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Title: Fast for USC Workers
Date Created and/or Issued: 1999
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
Collection: Organizing Los Angeles Workers, 1980-Present
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Rights Holder and Contact: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Scope/Content: Dolores Huerta, Jesse Jackson support USC workers.
Scope/Content: In 1999, UNITE HERE leader Maria Elena Durazo led workers, clergy, and activists in a fast to protest the failure of the University of Southern California (USC) to negotiate with their workers. In an editorial printed in the Los Angeles Times, Durazo compared the fast to those of United Farm Worker leader Cesar Chavez. "How could I ask others to work harder in the labor movement, to take even greater risks for their children and their co-workers, unless I was willing to fast side by side with them?" she wrote in explanation of the fast.
Type: image
Format: JPG image
Identifier: irle_1940_010
Subject: Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Labor union locals--California--Los Angeles
Huerta, Dolores
Jackson, Jesse
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Provenance: UNITE HERE, Local 11
Location: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections

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