What's Happening in Labor Education?
Last
updated: 5/12/2008
UALE
Activities
Book and
Publications New*
From NAFTA to the SPP, by
Katherine Sciacchitano; New* Taking Back the Workers' Law, by
Ellen Dannin; The New Union Officers’
Handbook; Globalization
and Labor: Democratizing Global Governance; More Unequal: Aspects of Class in
the United States, edited by Michael
D. Yates; Work Family
Curriculum and Guide from Labor
Project for Working Families
Calls For Proposals, etc.
New* CALL FOR
MANUSCRIPT:” Labour Acrosss Borders”, A Special Issue of the
Journal of
Community Practice; LAWCHA/PNLHA
call for proposals for
Vancouver conference, June 2008;
Conferences,
Courses and Other
Events New* Annual UCLA Labor Center Banquet;
New*Strategic Corporate
Research at Cornell
University; How Class Works at SUNY
Stonybrook
Fellowships and Prizes Internship
in Labor Studies, Penn
State University Masters Program
Food
for Thought
News and Personal Notes
Position Announcements
New*
Two
Faculty Positions: Indiana University Labor Studies Program;
Tenure-track faculty
position,
National Labor
College; Labor
Educator, University of Iowa; Instructor- Labor
Education, DePaul University; Director, School of Labor and Industrial
Relations,
Michigan State University; Assistant Director, NYCOSH; Program Leader,
West Virginia University Extension
Service; Organizing
Director, Professional
Staff Congress, AFT Local 2334, NY;Tenure-track
faculty position, Michigan
State
University; Labor Education Specialist,
University of Arkansas, Little Rock;Labor
Educator,
University of Minnesota; Director, Institute
for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA; Coordinator, Harry
Bridges Center for
Labor Studies, University of Washington;
2
positions at NYCOSH;
Great
Lakes Energy
Organizer,
The Center
on Wisconsin Strategy; Executive
Director,
West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy; Research
Assistant, AFT
Miscellany New* Catholic
Scholars for Worker Justice; Canadian Supreme Court rules
in favor of collective
bargaining as a fundamental right: Full text available for
download;
Labor Studies materials for
grades K-12:
compilation responses to an email request
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UALE
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Activities will be
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BOOKS
AND
PUBLICATIONS
Including:
From NAFTA to the SPP
an article in Dollars and Sense magazine
by Katherine Sciacchitano
Katherine sends us the following message about an article she published
in the February issue of Dollars and
Sense magazine.
The article is on the Security and
Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a kind of extension of
NAFTA by executive authority in the three countries. The
Canadians and Mexicans have been organizing around it for the last
several years, but very few people in the US know about it.
That’s partly because most of what’s done is done under the
radar. Partly because the right wing here has appropriated
the issue. So I tried to frame it for the left
here. I’ve already been told that some of the Canadians are
going to distribute the article up there as proof of life to the south.
Thanks
Katherine
Click here to download the article, or
visit the Dollars
and Sense website to view it or download it there.
Posted
05/11/2008
Taking
Back the Worker' Law
by Ellin
Dannin
Dear Colleagues,
Taking
Back the Worker' Law
is now in Paperback and about half the price of the hardback. The Attachment is for a discount on the book.
Let joy reign supreme!
Ellen Dannin
Posted
04/29/2008
Building
Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups
That Can Solve Problems and Change the World
by Michael Jacoby Brown,
Secretary, National Organizers Alliance
www.LongHaulPress.com and at
bookstores everywhere
A
guidebook
for people who want to make a difference in the world and know they
can’t do it alone. This new book, with stories, personal
exercises and lessons learned, provides detailed information to help
you build a new group or strengthen an old one to solve problems in
your community, workplace or the world.
“A vital task that
both unions and
community organizations have in common is organizing - the craft of
creating groups and transforming people through collective
action. Michael Jacoby Brown, a community organizer with over 30
years of experience in training organizers and leaders, has written a
guide book on building organizations aimed at transforming their
members as well as society. Building Powerful Community
Organizations is a "how to" guide, full of valuable cases,
insightful stories, exercises and lessons which can be used not only
for training community organizers, but also for union leaders,
organizers and educators. In plain language, with lots of
practical examples, Brown explores the steps and techniques for
building power through organizing.”.
-Elaine Bernard, Ph.D,
Executive Director, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
Posted 11/30/07
Globalization
and
Labor: Democratizing Global Governance
by Dimitris
Stevis and Terry Boswell
From the blurb:
"Unions have long been a central force in the
democratization af national and global governance, and this timely book
explores the role of labor in fighting for a more democratic and
equitable world."
For a flyer with
information about the book and how to order, click here.
Posted 09/15/07
The New Union
Officers’
Handbook
by Bill Barry
I am pleased to announce that my new
book, The New Union
Officers’ Handbook is
now in print and ready for you and your members. Based on the workshops
for new officers at Dundalk, this book covers all of the skills you
need to turn your local around.
The book is available directly from me or from Union Communications
Services in Annapolis for $ 10.00. If you want to order though me, send
a check for $ 10.00/copy and I’ll send it out to you—autographed if you
want! I can also send bulk orders to your local.
You can also go on-line to order at the link below to UCS, publisher of
our text book The Union Steward’s Complete Guide.
Here is the blurb from Union Communications:
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Just Got Elected – Now What? A New Union
Officer’s Handbook.
By Bill Barry
This is an aggressive new guide to building a strong and effective
local union. Don’t buy this book if your goal is simply to be a local
union officer like "Old Joe" was before you, doing things the way
they’ve always been done and skating by as things just bump along.
That, the author says, is what has weakened unions and made them less a
force than they once were, and can be again. Rather than one or maybe a
handful of officers running your local from the top, he says, you’ve
got to educate and involve your members at every level, using the
Organizing Model of unionism – and he shows you how to do it.
In straightforward language the author explains how to create a union
that can be strong, grow and thrive in any environment. Chapters
explain the organizing model (vs. the servicing model) of unionism; how
to do the kind of strategic planning needed to build your union;
analyze the various functions of the union, and its finances, and build
a communications network that involves and rallies the members. It
explains the laws you have to look out for, how to deal with other
officers and union staff, and how to organize yourself to do what needs
to be done to pull it together and make it all work.
The author is a veteran union activist and labor studies program
director at The Community College of Baltimore County’s Dundalk campus,
where he teaches leadership skills, organizing, labor law, political
action and other core subjects. If you’re a local officer who seriously
want to see your union become more effective, this book is a good place
to start. 53 pages paperback
Price: $10.00 |
Bill Barry
To buy the book at Union
Communications Services,
click here.
Posted 09/15/'07
More Unequal: Aspects of Class in
the
United States
edited by Michael D. Yates
Monthly Review Press has just
published More Unequal: Aspects of
Class in the United States,
edited by Michael D. Yates. You can
check it out at
http://www.monthlyreview.org/moreunequal.htm
Class mobility, the growing income and wealth divides, class and
schooling,
class and race, class and gender, class consciousness, class
and identity politics,
are some of the topics covered.
This would make a good supplementary textbook, as well as a good book
for study groups,
progressive organizations, and personal, college, and
local libraries.
Urge your bookstore to stock it.
Posted
8/19/'07
New Work Family
Curriculum and Guide
The Labor
Project for Working Families has two resources to create
effective work family agendas in the workplace, win significant
family-friendly provisions for their members and help develop public
policy benefiting all working families: their guide, A Job and A Life:
Organizing and Bargaining for Work Family Issues and the new MAKING IT
WORK BETTER, A Work Family Educational Program, a step by step
facilitator’s curriculum designed to educate and mobilize union members
and leaders on work family issues.
MAKING IT WORK
BETTER is a 3 1⁄2 hour workshop curriculum which will
provide union instructors, facilitators and discussion leaders with
ideas on how to educate union members and leaders on work-family
issues, advance these issues on the job, and advocate for work-family
issues in the community, on the legislative front and in the public
arena. MAKING IT WORK BETTER is available for free download at www.laborproject.org.
A Job and A Life:
Organizing and Bargaining for Work Family Issues
contains sample contract language, current state family leave laws and
a work family member survey. With sections on advocating for
family-friendly policies, understanding the issues, and learning from
model union programs, this 90+ page Guide is also a great tool for
negotiating committees, stewards, and union leaders to move work family
issues forward in their own workplaces.
It is available
now for $10 at www.laborproject.org
or by mailing a check to LPWF, 2521 Channing Way, #5555, Berkeley, CA
94720. Contact LPWF for bulk prices.
To download MAKING
IT WORK BETTER, a work family curriculum, visit www.laborproject.org to download a
free pdf file.
For more
information, call (510)643-7088 or email lpwf@berkeley.edu
Posted 07/12/'07
NAFTA FROM BELOW
NAFTA FROM BELOW:
Maquiladora Workers, Campesinos, and Indigenous
Communities Speak Out on the Impact of Free Trade in Mexico is a
powerful disclosure of NAFTA's impact on those most affected by it -
Mexican workers and farmers - and their organized resistance in
fighting for a better world with dignity and justice. The heart of the
book is testimonies from maquiladora workers most of them women in the
north and center of the country as well as indigenous communities and
farmers in the south. Their words document in detail what free
trade has meant for the people of Mexico. There is no other book that
offers this history from their perspective.
For more information and an order form, go to http://www.coalitionforjustice.info/CJM_Website/New_Sites/NAFTA_Book/NAFTA_Book.html
In solidarity
Judy Ancel, Director
The Institute for Labor Studies
UMKC 211 Haag Hall
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
816-235-1470
fax: 816-235-2834
web: www.umkc.edu/labor-ed
Posted
04/06/'07
Cheap Motels
and a Hot Plate: an
Economist's Travelogue
Dear
Friends,
My
book,
Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate:
an Economist's Travelogue, has
just been published by Monthly Review Press. Here is what labor
journalist and photographer David Bacon says about it:
Armed
with a van and hot plate, Michael Yates and his wife Karen set off to
do what many of us have dreamed .... Their journey combines acute
observations and politics˜from the pleasure of breathtaking sights to a
program for reversing the privatization of our national parks and
forests. Yates‚ travelogue/critique ranges from the political economy
of California‚s agricultural valleys, where migrant workers pick our
food, to an account of the job market in Portland. This is a great
book˜a road story for radicals. It makes you itch to hit the road.˜
David Bacon,
photographer and author of Communities Without Borders
The book can be ordered by calling
1-800-670-9499 or at your local
bookstores. It is a book working people will enjoy.
Karen and I will soon be hitting the road again, living in cheap motels
and cooking on our hot plate, doing a radical version of a book
tour. If you know a bookstore, radio station, college, etc. that
might be interested in a talk, reading, or interview, contact either me
or Renee Pendergrass at Monthly Review. Her email is: renee@monthlyreview.org.
Michael Yates
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CALLS
FOR PROPOSALS, ETC.
CALL FOR
MANUSCRIPTS:
“Labour Across Borders”
Series Editors:Ingo Schmidt and Jeff Taylor:
Labour studies once had an
international focus that rarely allowed for "border crossings"that
linked labour movements in different countries.
A New Labour History arose that challenged both the national and
institutional narratives, focusing instead on gender,
occupational, racial and regional divisions among workers.Much of this
work ignored social class and new work on globalization also often
dismisses any notion of labour as a social force within the thin air of
a borderless world.
"Labour Across Borders"attempts to resurrect both social class analysis
and the perspective of labour
as a potentially liberating social force. The series features analyses
that at once recognize
the division among workers that the New Labour History examined and
explore possibilities of overcoming them.
This is a peer reviewed book series. If you are interested in
submitting a manuscript you may contact:Ingo Scmidt Ischmidt@shaw.ca
The Series will be published with:
AU Press
Athabasca University
Edmonton Learning Centre,
1200, 10011 - 109 Street
Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8, Canada
E-Mail: aupress@athabascau.ca
Link: http://www.aupress.ca
Posted 04/28/08
CONFERENCES, COURSES AND OTHER EVENTS
Strategic
Corporate Research
Cornell
University
June 8-13,
2008
Ithaca, NY
Understanding
and Researching Corporate Ownership
Structure, Corporate Finance and the Sources of Corporate Power.
This
is a Cornell Special Summer School Session for Undergraduate and
Graduate Students interested in working in the Labor Movement.
Co-Sponsored by the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research
For
Details and Registration form click here
Posted
04/28/08
How
Class Works – 2008
SUNY Stony
Brook
June 5 - 7,
2008
The Center
for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the How Class Works – 2008 Conference,
to be held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 5 -
7, 2008. Discounted registration ends May 9 Advance registration ends
May 23.
For more
information, including conference schedule and registration
information, visit the website at
http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2008
Conference
Coordinator:
Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working
Class Life
Department of Economics
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-438463
Phone:631-632-7536
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu
Posted
04/28/08
Annual
UCLA Labor Center Banquet
Saturday, May 31, 2008
June 5 - 7, 2008
honoring:
Gilbert
Cedillo,
California
State Assembly
Arlene Holt Baker,
AFL-CIO
Robert
L.
Balgenorth,
State Building and
Construction Trades
Council of
California
6:00
p.m. reception
7:00 p.m. dinner
The Center at Cathedral Plaza
555 W Temple St, Los Angeles
Tickets:
$125 • Tables $1250 • Cosponsors $5000
Click here for
Pledge Form and Reservations
Make
Checks Payable to: The UCLA
Foundation Fund #61363O
Mail to:
UCLA
Labor
Center Banquet
PO
Box 951413
Los
Angeles,
CA 90095-1413
Information:
Bryan Robinson,Phone: 310-825-7716, or brobinson@support.ucla.edu
Posted
04/28/08
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FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
Helmut Golatz
Assistantship in Labor Studies,
Penn State University M.S. Program in
Human Resources and Employment Relations
Financial Aid
Award
Available for Labor-Oriented
Student Beginning Fall 2008
Penn State University’s Department of
Labor
Studies and Employment Relations is accepting applications for a
two-year Graduate Assistantship for a labor-oriented student interested
in pursuing a M.S. in HRER beginning Fall 2008. The Internship/
Assistantship includes a full-tuition scholarship and a monthly
stipend. The recipient performs 10 hours of work as a research or
teaching assistant for a faculty member. The Department will also
assist the recipient in finding a summer internship with a union.
Applicants should have an interest in unions and in pursuing a
career in the labor movement. Applications received by March 1
will be assured of consideration. Applications will continue to
be accepted after that date until the Assistantship is awarded.
Candidate must have completed a bachelors degree prior to Fall 2008 and
must apply and be accepted into the M.S. program. For application
information go to: http://lsir.la.psu.edu/Prospective_Students/grad-info.htm
For more information on the Golatz Labor Assistantship , contact Paul
Clark, Department Head at HYPERLINK pfc2@psu.edu.
Posted
2/01/2008
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NEWS AND PERSONAL NOTES
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POSITION
ANNOUNCEMENTS Including:
- Director, School of
Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan State University
Two
Faculty Positions: Indiana University Labor Studies Program
Indiana University School of Social
Work Labor Studies Program
Bloomington and Indianapolis Campuses
The Labor Studies Program
at Indiana
University is one of the leading university labor education programs in
North America and is administered by the School of Social Work. The
program caters to a diverse population of traditional, non-traditional,
and labor union learners. The program offers a Certificate, Associate,
and Bachelor of Science degrees in Labor Studies, as well as a variety
of non-credit courses. The Labor Studies Program is a state-wide
program presently based on six of the eight Indiana University
campuses.
We seek candidates for two
tenure-track positions. One position is
located on the Bloomington (IUB) campus and the other on the
Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus.
Responsibilities
Teach labor studies courses both online and in the classroom, with
particular attention to the changing needs and growing diversity of the
labor movement; carry out research and labor related service; maintain
working relationships with Labor Studies faculty on other IU campuses
and with labor organizations; and develop and teach non-credit courses
in areas of specialization. Some travel is expected.
Qualifications
A doctorate in a field closely related to labor studies is required.
Candidates must possess significant research potential and demonstrate
knowledge of and commitment to working in areas relevant to organized
labor. Special consideration will be given to applicants with direct
experience in labor unions or community organizations, and/or who have
expertise in Latino workers’ issues, and public sector labor issues.
Knowledge and skills of online education are desired.
Salary
Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Indiana University
offers an excellent benefits package.
Application
Procedures
A complete
application must include: letter of interest, curriculum
vita, and names of three references. The letter of interest should
include a description of one’s concept of the discipline of labor
studies; how one’s strengths and competencies match the desired
position; teaching philosophy, and labor movement experience. Please
specify the campus of application (Bloomington, Indianapolis, or both)
Screening of applications will begin February 15, 2008 and continue
until an offer is made, with an anticipated appointment date of August
2008. All applications should be submitted electronically to: Sarah
Bailey Labor
Studies Recorder, IU Bloomington. Indiana University is an Equal
Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution and it is
committed to achieving excellence through diversity. The Labor Studies
Program seeks qualified applicants from women, people of color, and
other underrepresented groups.
Posted 04/29/2008
Tenure
Track Associate Professor position, Health & Safety,
National
Labor College
The
National Labor
College has a tenure track Associate Professor position open.
This appointment has primary responsibility for the development and
teaching of health and safety courses including the HAZMAT Training and
National Resource Consortium programs sponsored by NLC. The Associate
Professor position includes the responsibility for primary supervision
of both of these programs.
Minimum
Qualifications
- Four
to six
years experience in health and safety education.
- Masters
degree.
- Able
to work
independently but collaboratively.
- Commitment
to building a strong labor movement.
Preferred
Qualifications
- Terminal
degree.
- Experience
in grants administration.
- Familiarity
with the railroad industry and issues specific to hazardous materials
training.
- Broad-based
experience in labor education.
Applications
will be accepted at least
until February 15, 2008.
For full job description and information on how to apply, click here.
Deadline:
2/15/08
Labor Educator,
University of Iowa
The Labor
Center of The
University of Iowa is seeking candidates for a full-time career-track
position in labor education. The Labor Center, established in
1951, is a member of the United Association for Labor Education.
The Center operates statewide from the campus of The University of Iowa
in Iowa City, providing non-credit labor education programs on- and
off-campus designed and implemented to meet the needs of union workers
throughout the state of Iowa.
Position: Program Consultant
(Labor Educator) - full-time, professional and scientific staff
appointment beginning as soon as possible.
Responsibilities:
1. Teaches labor education (non-credit seminars, short courses and
conferences) both on- and off-campus in relevant areas, including:
arbitration, collective bargaining (private and public sector),
contract administration and grievance handling, corporate research
techniques, human rights, labor communications, labor and employment
law, labor history, leadership development, political economy, public
policy issues relevant to labor unions, strategic planning, union
organizing, workplace safety and health, and other workplace/union
issues;
2. Designs, writes and produces labor education materials
including replicable curricula and instructional materials that
embrace course guides, case studies, reading lists, classroom
exercises, and audio/visual materials—taking into account the
instructional needs, abilities, interests and learning styles of the
audiences served;
3. Coordinates, plans, recruits, and administers non-credit labor
education seminars, short courses and conferences both on- and
off-campus;
4. Conducts applied research for trade unions and coordinates graduate
assistant research activities;
5. Develops and maintains close working relationships with local,
state, regional and national labor organizations; and
6. Frequently works weekends and evenings with travel/driving required
throughout the state and region.
For a
detailed job
description, click here.
Applications:
Accepted until March
1 or
until the position is filled. Applicants must apply
online at http://jobs.uiowa.edu/.
Be sure to include cover letter, resume or curriculum vitae, detailed
description of labor education experience and three current letters of
reference. Samples of labor education materials may be requested.
For
assistance with the online application contact:
Jennifer
Sherer
University
of Iowa - Labor Center
100
Oakdale Campus, M210 OH
Iowa
City, IA 52242-5000
319-335-4144
Email:
<labor-center@uiowa.edu>
For
additional information on the Labor Center go to http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr.
Posted:
12/31/2007
Labor
Education Instructor, DePaul University
Functional Title:
Labor Education
Instructor
Position
Type:
Full-Time
You can
submit your
resume and interest to this job by applying online
at https://hr.depaul.edu/careers/index.asp
(Then
search for the job
description.)
Requisition
# 15232 More
information
about this job:
General
Summary
- Teach
courses in the
Labor Education Center.
- Recruits,
develops and
delivers courses for the Labor Center.
- Helps
coordinate the High
School Union Program.
Principal
Duties and Responsibilities
- Teaching
- Developing
Curriculum
- Recruiting
students
- Working
in high school
program
- Perform
additional duties
as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor’s
Degree
required
- Master’s
Degree preferred
- Significant
experience in
union contract negotiations and/or organizing
- Ability
to
lift 25 pounds
- Periodically
spend
extended periods of time standing while teaching
- Weekend
and
evening work
required
- Use of
personal
vehicle.
Closing
Date:
December 30, 2007
Posted:
11/29/2007
DIRECTOR,
School of Labor and Industrial Relations, Michigan
State University
Michigan
State
University,
one of the nation’s preeminent public research universities, invites
nominations and applications for the position of Director of the School
of Labor and Industrial Relations.
The
Director is the
chief
academic and administrative officer of the School and responsible for
the unit’s strategic vision, budgetary oversight, academic programs,
communication with internal and external constituencies and externally
funded research and development. The School of Labor and Industrial
Relations is located within the College of Social Sciences. This is a
full-time, 12-month position with the salary being competitive, and
commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Review
of
applications
will start on December 1, 2007 and will continue until a suitable
candidate is chosen. The start date for the position is August 16,
2008. MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.
For
more
information and application
procedure, click here.
Closing
Date:
August 16, 2008
Posted: 11/29/2007
Assistant
Director, NYCOSH
The New
York Committee for
Occupational Safety and Health, a non-profit job safety coalition of
200 labor unions and 400 health professionals and activists, is looking
for an Assistant Director. NYCOSH provides training and technical
assistance about workplace safety and health hazards top its
membership, to community organizations and to the public at large. The
Assistant Director will assist and report to the Executive Director.
For
complete job description and application procedures, click here
Closing
Date:
December 30, 2007
Posted:
11/29/2007
Program
Leader, Institute for Labor Studies & Research,
West
Virginia University Extension Service
Morgantown, West Virginia
Brief
Description:
The Institute for Labor Studies provides teaching, research, and
service activities for the labor movement in West Virginia, as well as
regionally and nationally, in collaboration with Extension and other
University faculty. This position provides leadership to the
Institute for Labor Studies and Research (ILSR) while serving as a
faculty member (Extension Specialist) for ILSR. ILSR has just completed
an internal strategic planning process including an external review and
the successful candidate will be expected to provide leadership to
implement the resulting strategic plan. This plan combines
a continuing commitment to providing high quality training, research,
and service to organized labor with increased focus on community
involvement, community development, and labor management
relations. The position is structured as a tenure-track faculty
position with additional administrative responsibilities.
Salary:
Salary range for position is $60,000 to $70,000. This is a 12-month,
full-time, tenure-track position with the West Virginia University
Extension Service. Salary and academic rank will be awarded
commensurate with professional experience
Benefits:
Retirement program, annual (24 days annually) and sick (18 days
annually) leave, paid holidays, workers’ compensation, and the
following optional benefits: group health, life, and accident
insurance; supplemental retirement programs; pre-tax benefits in child
care, dental care, vision care, and tuition waiver (6 credit hours per
semester).
For detailed position description, including responsibilities,
qualifications, and application procedures, please click here.
Visit our Web site
for additional information about West Virginia University and the WVU
Extension Service.
Closing
Date:
October 15, 2007
Posted:
9/26/'07
Organizing
Director, Professional Staff Congress, AFT Local 2334, NY
The Professional Staff Congress, AFT
Local 2334, is a progressive, activist union representing 20,000
faculty and staff at the City University of New York. The PSC is
seeking to hire an experienced individual to oversee and direct
organizing campaigns and membership development and to supervise
organizing staff. This is a professional, unionized position,
reporting to the Executive Director.
Responsibilities:
•
Trains and supervises organizing staff in carrying out union goals for
union-building, contract campaigns, new organizing, legislative
campaigns, social justice campaigns, and community and student outreach;
•
Oversees implementation of organizing agenda on individual campuses,
including trainings, rallies, mass meetings, pressure campaigns etc.
and assists elected leadership on each of CUNY’s 17 campuses to develop
and strengthen union chapters and promote leadership development;
•
Coordinates strategic planning by union leadership, assisting in
developing long-term goals and strategic vision and in developing
strategy and tracking implementation of plan;
•
Oversees preparation and distribution of campaign materials;
coordinates with communications staff;
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Liaises with rank-and-file union committees;
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Oversees logistics for union events;
•
Initiates links and builds coalitions in support of union organizing,
including community and student outreach.
Qualifications:
•
Demonstrated success at providing effective leadership and direction to
union organizers and union campaigns;
•
Demonstrated ability to develop strategic plan/agenda for union
campaigns in current political environment;
•
Experience developing and negotiating contract demands and settling
contracts and/or contract administration experience a plus;
•
Demonstrated commitment to progressive trade unionism;
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Experience working with coalitions a plus;
•
Demonstrated organizational and project management skills;
•
Demonstrated writing, speaking and presentation skills, strong database
skills, and experience with web-based organizing campaigns.
Education
& Experience Requirements:
•
At
least 7 years of direct labor organizing experience, at least 3 years
in a supervisory role
•
Baccalaureate or more advanced degree required in an appropriate field;
•
3
employment references.
Compensation:
Salary:
$80,000+,
depending on experience
Comprehensive
benefit
package
The
Professional Staff
Congress is an equal opportunity employer. Women and people of
color are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application deadline: September 30, 2007
Send cover letter and resume to:
Barbara Gabriel
Professional
Staff
Congress
61
Broadway, 15th
floor
NY,
NY 10006
Telephone:
212-354-1252
FAX:
212-302-7815
e-mail: bgabriel@pscmail.org
Posted:
9/21/'07
Tenure -track Faculty
position, Michigan State
University
Dear
Colleagues,
I am writing
to inform
you that the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at
Michigan State University is
searching for a tenure-system
faculty member at the assistant professor level. We are particularly interested in
applicants conducting
research on the challenges health, retirement, or
family issues present for
employers and employees. An
ability to conduct research and/or teach on international and/or comparative topics
is highly desirable.
This is an
academic-year
appointment with a beginning date of August 16, 2008.
Applications
should
include a cover letter outlining research and teaching interests,
curriculum vitae, a
list of relevant graduate
courses, and the names of three references.
Applications and nominations
should be sent to:
Prof. Edilberto F.
Montemayor, Associate Director,
School
of Labor
and Industrial Relations,
403
South Kedzie Hall,
Michigan
State
University,
East
Lansing, MI
48824-1032
For most favorable consideration, applications should be received by October 1, 2007, although
applications will be considered until a suitable candidate is
identified.
For the full
position
announcement click here.
Best,
Peter Berg
Posted:
9/18/'07
Labor Education
Specialist , University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Position: Labor
Education Specialist, non-tenure track, full time.
Responsibilities:
Developing course curriculum and materials and teaching non-credit
courses for union members; coordinating and teaching in statewide
conferences; marketing and recruiting for LEP classes; providing
technical assistance and research for unions; developing and securing
funding for research proposals; and maintaining a working relationship
with the state AFL-CIO, local central bodies, local unions and other
national and intermediate bodies. Must be able to teach courses
in the core areas of steward training, collective bargaining,
arbitration, and effective leadership. Travel required.
Qualifications:
Master’s degree in industrial relations or related
field, and union or
labor education experience. Expertise in one or more of the
following areas is desired: worker participation and new work systems;
labor and employment law; new electronic communication methods for
unions; and community outreach. Fluency in Spanish a plus.
Research, grant writing, and materials development skills required. An
ability to relate to working people and organized labor, and a genuine
commitment to the labor movement is also required.
For full
position
description and
instructions for applying, click here.
Posted:
9/15/'07
Labor Educator,
Labor Education Service, University of
Minnesota
One of the
country's top programs seeks an educator to help workers and unions
address the challenges of the 21st century. Develop curriculum, teach
and administer non-credit courses and training programs. Must have a
demonstrated commitment to the labor movement and experience in
teaching and working with organizations. Master's degree required; PhD
preferred. Spanish proficiency desirable. People of color and women
strongly encouraged to apply. Apply through the University of Minnesota
website.
Detailed
description of
this academic professional staff position and
link to the online application at www.csom.umn.edu/page5946.aspx
.
Or download
full position
description and instructions for applying here.
Application deadline
is Oct. 31, 2007.
The
University of Minnesota is an
equal opportunity employer.
Posted:
9/15/'07
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