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LERC - Resource Library

The Labor Center has a collection of binders available.  They come from various sources such as classes we have offered, information we have gathered from unions, or research materials on specific topics. These binders are available for use at the Center, but are not available for check-out.

The Center also has collections of journals including the Labor Studies Journal, Labor Research Review, Working USA, Labor History, Labor's Heritage, and New Labor Forum. We also maintain collections of recent newsletters from a number of unions.

If you are doing research or looking for materials to use in a class, you may find what you need here. The following is a list of the categories of binders we have, and some of the unions we have information on.

Labor Center Schools

Over the years the Labor Center has produced and/or participated in series of schools for which binders were created. Some of these binders are union-specific; many were multi-union events. The binders from the following schools are available as resources:

  • Summer Schools & Summer Institutes for Union Women
  • Rank & File Schools sponsored by the Spokane Regional Labor Council
  • Rank & File Organizing Schools for the Carpenters
  • Rank & File Organizing Schools for the Laborers
  • African American Leadership
  • New Schools for Union Organizing

Workshops and conferences

We have workshop and conference materials in the following categories:

  • Arts
  • Child Labor
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Economics
  • Health & Safety
  • High-tech workers
  • Immigration
  • Labor & the Environment
  • Labor Law
  • Media
  • Organizing
  • Popular Education
  • Public Education
  • Race & Diversity
  • Steward Training
  • Sweatshops
  • The WTO
  • Women & Gender

Union Information

We have information from and about the following unions:

  • American Federation of Teachers
  • Bricklayers and Allied Trades
  • Fire Fighters
  • International Federation of Professional and Technical Employees
  • International Union of Operating Engineers
  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
  • International Association of Machinists
  • International Longshore and Warehouse Union
  • International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  • National Association of Letter Carriers
  • Office and Professional Employees International Union
  • Public School Employees
  • Service Employees International Union
  • Seattle Education Association/WEA
  • Steelworkers
  • United Food and Commercial Workers
  • Washington Education Association
  • Washington Federation of State Employees