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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy records
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2252
Physical Description:
29.8 Linear Feet
(7 boxes, 27 cartons, and 1 flat box)
Date (inclusive): 1987-2013
Date (bulk): 1996-2006
Abstract: The Tourism Industry Development Council (TIDC), later changed to Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), was founded
in 1993 by Maria Elena Durazo, then president of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 11, Tom Walsh, HERE
Local 814, Father Dick Gillette, Episcopal Church, Kent Wong, UCLA Labor Center, and Madeline Janis-Aparicio, Executive Director,
to address conditions in the Los Angeles tourism industry, a large generator of low wage jobs and poverty in Los Angeles.
The collection consists of correspondence, LAANE campaign ephemera, an extensive press clippings files representing LAANE
activities and/or events of tangential interest to the organization, photographs, a small amount of files documenting administrative
activities, and a small number of fundraising event publications and programs and reports and research prepared by/for LAANE.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
COLLECTION CONTAINS DIGITAL AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains processed digital and audiovisual materials.
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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained
by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue
the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Collection 2252). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2014.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user
interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides
a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive
processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7780072
The Tourism Industry Development Council (TIDC), later renamed Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), was founded
in 1993 by Maria Elena Durazo, then president of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 11, Tom Walsh HERE
Local 814, Father Dick Gillette, Episcopal Church, Kent Wong, UCLA Labor Center, and Madeline Janis-Aparicio, Executive Director,
to address conditions in the L.A. tourism industry, a major generator of low wage employment and poverty. Their original mission
was to improve job quality in the Los Angeles tourism industry and attract tourist to non-traditional destinations of interest.
Over the years LAANE has been involved in a number of social justice campaigns which have helped to bring about social and
economic change in the greater Los Angeles area. In 1995, TIDC proposed and the Los Angeles City Council passed a Worker
Retention Ordinance, which provides airport concession workers (and other employees of city contractors) the opportunity to
remain in their jobs as new companies take over airport contracts such as restaurants and retail stores. In 1996, they facilitated
the creation of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) to engage religious leaders to support low wage workers
throughout California.
Also in 1996, TIDC led a movement for a Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance covering workers employed, contracted with, or receiving
subsidies from the city of Los Angeles or its agencies and leasees. During this time, TIDC adopted its new name, Los Angeles
Alliance for a New Economy, to reflect its expanding mission. Following the implementation of Los Angeles Living Wage Ordinance,
LAANE began Respect at LAX to ensure enforcement of the ordinance. From 1996 to 2002, LAANE organized Santa Monicans Allied
for Responsible Tourism (SMART) to partner with hotel workers in an attempt to create a living wage law in Santa Monica. In
the late 1990s and onward, LAANE won a dozen Community Benefit Agreements (CBAs) for development projects including the Staples
Center expansion (L.A. Live) and the Hollywood and Vine project. In 2004, LAANE built a community coalition to fight a Walmart-Sponsored
Ballot Initiative to build a superstore in Inglewood. In 2005, LAANE began Coalition for a New Century, extending the Living
Wage Ordinance and Tip Protection Ordinance to 2,000 workers in 13 hotels on Century Boulevard, adjacent to the LAX airport.
In 2012, LAANE's Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and Healthy Communities saw the passing of a ballot measure mandating
living wages and tip protection for 2,000 workers at the city's large hotels. Additionally, during this time LAANE focused
on environmental issues through their campaigns Don't Waste L.A. and Repower L.A. Also in 2012, they were involved with the
Construction Careers Policy adopted by the County Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Port of L.A. and the City's Department
of Public Works to guarantee career jobs and training to low-income, people of color, women and other community members. LAANE's
first national effort, the Jobs to Move America campaign sought to improve transit systems and create and retain stable jobs
in the manufacturing sector.
The collection consists of files related to the social justice organization, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE).
The files document a number of LAANE's campaign efforts related to living wage in the Los Angeles and Santa Monica area including
Worker Retention Ordinance, Living Wage Ordinance, and Santa Monica Living Wage among others. Individual files may include
one or more of the following: correspondence, campaign ephemera, and occasional clippings, notes, research, and publications.
Additionally included are photographs, original and photocopied press clippings representing LAANE activities and/or events
of tangential interest to the organization, a small amount of files documenting administrative activities, and a small number
of fundraising event publications and programs, and reports and research prepared by/for LAANE. Notably absent from the collection
are materials documenting LAANE's Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and Healthy Communities, environmental campaigns, and
Construction Careers Policy.
Arranged in the following series:
- Campaign Files
- Madeline Janis Files
- Vivian Rothstein Files
- Administrative Activities
- Foundation Proposals and Reports
- Fundraising Events Publications and Programs
- Reports and Research
- Alliances with Others
- Press Clippings
- Photographs and Ephemera
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Distributive justice -- Archives
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Organization) -- Archives