December 10, 2019
More students, more classes, more resources. 2019 was a big year for Labor Studies at the University of Washington.Read more
November 15, 2019
Attention Huskies! The Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, the state’s largest labor organization which represents some 450,000 union members from more than 600 local unions,...Read more
October 28, 2019
By Nikita Minkin
Beginning as a car-ride conversation between/ two University of Washington students and taking shape over the course of a few weeks, the August 1st Rally Against ICE sought to bring out a diverse cast of people and organizations in the spirit of abolition and freedom...Read more
October 22, 2019
Researched, compiled and published by undergraduates, the publication overviews the rich history of activism and collective struggle at the University of Washington.Read more
October 11, 2019
Maria Blancas, the Harry Bridges Center's Duggan Fellow for 2019 and former recipient of the Domingo and Viernes Scholarship (2005) is awarded the Bullitt Environmental...Read more
October 04, 2019
UW faculty and graduate students presenting works-in-progress on topics related to labor, broadly conceived to include working people everywhere.Read more
September 30, 2019
Just published report explores the link between employment types and worker well-being. Featuring Bridges Center Associate Faculty, Noah S. Seixas (senior author) and Bridges Center...Read more
September 05, 2019
"Domestic workers, mostly immigrant women who work alone behind closed doors, suffer from a chronic lack of visibility," England tells the Washington Post. Read more
September 03, 2019
The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center has just released a report on the economic impact of unions on Washington workers: The Union Effect: Raising Standards for Workers Across Washington. This "first of its kind” document was co-authored by Lee Firori, a graduate student in...Read more
August 20, 2019
The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is pleased to announce the release of Life Histories of Labor and Resilience: 25 years of Casa Latina in Seattle by Yvette Iribe Ramirez and Ricardo Gomez.
This beautiful collection of stories and images is the result of a project...Read more