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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

Don Watson oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-watson
Abstract Sound recording of interview with Don Watson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Reviews work-life and activism in Marine Cooks and Stewards, CIO, late 1940s-early 1950s; and in ILWU, 1955-1993; remembers waterfront screening, McCarthy period; recalls Jimmy Herman and racial integration of Local 34, early 1960s; led ILWU efforts to aid California farm workers' union movement, 1960s-1970s; Secretary-Treasurer, Northern California District Council, ILWU, 1982-1993; co-founded Bay Area Labor History...
Dates: 1994 March 11-April 21

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

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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UNITE HERE. Local 2 (San Francisco, Calif.) 24
Schwartz, Harvey 17
American Federation of Teachers 5
Bakalinsky, Adah 5
California Faculty Association 4
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Datz-Greenberg, Corey 4
Owen, Bob 4
Shields, Bill 4
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union 3
Mehta, Riddhi 3
Owen, Jill 3
Arnautoff, Victor Michail, 1896-1979 2
Cherny, Robert W. 2
Communist Party of the United States of America 2
Inouye, Jessica 2
International Longshore and Warehouse Union 2
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. Local 6 (San Francisco, Calif.) 2
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union 2
Selvin, David F. 2
Solomon, Eric 2
Wilson, Sarah 2
Alexander, Robert 1
American League Against War and Fascism 1
Bebbisse, Usha 1
Beck, Judith 1
Bohner, Ernest 1
Bonfield, Lynn 1
Bridges, Harry 1
Brotsky, Allan 1
California Federation for Civic Unity 1
California Labor School 1
California Nurses Association 1
Carleto, Alfredo 1
Casey, Conor 1
Casey, Mike 1
Cate, Sandra 1
Chen, Tina 1
Chinese Ladies' Garment Workers' Union 1
Cortez, Antonia 1
Cuenod, Carol 1
De Losada, Dorothy Elizabeth 1
DeLappe, Pele 1
Do, Tho 1
Espinoza, Rafael 1
Euster, Joanne 1
Fletcher, Fred D. 1
Flynn, Noriko Sawada Bridges 1
Fuentes, Feliz 1
Gilb, Corinne Lathrop, 1925- 1
Havenner, Franck, R. 1
Hirsh, Fred 1
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 1
Industrial Workers of the World 1
International Brotherhood of Teamsters 1
International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America 1
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Local 10 (San Francisco, Calif.) 1
International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Northern California District Council. 1
International Typographical Union 1
Jenkins, David 1
Kendall, Lucy 1
Knighton, Linda 1
Kozono, Gary 1
Kuang, Annie 1
Lapham, Roger D. (Roger Dearborn) 1
Lathen, Stanley 1
Lee, Sue Ko 1
Liebes, Richard 1
Mak, Ringo 1
Martin, Molly 1
Matthews, Glenna 1
Maupin, Joyce 1
Meadows, Jerrie 1
Medina, Baltazar 1
Medina, Delia 1
Melnikow, Henry P. 1
Mitford, Jessica 1
Mixer, Madeline H. 1
Modern Times Bookstore 1
Mooney, Tom 1
Munoz , Humberto 1
Neylan, John Francis, 1885-1960 1
Nicolopolus, Tom 1
Olson, Leon 1
Pacific Maritime Association 1
Payne, Perley 1
Peace and Freedom Party (Calif.) 1
Petric, Faith 1
Pinsky, Paul 1
Powell, Lorraine 1
Radcliff, Peter, 1932- 1
Randolph, Julian F. 1
Retail Clerks International Union 1
Rosales, Gerson 1
Rush, Aurolyn 1
Sailors' Union of the Pacific 1
Salmeron, Leslie 1
Sampson, Timothy J. 1
San Francisco State University. Labor Archives and Research Center 1
Sanchez, John 1
Service Employees International Union 1
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