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Division was
created in 1946 and now has district offices in six locations. Program
is flexible and broad; subjects and teaching methods adapted to
particular groups. Subdivisions include: Labor Studies, Construction
Industry Program; Labor Education Research; Programs for Employment and
Workplace Systems; Institute for Women and Work; Chemical Hazards
Information Program. .
Sally Alvarez Director of Labor Studies and Statewide Programs
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Capitol District
90 State Street, Suite 600
Albany, NY 12207-1706
ph: (518) 449-4161 • fax: (518) 426-0643
Gordon
McClelland
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New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
237 Main Street, Suite 1200
Buffalo, NY 14203-2702
ph: (716) 852-4191 • fax: (716) 852-3802
Richard
Lipsitz
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Metropolitan District
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
16 E. 34th St., 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
ph: (212) 340-2800 • fax: (212) 340-2822
Gene
Carroll
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Rochester District
16 W. Main St., Powers Building, Suite 243
Rochester, NY 14614
ph: (585) 262-4440 • fax: (585) 262-3715
Linda
Donahue
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Great Lakes Region
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
237 Main Street, Suite 1200
Buffalo, NY 14203-2702
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The DePaul Labor Education Program offers a three-year
certification program in Labor Leadership that trains union members to
become union leaders. Students meet weekly with other Chicago area
labor leaders from a wide variety of unions to expand traditional
skills and to discuss new strategies on such diverse topics as conflict
resolution, internal organizing, public speaking and health and safety
issues. Credit towards a bachelor’s degree is available through DePaul
University’s School for New Learning. We also offer extension classes
that can be designed to meet the specific needs of a union. Special
seminars are offered regularly, as well as labor history tours,
computer skills training courses for union members, union education
program, and a High School education program.
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The High School program is a three part series. Students
engage in a full day collective bargaining scenario, grapple with why
people organize and tour the Pullman district side of the Pullman
Strike.
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Emily Rosenberg Director
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The Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies offers
Associate, Bachelor's, and Master's degrees in Labor Studies and
related areas of study. In addition to its Varick Street location, the
Van Arsdale Center has a unit for its IBEW Local 3/Joint Electrical
Board Apprentice Associate Degree Program, and a unit on Staten Island.
The Van Arsdale Center also offers undergraduate degrees through
distance learning. Distance courses are offered in print versions and
online. The Center for Labor Studies was created as part of Empire
State College in 1971.
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Marie Wittek Dean and Director
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Provides comprehensive statewide labor education
services, supports faculty research in labor relations and labor
studies, offers credit and non-credit curriculum in labor studies.
Houses projects such as the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute, the
Human and Labor Rights Institute, Applied and Theoretical Research
Projects, Florida Labor Archives, International Labor Program Union
Leadership Academy Certificate Program, and Workplace Issues
Certificate Program.
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Dawn Addy
Director
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Georgia State University
Labor Studies
Program
120 Courtland Street, Suite 400
Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
ph: (404) 651-3653 • fax: (404) 651-3651 • Director (404)-651-3654
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Long and short term continuing education classes. Classes
are usually sponsored by local unions, central bodies, union regional
offices, or the Ga. State AFL-CIO.
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Philip
LaPorte Director
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The Labor and
Worklife Program is a public policy and research center at Harvard Law
School, which sponsors the Harvard Trade Union Program an annual,
6-week residential session for approximately 30 experienced union
officials and senior staff focusing on strategic planning and
leadership skills. Additionally, the program organizes conferences,
symposiums, and shorter educational sessions on important issues facing
the labor movement.
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Elaine Bernard Executive Director
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Indiana University
Division
of Labor Studies
Poplars 628
400 E. 7th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-3085
ph: (812) 855-9082 fax: (812) 855-1563
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Indiana University's Division of Labor Studies program,
established in 1946, encompasses five principal areas of activity: 1)
credit degree courses which lead to a Certificate, Associate, and
Bachelor of Science in Labor Studies; 2) Union Education Program (UEP)
non-credit courses and conferences; 3) residential institutes and
conferences; 4) an Occupational Safety and Health Resource Center that
provides instruction, materials, technical assistance and a "Hotline" for workers in the state; 5) Institute for the Study of Labor in
Society that provides technical consulting in economic policy, labor
resources, market research, public opinion and workplace education
programs policy, etc.
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Ruth
Needleman Acting Director & Professor
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Indiana University
Northwest at Gary
Division of Labor Studies
3400 Broadway
Lindenwood Building 126
Gary, IN 46408
ph: (219) 980-6825 fax: (219) 980-6834
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Indiana University at
South Bend
Division of Labor Studies
1825 Northside Blvd.
P.O. Box 7111
South Bend, IN 46634-7111
ph: (219) 237-4469
fax: (219) 239-5006
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Indiana University at Fort
Wayne
Division of Labor Studies
2101 Coliseum Blvd. East
Kettler G-28
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
ph: (219) 481-6831 fax: (219) 481-5784
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Indiana University at Kokomo
Division of Labor Studies
2300 S. Washington
P.O. Box 9003
East Bldg. - Room 120
Kokomo, IN 46904
ph: (765) 455-9403 fax: (765) 455-9504
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Indiana University/Purdue
University at Indianapolis
Division of Labor Studies
620 Union Drive, 503
Indianapolis, IN 46202
ph: (317) 274-3471 fax: (317) 278-2280
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Workshops currently being offered by the center include
steward training, worker safety and health, and negotiations. The center can tailor other workshops to fit union's
needs on topics including violence in the workplace, sexual harassment,
organizing, labor history, chemical right-to-know, labor research over
the internet, media campaigns, workers' compensation, family medical
leave, Americans with disabilities, as well as others.
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Other activities conducted by the Center include research
on environmental issues, international labor issues, the history of
workers and unions, and placement of historical markers commemorating
the struggles faced by workers and unions across the state of
Pennsylvania.
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Charles
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Michigan State University
Labor Education
Program
School of Labor and Industrial Relations
432 South Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1032
ph: (517) 355-5070 fax: (517) 355-7656
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For over forty
years, the Labor Education Program at Michigan State University has
been providing education, training and research services to the
leaders, staff, activists, and members of labor organizations across
Michigan and beyond our boundaries. The program offers both non-credit
and credit courses, conferences of local and national interests, and
on-site workshops and classes to meet the specific needs of workers and
their unions. Also housed in the labor Education program is the Program
on Innovative Employment Relations Systems (PIERS) which provides a
wide range of open enrollment classes, on-site workships, and group
facilitation to leaders in unionized workplaces exploring and/or
implementing some form of joint labor/management cooperative project or
program.
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John P.
Beck Associate Director
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Labor College
10000 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20903
ph: (301) 431-6400 • fax: (301) 434-0371
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National Labor College is the national educational
institute of the AFL-CIO, offering more than 80 non credit labor
studies institutes and workshops which are open to officers,
representatives, staff and members of AFL-CIO affiliates. The GMC-NLC
and its facilities are also available to all AFL-CIO national and
international unions for their own leadership programs, staff training
and education conferences.
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The National Labor College, which offers seven courses of
study leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree, was fully accredited by the
State of Maryland in October 1997 and is a candidate for accreditation
by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association
of Colleges and Schools. The National Labor College also offers a
Masters' Degree in Public Administration through the University of
Baltimore. The campus also houses the George Meany Memorial Archives
and the AFL-CIO Library.
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William
Scheuerman President
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Northern Michigan
University’s Labor Education Program provides training and educational
resources for the labor community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula,
drawing from experts in a wide variety of fields such as economics,
history, labor studies, sociology, management, and political science.
This tapestry of perspectives provides a strong foundation for courses
of study in the department’s two main academic offerings: a Labor
Studies Minor and a Labor Leadership Certification program. Instruction
by university professors is augmented by a guest lecture series
featuring speakers from other universities, state and local labor
organizations, and governmental agencies such as the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service. The program also participates in an outreach
effort to conduct collective bargaining role-playing workshops for high
school students across the Upper Peninsula and acts in an advisory role
to the Upper Peninsula Labor Management council.
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In addition to its
academic endeavors and a broad range of workshops on leadership and
union activities (including customized training in response to
individual requests), the program also sponsors and coordinates an
annual Michigan AFL-CIO Upper Peninsula Labor Conference as well as the
Upper Peninsula Labor Hall of Fame, which is housed on NMU’s campus.
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Ted
Balzarini Director
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The Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations
began in 1947. Today, it offers B.A., B.S., and M.S. degrees as well as
provides a comprehensive Labor Education Program. The department
presently has more than 220 undergraduate majors, making it one of the
largest industrial relations undergraduate programs in the country. The
master of science degree program in Industrial Relations and Human
Resources is relatively small by comparison, enabling more one-to-one
contact with the faculty and facilitating a more enriched learning
environment. The Labor Education Program offers non-credit education
and training in a variety of formats to organized workers throughout
Pennsylvania. This program is offered with the assistance of the
College of the Liberal Arts and the Outreach and Cooperative Extension
Services at Penn State.
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Queens College
Worker
Education
University Main Site
25 West 43rd Street
New York, N.Y. 10036
ph: (212) 827-0200 fax: (212) 827-5955
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
ph: (718) 997-3060 • fax: (718) 997-3069
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Provides credit and non-credit courses to union members
who receive tuition support from their unions. Students enrolled in the
Bachelor's degree program complete a special Worker Education
curriculum to meet the College's general education requirements and
then select from among 50 majors, including a major in Labor Studies.
Graduate programs are also available. Courses are offered at the
College's Flushing campus and its mid-Manhattan Worker Education
Extension Center. The program enrolls over 600 students in degree
programs from 14 sponsoring unions. The Labor Resource Center conducts
research, sponsors monthly forums, organizes conferences, develops
curriculum, prepares educational material, and publishes New Labor
Forum - a journal of ideas, analysis, and debate.
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Gregory
Mantsios Director
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Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey
Labor
Education Program
Labor Education Center
50 Labor Center Way
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8553
ph: (732) 932-9502 • fax: (732) 932-8677
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Labor studies and employment relations examines work,
workers, the organizations employees create to defend their interests
and non-work phenomena that affect and are affected by workers. This
broad scholarly scope has been complemented by professional education
of labor, management, and neutrals working in labor or employment
relations. In the 1990's, Department faculty have increasingly
emphasized intellectual, research, and scholarly activities, informed
by their deep involvement with labor organizations, corporations
attempting to transform their work systems, and public policy debates.
LSER faculty participate in the undergraduate Labor Studies program,
the graduate Master of Labor and Employment Relations Program, the
School's PhD program in Industrial Relations and Human Resources, and
non-credit adult education programs of the School. Faculty bring to
teaching insights from their research and involvement in the world of
employment relations (which is rapidly changing), and in turn involve
their students in research and internship opportunities. Most
fundamentally, the Department believes that all its activities inform
on another and increasingly are creating a new paradigm for the study
of labor and employment issues nationwide.
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The Labor Center works directly with local, state and
international unions to develop educational programs that serve the
needs of union members. Evergreen also has a half-time labor studies
class that runs fall, winter, and spring quarters. We usually offer a
winter, spring four-credit program called The New School for Union
Organizers, this year in collaboration with the U. of Washington Center
for Labor Studies. The Labor Center organizes annual educational
conferences including the Summer School for Union Women and, most
currently (and again with the U of Washington) a Women of Color and the
Labor Struggle Conference. We also offer rank and file schools and
leadership development classes with individual unions. The Center
offers internships both on campus and with local unions.
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Peter
Kardas Director
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University of Alabama at
Birmingham (UAB)
Center for Labor
Education and Research (CLEAR)
1044 11 th St., S.
Birmingham, AL 35294-4500
Labor Education • ph: (205) 934-2101 • fax: (205)
975-5087
Workplace Safety Training • ph: (205) 934-8016 •
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Created in 1972, CLEAR provides the full range of labor
education programs to workers in Alabama and throughout the southeast.
In addition to contract classes with local unions and state and
regional organizations, CLEAR offers 4-6 conferences per year on topics
such as law, economics, safety and health, arbitration, bargaining, and
leadership skills.
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CLEAR’s Workplace Safety Training program offers training
to hazardous waste workers and first responders. Funded by a National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant, WST staff work with
labor and other groups throughout the country.
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Judith
L. King Director and Associate Professor
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University
of Arkansas at Little Rock
Labor Education
Program
UALR / Library 513
2801 South University
Little Rock, AR 72204-1099
ph: (501) 569-8483 • fax (501) 569-8538
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LEP provides
worker education and training programs throughout the state. Training
programs are conducted for local unions, central labor councils, the
Arkansas AFL-CIO, and international unions at the regional or district
level. Several multi-day, special- topic seminars are also held each
year. In addition to traditional offerings--steward training, grievance
handling, arbitration techniques, collective bargaining, and
occupational safety and health, LEP provides specific programs in
response to needs expressed by client unions. LEP also develops and
delivers site-based workplace skills courses through its Workplace
Skills Enhancement Program.
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Diane
Thomas-Holladay Director
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The
Labor Center is an outreach arm of University of California, Berkeley,
whose mission is to support the labor movement by providing research
and education and by helping labor leaders access the broad resources
of the University community. Since the creation in 2000 of the
Institute of Labor and Employment, a University of California-wide
program that includes the UC Berkeley and UCLA Labor Centers as well as
new faculty research programs, we have tripled our staffs and started
numerous new programs. Among these are our undergraduate and graduate
union internship programs, a Union Leadership School, and new strategic
initiatives with our labor and community partners in the areas of
organizing, labor's voice in economic development, and international
labor relations. Labor Center activities include research and training
projects for individual unions, multi-union seminars and conferences,
academic research and instruction, strategic planning and facilitation,
and other services.
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Katie
Quan, Chair
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The Labor
Occupational Health Program is a labor and community service branch of
the University’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. Our
primary purpose is to reduce occupational injuries, illness and death
bby helping workers to take an active roll in identifying and
controlling hazards,and by promoting policies and programs that support
workplace safety and environmental justice. Emphasis is given
traditionally under-served populations, including women, workers of
color, immigrants, low-wage workers, injured workersand others.
Services of LOHP include:
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* Participatory,
action-orientated training
* Prevention-oriented research and program evaluation
* Educational materials tailored to meet a wide range of language and
literacy needs
* Technical assistance on a range of occupational safety and health
issues
* Resource Center services including an extensive library and referrals
* Policy and legal analysis and consultation
* Course instruction at the high school, community college and
university levels
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LOHP works with a
range of labor groups, joint labor-management partnerships,
community-based organizations, researchers, and public agencies in
order to identify and address the most significant and cutting-edg
issues affecting working conditions. Our projects range from local to
international.
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Robin Baker Director
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UCLA
Center for Labor Research & Education
School of Public Policy & Social
Research
Hershey Hall 2nd Floor, Box 951478
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1478
ph: (310) 794-5981 or (310) 794-5983
fax: (310) 794-6410
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The UCLA Labor Center is helping Southern California
workers, unions and labor leaders to address new challenges and new
opportunities. The Center was created through the support of the labor
community to serve as an educational and research resource for workers,
unions and labor leaders. It offers intensive educational, training and
skill development programs, and its staff conducts cutting edge
research on labor issues.
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The center provides a key link between the academic and
labor communities. Scholars working in labor-related areas and student
activists interact with labor leaders and workers through a variety of
the Center's programs.
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The Center also serves as a campus resource for students
and faculty and offers an undergraduate specialization in Labor and
Workplace Studies.
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Kent
Wong Director
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University of Connecticut
Labor Education Center
U-4013, One Bishop Circle, Room 235
Storrs, CT 06269-4013
ph: (860) 486-3417 • fax: (860) 486-522
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Offers non-credit
courses throughout the state in addition to credit programing in the
Bachelor of General Studies program offered by the University of
Connecticut. We have specialized credit courses in Occupational Safety
and Health leading to a certification.
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We conduct
residential institutes, conferences and seminars on specialized topics
involving workforce development, labor management initiatives, and
issues surrounding collective bargaining. The LEC administers a safety
and health training program for Connecticut surface miners through a
program funded by MSHA; conducts Annual Connecticut AFL-CIO Summer
School; co-sponsored AFL-CIO/UCLEA Trade Union Women’s Institutes and
CLUW Conferences. The LEC is also involved in the development of
contextually based workplace literacy programs and offers a 40-hour
program on Alternative Dispute Resolution specifically mediation.
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Mark E. Sullivan Director/Assoc. Ext. Professor
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Provides credit and non-credit courses in a range of
union leadership topics including grievance handling, collective
bargaining, arbitration, labor history, communications, union
administration, labor law, organizing, occupational safety and health,
labor economics, and legislative and political action. Conferences and
residential institutes are conducted for major internationals, special
industry groups and unionists with special needs. Major programs are
conducted for women union leaders and Hispanic union activists. Recent
innovations include programs aimed at strengthening union leaders'
effectiveness in joint labor-management programs. The Chicago Center
for Working Class Studies coordinates the efforts of scholars and
practitioners conducting studies and programs on working class issues
with particular emphasis on the Greater Chicago area. An on-line course
in Collective Bargaining is being offered this year for computer savvy
unionists.
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Ronald
Peters Professor LTR; Head, Labor Ed. Programs
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Hazardous Materials Worker
Safety Training Program
1902 Presidential Towers
302 E. John St
Champaign, IL 61820
Ph: (217) 333-0640 fax: (217) 244-8396
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University of Illinois
Chicago Labor Education Program
Rice Building Suite 214
815 W. Van Buren
Chicago, IL 60607
Ph: (312) 996-2623 fax: (312) 413-2997
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University
of Iowa
Labor Center
100 Oakdale Campus M210 OH
Iowa City, IA 52242-5000
ph: (319) 335-4144 • fax: (319) 335-4464
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The Labor Center has, since 1951, offered a broad range
of labor education services to local, state and regional organizations.
On campus workshops and conferences on current labor issues:
specialized courses for local unions presented in union halls and local
communities; assistance in union research and membership mobilization
projects and assistance to unions seeking audio, visual and printed
resources. On campus programs include Collective Bargaining; Financial
Officers Education; Advanced Union Leadership; Labor Law; Family and
Medical Leave and Americans with Disabilities Acts; Unions and Teams:
Building the Union in the High Performance Environment; Privacy Issues;
Privatization and Contracting Out; Public Sector Issues, Trade Union
Women, and an annual AFL-CIO Summer School, Organizing and One-on-One
Member Mobilization and Drug Testing. The Labor Center also offers
Strategic Planning programs for local unions, central labor councils
and State and regional union organizations.
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Daniel J. Holub Acting Director
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University of Massachusetts-Amherst
The Labor Center
Gordon Hall / 418 N. Pleasant St.,
Suite B
Amherst, MA 01003-2020
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The focus of the
Labor Center is our Master's degree in Labor Studies. With course work
in history, law, economics, research, organizing, and bargaining, we
equip our graduates to work in the labor movement and associated social
justice organizations. In addition to our residential Master's degree,
we offer our Master's degree in a limited-residency format for union
officers, staff, and activists. We provide extensive research support
for national, regional, and local unions with corporate research,
economic research in support of living wage campaigns, surveys, and
qualitative research. The Center also participates in a four-campus
labor extension program in Massachusetts, providing a variety of
non-credit courses.
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Eve Weinbaum
Director and Professor
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University
of Massachusetts at Boston
Labor Resource Center
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125-3393
ph: (617) 287-7426 • fax: (617) 287-7404
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The Labor Resource Center (LRC) provides an integrated
range of educational and research programs to workers and their
organizations. The Center advocates for economic and social justice for
working families as they seek to gain control over their futures at
work, in their communities, and in the political arena. We lend our
skills, expertise, and resources to workplace and community activists,
assisting them in building a powerful, inclusive labor movement that
can effectively advocate for all working people.
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The Center:
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- Offers education and training to
workers, to enhance their skills and knowledge as leaders, advocates,
activists, and citizens
- Affects public policy debates by
providing research and analysis to unions and other organizations
- Disseminates information to the media,
community groups, and governmental institutions to enhance public
understanding of working people's concerns
- Promotes dialogue and mutually
respectful partnerships between labor and community organizations
- Seeks to engender strong and enduring
connections between local campaigns and wider efforts to build
movements for progressive social change at all levels: city, state,
national and international.
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Susan
Moir Director
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University of Massachusetts -
Dartmouth
Arnold M. Dubin
Labor Education Center
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300
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The Center offers a minor in Labor Studies and a 24
credit certificate program that can be adapted to particular Union
needs. Labor extension works with Unions and Community Organizations to
develop seminars, workshops and courses on organizing, worker rights,
strategic planning as well as trainings and workshops on stewards
training, health and safety workshops, TMLA and sexual harrassment. Our
workers education program works with community groups and unions to
offer ESOL courses, GED courses and Citizenship education and computer
literacy.
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Jose
A. Soler Director
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University
of Massachusetts-Lowell
Labor Extension Program
One University Ave.
Lowell, MA 01854
ph: (978) 934-3138 • fax: (978) 934-4033
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The University of Massachusetts - Lowell Labor Extension
Program offers both training and education programs and technical and
strategic assistance to unions, Central Labor Councils and other worker
organizations. The Extension Program focuses in the geographic area
covered by the Lawrence-Haverhill-Newburyport, Greater Lowell, North
Worcester, Worcester-Framingham and North Shore Central Labor Councils.
While offering a wide range of programming, the Program has particular
expertise and focus in topic areas such as Research for Organizing and
Contract Bargaining; Women's Leadership Development; Union Strategies
for Dealing with Work Restructuring and Technological Change; and
Critical Approaches to Labor-Management Programs.
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Charley Richardson Director
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University
of Michigan
The Labor Studies Center
Institute of Labor and Industrial
Relations
302 Victor Vaughan Bldg.
1111 E. Catherine Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2054
ph: 734-763-4761 • fax: 734-763-0913 • Isc.info@umich.edu
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The Labor Studies
Center at the University of Michigan offers a number of non-credit
conferences that promote self-empowerment and the participation of
women and minorities in leadership roles, both in the workplace and in
their communities. These include leadership, stewardship and
educational workshops as well as programs on workers’ culture.
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Programs include
on-site training (Collective Bargaining, Fighting Contracting Out,
Grievance Handling, Labor History, Contract Interpretation & Labor
Law, Effective Speaking, Parliamentary Procedure, Train-the-Trainer,
Sexual Harassment, Labor and the Media, Cultural Diversity), corporate
development training, joint-labor management training, and annual
leadership institutes (the Michigan Summer School for Women Workers,
Black Men in Unions Institute, the Latina/o Workers Leadership
Institute, Winter Leadership Institute, and the Workers Unity
Conference). These institutes, based on some of the major tenets of
Popular Education Theory, take place annually and have addressed
concerns of the labor community through workshop offerings (in addition
to those listed above) such as: Basic Union Skills; Cultural Diversity
in the Workplace; Health and Safety; Legal and Civil Rights in the
Workplace; Organizing and Political Action and Strategy; Gender
Relations in the Workplace; Privatization; Financial and Retirement
Planning; Communication and Leadership Skills; and Youth and Unions.
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Lawrence S. Root
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University
of Minnesota
Labor Education Service, IRC
321 19th Ave. So., #3-300
Minneapolis, MN 55455
ph: (612) 624-5020 • fax: (612) 624-1585
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Continuing series
of one day to week long institutes and conferences on special topics
either for individual union groups or for general labor audiences.
Labor Education Telecommunication Project produces and telecasts
year-round programs in over 20 communities throughout the state of
Minnesota. The project also publishes Workday Minnesota, a statewide
daily internet labor news service. LES also publishes a series of
instructional manuals and information bulletins on topics of interest
to organized labor.
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Howard Kling,
Director
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University
of Missouri - Columbia
Labor Education Program
Heinkel Building, Room 212
Columbia, MO 65211-1341
ph: (573) 882-8358 • fax: (573) 884-5423
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The MU Labor Education Program is a comprehensive labor
education center providing credit and non-credit classes, research and
technical assistance to labor organizations throughout Missouri.
Non-credit classes, conferences and institutes are developed both on a
contract and open-enrollment basis. The credit program is delivered in
cooperation with the University of Missouri campuses at Kansas City and
Saint Louis, through an interactive video network.
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Paul K. Rainsberger Director & Assoc. Prof.
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The Institute for Labor Studies offers credit and
non-credit courses on a wide range of labor issues including
bargaining, grievance handling, internal organizing, the global
economy, labor history. It offers custom training for unions and a
Labor Studies Credit Certificate Program on the Interactive Video
Network in cooperation with other Missouri labor education programs.
It's Labor in the Schools program has developed a 15-hour curriculum
appropriate for high school 11th grade social studies classes and
adaptable for apprenticeship and union education programs. ILS also
sponsors and coordinates The Heartland Labor Forum, a one-hour weekly
radio show on community radio in Kansas City. ILS does programming and
tours on maquiladora issues in Mexico.
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Judy
Ancel Director
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The Institute, established in 1980, offers a wide range
of non credit programing to help Neraska labor leaders and activists
gain the education and skills necessary for success in today's changing
economy and workplace. Courses include: grievance handling, collective
bargaining, labor history, strategic planning, parliamentary procedure,
safety and health, FMLA,leadership skills, increasing political
effectiveness, common sense economics, internal organizing, and the use
and abuse of worker participation programs.
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John
Kretzschmar Director
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LERC provides a comprehensive labor education program for
union members, officers, and staff. Classes and programs are generally
non-credit, although LERC faculty offer occasional credit classes with
other University of Oregon departments, and coordinates an internship
program to place students with unions. LERC offers a non-credit
certificate for union leaders. Major areas of emphasis include
grievance handling, organizing, strategic planning, union research,
occupational safety and health, labor and politics, and leadership
training. LERC offers conferences, workshops, classes, and programs
both open-enrollment and for unions. LERC faculty engage in research in
occupational safety and health, labor history, labor relations, and
labor policy.
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Bob Bussel Director
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University
of Wisconsin Extension
School for Workers
422 Lowell Hall/610 Langdon St.
Madison, WI 53703
ph: (608) 262-2112 • fax: (608) 265-2391 |
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The School for Workers is the labor education department of the University of Wisconsin-Extension, Continuing Education, Outreach & E-Learning. Our mission is to educate workers and others about issues of concern in the workplace. Each year we offer hundreds of programs to thousands of union representatives, officers, members, and employer representatives.
The School for Workers works closely with the labor movement at the local, state and national levels. Programming is designed for the rank and file, local leadership, and international union staff. While much of our programming activity occurs in Wisconsin and the Midwest, our faculty frequently travel to states outside the region and to foreign countries to provide customized programming.
In addition to courses offered in conjunction with specific unions and labor-management committees, the School offers a large number of open enrollment programs designed for union members as well as individual workers and other worker oriented groups.
We run approximately 150 programs each year which involve over 4,000 union representatives, officers, members and employer representatives. We offer a wide range of programs ranging from one hour presentations to evening community classes, two or three day conferences, week-long residential institutes in Madison, to multi-day labor-management facilitations involving a wide range of subjects. Our faculty also provide a wide range of applied research and technical assistance services.
Neill De Clercq, Director
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Wayne
State University
Labor Studies Center
656 W. Kirby - 3178 FAB
Detroit, MI 48202
ph: (313) 577-2191 • fax: (313) 577-7726
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The Labor Studies Center is a comprehensive labor
education center committed to strengthening the capacity of organized
labor to represent the needs and interests of workers, while at the
same time strengthening the University's interdisciplinary research and
teaching on labor and labor relations issues. The Center's primary
areas of research and practice include: training and technical
assistance to unions on labor relations and workplace issues; an
undergraduate Labor Studies major and internship program; interventions
to increase the organizational effectiveness of unions; the development
and diffusion of constructive labor-management relations practices,
particularly in the public sector; the formation and
institutionalization of labor-community coalitions; and the impact of
lean production systems on workers and labor relations practice in the
North American auto industry.
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Hal
Stack Director
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Offers four year B.S. degree in Labor Resources and
Industrial Relations. Courses include CB; Labor History; Labor
Agreements; Arbitration Procedures; Labor Welfare Policies;
Constitutional Law; Labor Law; Wage Theory; Contemporary Labor Issues;
Industrial Sociology; and a Practicum. Program also conducts non-credit
outreach programming through Southern Appalachian Labor School
304/442-3157 or 304/779-2772 on variety of issues including labor
issues, work with the unemployed, community economic development,
health, housing, and the environment. Academic Degree Program.
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John David
Chair and Professor
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West Virginia University
Institute for Labor Studies and Research
710 Knapp Hall
P.O. Box 6031
Morgantown, WV 26506-6031
ph: (304) 293-3323 • fax: (304) 293-3395
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The Institute for
Labor Studies and Research (ILSR) at West Virginia University Extension
Service provides labor education and research services for rank and
file workers, stewards, officers, and staff representatives. While the
emphasis is primarily on service to West Virginia union members, some
week-long residential summer institutes, weekend conferences and
one-day study programs attract both regional and national
participation.
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Certificates are
awarded to those who complete each course. Minimal registration fees
are charged to help offset the cost of materials and instruction. There
are no examinations or grades. All classes are taught by individuals
who possess extensive knowledge and understanding of the labor
movement, its function and its goals.
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Classes or
conferences are jointly planned by the Institute for Labor Studies and
Research along with representatives of local unions, local central
bodies, district councils, statewide organizations or international
unions.
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Steve
Cook Director
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The Labor Studies Program is a two year program leading
to an Associate's Degree in Labor Studies. The program offers courses
that are both practical and theoretical including union leadership
skills, negotiations, contract administration, labor law, grievance
processing and arbitration, fundamentals of occupational safety and
health, and the organizing model of unionism. The Center for
Working-Class Studies is an interdisciplinary research and teaching
center devoted to the study of working-class life and culture. The CWCS
creates social spaces for civic and academic conversations on
working-class life and culture and its intersections with other
identities and serves as a clearinghouse for information on
working-class culture, issues, and pedagogy. More than an intellectual
project, the CWCS is also engaged with the broader society, providing
assistance in creating a culture of organizing and education within
working-class institutions and society.
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The CWCS develops courses in working-class studies,
organizes a biennial conference, publishes a newsletter, and sponsors
an annual speaker series. It houses a library and maintains an on-line
bibliography on working-class studies to help promote scholarship in
the field.
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John
Russo Coordinator, LSP Co-Director, CWCS
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Unions- Members
of UALE
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American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)Education Department
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American Federation of
Teachers (AFT) Union Leadership Institute
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Graphic Communications
International Union Education Department
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International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
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International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers
Winpisinger
Education and Technology Center
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Laborers International Union of North
America Education
Department
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Service Employees
International Union (SEIU) Education
Department
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SEIU Local 535 Education and
Training
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Sheet Metal Workers International
Association
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Solidarity Center,
AFL-CIO
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Transport Workers
of America Education
Department
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United Auto Workers International Union
Education Department
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United Steelworkers Education
Department
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Washington State
Council of Firefighters
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Independent and Community-Based
Organizations - Members of UALE
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Provides credit
Labor Studies courses in cooperation with Rhode Island College and
non-credit education and training in the complete range of traditional
union needs. Provides classes in adult education. Provides information
about workplace rights for teachers, students, immigrants and workers.
Produces television program broadcast on every cable franchise in Rhode
Island.
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Charles SchwartzExecutive
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The Holt Labor
Library, founded in 1992, is a non-profit labor and radical history
library located on the campus of New College of California School of
Law. The library's collection includes books, current and historical
periodicals, pamphlets, videos, audio tape and archives. A significant
part of the collection contains out-of-print, rare, and other difficult
to find materials.
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The materials in
the library chronicle the history of the struggle to organize trade
unions, oppose wars, fight for civil rights, and save the environment,
The library exists, not only to preserve knowledge and make it
available for scholars, but to inform and engage union members, other
working people, activists, the unemployed, youth, and other
under-represented communities. We have a professionally trained
librarian who provides on-site, telephone, and e-mail reference
service. The library is open to the public by appointment four days a
week.
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Holt Labor Library
maintains a web site to provide assistance to remote users. As well as
describing the library and its services, out web site has links to our
online library catalaog, online periodicals, labor law, occupational
health, current labor news, and other relevant web sites
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Shannon Sheppard, Director
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