Category: Media Reports
Newspaper, television, and other media reports on L.A. labor.
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Una Causa Justa | A Just Cause

Read more: Una Causa Justa | A Just CauseThis editorial from La Opinion reflects the widespread support for the Justice for Janitors campaign in the Spanish-speaking community of Los Angeles. The writer argues that the janitors’ demands are modest, and that their aggressive campaign reflects a broad dissatisfaction with the power structure in LA. Translated from Spanish by Stephanie Dyer. A Just Cause, […]
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Justice for Janitors 1995 Strike News

Read more: Justice for Janitors 1995 Strike NewsEnglish and Spanish TV news coverage of street actions leading up to the 1995 strike by SEIU Local 399, the Justice for Janitors campaign. The strike came in the wake of the passage of Proposition 187, which imposed severe new restrictions on the rights of undocumented immigrants, and amidst internal turmoil in the union, which […]
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Cleaning Workers to Go on Strike

Read more: Cleaning Workers to Go on StrikeA clipping of a 1990 article describing a Justice for Janitors training held in from of the Los Angeles Police Department. Janitors were preparing to use non-violent civil disobedience in their strike on Bradford Building Services in November of that year. Translated from Spanish by Juan Torres. “Cleaning workers to go on strike” La Opinion, […]