Summary Information

Title: Service Employees International Union. Local 100 Records
Inclusive Dates: 1968-1998

Creator:

• Service Employees International Union. Local 100 (New Orleans, La.)

Call Number: M94-001; M2001-179; M2003-071; M2004-131

Quantity: 35.8 c.f., 10 photographs, and 14 negatives

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

See the catalog entry for information of possible additional materials and shelf locations.

Abstract:

Labor organizing files of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100, with headquarters in New Orleans serving Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. SEIU Local 100 started out as the United Labor Organizations in 1980 and quickly became the United Labor Unions, an independent union formed by Hyatt hotel employees with the help of Wade Rathke, chief organizer. The United Labor Unions affiliated with the SEIU Local 100 in 1984. However, since 2009, the United Labor Unions Local 100 is independent again. The collection primarily documents the union's activities and organizing efforts over time, the union's affiliation with ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), other locals, and the Teamsters, Engineers, ACORN Movement (a collaboration between the Teamsters' union, the operating engineers union, and ACORN), the merger between Local 275 and Local 100, and the 1986 boycott of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans through administrative files, memoranda and reports, correspondence, publicity, contracts, and staff files.

Language: English, Spanish

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m94001

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