2008 - 2009
CHAIR:- James Gregory, History
- Andrew Hedden, Program Coordinator
- Mayra Rangel, Undergraduate Assistant
- Glennys Young, History, International Studies
- Mark Smith, Political Science
- Lynn Thomas, History
- Susan Whiting, Political Science
- Richard Austin, President, Pacific Coast Pensioner's Association of the ILWU
- Rick Bender, Washington State Labor Council
- Steve Conway, Washington State Representative
- Kim Cook, President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 925
- Robert Duggan, Chair of Harry Bridges Memorial Committee
- David Freiboth, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of M.L. King County Labor Council
- Guadalupe Gamboa, United Farm Workers
- Jon Halgren, ILWU Local 98
- Jean R. Gundlach, Associate of Harry Bridges
- Jon Halgren, ILWU Local 98
- Larry Hansen, ILWU Local 19
- Ted Hansen, ILWU Local 19
- Bob Hasegawa, IBT Local 174, Washington State Representative, 11th District
- Michael Herschensohn, Museum of History and Industry
- Ken Jacobsen, Washington State Senator, 26th District
- Verlene Jones, King County Labor Council
- JoAnne Jugum, Daughter of Martin Jugum
- Ian Kennedy, ILWU Local 52
- Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Washington State Representative, 36th District
- Ronald Magden, Professor Emeritus of History, Tacoma Community College
- Rudy Martinez, President, ILWU Local 19 Pensioner's Association
- Ross Rieder, President of Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
- Robert Rogers, ILWU Local 19
- Lila Smith, ITF Inspector
- Conrad Spell, President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union
- Eugene Vrana, Director of Educational Services & Librarian, ILWU Library
- Joe Wenzel, West Coast Committeeman, ILWU
- Richard Gurtiza, Inlandboatmen's Union
- Terri Mast, Inlandboatmen's Union (addition)
- Emily Van Bronkhorst, SEIU 1199 (addition)
- Harry Hillard, ILWU Local 23
- Diane Sosne, Service Employees International Union, 1199
Departures:
Best Undergraduate Paper:
- Vi.L. Nahn, Political Science and International Studies, “Press Openness in China: A Comparative Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Labor Disputes”
- April Nishimura
- Lila Zucker
- Aaron Verzosa, Linguistis and Physiology
- Dean Aufseeser, Geography
- Jean Gundlach, former Secretary of Harry Bridges
- Christopher Benoit, School of Law, “Recruitment Abuses in the United States Guest Worker Program”
- Coleen Carrigan, Anthropology, “The Contradictions of Reproductive Labor in Bahia, Brazil”
- Tabitha Hart, Communication, “Intercultural Customer Service in Indian Call Centers”
- Sarah Veele-Brice, Health Services, “An exploratory study of the perception and reality of workplace physical and emotional violence against correctional nurses”
- Matt Barreto, Political Science, “Latinos, Labor, and New Campaign Dynamics”
- Nancy Beaudet, Occupational and Environmental Medicine; Professor Dan Jacoby, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell; Professor Catherine Karr, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, “Workplace Hazards and Conditions Associated with Child Labor in Vietnam”
- Mark Smith, Political Science, “Religious Preferences and Economic Views in Contemporary America: The Potential for Interfaith Alliances”
- Matt Barreto, Political Science, “Latinos, Labor, and New Campaign Dynamics”
- Kim England, Geography; Anna Haley-Lock, Social Work, “Mapping the Balance Between Earning and Caregiving: The Space-Time Constraints and Workplace Flexibility of Urban Professionals”
- Margaret Levi, Political Science, “ILWU Contract Negotiations: The Confluence of State-Level Politics, Economics and Labor
- Building Bridges: Newsletter of the Center for Labor Studies. Volume 18, Fall 2008.
- Building Bridges: Newsletter of the Center for Labor Studies. Volume 19, Spring 2009.
- October 20, 2008 - Carlos Euceda of the Mexico Solidarity Network addressed the United States' new "Plan Mexico".
- October 29, 2008 - Gustavo Vilchis, a journalist from Mexico, discussed the book Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca.
- October 30, 2008 - Prof. John Hammerback, "The Rhetorical Career of Cesar Chavez".
- November 6, 2008 – Screened Present In All That We Do, a documentary film on Anti-Asian riots in Bellingham, WA in 1907.
- November 12, 2008 – Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change.org, discussed his new book, The Green Collar Economy.
- November 18 and 19, 2008 – Screened Made in L.A. with director Almudena Carracedo, an Emmy-winning film that follows the story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they fight to win basic labor protections from a mega-trendy clothing retailer.
- November 20, 2008 - Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Annual Awards Celebration.
- November 24, 2008 - Elmer Labog, renowned Philippine labor leader. In Seattle as part of North American speaking tour, Labog spoke to students and others at the UW. He has worked full-time for the Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement), the largest and most militant labor center in the Philippines, for the past twenty five years, and he became its chairperson in 2003. He has given speeches in labor conferences in Thailand, Australia, Korea, South Africa, India, Turkey, Taiwan, and Canada.
- January 8, 2009 - Prof. Peter Turnbull gave a talk titled "Market Liberalization and Labor in the European Union: Tales from the Transport Sector".
- January 28, 2009 - Nationally recognized author and photo-journalist David Bacon discussed his book, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008).
- February 6, 2009 - Howard Kimeldorf (Sociology, University of Michigan), author of Battling for American Labor and Reds or Rackets? presented a talk entitled "Rethinking American Labor".
- February 7, 2009 – 1919 Seattle General Strike Anniversary Celebration.
- February 25, 2009 –Dr. Kimberly L. Phillips, "Will the Battlefield Kill Jim Crow? Balck Freedom Struggles in the Korean War Epoch".
- March 27, 2009 - Ian Ruskin performed From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Dock, his famed one-man play on the life and times of Harry Bridges, as part of the Organization of American Historians National Conference.
- March 28, 2009 - James Gregory, Harry Bridges Chair in Labor Studies, presented Teaching a City its Civil Rights History: The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project.
- April 9, 2009 - Let Us Eat! Food Security, Trade and Migration in the U.S. and Mexico as NAFTA Turns 15, a penel of civic leaders and community members to look at the impacts of trade and immigration policies on communities in the US, Mexico and beyond.
- April 28, 2009 - Dr. Greg Mallory discussed Rebels Within the Rebellion: A Comparative Biographical Study of the Leadership of Harry Bridges, Ted Roach and Jack Mundey.
- May 14, 2009 - An evening with the Republic Windows Workers of the renowned UE Sit-Down Strike in Chicago.
- May 20 and 21, 2009 – Bill Fletcher, Jr.: "Building a Labor Movement With Change We Can Believe In".
- May 29, 2009 – Hwasook Nam, Building Ships, Building a Nation.
- June 12, 2009 – David Kusnet, author of Love the Work, Hate the Job, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association conference.
2009 - 2010
CHAIR:- James Gregory, History
- Andrew Hedden, Program Coordinator
- Katelynn Sortino, Undergraduate Assistant
- Glennys Young, History, International Studies
- Mark Smith, Political Science
- Lynn Thomas, History
- Michael McCann, Political Science
- Susan Whiting, Political Science
Departures:
- Richard Austin, President, Pacific Coast Pensioner's Association of the ILWU
- Rick Bender, Washington State Labor Council
- Emily Van Bronkhorst, Executive Vice President, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW
- Steve Conway, Washington State Representative
- Kim Cook, President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 925
- Robert Duggan, Chair of Harry Bridges Memorial Committee
- David Freiboth, Executive Secretary-Treasurer of M.L. King County Labor Council
- Guadalupe Gamboa, United Farm Workers
- Richard Gurtiza, Regional Director, Inlandboatman's Union Region 37
- Jon Halgren, ILWU Local 98
- Ted Hansen, ILWU Local 19
- Bob Hasegawa, IBT Local 174, Washington State Representative, 11th District
- Michael Herschensohn, Museum of History and Industry
- Ken Jacobsen, Washington State Senator, 26th District
- Verlene Jones, King County Labor Council
- JoAnne Jugum, Daughter of Martin Jugum
- Ian Kennedy, ILWU Local 52
- Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Washington State Representative, 36th District
- Ronald Magden, Professor Emeritus of History, Tacoma Community College
- Rudy Martinez, President, ILWU Local 19 Pensioner's Association
- Terri Mast, Inlandboatmen's Union
- Ross Rieder, President of Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
- Robert Rogers, ILWU Local 19
- Lila Smith, ITF Inspector
- Conrad Spell, President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union
- Eugene Vrana, Director of Educational Services & Librarian, ILWU Library
- Joe Wenzel, West Coast Committeeman, ILWU
- Robert McEllrath, President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (addition)
- Herald Ugles, former President, ILWU Local 19 (addition)
- Jean R. Gundlach, Associate of Harry Bridges
- Larry Hansen, ILWU Local 19
Departures:
Best Undergraduate Paper:
- George Robertson, History, “Brotherhood across the sea: Black internationalism and transnational labor solidarity in the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, 1945-1955”
- Jon Agnone, Sociology, “Racial Inequality in Wealth: Do Labor Unions Matter?”
- Laura O'Neill
- Matt Reed
- Lila Zucker, Sociology
- David Giles, Anthropology
- Ian Kennedy, former President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 52
- Margaret Levi, Political Science, “The Past and Future of Health Coverage in the US”
- Building Bridges: Newsletter of the Center for Labor Studies. Volume 19, Fall 2009
- October 5, 2009: Proffessor Kent Wong discussed his book Underground Undergrads: Undocumented UCLA Immigrant Students Speak Out.
- October 29, 2009: Marilyn P. Watkins and Gabriel Nishimura presented the Economic Opportunity Institute’s new report, ‘Losing By Degrees: Rising Costs and Public Disinvestment in Higher Education’
- November 10, 2009: ‘Dreams and Nightmares,’ a documentary about Lincoln Bridgade veteran Abe Osheroff was shown as part of the “Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After” series. A panel discussion which included UW professors Anthony Geist and Mark Jenkins alongside Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives chair Peter Carroll was held afterwards.
- November 11, 2009: Mark Jenkins presented scenes from his play ‘From Seasons Such As These,’ depicting a UW student who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War.
- November 12, 2009: Peter Carroll, author of the book The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, discussed Ernest Hemingway and the American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
- November 15, 2009: The 2009 Bridges Center Annual Awards Celebration was held in Kane Hall.
- November 17, 2009: Professor Dan Jacoby gave a lecture entitled ‘Graduate Student Unions and the Apprenticeship Metaphor: How do we think about academic labor?’ as part of the Labor, Knowledge and the Economy Working Group seminar series.
- November 18, 2009: A concert entitled ‘Hard-Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People: Songs from the Great Depression to the Great Recession’ was held at UW Tacoma.
- December 3, 2009: ‘This is What Democracy Looks Like,’ a documentary about the 1999 protests against the WTO meeting in Seattle was shown in conjunction with the Museum of History and Industry.
- December 10, 2009: A screening of ‘Argentina: Hope in Hard Times’ was followed by a Q&A with the Seattle-based filmmakers.
- December 17, 2009: The film ‘The Yes Men’ was shown at the Henry Art Gallery.
- January 12, 2010: The ‘Labor Futures: 2010 and Beyond: The Road Ahead for Organized Labor’ was held with panelists David Freiboth, James Gregory, David Rolf, Gina Neff, and Dan Jacoby. Part of the Labor, Knowledge and the Economy Working Group series.
- January 14, 2010: John Duda, editor of Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of Spokane - Fighting for Free Speech with the Hobo Agitators of the Industrial Workers of the World, discussed the book.
- January 14, 2010: The film ‘Butte, America: The Saga of a Hard Rock Mining Town’ was shown at the Museum of History and Industry
- January 21, 2010: Professor David Roediger from the University Illinois gave a lecture entitled ‘Race and the Management of Labor in US History.’
- January 26, 2010: Professor JW Harrington from the UW Department of Geography spoke about ‘Individualization of Risk among Software Professionals.’ Part of the Labor, Knowledge and the Economy Working Group series.
- January 28, 2010: Professor Richard Locke, from the MIT Department of Political Science, presented his talk ‘Justice Beyond Compliance: Improving Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains.’
- February 2, 2010: As part of the Labor, Knowledge and the Economy Working Group series, Professor Amy Hagopian of the UW Department of Global Health spoke about ‘How U.S. Policy Lures Physicians from Low-Income Countries to Practice in Underserved Communities.’
- February 5, 2010: Jack O'Dell and Nikhil Pal Singh discussed their book Climbin' Jacob's Ladder: The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O'Dell.
- February 9, 2010: Gina Neff from the UW Department of Communication spoke about ‘Media Labor in the Age of YouTube.’ Part of the Labor, Knowledge and the Economy Working Group series.
- February 23, 2010: American Association of University Professors General Secretary Gary Rhoades gave a Labor, Knowledge and the Economy Working Group seminar entitled ‘Unions: A collective, independent faculty voice for a public university.’
- February 23, 2010: Spanish judge and human rights advocate Baltasar Garzón gave a talk on ‘Human Rights and Historical Memory.’
- February 25, 2010: Garret Brown, coordinator of the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network, spoke about ‘Why global supply chains are full of sweatshops... and how we can end them.’
- March 5, 2010: Professor Michael Honey gave a lecture called ‘Where Do We Go From Here? Martin Luther King's Last Campaign and Unfinished Agenda in the Era of Obama.’
- April 6, 2010: Michael Eisenscher of US Labor Against the War gave a talk on ‘Labor's Stake in Ending the Afghan War.’
- April 8, 2010: For the Labor, Knowledge and the Economy Working Group series, Professor Manuel Castells of the University of Southern California gave a lecture on ‘Social Mobilization in the Information Age.’
- April 28, 2010: Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia, former workers at a Nike factory, spoke about the controversy surrounding the closing of two Nike factories in Honduras. The event also commemorated the victory of workers and activists in pressuring Russell Athletic to re-open a factory that was closed when employees formed a union.
- May 20, 2010: The film ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ was shown as part of the series ‘Lives, History, Memory: The Spanish Civil War, 70 Years After.’
- May 25, 2010: Professor Julie Greene of the University of Maryland Department of History gave the lecture ‘Empire and the Making of Nations: The Panama Canal's Construction and the History of the Americas.’
- May 25, 2010: New York University art historian Jordana Mendelson spoke about ‘History on Display: Context, Controversy, and Picasso's 'Guernica.’
- July 19, 2010: Professor Peter Donahue of the Birmingham- Southern College in Alabama read and spoke about his book Clara and Merritt.