Two upcoming Labor Education classes for unionists and workers’ rights activists: Internal Organizing: Educating, Organizing, and Mobilizing the Members Saturday, October 18, 2014 9AM – 5PM The class will discuss ways to educate, organize, and mobilize the members. We will review examples of how some locals have succeeded in transforming their unions. Topics include recognizing the strengths but also the drawbacks of the grievance procedure that compel internal organizing; collective action around grievances; confronting and overcoming divisions such as over race, gender, or immigration status; responding to apathetic or anti-union members; organizing member-to-member action networks and contract campaigns; lessons of the Chicago Teachers Union’s contract campaign; and building strategic campaigns and labor-community alliances. Labor and Employment Laws Saturday, November 15, 2014 9AM – 5PM The class covers the basics of labor and employment laws that every union activist should know. The class reviews the laws, the agencies that administer the laws, and the effectiveness of the laws and their enforcement. The course covers the National Labor Relations Act on union organizing, strikes, lockouts, and the rights of unionists to take on-the-job actions to defend their contract; and employment laws that impact all workers such as the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and non-discrimination laws. Attorneys are guest lecturers on several topics. Cost: $150 per class. Sign up for two classes for $100 each. Five or more attendees from one union and the price is reduced to $75 each. Contact Prof. Steven Ashby, University of Illinois Labor Education Program, for questions or to register, at [email protected] Classes are held at the Labor Education Program classroom at 815 W. Van Buren #110, corner of Halsted and Van Buren. Prof. Steven K. Ashby Full Clinical Professor and Coordinator, Global Labor Studies undergraduate program School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Labor Education Program, Rice Building, 815 W. Van Buren #110, Chicago IL 60607
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:41:46 +0000
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