9:00 - 10:30 Maureen Scully, College of Management, Radcliffe Gym
University of Massachusetts, Boston
“Is Merit Fair?”
11:00 - 12:30 HTUP Seminar
1:30 - 3:00 Elaine Bernard, Director, HTUP Radcliffe Gym
Union Leadership and Organizational Change
Readings: Bernard Booklet, Session # 7
3:30 - 5:00 Janice Fine, Rutgers University Radcliffe Gym
Readings: (handout) Fine
“Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream”
6:00 – 8:00 Public Forum – JFK Forum/ Institute of Politics
John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO Kennedy School of Government
9:00 - 10:30 Russ Davis, Director, Boston Jobs with Justice Radcliffe Gym
“The Smithfield Campaign: RICO & Organizing as a Conspiracy”
Readings: (handout) read case “Smithfield Foods v UFCW, et. al”
11:00 - 12:30 David Card, Economics, UC Berkeley Radcliffe Gym
“Immigration”
1:30 - 3:00 Robert McKersie, Sloan School, MIT Radcliffe Gym
“Building and Sustaining Labor/Management Partnerships”
Readings: (handout) “Interest Based Bargaining at Kaiser Permanente”
3:30 - 5:00 Steffie Woolhandler, Harvard Medical School Radcliffe Gym
“The Crisis in Health Care”
Readings: (handout) Woolhandler et. al. “Our health care system at the crossroads & “Competition in a publicly funded healthcare system”
Friday, February 8
9:00 - 10:30 James Green, Labor Studies, UMass Boston Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall Turning Points in US Labor History
11:00 - 12:30 Stan Gacek, Assoc. Dir. Int’l Dept. AFL-CIO Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall “The Labor Movement’s Response to Globalization”
1:30 - 3:00 Howard Zinn, Author & Boston University Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
“A Peoples History of the United States”
Thursday, February 7
9:00 - 10:30 Arnold Zack, Arbitrator Radcliffe Gym
Managing Dispute Settlement Systems
11:00 - 12:30 David Weil, Economics Boston University Radcliffe Gym
Strategic Planning for Labor Unions
1:30 - 3:00 Linda Kaboolian, Taubman Center, KSG Radcliffe Gym
Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations
4:00 - 6:00 LABOR & WORKLIFE FORUM Radcliffe Gym
“BARGAINING TO ORGANIZE – UNIONS AND
NEUTRALITY AGREEMENTS & CARD CHECK RECOGNITION”
Chair: James Brudney, Professor Moritz Law School, Ohio State University
*Amy Gladstein, Strategic Organizing, United Healthcare East, SEIU
Cindy Vines-Harrity, Organizer, CWA Local 1298
Monday, February 4
9:00 - 10:30 Peter Corbyn, Exec. Dir., Earth Institute Canada Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall Thomas Mann, Exec. Dir. NB Union/NUPGE
“Negotiating a Green Workplace”
11:00 - 12:30 Sharon Pinnock, Director of Organizing & Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
Membership Services, AFGE
“Organizing in the Public Sector”
1:30 - 3:00 Robert Herrick, Harvard School of Public Health Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall “Assessing Work Related Hazards to Health”
3:30 - 5:00 Elaine Bernard, Director, HTUP Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
Union Leadership and Organizational Change
Thursday, January 31
9:00 - 10:30 Arnold Zack, Arbitrator Radcliffe Gym
Managing Dispute Settlement Systems
11:00 - 12:30 David Weil, Economics Boston University Radcliffe Gym
Strategic Planning for Labor Unions
1:30 - 3:00 HTUP Seminar Radcliffe Gym
4:00 - 6:00 LABOR & WORKLIFE FORUM Radcliffe Gym
“BREAD AND BUTTER AND MORE:
21st CENTURY UNIONS FOR TODAY’S PROFESSIONALS”
Chair: Professor Linda Kaboolian, Faculty Chair,
State & Local Government Program, & Public Sector Labor/Management
Executive Program, Kennedy School of Government
Guest Speaker: Edward McElroy, Pres., American Federation of Teachers
Wednesday, January 30
9:00 - 10:30 Chris Mackin, Ownership Associates & Radcliffe Gym
Larry Beeferman, Pensions & Capital Stewardship Project
“Film: The Take”
11:00 - 12:30 Tamara Kay, Sociology, Harvard University Radcliffe Gym
“Immigration”
1:30 - 3:00 Chris Mackin, Ownership Associates & Radcliffe Gym
Larry Beeferman, Pensions & Capital Stewardship Project
Capital Strategies for Labor
“Active Ownership by Pension Fund Trustees”
Steve Abrecht, SEIU Capital Stewardship Program
3:30 – 5:00 Barry Bluestone, Northeastern University Radcliffe Gym
“The Prospects for Economic Growth”
Monday, January 28
9:00 - 10:30 Elaine Bernard, Director, HTUP Radcliffe Gym
Union Leadership and Organizational Change
11:00 - 12:30 Mark Erlich, Executive Secretary Treasurer, Radcliffe Gym
New England Regional Council of Carpenters
“Union Transformation”
1:30 - 3:00 Linda Kaboolian, Taubman Center, KSG Radcliffe Gym
Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations
3:30 - 5:00 Jack Womack Jr., Harvard History Radcliffe Gym
“The Mexican Labor Movement”
Friday, January 25
9:00 - 10:30 James Green, Labor Studies, UMass Boston, Radcliffe Gym
Turning Points in US Labor History
11:00 - 12:30 Kathleen McGinn, Harvard Business School, Radcliffe Gym
“Basil ‘Buzz’ Hargrove and DeHavilland, Inc.”
1:30 - 3:00 Harris Freeman, Western New England College Radcliffe Gym
School of Law
“Labor Law and Civil Rights in the Workplace”
Thursday, January 24
9:00 - 10:30 Kevin Flynn, Assist. to the Pres., Gov’t Relations, Radcliffe Gym
BAC & Matthew White, Program Assistant
“Right to Work Campaigns: New Hampshire & Oklahoma”
11:00 - 12:30 Tom Kohler, Boston College Law School Radcliffe Gym
“Who is an Employee, and Why Does It Matter?”
1:30 - 3:00 David Weil, Economics, Boston University Radcliffe Gym
“Strategic Challenges for Labor in the Construction Industry”
4:00 - 6:00 LABOR & WORKLIFE FORUM Radcliffe Gym
“AT THE RIVER I STAND” A FILM & DISCUSSION
On Martin Luther King & the Memphis Sanitation Workers
Strike of 1968
Chair: Lorette Baptiste, Assistant Director, LWP
Guest Speaker: Norman Hill, President Emeritus,
A. Philip Randolph Institute, AFL-CIO
Wednesday, January 23
9:00 - 10:30
David Harris, Executive Director, Radcliffe Gym
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
“Housing, Education and Inequality in America”
11:00 - 12:30
Ron DeLord, President, CLEAT Radcliffe Gym
“Police Association Power, Politics and Confrontation”
1:30 - 3:00 HTUP Seminar, Radcliffe Gym
3:30 - 5:00 Barry Bluestone, Northeastern University, Radcliffe Gym
“The Prospects for Economic Growth”
Monday, January 21
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday - NO CLASSES
5:00 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Service Memorial Chapel, Harvard
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Friday, January 18
9:00 - 10:30 James Green, Labor Studies,
UMass Boston, Radcliffe Gym
Turning Points in US Labor History
11:00 - 12:30 Linda Kaboolian, Taubman Center,
KSG, Radcliffe Gym
Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations
1:30 - 3:00 Larry Brown, Sec. Treasurer,
NUPGE Canada, Radcliffe Gym
“Labor Rights as Human Rights”
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Thursday, January 17
9:00 - 10:30
Arnold Zack, Arbitrator, Radcliffe Gym
Managing Dispute Settlement Systems
11:00 - 12:30
Karl Klare,
Northwestern Univ. Law School Radcliffe Gym
“Labor Law Reform: Does State Law Have A Role?”
1:30 – 3:00
David Cutler, Harvard Economics Radcliffe Gym
“Understanding Health Care Reform”
3:30 - 5:00
William Alford,
Harvard Law School Radcliffe Gym
“Labor and China – A Discussion”
Wednesday, January 16
9:00 - 10:30 Sandy Felder, NE Regional Dir. AFL-CIO Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
“Labor’s Political Agenda”
11:00 - 12:30 HTUP Seminar Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
1:30 - 3:00 Chris Mackin, Ownership Associates & Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
Larry Beeferman,
Pensions & Capital Stewardship Project
Capital Strategies for Labor
3:30 - 5:00 Barry Bluestone, Northeastern University Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
“The Prospects for Economic Growth”
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1:30 - 3:00 Ken Zinn, Director
AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research, Radcliffe Gym
“Strategic Research and Organizing”
3:30 - 5:00 Linda Kaboolian, Taubman Center, KSG
Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations
Radcliffe Gym
Wednesday, January 16
9:00 - 10:30 Sandy Felder, NE Regional Dir. AFL-CIO Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
“Labor’s Political Agenda”
11:00 - 12:30 HTUP Seminar
Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
1:30 - 3:00 Chris Mackin,
Ownership Associates Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
Larry Beeferman, Pensions & Capital Stewardship Project
Capital Strategies for Labor
3:30 - 5:00 Barry Bluestone, Northeastern University Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
“The Prospects for Economic Growth”
Monday, January 14
5:14 PM «Update» Class photos uploaded
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Labor and Worklife Program
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