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Celebrate with the Harry Bridges Center
Join the educators, researchers, students, and labor leaders of the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for their annual awards banquet
SEATTLE, WA (October 21, 2025) — It’s been a year of labor wins at the University of Washington and in the Seattle-area. Come celebrate the movement with the UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for their annual Labor Studies Awards Celebration on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at the Husky Union Building (HUB) Ballroom, on the University of Washington Seattle campus. Every year, labor gathers to honor student accomplishments, recognize leaders and organizers, and raise money to support the Bridges Center programs.
Dinner and drinks are provided at this no-charge event. Space is limited and tickets are required — register online to snag one before they’re gone.
The Bridges Center started as the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies in 1992, an unprecedented grassroots fundraising effort to create the only endowed chair in the United States to honor a labor leader, the legendary founding president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Over thirty years later, the Chair has grown into the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, a full-fledged program dedicated to education and research about workers and their organizations. The Bridges Center annually enrolls hundreds of students in its labor classes, awards over $100,000 in scholarships and research grants, and provides students hands-on experience in the labor movement through student internships.
Less than 2% of the Center’s budget is funded directly by the University of Washington, instead relying on public funding and grassroots donations. So while tickets for this celebration are free, donations to help cover the costs of the banquet and make the Center’s education and research programs possible are deeply valued, although no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Parking guidance and other information is available on the event website. Questions? Contact the Harry Bridges Center at (206) 543-7946, or e-mail hbcls@uw.edu .
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