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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.
[Lincoln's IIR Library Weblog]
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Czarnecki's Labor Education Newsletter
Ed Czarnecki has been cranking out this wonderfully useful list of resources and news for many years. He carefully annotates each one and makes sure the contact information is valid, so it's easy to use and find what you need. The current issue (Vol. XIII No. 3 May 10, 2004) contains these, among others:
WORKERS’ RIGHTS WATCH - EYE ON THE NLRB http://americanrightsatwork.org This monthly alert from American Rights at Work looks at how the NLRB affects organizing drives, either because of inadequacies of the law or because of decisions that do little to prevent employer abuses.
APRIL QUESTION OF THE MONTH (CATHERWOOD LIBRARY) What’s It Like to Work for a Labor Union?
Site provides occupational distribution of union jobs and rewards and
conditions of these jobs.
VIDEO: FTAA & THE MIAMI MODEL: FREE CAPITAL, FOUL REPRESSION
A 17 minute video from the Univ. of Minnesota Labor Education Service. Details what happened during the demonstrations against the Free Trade Area of the Americas, in Miami on November 2003. Call 612-624-5020 or contact Howard Kling hkling@csom.umn.edu
[Lincoln's IIR Library Weblog]
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Friday, April 23, 2004
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
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Friday, April 02, 2004
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The Effect of Outsourcing and Offshoring on BLS Productivity Measures [26 March 2004]
http://www.bls.gov/lpc/lproffshoring.pdf
[full-text, 6 pages]
[excerpt]
Recent discussions about the extent of outsourcing and offshoring in the American economy have raised questions about their possible impact on productivity measures. In order to understand the impact, it is necessary to understand the construction of productivity measures and to look at historical trends in the productivity series.
Source: IWS Documented News Service, School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University
[Lincoln's IIR Library Weblog]
8:57:17 AM
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Thursday, March 04, 2004
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News from the Association for Union Democracy
3/3/2004
1. Best Rank-and-File Websites:
#1: No Pension Freeze, Teamster Central States Pension Improvement Committee: “a great example of how to use the Internet as part of a real-world organizing campaign.. a model for campaign websites.”
#2: Free 701, The Committee to Defend [IAM] Local 701: “makes the most of member free speech and provides a vitally important space for discussion and organizing when the normal spaces (such as executive board and local meetings) have been shut down.”
#3: HEARDNY, Hotel Employees Advocating Real Democracy, HERE: “The typical rank-and-file website has to serve many purposes, spreading information, offering the prospect of change, proposing changes to be made…without losing focus. This is a challenging task, and HEARD NY is a good example of how to do it.”
Honorable Mention: ufcw.net, Members for Democracy.
See the site reviews, check out the great ideas and tools, and visit the sites: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/UDR/articles55.htm
2. New Articles from Union Democracy Review #150:
Reformers win big in California State Employees Association: “The sweeping victory of the reform caucus culminates a bitter battle for democracy that began almost 14 years ago when five members of the CSEA negotiating committee campaigned against a contract which the state CSEA leadership was pushing for adoption...”
What happened in Iowa and New Hampshire? “Promoters of labor's New Unity Partnership insist that it is pointless to pay attention to democracy inside unions at a time when it is urgent to organize the unorganized. Not union democracy but industrial democracy is their shibboleth. Perhaps they have it upside down…”
Laborers Local 78: Local wins contract, but insurgents take the election: “Alert members, with their union democracy in action, were rewarded with a fine contract...”
Who will police the Longshoremen's Ethics Code? “if enforced, the code would be a great step forward for democracy and fairness in the ILA. But…”
Other articles: Insurgents defeat trustee in SEIU Local 36 election; What happened in AFSCME District Council 37?; The RISE program: trying to discuss the future of Teamster Reform at a Cornell University Forum; UAW Local changes the rules to get a contract adopted; Leadership overturned in National Writers Union; British Columbia Carpenters vote to quit International. See http://www.uniondemocracy.org/UDR/UDRhome.htm
3. Carpenters Update: the Department of Labor has appealed the decision in the Harrington case (ordering the DOL to require direct election of Regional Council Officers). AUD Board Member Alan Hyde will file an amicus brief. AUD is helping carpenters organize a national network to push for direct elections in all councils. See the draft petition and letter from Carl Biers: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/UDR/articles56.htm
4. New links: for Teamsters: Central Pa Teamsters Reform Committee, Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Improvement Committee, Air Canada, Buster Brown, unofficial sites for Joint Council 7, Locals 70, 73, 78, 117, 399; for Postal Workers: Women Abused, Inhumanely Mistreated in the US Postal Service; for Carpenters: Local 157, Local 98, Articles on the Carpenters Union, by a student labor activist; for members of all unions: Pension Rights Center. See http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Resources/AUDLinks
5. Spring Specials: renew your tax-exempt contribution to AUD, or become a new member and receive 50% discounts on AUD t-shirts, and more. We hope you need and appreciate AUD, we certainly need you. Please contribute what you can: http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Home/joinaud.htm
6. Education on the road: looking for a way to bring coworkers together, to spread information and ideas, to overcome apathy and pessimism? AUD's hands on educational workshops are just the thing, and we may be able to come to you. See http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Education/audevents.htm 7. AUD in Japan: the Center for Transnational Labor Studies, in Tokyo, will hold a seminar by AUD Board Member Alan Hyde, in mid-March. CTLS recently concluded a two-part seminar on Union Democracy, Social Movement Unionism, and Popular Education, with AUD's Matt Noyes. See http://www.uniondemocracy.org/Education/audevents.htm [IIR Library Weblog]
4:29:13 PM
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Thursday, February 26, 2004
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New Report Compares European Trade Agreements and NAFTA
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 Director, IWS News Bureau
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From the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
Lessons of European Integration for the Americas [26 February 2004]
by Sarah Anderson and John Cavanagh
February 26, 2004
http://www.ips-dc.org/EULessons/
or
http://www.ips-dc.org/EULessons/EUlessons.pdf
[full-text, 37 pages]
A new study that compares the EU integration approach with the model of the North American Free Trade Agreement. These alternative ideas are particularly timely, given the deadlock in talks on the Free Trade Area of the Americas and in World Trade Organization negotiations.
[From press release]
The remaining Democratic Presidential contenders have committed to changing U.S. trade policy. But when it comes to specific
alternatives, the leading candidates tend to recite a similar refrain that is limited to incorporating labor and environmental issues in
future trade pacts. [Perhaps they could learn something from this study].
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
12:02:57 PM
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004
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A study about jobs moving out of state. The study, conducted by the consulting firm Bain & Co. for the California Business Roundtable, marks one of the most ambitious efforts yet to analyze the political hot-button issue of the state's business climate.
The Roundtable, representing large corporations in the state, has been at the forefront of the argument that California is hostile to business, driving companies away and destroying jobs. San Francisco Chronicle Feb 24 2004 11:14AM GMT [Janice Kimball's Radio Weblog]
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