Hi Nathan,

You should definitely have a look at Linda Allen's CD, Washington Notebook - particularly:
Termination Winds - about Hanford employees and radioactive contamination.
Canaries in the Mine - Boeing workers and chemical poisoning in the workplace.
Si Se Puede - about members of the United Farmworkers of Washington in Granger.
Centrala - the Centrala Massacure of 1919 Wobblies (a very powerful song).

Songs of the Pacific Northwest has several PNW labor and work songs, including Paddy Graber's "Britaninna Mine" about a mine strike in B.C.

I also have field recordings of Paddy Graber (a traditional Irish Singer from Vancouver, B.C.) singing some of his songs relating to labor and work (mostly mining) in B.C.

And you should certainly check out "Songs of the Pacific Northwest," Phil Thomas' collection of songs (mostly from B.C.) and also a CD of many of those songs.

And check out our Pacific NW Folklore Society web page on Pacific Northwest Songs.

Cheers, S. in Seattle