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Title
DWP employee strike
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Hankey, Roy
Date Created and/or Issued
1974
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
This four-day strike was the first one against the Department of Water & Power (DWP) in over 30 years. All of the unions, AFL-CIO, IBEW, and EAA, representing the various DWP employees, successfully negotiated package increase agreements for their members. In addition, once the strike ended, employees restored power to over 12,000 residents in Sherman Oaks and Woodland Hills who had been experiencing an outage for the duration of the strike.
Employees of the Department of Water & Power (DWP), as members of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 18, picket outside the department's headquarters in July 1974. The Security Pacific Bank Building (later the Bank of America Plaza) is prominently present in the image.
Type
Image
Format
1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Photographic color slides
Identifier
00160959
Roy Hankey Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b123_f1_s8
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/134416
Subject
Strikes and lockouts
Picketing
Picket signs
Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Office buildings
Skyscrapers
Municipal employees
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power--Employees
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period
1971-1980
Source
Hankey, Roy.

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