The Bridges Center’s Labor Studies Student Association (LSSA) has gotten off to an active start in 2018. The interdepartmental graduate student organization meets regularly to brainstorm ideas for ongoing activism and research , hosts writing groups...Read more
Michael Honey is a history professor at the University of Washington, Tacoma and served as Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies from 2000 to 2004.Read more
On February 1st, multiple MEChA Chapters from the Alto Pacifco region took action on their campuses, discussing immigration reform.
"As MEChA de UW we want to complicate the narrative of immigrants and the undocumented movement. In order to work for everyone in the community we must...Read more
Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer is a Ph.D. student in Political Science whose research focuses on labor unions and the management of public pension funds. As people across...Read more
In the latest video installment of UW TV's Labor Archives series, Bridges Center student Josué Estrada shares his journey towards a PhD degree in history.
Estrada shares his personal story that inspires his desire to help others and his research on the Latinx voting rights movement....Read more
This past April, Jinsook Kim, a female welder who spearheaded the struggle to democratize the Hanjin Shipyard Union in South Korea, met ILWU Local 19 members in Seattle. She visited both the University of Washington and ILWU to accompany a showing of the documentary Island of Shadows...Read more
In April 2017, MEChA de University of Washington hosted the 24th Annual MEChA National Conference at Seattle Central College. Over 600 students, youth, and community members gathered to learn, heal and organize. The theme of the conference this year was “Existence is Resistance: Our...Read more