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Elizabeth Schilling Watsonville canneries strike collection

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Identifier: larc-ms-0428
Abstract This collection includes materials collected and produced by journalist Elizabeth Schilling in the course of researching and reporting on the Watsonville canneries strike between 1985 and 1988. Materials include Schilling's research and interview notes; newspaper clippings documenting the strike and its aftermath; flyers, leaflets, newsletters, and press releases from Teamsters Local 912, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Shaw's, Watsonville Canning and Frozen Foods Co, and community...
Dates: 1985-1988, 2017

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 250 records, additions

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Identifier: larc-ms-0318
Abstract Consists of the records of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 250. Collection includes material related to the following subjects: arbitration proceedings and grievance cases from various hospitals; correspondence, with Eden Hospital and Affiliated Hospitals, Hillhaven, Alta Bates and Beverly; Affiliated Hospitals strike material, 1988; research and informational files on Associated Hospitals, Affiliated Hospitals, EMS Division and Beverly; Hillhaven organizing, strike and...
Dates: 1954 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1965 - 1999

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers-West records

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Identifier: larc-ms-0341
Abstract This collection is comprised of the Northern California records of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers-West, and its predecessor Union Local 250. Records date from 1934-2010 (photocopied material only for 1934 -circa 1950). Materials primarily document the organization's activity from 1990 to 2008, and include executive and administrative files; union organizing files; contract negotiations; collective bargaining agreements with hospitals, convalescent...
Dates: 1934 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2008

Peter Shapiro Watsonville Canneries Strike Interviews

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Identifier: larc-oh-shapiro
Dates: 2009-2014

Jim Taylor oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-taylor
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Jim Taylor. 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. Taylor served as a banquet bartender at the Palace and Hilton hotels. In his interview, Taylor describes his experience as a...
Dates: 2009 January 30

Unassigned

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Identifier: larc-srp-0007
Scope and Contents Scrapbook containing newsclippings documenting a strike in 1941-1942 by the Retail Clerks Local No. 1273 (Modesto, Calif.) and secondary boycotts affecting farmers' deliveries. Clippings document the escalation of the strike and the secondary boycott of drivers refusing to deliver "hot cargo" from farmers through advertisements by The Associated Farmers of Stanislaus County, the Mosedto Citizen's Commitee and the Stanislaus Central Labor Council; the fight, though local, was seen as a more...
Dates: unassigned

Lorna Villanueva oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-villanueva
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Lorna Villanueva conducted by Corey Datz-Greenberg. 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. Villanueva served as a union shop steward and inspector at the Grand Hyatt San...
Dates: 2009 January 5

Mariana Wong oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-wong
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 union field representative for the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Mariana Wong, conducted by Bill Shields. 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, Wong, originally from Hong...
Dates: 2009 March 2

Elaine Black Yoneda collection

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Identifier: larc-ms-0107
Abstract Consists of the papers of Elaine Black Yoneda and research material gathered by author Vivian McGuckin Raineri in the course of writing the biography, Red Angel: The Life and Times of Elaine Black Yoneda. Collection includes correspondence from Manzanar, duplicates of FBI files, subject files regarding the San Francisco 1934 General Strike and Tom Mooney, a manuscript history of International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Auxiliary No. 16, transcripts of oral...
Dates: circa 1900-1991, bulk 1930-1988; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1988

Sam Zeher oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-zeher
Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 union field representative Sam Zeher conducted by Jill Owen. 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. Zeher worked as a union field representative for the St. Francis, the Handlery, and...
Dates: 2009 February 5

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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
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Labor disputes -- Cases. 1
Labor leaders -- California -- Interviews. 1
Labor movement -- California -- History. 1
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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
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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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