Photograph: On Strike Teamsters Union Local 912

Members of Teamsters Union Local 912 walking the picket line.  From the Santa Cruz County Historic Photograph Collection at UCSC Special Collections.

Questions

  • What does the photograph tell you about the strikers?  What can you infer from this image about who is participating in the strike? 
  • What might the conditions have been for the strikers, walking the daily picket line?

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On Strike Teamsters Union Local 912.  City on A Hill, 26 Sept. 1985, pg. 5.  Santa Cruz County Historic Photograph Collection.  University of California, Santa Cruz.  McHenry Library, Special Collections.