From: Peter Kardas,
Ports, Borders, and Labor in the Pacific Northwest
The 38th Annual Conference of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Co-Sponsored by the Labor Center at The Evergreen State College
June 2 - 4, 2006
Location: Olympia (WA) Campus, The Evergreen State College
We invite your ideas and participation in planning a conference which will bring together union and community activists and scholars. Workshops, Panels, & Cultural Presentations will focus on (among other things):
* Histories of the ILWU & Other Unions on the Waterfront
* Immigrant Workers on the Docks and in Airports (Then and Now)
* Union Attitudes Towards Immigrant Workers & Immigration Policy
* Organizing Immigrant Workers (Bridging and Respecting Borders Between Workers)
* U.S. and Canadian Ports and the World: Environmental and Economic Issues
* Exporting Jobs, Importing Goods: Wal-Mart, Ports, and Unions
* Ports, Unions and War: Historical and Contemporary Issues
* Post-9/11 Port Security: Union Busting in a New Uniform?
* The History of Public and Elected Port Commissions
* Direct Action, Affirmative Action, and the 1970s Desegregation of Airport Construction Projects
* Ports, Unions, and International Solidarity
Call for Papers, Workshops, & Presentations will go out early Summer, 2005
For more information, call or email Peter Kardas at Evergreen's Labor Center (360-867-6526; or Ross Rieder at the PNLHA (20 6-524-0346;