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Rep. Bob Hasegawa, serving the 11th District Serving parts of South Seattle including Beacon Hill, Georgetown, South Park, Allentown, Boulevard Park, part of North Highline Unincorporated Area, Burien, City of Sea-Tac, all of Tukwila and Southcenter, the southern and eastern parts of Renton, Fairwood, Benson Hill and adjacent unincorporated areas of King County. |
Biography
Bob Hasegawa is a
lifelong resident of Beacon Hill and is living in the house he grew
up in.
Bob is a longtime labor and social justice activist. He was a member
of the Teamsters Union for 32 years where he rose through the ranks
to become the elected leader of the largest Teamsters trucking local
workers union in the Pacific Northwest (Teamsters Local 174) for
three terms (9 yrs.), and was also a leader in the national
Teamsters pro-union democracy reform movement, TDU (Teamsters for a
Democratic Union).
Bob has long sought to build bridges between social justice
organizations, particularly those serving the labor, environmental,
religious, and Asian Pacific Islander communities. He serves on the
national executive board of the Asian Pacific American Labor
Alliance, AFL-CIO (APALA) as well as on the APALA Seattle Chapter
Executive Board, and has served on numerous other boards of
community based organizations.
Bob graduated from Antioch University with areas of concentration in
Labor Relations and Organizational and Social Change, and also holds
an AA degree in Labor Studies from Shoreline Community College.