July 25, 2024
Report written by research assistant Anita Zeng
The Harry Bridges Center Research Team would like to thank the Seattle Office of Labor Standards, especially Policy Analyst and affiliated faculty with Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Dr. Shuxuan Zhou, for providing...Read more
July 05, 2024
UW Advising Staff and Continuum College Professional Staff are unionizing with SEIU 925, representing hundreds of workers at the University of Washington.
"We are student-facing Advising Staff at the University of Washington! We are taking action to raise the standards...Read more
June 26, 2024
A letter about Anita from Research Director Rachel Erstad:
I met Anita Zeng in LABOR 480, Applied Labor Research for the Labor Movement, in the Winter quarter of 2023. Anita did great in LABOR 480, doing a workplace analysis of one of her employers and...Read more
June 26, 2024
Congratulations to Marissa Baker, Bridges Center Faculty Associate and DEOHS Assistant Professor, on being awarded the 2024 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award!Read more
June 20, 2024
Inflation and increasing reliance on non-tenured faculty are driving student employees to unionize in Washington and across the country.
written by Ashley Yu for Crosscut PBS
Last month, the UAW 4121 and the UW agreed on a contract that included a significant pay increase for 6,...Read more
June 18, 2024
Sai Ahmed, Bridges Center Assistant Director for Student and Community Engagement, was presented with the John Caughlan Youth Award at the LELO annual awards banquet on June 15, 2024. Each year, this award is presented to a young leader in the labor community who emulates the extraordinary life...Read more
June 13, 2024
On May 31, the Bridges Center concluded the fourth year of its Building a Movement (BAM) internship program with a closing reception. The event showcased the interns' many accomplishments and the host organizations they interned with this year.
BAM was launched in Fall 2021 by the...Read more
May 28, 2024
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO is featuring various Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who are contributing to the labor movement. Today's profile is Ligaya Domingo, Bridges Center Visiting Committee member and president of the Asian Pacific...Read more
May 21, 2024
The 27th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium was held at the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering on Friday, May 17th. Over 1,200 students from UW and partnering institutions presented research spanning more than 100 disciplines.
We're proud of the Bridges Center...Read more
May 16, 2024
At the end of April, the City of Seattle Labor Standards Advisory Commission appointed Dr. Marissa Baker, affiliate faculty of the Bridges Center and Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS). The Commission is comprised of 15 members...Read more