Alfredo Carleto oral history
Scope and Content of Collection
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 Square. In his interview, he describes his experience as a picket line captain during the strike.
Dates
- 2009 January 5
Creator
- Carleto, Alfredo (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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Biography/Administrative History
UNITE HERE Local 2 member and busser at the Crowne Plaza Union Square, originally from El Salvador, served as a picket line captain during the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days.
Extent
1 compact disc
Language of Materials
English
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 Square. In his interview, he describes his experience as a picket line captain during the strike.
Additional collection guides
Acquisition Information
Interview conducted by Jessica Inouye, 2009.
Creator
- Carleto, Alfredo (Person)
- Inouye, Jessica (Person)
- Title
- Alfredo Carleto Oral History
- Author
- Finding aid created by Marissa Friedman
- Date
- 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu