December 2009
December 2009
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Rose Pesotta: Knowing a Woman’s Place
On September 15, 1933, a young, New York labor organizer by the name of Rose Pesotta landed in Los Angeles. Pesotta once worked in Southern California where she had been discharged from a garment factory and blacklisted for union activity. Now Pesotta was returning at the request of garment workers to organize their industry. Within […]
read more »Member of the Week: Bruce Reeves
Bruce Reeves of Ralphs #154, has been a member of the Executive Board since just after the strike/lock-out of 2003/04. Reeves started as a courtesy clerk in 1979 working his way through to the meat department as a meat cutter. Funny enough, his first ever-union rep was our president, Greg Conger. As a single dad […]
read more »Member of the Week: Doris Barlow
Doris Barlow of Vons #2041 is a member of the Executive Board and a union steward. Barlow has been in the industry for 39 years working her way up from a traffic controller to cashiering where she is today. When asked what inspired her to get more involved she said, “I wanted to try to […]
read more »Member of the Week: Laurinda Fiddler
Laurinda Fiddler has become synonymous with Union inside the gates of Disneyland. It is a fitting distinction considering that many in the union’s Buena Park headquarters describe Fiddler as “the face of Disneyland,” as one employee put it. She has been a union steward at Disney for several years and currently sits on the Local […]
read more »Member of the Week: Charles Swain
Charles Swain of Albertsons #6110, has been a member of the Executive Board since July of 2008. When asked what inspired him to get more involved he said: “I grew tired of watching more workers not getting involved in their union.” Swain has been in the industry for 30 years, working his way up from […]
read more »Member of the Week: Tony Campanello
Tony Campanello of Ralphs #73, has been a member of the Executive Board since January 2005 When asked what inspired him to get more involved: “Being locked out by my employer during the 2003/04 strike/lockout (and treated unfairly upon my return) awoke in me the spirit which had been instilled in me by my mother […]
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