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Order Number	00160969
Title	DWP employee strike
Photographer	Hankey, Roy.
Collection ID	Roy Hankey Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b123_f1_s8
Date	1974
Physical Description	1 slide : color ; 5x5 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	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.
Description	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. Seen across Hope Street is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and in the distance is the Pacific Telephone Microwave Tower and One Wilshire.
Subject	Strikes and lockouts. Picketing. Picket signs. Theaters. Office buildings. Municipal employees. Streets. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles, Calif.). Madison Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.). One Wilshire (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power--Employees. Hope Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.). Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Albert C. Martin and Associates.
Coverage	1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980
Format	Photographic color slides
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/Inc/1.0
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection