Box 17

The Labor Center's first involvement with organizing a Labor Day Celebration was as the organizing event of the first New School for Union Organizers. These three binders show the history of various Olympia area Labor Day events from 1992 to 1997.

Materials include planning notes, planning questionnaire summary, list of stewards, agenda, as well as some background materials on how to negotiate, Dan Leahy's talk on Washington state history and the Seattle General Strike of 1919.

Materials include work of a one day workshop at the Shilo Inn in Richland, Washington led by Clint Burelson, Helen Lee, Sandy Wojnowska and Lou Truskoff. There is an agenda, follow letter in December and materials.

Materials include various planning meetings, agendas, memos, recruitment of co-sponsors, proposed budgets, save the date flyers, recruitment of speakers, facilitators, session leaders, press releases, conference agenda, biographical sketches of speakers and facilitators and a list of all participants. The Guest Speakers at the Conference were: Larry Gossett, Libby Averill, Nona Brazier, Richard Grossman, Dr. Linda Murray, Denny Scott, Darlene Madenwald, Ron Judd and Juan Boca

Materials relating to The Evergreen State College Labor Education and Research Center from its foundation to its tranfers in 2010. Includes correspondence and internal memoranda, planning notes, resources linked to operations and events, and documents pertaining to the Center's funding.