Usha Bebbisse oral history
Scope and Content of Collection
Interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Usha Bebbisse conducted by Riddhi Mehta. 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. A waitress at the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn, Bebbisse was one of two members of the union delegation sent to Europe to work with unions in Europe. Bebbisse met with Chairman Webster of the InterContinental Hotels Group, visited union members in Germany, and demonstrated in the InterContinental Hotel in Paris. In her interview, she describes her experiences abroad and on the picket line, and details how the union maintained support for the contract campaign in the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn following the end of the lockout.
Dates
- 2009 January 9
Creator
- Bebbisse, Usha (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biography/Administrative History
UNITE HERE Local 2 member and waitress at the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn, one of two union delegates sent to Europe as part of the contract campaign leading up to the historic 2004 hotel strike and lock-out in San Francisco that lasted 53 days.
Extent
2 compact disc
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Interview with UNITE HERE Local 2 member Usha Bebbisse conducted by Riddhi Mehta. 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. A waitress at the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn, Bebbisse was one of two members of the union delegation sent to Europe to work with unions in Europe. Bebbisse met with Chairman Webster of the InterContinental Hotels Group, visited union members in Germany, and demonstrated in the InterContinental Hotel in Paris. In her interview, she describes her experiences abroad and on the picket line, and details how the union maintained support for the contract campaign in the Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn following the end of the lockout.
Creator
- Bebbisse, Usha (Person)
- Mehta, Riddhi (Person)
- Title
- Usha Bebbisse 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
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