AFL-CIO Washington State Labor Council Videotape Collection

The AFL-CIO Washington State Labor Council Videotape Collection is a collection of 189 videotapes related to regional and national labor issues from 1975 to 1998. A bulk of the collection consists of Washington Works, a public access television program produced by the Washington State Labor Council, as well as, Labor Institute of Public Affairs (LIPA) Video News Reports and other local and national programs. The programs include speeches and interviews by national and local labor leaders, supporters addressing labor grievances, history, music, and politics. The programs include footage of rallies and events, conventions.

The AFL-CIO. Washington State Labor Council Videotape Collection consists of original Betacam, U-matic and VHS videotape programs produced by WSLC members.

About the Database

This digital collection was researched and prepared by the UW Libraries Special Collections Division in 2015. The clips in this collection were selected from the AFL-CIO. Washington State Labor Council Videotape Collection (PhColl 1134) residing at the UW Libraries Special Collections Division. Selection of films and research and descriptive data was prepared by was done by Jaki Parsons. Videotapes were reformatted from Umatic, VHS, and BetaSP using BlackMagic encoding software. Streaming files were created in Final Cut Pro using Quicktime, transcoded to HTML5, and linked with descriptive metadata.