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Wendy Grove
on 3/25/2008
"From Hollywood to the Docks: Working People March for Better Jobs!," a lecture by
Maria Elena Durazo
, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, will be presented at Glendale Community College on Thursday, April 3 at noon in Kreider Hall.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Durazo was elected executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor in 2006. Currently, she is leading the "From Hollywood to the Docks" campaign, a 28-mile march, April 15 through 17, from Hollywood to San Pedro to raise awareness of the plight of working people and upcoming contract disputes.
Durazo was president of HERE (the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union) Local 11 in Los Angeles in 1989.
In 1996, she became the first Latina elected to HERE International's Executive Board.
From her beginnings as an immigrant Mexican farm worker in the San Joaquin Valley, she has become a leader of the Latino labor and immigrant rights movements.
Under Durazo's leadership, Local 11 won significant citywide hotel contracts in 1992 and 1998, increasing wages and benefits for thousands of hotel workers in Downtown L.A., Beverly Hills and the Westside.
She was named 2001 Woman of the Year by then California Lt. Gov.
Cruz Bustamante.
Durazo was also at the forefront of a national campaign for immigrant rights called the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, modeled after the civil rights movement.
The event is part of the college's observance of Women's History Month.
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