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Title: Celia Talavera Interview
Creator: Celia Talavera
Virginia Espino
Date Created and/or Issued: March 9.2016
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
Collection: UNITE HERE Local 11 Oral History Project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Copyright UC Regents and UNITE HERE Local 11. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Rights Holder and Contact: UC Regents, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment 10945 Le Conte Ave, Suite 2107 Los Angeles, CA 90095. UNITE HERE Local 11 464 South Lucas Avenue, Suite 201 Los Angeles, CA 90017
Description: Biography/History: Celia Talavera was born in Michoacán, México. She married and had children there before coming to the United States with her family in 1988 and settling in Los Angeles. She has worked several jobs in the hospitality industry. Since 1999 she has worked at Loew’s Hotel in Santa Monica and between 2000 and 2005, she helped lead the union organizing campaign there. Celia has four children; three have graduated from college and, at the time of the interview, the fourth was in middle school.
Scope/Content: Interview Contents: Life in México — Decision to come to the United States and difficulties with immigration status — Struggles to support her children — Cleaning condominiums in Torrance and getting fired for taking maternity leave — Working at a union hotel — How union benefits improved her family’s health care coverage — Starting at Loew’s Hotel in Santa Monica in 1999 — Five-year campaign to organize Loew’s — Direct actions — Speaking to the city council after layoff of workers in the wake of September 11, 2001 — Becoming a shop steward — Qualities of a good leader — Impact of her work with the union on her family life — Husband’s reluctance to support her role in the union —Local 11’s support of undocumented workers.
Type: moving image
Form/Genre: Oral histories
Extent: 0:47:57
Language: Spanish
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Subject: Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Labor union locals--California--Los Angeles
Celia Talavera
UNITE HERE (Organization)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Santa Monica (Calif.)

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