly character from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.
Workers picket the Gas Company building in downtown Los Angeles
Janitors with SEIU Local 399 picket the Gas Company building in downtown Los Angeles, 1987.
a sea of picket signs being held up by workers wearing purple t-shirts. The signs read "The 1% is holding us ALL BACK," "We are all the 99%," "The 1% Takes $9,200 from your Middle Class Family," and Justice for Janitors."
USWW rally on Bruin Plaza at the UCLA campus.

Banner image of a march of religious leaders and families, under a banner at the center reading "Grocery Workers Justice Pilgrimage -- "Do not close your ears to the cry of the needy" and bearing the logo of CLUE (Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice). At the front of the march is CLUE's leader Rev. Alexia Salvatierra.
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) leads a march supporting grocery store workers contract negotiations
A group of workers lifts a large, red, white, and black Justice for Janitors banner up like a parachute at a march.
Exterior shot of the Goodyear plant and its parking lot. On the fence dividing the lot from the sidewalk, there's a banner hanging that reads "En Estados Unidos y en El Salvador Toyota Exploit al Trabajador-Feasies" ("Toyota Exploits the Worker in the U.S. and in El Salvador.")
SEIU Local 399 protest links workers in California and El Salvador.

worker with a handful of pink carnations, hands one to a woman in a business suit leaving an office building.
A Justice for Janitors activist hands a flower to an office worker in honor of Secretary’s Day in 1990.
Janitorial workers, some with their children, gather in a hall decorated with streamers and balloons. Rows of chairs are full with smiling workers. Some have signs on the ends indicating various delegations and shop committees.
Members of the janitors union gather to commit to their new organizing campaign, Justice for Janitors, 1988
stacks of bankers boxes next to large filing cabinets in a basement
The records of USWW/Justice for Janitors in the basement before their donation to UCLA.

Union members & allies stage a mass civil disobedience action
Union members & supporters begin the September 2006 Century Blvd. action
UNITE HERE Local 11 action at LAX, 2006

Maria Elena Durazo is one of hundreds risking arrest on Century Blvd., September 2006

Members of Santa Monicans Allied for Responsible Tourism (SMART) demonstrate in favor of a living wage ordinance for hotel workers.


Organizers and members from several unions picket in support of HERE Local 11’s boycott of Canter’s Deli.

Community allies and members of HERE Local 11 announce a boycott of the New Otani Hotel.
Dolores Huerta, Jesse Jackson support USC workers.

Maria Elena Durazo speaks to union members.
On the right, Dave Clennon dressed in a full costume, complete with chains and make up, addressing the media as Jacob Marley on his way to address the City Council. Rev. James Lawson holds the microphone for him.
Rev. James Lawson and Dave Clennon portraying a ghostly character from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.

Regla Soto and fellow housekeepers march with quilt documenting their workplace injuries.
A Local 11 member points to a meeting agenda

SEIU local 399 leader Jim Zellars marches with Rev. James Lawson. Peter Olney (wearing a tie) is to Zellars’s right.
A protest sign outside a Toyota facility in southern California in solidarity with workers in El Salvador.
A child dressed for Halloween carries a sign reading “Justice for Janitors”

A child beats a drum while workers picket a downtown building.

the Justice for Janitors used street theater to dramatize their struggle.
Janitors and union officials march through the lobby of a downtown office building, 1988
Members of SEIU Local 399 hold a sign that reads, “L.A.’s Two Faces: Glamour and Wealth. Poverty and Despair.”

An immigrant studies for the citizenship test with help from the Labor-Immigrant Assistance Project
Protesting janitors laugh at one of their fellow activists who is dressed as a parody of a “boss.”

Janitor at work
Janitor at work

Justice for Janitors organizer Rocio Sáenz speaks to a television news crew
Rosa Beltran (right) and Mauela Ramos (center) in 2011.

Religious, political, and labor movement leaders join the janitors during their 2000 strike.
Union janitors share stories prompted by viewing records of the Justice for Janitors campaign.
Striking janitors and their allies face off with L.A. police officers in Century City.

An early Local 399 protest against ISS.

Members of SEIU local 399, CIWA, the ILGWU, and other organizations march in the wake of the 1992 civil unrest.

Members of SEIU local 399 prepare for acts of civil disobedience around the time of the strike at Century City, 1990.
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UCLA Labor Center director Kent Wong joins union supporters during the April 1995 janitors’ strike.

SEIU USWW leader Mike Garcia speaks at a panel on Justice for Janitors on the UCLA campus.

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