707 results for: Labor and Labor Unions
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Tunnel workers laughing outside The Appointment, Seattle, February 12, 1990
In this image Metro tunnel workers Rogers Stephenson (left) and Richard Hard share a laugh outside The Appointment, a hangout for tunnel workers. Hard, a pile driver supervisor, is quoted in the Seattle P.I. as commenting, "These tunnel guys, I don't know where they come from, they're fearless." The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (also Metro Bus Tunnel), is a 1.3-mile-long…
ID Number:2000.107.124.35.03
Date:1990
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Jim Lukehart investigating an electrical connection in bus tunnel, Seattle, December 12, 1988
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (Metro Bus Tunnel) is a 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel that runs underneath downtown Seattle. Constructed between 1987-1990, the $455 million tunnel originally built for buses was updated in 2009 to include light rail access.In this image International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) organizer Jim Lukehart (center) stands with a worker in the Metro tunnel. The…
ID Number:2000.107.124.35.06
Date:1988
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Drill removing dirt during Metro Bus Tunnel construction, Seattle, April 30, 1987
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (Metro Bus Tunnel) is a 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel that runs underneath downtown Seattle. Constructed between 1987-1990, the $455 million tunnel originally built for buses was updated to include light rail access in 2009.In this image Frontier Drilling worker Jim Boudreau watches as a huge drill removes dirt from a hole for a soldier pile…
ID Number:2000.107.124.36.01
Date:1987
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Electrician working on tunnel under Pine Street, Seattle, August 20, 1987
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (also Metro Bus Tunnel) is a 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel that runs underneath downtown Seattle. Constructed between 1987-1990, the $455 million tunnel originally built for buses was updated in 2009 to include light rail access. In this image, apprentice electrician Debe Carlton wires a duct bank of PVC pipe to reinforcing steel rebar before forms…
ID Number:2000.107.124.36.04
Date:1987
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Chris Niggas patching Metro tunnel's waterproof membrane, Seattle, May 18, 1988
The Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (Metro Bus Tunnel) is a 1.3-mile-long public transit tunnel that runs underneath downtown Seattle. Constructed between 1987-1990, the $455 million tunnel originally built for buses was updated in 2009 to include light rail access.In this image taken during tunnel construction, Chris Naggas patches a hole in the waterproof PVC membrane installed to keep water from…
ID Number:2000.107.124.37.03
Date:1988
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Joe Garza and others outside worker housing at Golding Farms, Yakima Valley, May 1989
The Braceros program during World War II brought Mexican workers to the Yakima Valley to ease labor shortages, and even after the program ended in 1948, Mexicans and Mexican Americans continued to provide a substantial part of the Valley’s agricultural workforce. By the 1980s, the Yakima Valley was home to large communities of Mexican immigrant workers, as well as their…
ID Number:2000.107.124.38.10
Date:1989
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Roberto Trevino, Seattle, August 20, 1970
In this image, Roberto Trevino, a senior at University of Washington, discusses a summer voter registration drive for Mexican-Americans in Yakima Valley that he headed in his hometown of Granger, Washington. During this same period, Mr. Trevino, along with his brother Carlos Trevino and fellow student Guadalupe Gamboa, formed the first strike organizing committee in the hop fields of Yakima…
ID Number:2000.107.124.40.07
Date:1970
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Nancy Lofurno readying Microsoft product shipments, Bothell, December 19, 1991
Microsoft, a multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington, was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The company moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1979 and incorporated in 1981. The company has grown to become the world's largest software maker and a leader in cloud enterprise technology. In this photo, Microsoft employee Nancy…
ID Number:2000.107.125.10.02
Date:1991
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Workers picketing for better jobs, Seattle, August 29, 1969
This image was taken as African American contractors and workers picketed at the building site of a research facility at the Harborview Medical Center, one of three major projects shut down for two days of non-violent demonstrations. Representatives of the Central Contractors Association, the Black contractors' union, spearheaded the drive for more and better employment opportunities in the construction industry.…
ID Number:2000.107.131.21.10
Date:1969
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Bernardine O'Sullivan working at Boeing, January 15, 1954
In January 1954, Bernardine O'Sullivan, pictured here, was installed as the president of the Local F. Aero-Mechanics Union 751, the first women in the history of the union to hold that position in a local. Bernardine O'Sullivan, a former elementary and high school teacher, started working at Boeing in 1942 as a rivet bucker, and by 1954 was a expert…
ID Number:2000.107.136.28.01
Date:1954