Finding Aid to the Elizabeth Schilling Watsonville Canneries Strike Collection

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Finding Aid to the Elizabeth Schilling Watsonville Canneries Strike Collection

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Newspaper clippings 1985-1988, undated

Physical Description: 8 folders

Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings in this file document California newspaper coverage of the Watsonville cannery strike. The majority of clippings are from the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian and Santa Cruz Sentinel.

box 1, folder 1

1985 May-1985 September

box 1, folder 2

1985 October

box 1, folder 3

1985 November-1985 December

box 1, folder 4

1986 January-1986 April

box 1, folder 5

1986 May-1986 September

box 1, folder 6

1986 October-1986 December

box 1, folder 7

1987

box 1, folder 8

1988, undated

box 1, folder 9

Strike research and interview notes 1985-1987

Scope and Contents

Documents Elizabeth Schilling's research on the strike and food processing industry. Materials include strike timeline, business cards, contact lists, interview notes, reports and data on the cannery industry, wage figures, and miscellaneous memos and newspaper clippings.

box 2, folder 1

Contracts and negotiation reports 1985-1987

Scope and Contents

Includes contract proposals and reports related to collective bargaining between Teamsters Local 912 and Shaw's, Watsonville Canning and Frozen Food, Green Giant, New West Foods, and NorCal Frozen Foods.

box 2, folder 2

Teamsters printed materials 1985-1987

Scope and Contents

Includes flyers, press releases, newsletters, and memos from Teamsters Local 912, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, and Teamsters Local 890.

box 2, folder 3

Canneries printed materials 1985-1987

Scope and Contents

Includes press releases and memos from the Watsonville Canning and Frozen Food Co. and the Conco Corporation.

box 2, folder 4

Community printed materials 1985-1987

Scope and Contents

Documents community responses to the strike. Materials include event flyers, handouts, press releases, and newsletters from groups such as the Watsonville Strike Support Committee, Santa Cruz Strike Support Committee, Progressive Labor Party, International Committee Against Racism (INCAR), Pararo Valley Federation of Teachers, Santa Cruz Central Labor Council, United Labor Community Services, and United Way of Santa Cruz County, as well as religious leaders. Also included is an unattributed anti-union handout.

box 2, folder 5

Strike legal materials 1985-1986

Scope and Contents

Documents legal actions related to the strike, including a filing by Teamsters Local 912 against the Watsonville Police Department, an National Labor Relations Board decision, and a complaint of false arrest by 19 strike supporters.

box 2, folder 6

Watsonville Police Department press releases 1985-1986

box 2, folder 7

Datasearch food processing research 1986 October

Scope and Contents

Documents Elizabeth Schilling's research on Watsonville Canning and Frozen Foods Co. and Conco, including materials regarding debts owed by Watsonville Canning to Wells Fargo.

box 2, folder 8

Garth Conlan v. Wells Fargo research 1986-1990

Scope and Contents

Documents Elizabeth Schilling's research into Castroville farmer Garth Conlan's lawsuit against Wells Fargo for fraud, bad faith, and breach of contract. Wells Fargo was a significant lender to Watsonville Canning and Frozen Food Co.

box 2, folder 9

Western Frozen Food Convention program and directory 1987 February

box 2, folder 10

Norcal/Crosetti Foods merger press kit 1987 September 14

box 2, folder 11

30th anniversary materials 2017

Scope and Contents

This file includes materials commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Watsonville cannery strike, including newspaper articles and invitations for an event at the Watsonville Senior Center.

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