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Wednesday, March 17, 2004
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Bay Area Health Care Workers to Exhibit Unique Photography Project at Oakland City Hall
Wednesday, April 7, 5-7 PM
Oakland City Hall, One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Please join Bay Area health care workers in celebrating the opening of a unique photography exhibit at Oakland City Hall that offers an inside glimpse at their daily lives. The 45 photographs were taken by a wide range of hospital and homecare workers, who participated in an innovative free photography course offered by their union, SEIU 250. The class was taught by Richard Bermack, a long time Bay Area photographer, writer, editor and labor activist.The striking photographs are emotionally powerful and sometimes disturbing, combining both workplace and family photographs. Each photograph will be accompanied by an intensely personal written description by the health care worker-photographers.
The class is also the first step towards founding a "cultural wing" of the union, which would facilitate members' creative expression in all areas of the arts. Such a project would take its inspiration from "Bread and Roses", the organization that was founded in 1979 by the New York health care workers union, 1199. Bread and Roses was created in order to achieve a vision of unionism that encompasses all the needs and aspirations of working people, including creative expression.
To learn more and see a selection of photos, go to www.seiu250.org/ourlocal.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004
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CALIFORNIA STUDENT LABOR TEACH-IN
March 12-14, 2004
Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley
Please join Dolores Huerta and hundreds of students across the state for the first ever CALIFORNIA STUDENT LABOR TEACH-IN March 12-14, 2004 Across the state students and workers are struggling for justice in their workplaces and their communities. This statewide conference will bring together student and community activists to strategize, develop new skills, and build a powerful statewide student labor coalition.
Join us to
-Learn how strategic power analysis can build student capacity to take on state-wide tuition fights
-Get involved with globalization and anti-sweatshop movements
-Network with students across the state to help stop budget cuts to social services and education
-Build Community and Labor Alliances
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP OUT AT THE CONFERENCE
PLEASE CONTACT carito@berkeley.edu and to pre-register go to http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/connecting
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Monday, February 09, 2004
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on ALCOHOL & OTHER DRUGS AT WORK
February 16-17, 2004, in New York City
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/smithers/conferences/ilo.html
Background
Drug and alcohol abuse spares no country and no workplace is immune. There are well over 50 million drug-dependent persons in the world, and between 12 to 15 per cent of adults are reported to drink at levels hazardous to themselves and others. In the workplace, substance abuse
contributes to accidents, absenteeism, health problems, theft, lowered productivity and job losses. Studies indicate that absenteeism is two to three times higher for drug and alcohol abusers than for other employees; some 10 per cent of accidents at work involve intoxicated workers; over 10
per cent of on-the-job fatalities are linked to drugs and alcohol; employees with drug and alcohol problems claim three times as many sickness benefits and file five times as many compensation claims.
In response, government agencies, employers’ and workers’ organizations and enterprises have launched a wide range of prevention, education and intervention strategies to address the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. The range of good practices has not been well documented, disseminated
or replicated. Therefore, there is a need for establishing and recognizing a mechanism for the sharing of best practices among researchers and practitioners.
Objective
The objective of the proposed ILOCornell conference is to bring together knowledgeable researchers and practitioners from around the world to begin the process of creating such an international inventory, explore mechanisms for linking research to action in dealing with the growing problem of alcohol abuse in the workplace, and to explore related adjacent programs that
will strengthen the effectiveness of alcohol programs.
Participants [LIMITED, by invitation]
Participants in this conference will be representatives of governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations as well as universities and research institutions from around the world includingb practitioners in the alcohol abuse prevention and treatment fi elds from both public and privatesector
organizations.
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1:19:19 PM
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Wednesday, December 03, 2003
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN EDITED VOLUME:
Occupational Safety and Health in a Neoliberal World
For an edited volume to be published by M.E. Sharpe, I seek contributions in the form of case studies or critical essays from several disciplines, including, but not limited to: political science, labor studies, sociology, economics, history, environmental studies, women's studies that illuminate and explain the political nature of occupational safety and health issues faced by workers both here and abroad. Interdisciplinary studies are also welcome.
Contributors should submit an abstract to vmogensen@kingsborough.edu of no more than 250 words by December 31, 2003. Please send as an attachment using MS Word. I will choose the abstracts that will form a coherent volume and ask that the completed papers be submitted by May 1, 2004.
Vernon Mogensen, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of History and Political Science
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
2001 Oriental Boulevard
Brooklyn, NY 11235-2398
718-368-5624 [IIR Library Weblog]
11:27:48 AM
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
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Program on Workplace Health and Safety For Bi-Lingual (Spanish-English) Union Trainers
Co-Sponsored by the Labor Safety and Health Training Project of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies
National Labor College. February 8 – 13, 2004 10:00 a.m. Sunday – 4:00 p.m. Friday
George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Silver Spring, Maryland. A six-day “train the trainer” program on workplace health and safety using a participatory popular education approach. The program will be conducted primarily in English; Spanish language materials will be provided. Participants will learn the fundamentals of workplace health and safety. They will also learn how to teach or facilitate classes on these subjects for other union members. Participants must be sponsored by their union or organization and must agree to facilitate safety and health training in their union or organization. The union or organization must make a commitment to support the participant in doing health and safety training for its members.
Contact Sharon Simon at the George Meany Center at 301- 431-5414, or at ssimon@georgemeany.org . [IIR Library Weblog]
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Friday, November 07, 2003
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Program on Workplace Health and Safety For Bi-Lingual (Spanish-English) Union Trainers
Co-Sponsored by the Labor Safety and Health Training Project of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies
National Labor College. February 8 – 13, 2004 10:00 a.m. Sunday – 4:00 p.m. Friday
George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Silver Spring, Maryland. A six-day “train the trainer” program on workplace health and safety using a participatory popular education approach. The program will be conducted primarily in English; Spanish language materials will be provided. Participants will learn the fundamentals of workplace health and safety. They will also learn how to teach or facilitate classes on these subjects for other union members. Participants must be sponsored by their union or organization and must agree to facilitate safety and health training in their union or organization. The union or organization must make a commitment to support the participant in doing health and safety training for its members.
Contact Sharon Simon at the George Meany Center at 301- 431-5414, or at ssimon@georgemeany.org .
5:02:58 PM
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Thursday, October 30, 2003
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Oil! Theatrical performance based on the work of Upton Sinclair
Directed by Delia MacDougall
The Magic Theater, Fort Mason Center, Building D, San Francisco
November 7 - December 7, 2003
San Francisco Bay Area theater group Word For Word brings back its hit show, OIL!, (Chapter One: "The Ride"), the first chapter of Upton Sinclair's sweeping California epic chronicling the tumultuous oil boom and how it altered the course of California history. OIL! - Chapter One: "The Ride" barrels the viewer into a thrilling drive across the California terrain, mined with Sinclair's prescient observations of the political as well as geographic clime of California a century ago. The set for OIL! is an award-winning metal sculpture based upon a 1912 Stearns automobile, and built as an interactive kinetic piece by sculptor Oliver DiCicco.
For more information, see http://www.zspace.org/zspace/index.jsp [IIR Library Weblog]
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