2000 - 2001
CHAIR:- Michael Honey, Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, UW Tacoma
- Steven Marquardt, Assistant Director
- Betsi Beem, Assistant Director
- Sasha Turner, Undergraduate Assistant
- Stephanie Camp, History
- Nikhil Pal Singh, History
- David Olson, Political Science
- Susan Jeffords, Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, ex officio
- Rick Bender, Washington State Labor Council
- Steve Conway, Washington State Representative
- Robert Duggan, Chair of Harry Bridges Memorial Committee
- Guadalupe Gamboa, United Farm Workers
- Jean R. Gundlach, Associate of Harry Bridges
- Jon Halgren, ILWU Local 98
- Fern Halgren, Representative of ILWU Women's Auxiliary
- Michael Herschensohn, Museum of History and Industry
- Ron Judd, AFL-CIO, Western Region Director
- JoAnne Jugum, Daughter of Martin Jugum
- Ian Kennedy, ILWU Local 52
- Phil Lelli, ILWU Local 23
- Ronald Magden, Professor Emeritus of History, Tacoma Community College
- Virginia Roberts, International Machinists Union, Local 751
- Norie Sato, Artist
- Lila Smith, ITF Inspector
- Diane Sosne, Service Employees International Union, 1199
- Bob Swanson, ILWU Local 19
- Val Swegel, ILWU Pensioner
- Eugene Vrana, Director of Educational Services & Librarian, ILWU Library
- Ken Jacobsen, Washington State Senator, 26th Distric (addition)
- Tyree Scott, Activist, Co-founder of LELO (addition)
- Steve Williamson, Executive-Secretary, King County Labor Council (addition)
Best Undergraduate Paper:
- Bryan Rogowsky, for his essay documenting how little most employees could expect from stock options
- April Linton, for research on the affect of immigrants on the metropolitan work force
- Miguel Bocanegra, Political Science
- Kristina Anderson, Political Science
- Vanessa Power, School of Law
- Rick Bender, Washington State Labor Council
- Ron Judd, King County Labor Council
- Richard Peterson, Professor Emeritus in Business
- Nicholas Velluzzi, Geography, for "The Organization of Production in the Southern California-Tijuana Region"
- Roberta Gold, History, for "Postwar Tenant Activism in New York City"
- Betsi Beem, Political Science, for "The Role of Unions in Port Competition"
- David Davies, Anthropology, for "Attitudes of Unemployed Chinese Workers Toward Recent Chinese History"
- Greg Hicks, School of Law, and Devon Peña, Anthropology, for "Work, Landscape, and Culture in the Hispanic Farming Communities of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado"
- Mike Honey, African-American, Labor, and Ethnic Studies, UWT, for "A Labor-based Perspective on Martin Luther King"
- Karen Long, Fiscal Specialist Supervisor, for "The Effectiveness of Non-Affiliation"
Occasional Paper Series:
- Jackie Smith, "Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements," October 2000
- Margaret Levi, Matthew Moe, and Theresa Buckley, "Institutionalizing Conflict: The Transaction Costs of Ameliorating Labor-Management Distrust," December 2000
- Celebration of Harry Bridges' 100th birthday, July 28, 2001. In commemoration, the Center for Labor Studies was formally rededicated as the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies.
- GSEAC/UAW Strike rally with John Sweeney, President of AFL-CIO, October 12, 2000.
- Co-sponsored the 2001 Pacific Northwest National MEChA Region (PNMR) Conference, February 2001. Event was organized by MEChA de UW and featured Angela Davis and Armando Navarro as keynote speakers.
- Grass Roots Organizing Weekend (intensive training for student activists), April 13-14, 2001.
- Forum on Corporate Accountability: UNOCAL & Forced Labor in Burma, May 2, 2001.
- Ian Ruskin presents "From Wharf Rats to Lord of the Docks" in its world premier at the UW Summer Arts Festival.
- "Black Labor and Protest Music in American History" musical series at the Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, in conjunction with the exhibit "This Land is Your Land: the Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie".
- Living Wage Campaign Symposia:
- Russell Sage Foundation gives a $35,000 award to David Olson, Shelly Lundberg, Margaret Levi, Dan Jacoby, Michael McCann and Elaina Rose - Principal Investigators
- A preliminary meeting in spring 2000 (prior to the grant), which Michael Reich, UC Berkeley, attended
- September 2002: The Politics of Living Wages with Stephanie Luce and Bruce Nissen
- January 2003: The Economics of Living Wages with Michael Reich, David Neumark, and Neil Bruce
- "Brown Bag" updates on regional labor issues The Seattle Newspaper Strike," January 18, 2001
- "Transition in the Seattle Area Teamsters," February 27, 2001
2001 - 2002: Expanding the Boundaries of the Labor Movement
CHAIR:- Michael Honey, Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, UW Tacoma
- Steve Marquardt, Director until September 17, 2001
- Kristina Anderson, Director after September 17, 2001
- Michelle Cobban, Sharon Walker, Undergraduate Assistants
- Gillian Murphy, Coordinator, WTO History/Global Citizen Project *
- April Linton, Grants Coordinator *
* supported by grants to HBCLS, not by Bridges Endowment or other HBCLS funds
- Stephanie Camp, History
- Terri Givens, Political Science
- Michael McCann, Political Science
- Nikhil Pal Singh, History
- Susan Jeffords, Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, ex officio
- Rick Bender, Washington State Labor Council
- Steve Conway, Washington State Representative
- Robert Duggan, Chair of Harry Bridges Memorial Committee
- Guadalupe Gamboa, United Farm Workers
- Jean R. Gundlach, Associate of Harry Bridges
- Jon Halgren, ILWU Local 98
- Fern Halgren, Representative of ILWU Women's Auxiliary
- Michael Herschensohn, Museum of History and Industry
- Ron Judd, AFL-CIO, Western Region Director
- Ken Jacobsen, Washington State Senator, 26th District
- JoAnne Jugum, Daughter of Martin Jugum
- Ian Kennedy, ILWU Local 52
- Phil Lelli, ILWU Local 23
- Ronald Magden, Professor Emeritus of History, Tacoma Community College
- Virginia Roberts, International Machinists Union, Local 751
- Norie Sato, Artist
- Lila Smith, ITF Inspector
- Diane Sosne, Service Employees International Union, 1199
- Bob Swanson, ILWU Local 19
- Eugene Vrana, Director of Educational Services & Librarian, ILWU L
- Tyree Scott, Activist, Co-founder of LELO
- Steve Williamson, President, King County Labor Council
- Km Cook, President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 925 (addition)
- Rudy Martinez, President, ILWU Local 19 Pensioner's Association (addition)
- Val Swegel, ILWU Pensioner
Departures:
Martin and Anne Jugum Scholarship:
- Rudy Mendoza, Political Science
- Noah Purcell, Philosophy and Economics
- Natalie Kimball, Latin American Studies
- Patrick Frey, Political Science
- William Gerberding, President Emeritus, University of Washington
- Linda Gould, UW Libraries
- Penelope Huang, Sociology, for "Negotiating Gender, Work, and Family: Unpacking the Family Wage Gap"
- Izik Ozel, Political Science, for "The Impact of Neoliberal Transition Processes on Female Labor in Mexico and Turkey
- Kim Wan Eyck, Geography, for "Neoliberalism and Democracy? The Gendered Restructuring of Work, Unions and Colombian Public Sphere"
- Dan Jacoby, Economics, UWB, for "Contingent Academic Labor in Washington State's Community Colleges"
- Margaret Levi and David Olson, Political Science, for "Union Democracy Reexamined"
- Patrick Rivers, American Ethnic Studies, for "Labor Rights of Sex Workers"
- Gail Dubrow, Associate Dean, Architecture and Urban Planning, for "Interpreting Japanese American Labor History in the Northwest Through Historic Properties
- Building Bridges: Newsletter of the Center for Labor Studies. Volume 8, Fall 2001.
- Grass Roots Organizing Weekend (GROW) 2002
- "New Studies in American Slavery" Conference, sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, co-sponsored by the Bridges Center, and coordinated by Stephanie Camp, former Standing Committee member (May 17, 2002)
- "Women of Color in Labor and Community Struggles" Conference co-sponsored by the Evergreen State College Labor Center, focusing on changing the color and gender of the labor movement, how to build a true labor and community coalition, race, labor, gender, and poverty, and immigrant women changing the workplace.
- Presenters:
- Sharon Harley
- Evelyn Hu-Dehart
- Maria Ontevaros
- Seung-Kyung Kim
- Lynn Bolles
- Francile Wilson
- "Beyond the Boycott: The Future of Worker-Consumer Alliances", partially supported by the journal Politics & Society ($5,000). Produced a special issue of papers with the help of April Linton and appeared in September 2004.
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Spring Speakers Series: "Expanding the Boundaries of the Labor Movement"
- This series presented a rich history of Latina and Latino farm workers. Lecturers: Guadalupe Gamboa, UFW attorney; Elizabeth Salas and Erasmo Gamboa, American Ethnic Studies.
- Kent Wong, Director of the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, and President of United Association for Labor Education gave a talk entitled "Breaking Barriers to Change: Creating a Strong Labor, Immigrant, and Community Movement through Multi-Cultural Organizing".
- Moon-Ho Jung, History, gave a talk on "The Struggles of Asian-American Workers".
- Bill Fletcher, President of TransAfrica, presented "Struggles for Racial and Economic Justice in a Global Context". He also gave a talk at KCLC on "Globalization and Militarization: How U.S. Policy Impacts Workers Here and Around the Globe.
2002 - 2003: The Right to Organize
CHAIR:- Michael Honey, Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, UW Tacoma
- Kristina Anderson, Director
- Sharon Walker, Undergraduate Assistant
- Ellis Goldberg, Political Science
- Moon-Ho Jung, History
- James Gregory, History
- George Lovell, Political Science
- Susan Jeffords, Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, ex officio
- Rick Bender, Washington State Labor Council
- Steve Conway, Washington State Representative
- Robert Duggan, Chair of Harry Bridges Memorial Committee
- Guadalupe Gamboa, United Farm Workers
- Jean R. Gundlach, Associate of Harry Bridges
- Jon Halgren, ILWU Local 98
- Fern Halgren, Representative of ILWU Women's Auxiliary
- Michael Herschensohn, Museum of History and Industry
- Ron Judd, AFL-CIO, Western Region Director
- Ken Jacobsen, Washington State Senator, 26th District
- JoAnne Jugum, Daughter of Martin Jugum
- Ian Kennedy, ILWU Local 52
- Phil Lelli, ILWU Local 23
- Ronald Magden, Professor Emeritus of History, Tacoma Community College
- Rudy Martinez, President, ILWU Local 19 Pensioner's Association
- Virginia Roberts, International Machinists Union, Local 751
- Norie Sato, Artis
- Lila Smith, ITF Inspector
- Diane Sosne, Service Employees International Union, 1199
- Bob Swanson, ILWU Local 19
- Eugene Vrana, Director of Educational Services & Librarian, ILWU Library
- Tyree Scott, Activist, Co-founder of LELO
- Steve Williamson, President, King County Labor Council
- Joe Wenzel, West Coast Committeeman, ILWU (addition)
- Km Cook, President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 925
Departures:
Best Undergraduate Paper:
- Erin Peinado, "Pike Place Market: The Transformation of the Cultural Landmark"
- Roberta Gold, "'So much life': Retrenchment in the Cold War"
- Heather Anderson, Community and Environmental Planning
- Elizabeth Zamora, Political Science
- Dean Grafilo, School of Public Administration
- Tyree Scott, Bridges Center Visiting Committee Member, co-founder of the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO)
- Richard Kirkendall, Professor Emeritus in History
- Meredith Reitman, Geography, for research investigating the sense of belonging by different racial groups in their high-tech workplaces
- Roberta Gold, History, for research on post-World War II tenant activism in New York City
- Kisa Watanabe and Evren Damar, for their research on whether unionization has an impact on Teaching Assistant stipends
- Margaret Levi and David Olson, Political Science, for "Union Democracy Reexamined: The Case of the ILWU"
- Hyojoung Kim, Sociology, for "Making Insurgent Communities: A Study of Suicide Protest and the Unionization of Taxi Drivers in South Korea"
- Moon-Ho Jung, History, for "Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar Production in the Age of Emancipation"
- Building Bridges: Newsletter of the Center for Labor Studies. Volume 9, Fall 2002.
- Margaret Levi, "Inducing Preferences within Organization: The Case of Unions," February 2003
- Labor Against the War panel discussion
- Presenters:
- Ziyad Zaitoun, IFPTE
- Ross Reider, PNLHA
- Clair Franzel, OLA
- Celso Tolman, ILWU
- Lynn Dodson, JWJ
- Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions guest speakers
- Screening of "At the River I Stand," commemorating the 35th Anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior, April 3, 2003
- Students participate in an SEIU Local 6 Justice for Janitors rally in Bellevue the next day
- Louis St Cyr, APRI
- Paul Bigman, ILWU
- Akson Moulanmai
- Maria Fernandez, SEIU Local 6
- Reverend Charleston , APRI
- Speakers:
- Students and Youth Organizing Training and Summer Program April 13, 2003. A free one-day interactive training that teaches basic organizing skills, strategizing, and workplace organizing fundamentals.
- Free Film Screening, They Don't Wear Black Tie (Eles Nao Usam Black Tie) April 24, 2003 with introduction & commentary by John French, Duke University
- Michael Honey addresses 32nd convention of ILWU in San Francisco, April 30
- "Campus Unions: Building For Our Future" Conference attended by several hundred people.
- Union Participants:
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
- Graduate Student Employees Action Coalition (GSEAC/UAW)
- Professional Staff Organization (PSO)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 925
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 1199NW
- Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE/AFSCME) Local 1488
- Also participating:
- Congressperson Jim McDermott, Worker's Rights Board
- Representative Maralyn Chase
- Oscar Eason, former Seattle NAACP President
- Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles
- Port Commissioner Lawrence Molloy
- David Nixon, President of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS)
- Aiko Schaeffer, Director of the Statewide Poverty Action Network (SPAN)
- Bridges Center co-sponsors the 35th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association on May 1, 2003
- Featuring:
- David Montgomery
- Peter Rachleff
- Barbara Dane
- Evelyn and Maya Hu-Dehart
- Approximately 200 people in attendance
- A Dialogue with Labor and Political Leader and Colombian Presidential candidate Luis Eduardo "Lucho" Garzón on Democratic Alternatives to War in Colombia, March 3, 2003
- John French, Duke University, "The Rise of the Brazilian Worker's Party and the Prospects for Lula's Government", April 24, 2003
- "The Brazilian Workers' Party Rise to Power", Lucilene Lira Whitesell, Evergreen State College Labor Education Center, April 29, 2003
2003 - 2004: Solidarity for Social and Economic Justice
CHAIR:- Michael Honey, Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, UW Tacoma
- Sarah Laslett, Director
- Angelita Chavez, Undergraduate Assistant
- David Olson, Political Science
- Moon-Ho Jung, History
- James Gregory, History
- George Lovell, Political Science
- Susan Jeffords, Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, ex officio
- Rick Bender, Washington State Labor Council
- Steve Conway, Washington State Representative
- Robert Duggan, Chair of Harry Bridges Memorial Committee
- Guadalupe Gamboa, United Farm Workers
- Jon Halgren, ILWU Local 98
- Michael Herschensohn, Museum of History and Industry
- Ken Jacobsen, Washington State Senator, 26th District
- JoAnne Jugum, Daughter of Martin Jugum
- Ian Kennedy, ILWU Local 52
- Phil Lelli, ILWU Local 23
- Ronald Magden, Professor Emeritus of History, Tacoma Community College
- Rudy Martinez, President, ILWU Local 19 Pensioner's Association
- Norie Sato, Artist
- Lila Smith, ITF Inspector
- Diane Sosne, Service Employees International Union, 1199
- Bob Swanson, ILWU Local 19
- Eugene Vrana, Director of Educational Services & Librarian, ILWU Library
- Steve Williamson, President, King County Labor Council
- Joe Wenzel, West Coast Committeeman, ILWU
- Larry Hansen, ILWU Local 19 (addition)
- Bob Hasegawa, IBT Local 174, Washington State Representative (addition)
- Verlene Jones, King County Labor Council (addition)
- Robert Rogers, ILWU Local 19 (addition)
- Diane Zahn, UFCW Local 1001, Secretary-Treasure (addition)
- Jean R. Gundlach, Associate of Harry Bridges
- Fern Halgren, Representative of ILWU Women's Auxiliary
- Ron Judd, AFL-CIO, Western Region Director
- Virginia Roberts, International Machinists Union, Local 751
- Tyree Scott, Activist, Co-founder of LELO
Departures:
Best Undergraduate Paper:
- Devin Kelley, Sociology, for "Ages, Regions, Finances & Efficiencies: an Examination of an ILWU Constitutional Amendment and its Affect Upon Union Democracy"
- Trevor Griffey, History, for "No Separate Peace: Militant Protest, Civil Disorder, and the Struggle for Affirmative Action in the Seattle Building and Construction Trades Unions"
- Adam Goodwin, Microbiology & Comparative History of Ideas
- Akson Mounlamai, Geography, Jobs with Justice Organizer
- Philip Lelli, ILWU Local 23
- Ronald Magden, emeritus faculty Tacoma Community College, History
- Maureen Hickey, Geography, for "Bangkok Taxi Drivers: Workers, Migrants and Men in the 'Global' City"
- Brian Mellow, Political Science, for a comparative study of the impacts of three labor movements on state-society relations during the period of initial, national labor federation formation (compares England, the US, and Turkey)
- Gail Dubrow, Urban Design & Planning, Architecture, for book project that addresses labor, class, and ethnicity in the movement to expel Chinese workers from the American west
- James Gregory, History, for research on "The Southern Diaspora: How Black Workers & White Southerners Transformed America"
- Michael Honey, Ethnic, Gender, and Labor Studies, UWT, for "Martin Luther King Jr. and the Memphis Sanitation Strike," an in-depth study of the strike and its consequences for the Labor and Civil Rights movements
- Lisa Hoffman, Urban Studies, UWT, for "Managing Labor in Our Neoliberal Times: Educated Workers & Career Planning in Late-Socialist China"
- Building Bridges: Newsletter of the Center for Labor Studies. Volume 10, Fall 2003.
- Robert Self book launch "American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland", May 7, 2004
- Brown Bag Seminar with Alice McGrath, "The Zoot Suit Riots", October 1, 2003
- "From Wharf Rats to Lord of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges", October 24, 2003
- Play written and performed by Ian Ruskin - Presented at the ACT Theater in Seattle and the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma
- Faculty Seminar with Robin Kelly, November 2003
- Jolom Mayaetik Mayan Women Weavers Cooperative Northwest Tour, April 6, 2004
- Wash-Tec Panel "Outsourcing White Collar Jobs"
- Labor Film Series with IBEW Local 46 and Pepperspray Productions:
- "Salt of the Earth," February 28
- "Matewan," April 20
- "Bread and Roses," June 5
- Co-sponsored MEChA Regional Conference "Empowering la Mujer"
- "From Chaos to Community: Strategies for Social and Economic Justice," First United Methodist Church, Tacoma, May 14-15, 2004
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Keynote Speaker:
- Leslie Braxton, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Seattle Workshops:
- Electoral Politics: Winning in 2004
- Organizing for Universal Healthcare
- Organizing for Peace and Justice: Communities of Faith
- Immigration and Labor
- Labor and Environmental Justice Sponsors:
- A. Philip Randolph Institute
- America in Solidarity
- Associated Ministries
- Centro Latino
- Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
- First United Methodist Church
- Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Coalition
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 23
- Jobs With Justice
- The Evergreen State College Labor Education and Research Center
- National Employment Law Project
- Pierce County Central Labor Council
- Service Employees International Union, Local 1199 NW
- Tacoma People for Peace, Justice & Healing
- Tahoma Auduban Society
- Washington State Labor Council
- Washington Citizen Action
- Fall Lecture Series:
- October 15, 2003 - Tim Ryan: "Strategies for Labor to Address Globalization"
- October 29, 2003 - Mike Honey: "Black Workers and the Freedom Struggle"
- November 12, 2003 - Panel Discussion: Robin Kelley, Nikhil Singh, Mike Honey and Rashmi Chilka: "Resistance and Popular Culture"
- November 24, 2003 - Priti Ramamurthy: "Gender, Labor and Development"
- Robin Kelley Walker Ames Lecture: "Of Jazz and Freedom", November 13, 2003
- Li Qiang "Workers and the Labor Movement: The Current Situation in China" (Li Qiang is Founder and Executive Director of China Labor Watch), November 21, 2003
- Douglas V. Orr: "The Phony Crisis of Social Security, and the Real Crisis in Pensions", January 23, 2003
- Sandy Polishuk: Speaking about her new book "Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila", March 5, 2004
- David Bacon: "Post-War Developments and Challenges in Health Care in Iraq", March 19, 2004
- "What does the Murder of Trade Unionists in Colombia have to do with Free Speech in America?" Luis Adolfo Cardona, a Coca-Cola Union leader forced to flee Colombia, April 8, 2004
- Ed Hunt " Israel's Abuse of Foreign 'Guest' Workers" lecture and film showing, April 22, 2004