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Patricia Curia San Jose Comparable Worth Strike collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0117
Abstract

Consists of news clippings, correspondence, articles, ephemera and other materials related to the 1981 San Jose city workers strike in support of equal pay for comparable worth.

Dates: 1972-2005

David F. Selvin photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0019
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photographs gathered by Selvin in his role as editor of Northern Califonia Labor, a labor newspaper he founded in 1951. Other photographs were used in several books and articles Selvin authored related to labor history, in particular, his 1996 book, A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco. Many of the photographs in this collection are reprints from various...
Dates: 1861-1991; Majority of material found within 1960-1980

Tho Do oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-do
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 Secretary-Treasurer Tho Do. This recording is part of an oral history project documenting the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days. The struggle pitted a largely immigrant workforce against multi-national corporations which was part of a larger nationally coordinated contract campaign. In her interview, Do, originally from Vietnam, discusses her duties as Secretary-Treasurer, the move towards...
Dates: 2009 March 1

Rafael Espinoza oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-espinoza
Abstract

Sound recording of interview with former UNITE HERE Local 2 vice-president Rafael Espinoza, conducted by Gerson Rosales.

Dates: 2010 November 8

Gayanne Fietinghoff photographs and slides of California farmworkers collection

 Collection
Identifier: larc-pho-0068
Abstract This collection of photographs, slides, contact sheets, and negatives by United Farm Workers (UFW) staff photographer Gayanne Fietinghoff documents the work and home lives of California’s Central Valley farmworkers from 1972 to 1977. While employed by the UFW from 1972 to 1975, Fietinghoff trained her lens on the struggles of farmworkers, who were primarily Mexican American and Filipino American, working in the fields and participating in UFW activities and events. Fietinghoff captured UFW...
Dates: 1971-1982; Majority of material found within 1972-1977

Fred D. Fletcher oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-fletcher
Abstract

Sound recording of interview with Fred D. Fletcher (b. 1920) conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Gives his recollections of the San Francisco Examiner and News-Call Bulletin merger of 1965 and the San Francisco newspaper strike of 1968.

Dates: 1999 June 16-July 27

Feliz Fuentes oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-fuentes
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Feliz Fuentes conducted by Sarah Wilson. This recording is part of an oral history project documenting the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days. The struggle pitted a largely immigrant workforce against multi-national corporations which was part of a larger nationally coordinated contract campaign. Originally from Guatemala, Fuentes worked as a hiring hall coordinator for UNITE HERE Local 2....
Dates: 2009 March 5

Corinne Gilb collection

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Identifier: larc-ms-0065
Abstract This collection documents Dr. Corinne Gilb's work in her position as the first Director of the Regional Cultural History Project, the forerunner of the Regional Oral History Office (ROHO), at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). The collection documents early methodology for conducting oral histories and includes interviews, conducted for the Institute of Industrial Relations at UC Berkeley, of union members, employers, and professionals in the labor relations field. The...
Dates: 1951-1963

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Order of Repeatermen and Toll Test Boardmen, Local 1011 (San Francisco, Calif.) records

 Collection
Identifier: larc-ms-0315
Scope and Contents The entire ORTT collection covers the years 1919 –1993 and includes materials from several different labor organizations. The bulk of the collection however, covers the years 1939 -1947 and focuses on the organizations that were competing to unionize the telephone industry’s repeatermen and toll testboardmen on the west coast. Included in the collection are: meeting minutes, letter and telegram correspondence, wage records, grievance-related materials, union election materials, National...
Dates: 1919 - 1993

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen’s Union. Local 6 (San Francisco, Calif.) records

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Identifier: larc-ms-0413
Abstract

The records of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6 span the years 1934-1966. Includes files related to early significant strikes, jurisdictional disputes with the Teamsters, correspondence, audit and budget reports, committees and conventions files, contracts and negotiations, Harry Bridges defense trials, War Labor board cases, executive board and membership meeting minutes, and political activities, including materials related to the Fair Employment Practice Act (FEPC).

Dates: 1934-1966

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Oral histories. 28
Strikes and lockouts. 27
Labor unions -- Organizing. 24
Hotels -- Employees -- Labor unions 23
Labor contract 23
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Labor union members -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews. 23
Labor unions -- Organizing -- California. 6
Photographs. 4
Agricultural laborers -- California. 3
Cannery workers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
Cannery workers -- Labor unions. 3
Labor unions -- Longshoremen -- United States. 3
Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco. 3
Stevedores -- Labor unions -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 3
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California -- Watsonville. 3
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural processing industries -- California -- Watsonville. 3
Strikes and lockouts -- California -- San Francisco. 3
Strikes and lockouts -- Hospitals. 3
Strikes and lockouts -- Stevedores -- California -- San Francisco. 3
Watsonville (Calif.) 3
Audiocassettes. 2
Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. 2
Collective bargaining -- Health facilities -- United States. 2
Collective labor agreements. 2
Communists -- United States. 2
Golden Gate Manufacturing (San Francisco, Calif.) 2
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. 2
Labor -- California -- History -- 20th century. 2
Labor unions -- California -- San Francisco. 2
Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. 2
Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 2
Medical personnel -- Labor unions. 2
National Dollar Stores Strike, 1938 -- San Francisco (Calif.). 2
Service Employees International Union. Local 250 (San Francisco, Calif.) 2
Stevedores -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 2
Stevedores. 2
Strikes and lockouts -- Agricultural laborers -- California 2
Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- California -- San Francisco. 2
Strikes and lockouts -- Telephone companies. 2
Telecommunication -- Employees -- Labor unions. 2
Women clothing workers -- California -- San Francisco. 2
Women labor union members -- United States. 2
Women labor union members--California--San Francisco--Interviews. 2
Agricultural laborers -- California -- Photographs. 1
Agricultural laborers -- California -- San Joachin Valley. 1
Agricultural laborers' unions -- California. 1
Apprenticeship programs -- United States. 1
Bombings -- California -- San Francisco 1
Building trades -- Employees -- Labor unions -- California. 1
Bylaws (administrative records). 1
Carpenters -- Labor unions -- California. 1
Chinese American women -- California -- San Francisco. 1
City planning -- California -- Berkeley. 1
Civil rights demonstrations -- Photographs. 1
Clerks (Retail trade) -- Labor unions -- Organizing. 1
Clippings. 1
Collective bargaining -- Hospitals. 1
Communism -- California. 1
Construction workers -- United States -- California -- Labor unions. 1
Contact sheets. 1
Cotton Pickers -- Photographs. 1
Demonstrations -- California. 1
Filipino American migrant agricultural laborers -- California. 1
General Strike, San Francisco, Calif., 1934. 1
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Organizing. 1
Hospitals -- Employees -- Labor unions. 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works. 1
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -- Pictorial works 1
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union -- History. 1
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. 1
Journalists--Labor unions--California. 1
Labor disputes -- California. 1
Labor disputes -- Cases. 1
Labor leaders -- California -- Interviews. 1
Labor movement -- California -- History. 1
Labor union members -- Portraits. 1
Labor union members -- United States -- Interviews 1
Labor unions -- California -- Modesto. 1
Labor unions -- California -- Oakland. 1
Labor unions -- California -- San Francisco -- Photographs. 1
Labor unions -- Membership -- Photographs. 1
Labor unions -- Merchant seamen -- United States. 1
Labor unions -- Officials and employees 1
Labor unions -- Organizing -- California -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. 1
Longshoremen's Strike, San Francisco, Calif., 1934 1
Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
Merchant mariners -- Labor unions -- United States. 1
Merchant mariners -- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 1
Merchant mariners -- United States. 1
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers -- California. 1
Mexican American women labor union members -- California -- Watsonville. 1
Migrant labor -- California -- San Joachin Valley. 1
Migrant labor -- California. 1
Migrant labor -- Photographs. 1
Negatives. 1
Newspaper employees--Labor unions--California--San Francisco. 1
Pacific Coast Longshoremen's Strike, 1934. 1
Pay equity. 1
Photographic prints -- 1900-1970. 1
Photojournalism. 1
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Names
UNITE HERE. Local 2 (San Francisco, Calif.) 24
Datz-Greenberg, Corey 4
Owen, Bob 4
Shields, Bill 4
Mehta, Riddhi 3
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Owen, Jill 3
Service Employees International Union. Local 250 (San Francisco, Calif.) 3
Inouye, Jessica 2
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union 2
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. Local 6 (San Francisco, Calif.) 2
Lee, Sue Ko 2
Schwartz, Harvey 2
United Farm Workers 2
Wilson, Sarah 2
AFSCME. Local 101 (San Jose, Calif.) 1
Addy, Al 1
Alta Bates-Herrick Hospitals 1
Associated Farmers (Organization) 1
Bardacke, Frank 1
Bay Area Teamster Warehouse Council. (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Bay Area Typographical Union. Local 21 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Bebbisse, Usha 1
Bohner, Ernest 1
Bridges, Harry 1
Burgess, Angi 1
California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 1
Carleto, Alfredo 1
Casey, Mike 1
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993. 1
Chen, Tina 1
Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
Communications Workers of America. District 9 1
Communications Workers of America. Local 9410 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Communications Workers of America. Local 9430 (Foster City, Calif.) 1
Cortez, Antonia 1
Council of Labor Union Women 1
Curia, Patricia 1
Cutter Biological 1
Do, Tho 1
Espinoza, Rafael 1
Farmworker Union and Support Committee 1
Fietinghoff, Gayanne 1
Fletcher, Fred D. 1
Fuentes, Feliz 1
Gilb, Corinne Lathrop, 1925- 1
Hagel, Otto 1
Havenner, Franck, R. 1
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 1
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Order of Repeatermen and Toll Testboardmen. Local 1011 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Local 12 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Local 85 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Local 912 (Watsonville, Calif.) 1
International Labor Defense 1
International Longshore and Warehouse Union--Pictorial works 1
International Longshoremen’s Association 1
International Typographical Union 1
Knighton, Linda 1
Kozono, Gary 1
Kuang, Annie 1
Labriola, Kathy 1
Lapham, Roger D. (Roger Dearborn) 1
Mak, Ringo 1
Manzanar War Relocation Center 1
Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast 1
Matyas, Jennie, 1895-1988 1
Medina, Baltazar 1
Medina, Delia 1
Melnikow, Henry P. 1
Mieth, Hansel 1
Monk, Edgar T. 1
Mooney, Tom 1
Munoz , Humberto 1
Neylan, John Francis, 1885-1960 1
Pacific Maritime Association 1
Powell, Lorraine 1
Ravensi, Bill 1
Retail Clerks International Union 1
Retail Clerks International Union. Local 1100 (San Francisco, Calif.)--Pictorial Works 1
Retail Clerks International Union. Local 648 (San Francisco, Calif.)--Pictorial Works 1
Riggers' and Stevedores' Union. (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
Rosales, Gerson 1
Rush, Aurolyn 1
Sahugan, Sebastian 1
Salmeron, Leslie 1
San Mateo County Central Labor Council 1
Sanchez, John 1
Selvin, David F. 1
Taylor, Jim 1
Teamsters Democratic Union 1
Teamsters Joint Council 7 1
Tejada-Flores, Rick 1
Tobriner, Mathew Oscar, 1904-1982 1
United Healthcare Workers-West 1
University of California, Berkeley 1
University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Industrial Relations 1
Vail, Larry 1
Villanueva, Lorna 1
Werlein-Jaen, Lamoin 1
Wirin, A.L. 1
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