Power from the Past

Memory Work Research Initiative

SEIU Security Officers Action, Sept. 2006

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Workers in purple t-shirts carry a banner reading "Equal rights 4 All Security Officers!!" lead a crowd of demonstrators marching in the street. Behind them is a glass office tour with a "World Savings" logo. A police officer directs traffic. Sunbeams break around the edge of the left hand side of the frame.

Following the success in organizing janitors, SEIU Local 1877 launch the Security Officers of Los Angeles (SOLA) campaign to unionize the growing workforce of private security officers. More images from J4J available in the SEIU-USWW records (Collection 1940), UCLA Library Special Collections.