Jobs with Justice, Whatcom County Chapter records, 1994-2021

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Jobs With Justice. Whatcom County
Title
Jobs with Justice, Whatcom County Chapter records
Dates
1994-2021 (inclusive)
Quantity
4.58 cubic feet (5 boxes plus 1 oversize vertical file, and 1 oversize folder; 1.87 gb (9,921 electronic files))
Collection Number
6401 (Accession No. 6401-001)
Summary
Organizational records of a volunteer-run workers' rights organization affiliated with Washington State Jobs with Justice
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access to paper-based materials. Electronic records are open to all users for onsite use only. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Request at UW

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Whatcom County Organizing Committee of Washington State Jobs with Justice is a volunteer-run workers’ rights organization affiliated with Washington State Jobs with Justice. It has organized direct action campaigns to support social services, union organizing, food security, living wages, access to health care, and global justice issues. Campaigns have included both national and international issues such as single-payer health care, welfare reform, and international trade policy as well as state- and local-based issues such as minimum wage and sick-pay laws, siting and expansion of big-box stores. and local food security issues related to closing of a Bellingham chain grocery store. The organization has been a long-term supporter of Washington State farmworker organizations.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Organizational records include meeting agendas, sign-in sheets, and minutes (1995-2017). Records of the group’s campaigns include planning records, research materials, posters and leaflets, position statements, and files of press coverage (1995-2021). The group’s actions are thoroughly documented by a collection of photographs, which typically include exact dates, description of the event depicted, and identification of people in the photo (1992-2011). Electronic records (3.38 megabytes, 9920 files in 1598 directories) include email messages, agendas and minutes, website pages, planning and research documents, news coverage, and photographs.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Forms part of the Labor Archives of Washington.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Records are arranged as received from the organization. Organizational records are arranged chronologically, and records of activities are arranged by campaign subject. Photographs are arranged chronologically and are identified by event depicted. Electronic records are arranged in subject folders as received from donor.

Arranged in 4 series.

  • SERIES 1, ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS, 1995-2021
  • SERIES 2, CAMPAIGN RECORDS, 1995-2021
    • Subseries A, Medicare Campaign Records, 1995
    • Subseries B, Public Services Campaign Records, 1994-2018
    • Subseries C, Welfare Reform Campaign Records, 1997-2003
    • Subseries D, Living Wage Campaigns Records, 1996-2017
    • Subseries E, Big-Box Store Campaign Records, 2004-2014
    • Subseries F, Union Campaigns, 1995-2021
    • Subseries G, Global Justice Campaign Records, 1995-2016
    • Subseries H, Farmworker Justice Campaign Records, 1997-2019
    • Subseries I, Single-Payer Health Care Campaign Records, 2003-2009
    • Subseries J, Records of Other Campaigns, 1997-2019
  • SERIES 3, EVENT AND FUNDRAISING RECORDS, 1995-2020
  • SERIES 4, JOBS WITH JUSTICE ACTION AND EVENT PHOTOGRAPHS, 1992-2011

Acquisition Information

Donated by Betsy Pernotto, Jobs with Justice Jobs Whatcom County, 2022

Processing Note

Collection processed by Ernie Dornfeld, 2023.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

SERIES 1:  ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS, 1995-2021,   (bulk 1995-2021) Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Meeting records
1995-2000
1/2
Meeting records
2001-2004
1/3
Meeting records
2005-2006
1/4
Sign-in sheets
approximately 2006-2007
1/5
Meeting records
2007-2008
1/6
Meeting records
2009-2010
1/7
Meeting records
2011-2012
1/8
Meeting records
2013-2015
1/9
Meeting records
2016-2017
1/10
Mission statement, policy statements, rules of order
1995-2016
1/11
Action summaries
1996-2010
1/12
Pledge cards and list
2010-2017
Box
OSVF223
Jobs with Justice Pledge poster
approximately 2015
OS Folder 1
Poster with attached photographs of actions
24 x 36 inch poster with loosely attached photographs and labels
2013
OS Folder 1
2010 JwJ power analysis
24 x 36 inch chart
2010
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Organizational materials electronic records
47.6 megabytes (1136 electronic files)
1995-2021

SERIES 2:  CAMPAIGN RECORDS, 1995-2021,   (bulk 1995-2021) Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries A: Medicare campaign records
1995; 1995
Box/Folder
1/13
Medicare town meeting 6/4/1995
1995
1/14
Medicare rally 10/5/1995
1995
Subseries B: Public Services Campaign Records
1994-2018; 1994-2018
Box/Folder
1/15
Petitions supporting county funding for WIC program
1995
1/16
Letters from WIC program families
1995
1/17
WIC dumping
1995
1/18
WIC messages to clients, employees, the public
1994-1995
1/19
WIC meeting notes
1995
1/20
WIC meeting notes, letters to allies
1995-1996
1/21
WIC budgeting - costs, revenue, our plan
1995-1996
1/22
WIC victory publicity
1995-1996
1/23
WIC campaign
1996
1/24
WIC press coverage
2010-2014
1/25
WIC budget proposal
2010
1/26
Public records requests for cost information
2010
1/27
Postcards to County Council
2010
1/28
Communication with County Council re WIC program privatization
2010
1/29
Interfaith Community Health Center re WIC
2010
1/30
Transit campaign
2009-2010
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Public service campaign electronic records
67.4 megabytes (873 electronic files)
1995-2018
Subseries C: Welfare Reform Campaign Records
1997-2003; 1997-2003
Box/Folder
1/31
Welfare reform rally
1997
1/32
Anti corporate welfare rally
1997
1/33
Day of Action for Welfare/Workfare Justice
1997
1/34
National Jobs with Justice information on Day of Welfare Action
1997
1/35
Welfare resources
1997-1999
1/36
Welfare in Washington State
2001-2003
1/37
Impacts of welfare reform
2001
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Welfare reform electronic records
2.52 megabytes (47 electronic files)
1997-2002
Subseries D: Living Wage Campaigns records
1996-2017; 1996-2017
Box/Folder
1/38
Minimum wage
1996-2002
1/39
Paid sick and safe leave
2015
1/40
News articles - Bellingham living wage ordinance
2002
1/41
Bellingham living wage ordinance
2002
1/42
Living wage ordinance petitions
2002
2/1
Washington State minimum wage and sick leave
2014-2016
2/2
Living wage information and press coverage
1996-2005
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Living wage campaign electronic records
48.3 megabytes (802 electronic files)
1998-2017
Subseries E: Big-Box Store Campaign records
2004-2014; 2004-2014
Box/Folder
2/3
Timeline of big-box store campaign
2007
2/4
Strategy meetings to plan against Walmart
2006
2/5
Proposed county ordinance on community impact assessment
2006-2007
2/6
Correspondence, press reports on moratorium and size cap
2006-2007
2/7
Bellingham ordinance regulating big-box stores
2006-2009
2/8
Bellingham Planning Commission hearings
2006-2007
2/9
Press coverage of big-box moratorium and size cap
2006
2/10
Press coverage of big-box moratorium in Whatcom County, Lynden size cap
2008-2009
2/11
Press coverage of big-box revision
2009-2010
2/12
Studies of impact of big-box stores
2004-2008
2/13
Size caps and community impact ordinances
2005-2006
2/14
WinCo
2008-2013
2/15
Costco request to expand
2007-2008
2/16
Costco on Bakerview
2012-2013
2/17
Bellingham city documents on big-box revision
2009-2010
2/18
Big-box revision letters and meeting notes
2008-2010
2/19
Ferndale Pioneer Plaza
2004-2006
2/20
Ferndale big-box moratorium
2008-2012
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Bellingham big box campaign electronic records
25.8 megabytes (742 electronic files)
2006-2010
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Ferndale big box campaign electronic records
49.6 megabytes (98 electronic files)
2005-2014
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Walmart issues electronic records
125.7 megabytes (457 electronic files)
2004-2014
Subseries F: Union Campaigns
1995-2021; 1995-2021
Box/Folder
2/21
International Association of Machinists. Boeing rally
1995
2/22
United Natural Foods (UNFI) strike
2012-2013
2/23
International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Inlandboatmen's Union
2014-2019
2/24
Laborers Union
approximately 2007
2/25
Montigo Del Ray
2001
2/26
Whatcom Counseling and Psychiatric Clinic organizing
1997
2/27
Whatcom Counseling and Psychiatric Clinic contract campaign
2000
2/28
PeaceHealth - Services Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199
2013-2017
2/29
PeaceHealth services and cuts
2012-2014
2/30
PeaceHealth business and occupation tax
2014
2/31
Island Hospital - Services Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199
2019
2/32
Unity Care NW
2019
2/33
Grocery worker campaigns
2013-2021
2/34
Macy's workers - United Food and Commercial Workers
2018
2/35
United Food and Commercial Workers - Bornstein Seafoods strike
1997
2/36
Bornstein Seafoods
2017
2/37
Skagit Valley Regional Health - United Food and Commercial Workers
2012
2/38
Walmart and health care
1999-2007
2/39
Walmart and local groceries
1995-2014
2/40
Local Walmart actions
2003-2007
2/41
Local Walmart articles
1995-2005
2/42
Walmart articles (part 1 of 2)
2005-2012
2/43
Walmart articles (part 2 of 2)
2005-2012
2/44
Walmart articles (printed)
2003-2005
2/45
OurWalmart / Making Change at Walmart
2011-2017
3/1
United Steel Workers
1995
3/2
Washington State Nurses Association
2011-2013
3/3
Staley campaign
1995-1996
3/4
St. Joseph's Hospital / PeaceHealth - Service Employees International Union
1998
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Union campaign electronic records
578 megabytes (1636 electronic files)
1995-2021
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Miscellaneous union support action electronic records
26.1 megabytes (138 electronic files)
2002-2020
Subseries G: Global Justice campaign records
1995-2016; 1995-2016
Box/Folder
3/5
Whatcom global justice papers
1997-2001
3/6
Alpha Technologies
1996-1997
3/7
Geographics campaign
1995-1997
3/8
Trans-Ocean Products
1998-2008
3/9
Anti-FTAA rally (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas)
2001
3/10
Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA)
2001
3/11
Anti-Fast Track
2001-2001
3/12
Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
2001-2005
3/13
Sweatshops
1998-2010
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Global justice campaign electronic records
65.1 megabytes (396 electronic files)
1998-2016
Subseries H: Farmworker Justice campaign records
1997-2019; 1997-2019
Box/Folder
3/14
Strawberry campaign
1997
3/15
Immokalee workers
2007
3/16
Taco Bell
2003-2004
3/17
Driscoll boycott
2013-2015
3/18
H-2A visas
2017-2018
3/19
Farm to Family Coalition
2013
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Farmworker justice campaign electronic records
368 megabytes (594 electronic files)
1997-2019
Subseries I: Single-payer Health Care campaign records
2003-2009; 2003-2009
Box/Folder
3/20
Just Health Care
2004
3/21
Health care resolutions
2003-2007
3/22
United for National Health Care
2005-2007
3/23
Citizens' hearing on health care
2006
3/24
Healthcare-NOW HR 676 WIN-WIN campaign
2006
3/25
Single payer articles
2004-2007
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Campaign for single-payer health care electronic records
134 megabytes (927 electronic files)
2004-2009
Subseries J: Records of other campaigns
1997-2019; 1997-2019
Box/Folder
3/26
Know your rights
1997-2002
3/27
Fired Arlington mill workers
2006
3/28
Leopold closing
2018-2019
3/29
Niemann's Casino
2000
3/30
Rental housing registration
2014-2015
3/31
Albertsons surveys
2017
3/32
Albertsons survey notes and analysis
2017
3/33
Albertsons petitions
2016-2017
3/34
Albertsons closure
2016-2017
3/35
Workers Rights Board
1998-2000
Box
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Community solidarity action electronic records
159 megabytes (1334 electronic files)
2000-2014

SERIES 3:  EVENT AND FUNDRAISING RECORDS, 1995-2020,   (bulk 1995-2020) Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
3/36
International Human Rights Day
2003
3/37
International Human Rights Day
2005
3/38
Grinch / Scrooge holiday parties
1995-2019
3/39
Annual fund drive
1997-2002
4/1
Fundraisers
2003-2004
4/2
AFL-CIO teach-in toolkit
2005
4/3
Jobs with Justice honoree dinners
2002-2010
4/4
Jobs with Justice movie series
1997
4/5
Retreat
2010-2011
Box
OSVF223
March at the Arch poster
2001
OSVF223
Paul Robeson memorial concert poster
2002
Reading Room Virtual Vault
Event electronic records
173 megabytes (741 electronic files)
1998-2019

SERIES 4:  JOBS WITH JUSTICE ACTION AND EVENT PHOTOGRAPHS, 1992-2011,   (bulk 1992-2011) Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4/6
List of photographs with Jobs with Justice actions and events 1997-2011
2011
4/7
Chateau Ste. Michelle winery boycott
7 color prints
1992-1994
4/8
Rallies against INS raids
2 color prints
1997-1998
4/9
Protest against bombing Iraq
3 color prints
1998
4/10
Rally against bombing Yugoslavia
3 color prints
1998
4/11
Protest against Iraqi sanctions
1 color print
2001
4/12
Anti-Bush march and rally
1 color print
2001
4/13
No war with Iraq
1 color print
2002
4/14
Demonstration against sanctions on Iraq
1 color print
approximately 2000-2003
4/15
International Day of Peace
2 color prints
2006
4/16
Bellingham peace vigil
15 color prints
1998-2010
4/17
Anti-war protests
3 color prints
2006
4/18
March in Watsonville, California to support strawberry workers organizing
13 color prints
1997
4/19
Anti-corporate welfare rally outside Congressman Metcalf's office
3 color prints
1997
4/20
Skagit farmworker march
2 color prints
1997
4/21
Rally for striking Bornstein workers, UFCW 44
3 color prints
1997
4/22
Farmworker march in Mattawa, Washington
9 color prints
1997
4/23
Forum on living wage jobs and welfare reform
26 color prints
1997
4/24
Jobs with Justice Grinch party
1 color print
1997
4/25
Skagit farmworker march
1 color print
1998
4/26
Rally at Cornwall Park to support St. Joseph's organizing health care givers
7 color prints
1998
4/27
Skagit farmworker march
6 color prints
1999
4/28
Skagit farmworker march
3 color prints
2000
4/29
Pasco march to support cherry workers
5 color prints
2000
5/1
Reality Check Panel on welfare reform
9 color prints
2001
5/2
Tabling at MLK conference sponsored by Whatcom Human Rights Task Force
2 color prints
2001
5/3
March at Arch anti-FTAA crossborder solidarity rally, Peace Arch Park
3 color prints
2001
5/4
Skagit farmworker march Burlington to Skagit Valley College
17 color prints
2001
5/5
Workers picket at Montigo del Rey in Grandview ELIUNA 276
1 color print
2001
5/6
Anti-fast track rally
1 color print
2001
5/7
Skagit farmworker march
15 color prints
2002
5/8
Anti-fast track rally at Bellingham Federal Building
8 color prints
2002
5/9
Jobs with Justice Grinch Party
4 color prints
2002
5/10
Skagit farmworker march
9 color prints
2003
5/11
"Seeing red" action to support Macy's workers UFCW 44
1 color print
2003
5/12
Picket at Bellingham Taco Bell to support Immakalee farm workers
4 color prints
2003
5/13
International Human Rights Day on workers' rights
9 color prints
2003
5/14
Grinch Party at labor hall
4 color prints
2003
5/15
Getting ready to present Grinch award to Building Industry Association
1 color print
2003
5/16
Taco Bell picket in Mount Vernon
1 color print
2004
5/17
Taco Bell picket as part of Skagit farmworker march
4 color prints
2004
5/18
Carl Allen in persona of Woody Guthrie at Jobs with Justice fundraiser
2 color prints
2004
5/19
Bridge the Gap bannering for single-payer healthcare
4 color prints
2004
5/20
Just Healthcare Forum at Western Washington University
9 color prints
2004
5/21
Demonstration outside Bellingham Walmart
4 color prints
2004
5/22
Rally in front of Walmart
20 color prints
2004
5/23
Jobs with Justice Grinch party in labor hall
4 color prints
2004
5/24
Skagit farmworker march
7 color prints
2005
5/25
Protesting outside Ferndale meeting on Pioneer Plaza
2 color prints
2005
5/26
Showing of the film "The High Cost of Low Price" at the labor hall
3 color prints
2005
5/27
Jobs with Justice display at Bellingham Public Library
3 color prints
2005
5/28
Demonstration at Bellingham Walmart
6 color prints
2005
5/29
Jobs with Justice Grinch party
2 color prints
2005
5/30
Picket at Mount Vernon Goodyear store to support United Steel Workers
8 color prints
2006
5/31
Giving petition for affordable health care to Walmart manager
2 color prints
approximately 2006-2007
5/32
Skagit farmworker march
8 color prints
2007
5/33
Picketing Ebenal with LIUNA 292 at Bellingham transit station
4 color prints
2007
5/34
Big box battle group at Bellingham Municipal Court hearing
2 color prints
2010
5/35
Rallying with United Food and Commercial Workers 21 grocery workers at Bellingham Albertsons
2 color prints
2010
5/36
Rally and picket outside Bellingham Rite Aid to support ILWU warehouse workers
2 color prints
2010-2011
5/37
Rally and march in Bellingham to oppose cuts to social services
1 color print
2011
5/38
Leafleting at Bellingham airport to support organizing Transportation Security Administration workers
2 color prints
2011
5/39
Canada-U.S. cross-border solidarity rally, Peace Arch Park
2 color prints
2011
5/40
We Are One bannering on I-5 overpass at Sehome with United Food and Commercial Workers 21
1 color print
2011
5/41
Take Back Your Money Day in front of Bank of America, Bellingham
2 color prints
2011
5/42
Giving support to OUR Walmart workers to Walmart manager in Bellingham
1 color print
2011
5/43
Rally to support Peace Health nurses in front of Bellingham City Hall
1 color print
2011
5/44
Rally at Intalco gates to support Machinists
2 color prints
2011

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names
    • Labor Archives of Washington (University of Washington) (host institution)