733 results for: Labor and Labor Unions
Poster
"Labor in the Philippines" poster, September 1985
This poster promotes a presentation about the Philippine labor movement and the Kilusang Mayo Uno (May 1st Movement) or KMU, held on September 24, 1985 at the Labor Temple in Seattle. Maynardo Palarca, leader of the Center of Nationalist Trade Unions In Mindanao (CENTRUM), spoke about the organization's role in a one-day general strike on the island of Mindanao to…
ID Number:2002.23.2.15.1.1
Date:1985
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We will take only...Sew Much! newsletter, September 1975
The newsletter shown here was produced by The Sew Much, a national organization of garment workers that fought for higher pay and more favorable union contracts. The newsletter, written in both English and Japanese, calls for changes to the local garment workers’ union in Seattle. Specifically, it opposes a proposed increase in dues from $5.00 to $6.50 and proposes lowering…
ID Number:2002.23.3.43.1
Date:1975
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We will take only...Sew Much! newsletter, February 1975
The newsletter shown here was produced by The Sew Much, a national organization of garment workers that fought for higher pay and more favorable union contracts. The newsletter calls for a 10% pay raise and a commitment to regular cost-of-living increases, an end to layoffs, a union hiring hall to help unemployed members find a new job in the union,…
ID Number:2002.23.3.47.1
Date:1975
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Make the bosses take the losses! flier, Seattle, May 1975
In May 1975, Eddie Bauer, a prominent Seattle clothing manufacturer, fired over 70 garment workers without notice. Most were women - members of the United Garment Workers Union Local 17. On May 17, some two-dozen people picketed the downtown Seattle Eddie Bauer store in protest. The laid off workers blamed the company for firing them because of their union membership,…
ID Number:2002.23.3.54.1
Date:1975
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The Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes newsletter, Seattle, August 3, 1981
Filipino American labor activists Silme Domingo (1952-1981) and Gene Allen Viernes (1951-1981) were murdered in Seattle on June 1, 1981, while attempting to reform the Local 37 of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) and organizing against Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda Marcos.At first, authorities thought the murder was an isolated incident and concluded with the…
ID Number:2002.23.4.37.1
Date:1981
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United Farm Workers boycott poster, Seattle, 1975
This 1975 poster calls for the boycott of all lettuce and grapes sold without the UFW label, and calls out Gallo wine in particular for its contract with the Teamsters rather than the farm workers union. Printed on both sides, the poster also describes union-busting efforts by grape growers, the hazardous nature of farm work, and the success of the…
ID Number:2002.23.8.14.4
Date:1975
Postcard
Men with load of salmon on dock, Seattle, circa 1900
The salmon canning industry started in the late 1860s along the Columbia River. By the 1890s, the fishing ground and market had shifted to Puget Sound. Seattle was the home base of the salmon fishing fleet for many years. In this photo, taken around 1900, workers unload salmon from barges at a Seattle cannery wharf south of downtown. Caption on…
ID Number:2002.48.817
Date:Circa 1900
Photograph
Employee with ship ventilators at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Seattle, circa 1918
Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.11
Date:Circa 1918
Photograph
Employees in street at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, East Marginal Way, Seattle, circa 1943
Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.37
Date:Circa 1943
Photograph
Employees working at Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Airport Way and Hardy Street, Seattle, circa 1943
Known today as PSF Industries, Inc., and PSF Mechanical, Inc., Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works Company was founded in 1900 by Edward Hite, Robert S. Raven, and Joseph W. Callahan and incorporated in 1902 as Puget Sound Sheet Metal Works, Inc. (PSSMW) by Raven, Hite, and David Bowen. PSSMW began as a sheet metal and roofing company, but over the…
ID Number:2004.27.1.47
Date:Circa 1943