Scott, Tyree, 1940-2003.

Seattle labor and civil rights leader.

Tyree Scott, a Texas-born electrician who served in the Marines during the Vietnam War, settled in Seattle in 1966. Discrimination against black workers in the construction trades led him to organize peaceful demonstrations, and in 1970 he co-founded the United Construction Workers Association with support from the American Friends Service Committee. The UCWA aimed to unite minority construction workers and racially integrate the unions. An early victory came in 1970, when Judge William J. Lindberg found that racial discrimination had been practiced in local unions (United States vs. Ironworkers Local 86, et al). Scott also served on the board of the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office (LELO), which was begun in 1973 by the UCWA, the Alaska Cannery Workers Association, and the Washington State United Farm Workers to help workers pursue legal recourse in issues of labor discrimination.

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