Abstract Sound recording of interview conducted with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Alfredo Carleto conducted by Jessica Inouye. 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 El Salvador, Carleto served as a busser at the Crowne Plaza Union...

Abstract Sound recording of interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Linda Knighton conducted by Jessica Inouye. 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. Knighton worked as a banquet cook at the Omni Hotel. In her interview, she shares stories...