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March 27, 2025

March is Women’s History Month, and in recognition of the many hardships women face in the workforce, Alison Steichen, 2016 recipient of the Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes Scholarship and a longshore woman herself...

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March 18, 2025

2016 Jugum Scholarship recipient and former Bridges Center student employee Diana Betancourt Macias is this year's recipient of the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) Spark Award.

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March 04, 2025

This insightful report, authored by Annika Tuohey, an undergraduate senior majoring in History, delves into the 1936 Pacific Coast Maritime Workers' Strike. Less recognized than...

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February 28, 2025
Brett Halperin, a PhD student and one of last year’s recipients of the Graduate Labor Research Grant, spoke with Libby Denkmann on KUOW’s public radio...
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February 20, 2025

By April Rubio, Communications Coordinator for the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.

Research is a vital foundation for many universities, including...

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January 29, 2025

The Bridges Center’s Research Team is proud to release the new report “The State of the Student Worker at the University of Washington.”

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January 03, 2025

On Sunday, November 10, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington hosted its annual awards banquet in Seattle.

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December 03, 2024

Srikanth (center) with fellow members of the DEOHS transit study team including (from left) Clinical Assistant Professor Christopher Zuidema, Assistant Professor Marissa Baker,...

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October 29, 2024

The Bridges Center is excited to offer LABOR 480 Labor Studies Research: Applied Research for the Labor Movement again this winter quarter.

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October 17, 2024

Each year, the Harry Bridges Center awards thousands of dollars in scholarships and grants to support inspiring scholars and activists who are pursuing the study...

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