Labor Studies Minor - Courses Currently Offered, Academic Year 2025-2026 The following courses will be offered during the current academic year. More

Farmworker union Familias Unidas Por La Justicia and farm owners packed the Legislature’s hearing rooms to testify. Here’s an Observer fact-check on some claims made during those hearings.

Where did the idea come from to push back against President Trump by holding a general strike? The story takes us back 100 years to shipyard workers

Democratic state Sen. Steve Conway, a liberal lion and unapologetic voice for labor throughout a 34-year career in the Washington state Legislature

Partition and Solidarity: Anticolonial Struggles in the Colonial Present Friday, March 6, 2026 University of Washington, Seattle 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is conducting a survey as a follow up to the State of the Student Worker study conducted in 2023-24. We’re

Annual Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Awards honors labor scholars, activists

Announcing Study & Struggle at UW Bothell. Open to all UW students, faculty, and staff. Please register below to receive the Zoom invite for the event

Please join the Bridges Center in congratulating Maya Cruz on her promotion to Lead Research Analyst! Cruz began working as a Bridges Center Research

The Building a Movement Labor (BAM) Internship is a paid internship program that connects undergraduate students at the University of Washington with

Written by Conor M. Casey for The Stand: For over a century, the workers of the Pacific Northwest have built unions, walked picket lines, and fought

How does fast fashion brand transparency regarding labor practices affect consumer purchasing decisions? This study explores which factors – including

Maya Cruz, researcher at the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, explained the essence of unionization. “You have the right to organize, and it

Rachel Erstad, the research director at the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, explained that the nationwide action represents an exciting

The "996" schedule is 12-hour shifts, 6 days a week and it's captivated Silicon Valley tech leaders. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with academic Margaret