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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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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
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