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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy records
source:
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Organization)
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2252
Identifier/Call Number: /repositories/2/resources/3034
Physical Description:
29.8 linear feet
(7 boxes, 27 cartons, and 1 flat box)
Physical Description:
1 born-digital carriers
(1 hard drive)
Physical Description:
0.4 linear feet
(1 unprocessed document box)
Physical Description:
261 Gigabytes
(952 files, 108 folders)
Transferred from 1 hard drive.
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
.
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on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2014.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
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.
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History
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.
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.
Organization and 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
Online Items Available
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Distributive justice -- Archives
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Organization) -- Archives
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (Organization)