Tag: 1991
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Peter Olney remembers life as an organizer
Read more: Peter Olney remembers life as an organizer“So I started working for the union in, like, April of 1991, and I’ll never forget meeting with Jono [Shaffer] a couple weeks before I started. He said, “You know Peter, here at the Janitors, we expect you to mobilize probably five hundred workers every week to march.” I was like, “Say what?” You know, I worked for the furniture workers a whole year. We never mobilized more than a hundred of our members for…
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Building sustainable peace in Guatemala, the union perspective
Read more: Building sustainable peace in Guatemala, the union perspectiveFrom the 1970s to the 1990s, the Central American nations of El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala experienced civil war, government-sponsored death squads, and genocide. Many who fled the violence settled in Los Angeles were they joined other immigrant workers in low-wage service sector jobs, and became part of the unionization drives of the 1990s. Immigrants workers then mobilized their unions in support of the peace process by welcoming visiting delegations and lobbying federal officials. This…
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Press Release Commenting on Beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police
Read more: Press Release Commenting on Beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles policeLocal 399 condemned the LAPD beating of Rodney King, while connecting it to the LAPD attacks on a Justice for Janitors demonstration in Century City on June 15. The press release reflects the suspicion that working people and communities of color held for the LAPD during the late ’80s and early ’90s and supports demands for civilian oversight and accountability in the LAPD. Watch: an “Eyewitness Account: J4J in Century City, 1990″ here. From the…