WAURiveraGuillermo5893.xml Guide to the Guillermo "Memo" Rivera Collection of SEIU 775 and Working Washington Records 2012-2015 Rivera (Guillermo) Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries © 2016 (Last modified: 8/3/2022)

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-02-18. Description is written in: Undetermined, Code for undetermined script script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Guillermo "Memo" Rivera collection of SEIU 775 and Working Washington records Rivera, Guillermo 5893 11.3 gigabytes 257 electronic files 2012-2015 Digital surrogate of binder of materials that relate to SEIU 775's involvement with the effort to raise the minimum wage in SeaTac to $15 an hour, get labor-friendly council members elected and voters registered, and organize port and airport workers Collection materials are in English.

Guillermo "Memo" Rivera is Deputy Organizing Director for Service Employees International Union, Local 775. He collected this binder of materials that relate to SEIU 775's involement with the effort to raise the minimum wage in SeaTac to $15 an hour, get labor-friendly council members elected and voters registered, and organize port and airport workers. Rivera became an organizer for Local 775 in 2005, and his involvement with organizing at the airport and SeaTac on workers' issue began in 2001 with SEIU's "Fight for a Fair Economy Campaign." This went from a broad-based door-knocking campaign to hear abour workers' issues to meetings with airport workers in 2012. Rivera served as the field director on that campaign, and was also involved in the SeaTac Mimimum Wage Proposition 1 campaign in 2013.

Digital scans of a binder of materials collected by Guillermo "Memo" Rivera during his activities as Deputy Organizing Director for Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 775

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Guillermo Rivera, 2015

The SEIU 775 Facebook page has been regularly captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine since 2015. The snapshots can be viewed here: https://wayback.archive-it.org/3988/20220515000000*/http://www.facebook.com/seiu775

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Rivera, Guillermo--Archives Service Employees International Union. Local 775 (Seattle, Wash.) Working Washington (Organization) SeaTac (Wash.) Minimum wage--Washington (State)--SeaTac Living wage movement--Washington (State)--SeaTac Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Electronic Records Labor History Civic Activism Washington (State) Guillermo "Memo" Rivera collection of SEIU 775 and Working Washington records 5893-001 electronic_file