THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 3:30PM-4:30PM SMITH HALL, ROOM 320 (HISTORY COMMUNITY ROOM), UW SEATTLE
BUILDING A MOVEMENT (BAM) LABOR INTERNSHIP - INFO SESSION
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The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies is excited to announce the fourth annual Building A Movement (BAM) Labor Internship, a paid internship program that connects undergraduate students at the University of Washington with the local labor movement.
There will be a Information Session on Thursday, November 9th, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm to provide students with an overview of the program, address questions, and provide space for students to solicit feedback on their applications.
The session will take place in Smith Hall, Room 320 (History Community Room) on the UW Seattle campus. Free food provided!
In the BAM Labor Internship, students who are invested in labor and social justice advocacy are given the opportunity to explore how organizations work to make systemic and community-level changes for the benefit of working people.
Hosting organizations in winter quarter 2024 include:
Massage Parlor Outreach Program (MPOP)
UNITE HERE Local 8
United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4121
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
The internship program runs concurrently with Winter and Spring Quarter 2024, January 3-May 31. Students will not be required/expected to work during finals weeks and spring break. Weekly hours vary depending on internship position, and include a 1.5 hour weekly meeting with other interns and the staff of the Harry Bridges Center.
Founded in 1992, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies supports students and faculty at the University of Washington in the study of labor in all of its facets. Through education and research, our mission is to develop labor studies - broadly conceived to include working people everywhere - as a central concern in higher education. We cultivate connections with labor communities locally and around the world, and inform policymakers about issues confronting workers.
Labor Studies is interdisciplinary. Understanding how and why work is performed, organized and divided in societies necessitates multiple scholarly perspectives. It demands recognition that labor occurs everywhere under many conditions - at home, in the workplace, waged and unwaged, organized and unorganized. Conceiving labor studies broadly also demands that we conceive labor movements broadly - to encompass struggles against oppression and hierarchy based on race, gender, sexuality, citizenship status, nationality, ability and more, in their particularities and their many intersections.