A collection of images and documents related to the hotel workers’ union, UNITE HERE Local 11.
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- A Local 11 member points to a meeting agenda
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- University of Southern California workers appeal to students, faculty, and community members to support their effort to retain jobs.
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- Regla Soto and fellow housekeepers march with quilt documenting their workplace injuries.
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- Rev. James Lawson and Dave Clennon portraying a ghostly character from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.
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- Maria Elena Durazo speaks to union members.
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- Dolores Huerta, Jesse Jackson support USC workers.
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- Community allies and members of HERE Local 11 announce a boycott of the New Otani Hotel.
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- Organizers and members from several unions picket in support of HERE Local 11’s boycott of Canter’s Deli.
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- Each panel of the Housekeepers’ Quilt documents one workers’ story.
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- Union supporters march eastward on Century Blvd. Their signs link the civil rights movement of the 1960s to the immigrant rights movement of the 1990s and 2000s.
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- Maria Elena Durazo is one of hundreds risking arrest on Century Blvd., September 2006
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- UNITE HERE Local 11 action at LAX, 2006
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- Union members & supporters begin the September 2006 Century Blvd. action
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- Union members & allies stage a mass civil disobedience action
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- Screenshot of title frame of “On Any Day: A visit to Four L.A. neighborhoods” (1995).
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- The title frame from documentary “City on the Edge” (1996).
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- Local 11 video on the September 2006 action on Century Blvd.
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- Spanish language TV news reports on UNITE HERE Local 11 civil disobedience action on Century Blvd near LAX in 2006.
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- Local 11 documentary on the 2004-5 contract campaign
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- Screenshot from a Noticias 62 television broadcast of workers moving beds out of the street as part of a HERE Local 11 civil disobedience action ca. 2004.
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- Screenshot from a Noticias 62 television broadcast of a HERE Local 11 civil disobedience action shows a woman’s back. She’s wearing a red t-shirt and has a yellow sign stuck on her back reading “We are the Union!”
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- A news report on workers’ successful lawsuit to force Local 11 to translate meetings into Spanish.
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- Rev. James Lawson and Dave Clennon portraying a ghostly character from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.
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- A hand-made etching depicts a march of service workers. This tiny work of art (about 1 inch square) is part of the UNITE HERE Local 11 records.
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- Miguel Contreras and Maria Elena Durazo together on the picket line, 1988.
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- Mayor Tom Bradley speaks to a union audience.
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- Hotel union leader Maria Elena Durazo, 1989.
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- Airport workers protest low wages at Los Angeles International Airport
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- Campaign flyer for HERE Local 11 leadership election in 1978 points to declining union power.
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- Leaders of HERE Local 11 pose with Cesar Chavez, 1993
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