733 results for: Labor and Labor Unions
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Ricardo Garcia and Bill Nicacio at KDNA studio, Granger, February 13, 1992
Radio KDNA or Radio Cadena is a community public radio station broadcasting on 91.9 FM, founded in 1979 by activists Ricardo Garcia, Julio Cesar Guerrero, Rosa Ramon, and Daniel Robleski. From the beginning, it has focused on the Yakima Valley's Latino/a population, especially farm workers. KDNA broadcasts news and educational content about health, employment opportunities, English language learning, and information…
ID Number:2020.42.3.19.02.21
Date:1992
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Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company employees, May 9, 1949
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was a subsidiary of AT&T that provided communications services to most of the US West. It was founded in San Francisco in 1906. The first AT&T subsidiary in Seattle had been the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, which began operating in 1883. Sunset quickly expanded and provided service throughout Washington, but AT&T decided to…
ID Number:2021.14.1
Date:1949
Poster
Poster supporting John Dore for Mayor, circa 1936
John Francis Dore (1881-1938), a controversial politician in the unsettled days of the Great Depression, was twice elected Mayor of Seattle. In his successful 1932 campaign, Dore won the support of labor and the unemployed with his proposed tax cuts and relief programs. In 1934, he lost re-election by pleasing business interests and alienated labor when he requested federal troops…
ID Number:2021.42.1
Date:Circa 1936
Poster
Union Strong Starbucks Worker Solidarity poster, 2022
In December 2021, workers at a Starbucks location in Buffalo, New York voted to form a labor union, making it the first unionized Starbucks in the United States. In 2022, workers at many other Starbucks locations also began holding union elections. By December 2022, more than 270 stores, including several stores in Seattle, had successfully voted to unionize and join…
ID Number:2022.33.1
Date:2022
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New Method Laundry employees, circa 1912
The New Method Laundry Company began operations in 1906 in a small building at 815 Pike Street. In 1913, the company built a new, larger building with updated machinery at 1101 E. Spring Street, where it did business until closing in 1936.This photograph shows a group of New Method Laundry employees posing in front of the company wagon around 1911.…
ID Number:2022.38.6
Date:Circa 1912
Correspondence
Letter from J.M.C. Warren to Hiram Warren, 1903
This letter dated July 26, 1903 from J.M.C. Warren of Northbend (now North Bend), Washington to his uncle Hiram L. Warren in Ballard discusses Hiram's recent immigration to the region, offering suggestions of where he can find work at a mill as a sawyer, planer, or filer. J.M.C. Warren mentions that mills outside the city pay sawyers more. According to…
ID Number:2022.38.14
Date:1903
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Two men hoisting an evergreen tree into a Malmo & Co. truck, Seattle, circa 1925
Charles Malmo emigrated from Norway in 1878, arrived in Seattle in 1891, and established Malmo Seed and Nursery Company in 1893. He opened his first garden store at 916 Second Avenue in what would become downtown Seattle. Over the years, the Malmo company expanded to several locations and became known for its fine plants, trees, and landscaping services.In this image,…
ID Number:2024.12.20
Date:Circa 1925
Poster
Building Trades Day for the United War Chest poster, 1942
This poster advertises Building Trades Day for the United War Chest, held on Monday, October 19, 1942, during World War II. On this day, men working on building and construction projects were asked to give a day's pay to the War Chest. Unions donated generously, with many receiving "E" (for excellence) banner blue ribbon awards. Text on poster: Some of…
ID Number:2024.15.1
Date:1942
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Steelworkers marching to the waterfront, Seattle, December 1, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2024.54.10.03
Date:1999
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Union Way street sign at WTO protests, Seattle, November 30, 1999
The Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Seattle from November 30 to December 3, 1999. Trade ministers and other officials from the WTO's 135 member nations met in an unsuccessful attempt to plan negotiations to further deregulate free trade. Tens of thousands of activists for many causes gathered to protest what they saw as…
ID Number:2024.54.18.13
Date:1999