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. In the distance are various skyscrapers, from left to right, the Crocker Tower, the United California Bank Building (later the Aon Center), the Security Pacific Bank Building (later Bank of America Plaza), and ARCO Plaza.
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1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm. Photographic color slides
Strikes and lockouts Picketing Picket signs Crocker Bank Tower (Los Angeles, Calif.) Skyscrapers Office buildings Municipal employees Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power--Employees ARCO Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bank of America Plaza (Los Angeles, Calif.) Street lights Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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