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Monday, May 10, 2004
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"Unions and Community"
First Call for Papers
Unions 2004 Conference
In 1998, 2000, 2002 the Monash University (Australia) based National Key Centre for Industrial Relations (NKCIR) enjoyed a well earned reputation for running regular conferences on trade unions and union issues. In 2004 the newly formed Union Strategy Research Group in the Department of Management at Monash is continuing this tradition with a call for papers around the theme of community unionism.
For this conference we invite contributions which
• explore community unionism, its meaning and practice;
• address aspects of union strategies and behaviours where unions develop links with the community, voluntary groups, and other social movements; and
• deal with the ways unions foster mutually reinforcing relationships at regional, national, and international levels.
We welcome presentations on aspects of practice from union officials and members of community organisations. In addition we invite proposals for themed sessions to run during the conference. To date two themes have been proposed:
• Training, union strategy, and geographical regionalism which will be co-ordinated by Richard Cooney (Monash University) and include a panel of trade unionists; and
• Unions and multi-media which will be co-ordinated by Cathy Brigden (RMIT) and include film (such as Fran Laneyrie’s film “Promise of Struggle”) and photographic histories of unions and labour councils. Tours of Trades Hall, one of Melbourne’s historic buildings, will also be offered.
When: Monday 27 September and Tuesday 28 September 2004
Where: Trades Hall, Lygon Street, Carlton, Melbourne
Keynote speakers will include Leigh Hubbard, Victorian THC and Gail Drummond, ACTU.
Abstracts (of max. 500 words) are invited for papers to address the conference theme (submit by 30th July 2004). Conference papers will be refereed and published as a monograph following the conference itself.
For further details, to submit an abstract or offer a themed session, please contact:
Prof. Al Rainnie or Marjorie Jerrard
Department of Management
Monash University
Email: Al.Rainnie@buseco.monash.edu.au Marjorie.Jerrard@BusEco.monash.edu.au
Ph: 03 9902 6625 03 9903 2336
Fax: 03 9902 7128 03 9903 2718
Registration details will be available soon.
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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.
[IIR Library Weblog]
8:57:41 AM
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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
[IIR Library Weblog]
11:17:20 AM
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Tuesday, December 09, 2003
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Friday, November 14, 2003
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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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Friday, October 31, 2003
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Free speech upheld in handbills at state shopping malls
By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, October 31, 2003
Complete story at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/31/BAG6J2NG2E1.DTL
Shopping center owners in California can't prohibit unions from handing out leaflets that criticize an owner of a store in the center, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
Observing that the California Constitution "does not permit censorship of contrary ideas,'' the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a National Labor Relations Board charge of unfair labor practices against a Los Angeles County shopping mall. [IIR Library Weblog]
10:36:43 AM
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