Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy records, 1987-2013, bulk 1996-2006

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Summary

Creators:
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Organization)
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.
Extent:
29.8 linear feet (7 boxes, 27 cartons, and 1 flat box), 1 born-digital carriers (1 hard drive), 0.4 linear feet (1 unprocessed document box), and 261 Gigabytes (952 files, 108 folders)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[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.

Background

Scope and content:

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.

Biographical / historical:

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.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2014.
Processing information:

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Arrangement:

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

Physical / technical requirements:

COLLECTION CONTAINS DIGITAL AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains processed digital and audiovisual materials. All requests to access digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

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.
Physical facet:
Transferred from 1 hard drive.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

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Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

[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.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
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