Ed's labor ed newsletter [UALE]

CZARNECKI'S LABOR EDUCATION NEWSLETTER Vol. VIII No. 12 February 9, 2004

REPORT ON THE STATE OF LABOR EDUCATION IN THE U.S. PUBLISHED
Based on research of Bruce Nissen and Barbara Byrd, this is a
comprehensive look at university/college labor education programs and
national & international union education departments.  Available for
purchase or on line at
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/publications/stateoflabor.shtml

WINS BROADCAST ON THE ATTACK ON LABOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS
http://www.laborradio.org/audio/features/mp3/winsfeat012804.mp3
Workers Independent News Service discusses cutbacks in programs around
the country.  WINS is looking for financial contributions, subscriptions
from unions, and leads on possible additional radio stations.  Contact
Frank Emspak frank.emspak@xxxxxxxx

OTHER LABOR RADIO CONNECTIONS
Ed Lee of LabourStart is setting up a radio branch of his web site that
will broadcast one hour, five days a week. Labor news and lots of good
labor/union songs.  Go to http://radio.labourstart.org
And every Monday 7-8 PM EST Ken Nash knash@xxxxxxx  and Mimi Rosenberg
present "Building Bridges" on WBAI 99.5 FM in NYC
http://www.buildingbridgesonline.org

DOCUMENTARY FILM  - "THE CORPORATION"  http://www.thecorporation.tv
Produced and currently being shown in Canada, this film looks at the
legal inconsistencies of the corporation and demonstrates through a look
at garment sweatshops in Honduras and Indonesia that this "legal person"
is inherently amoral, callous and deceitful.

2003 UNION MEMBERSHIP FIGURES
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
Membership dropped to 12.9 % of the wage/salary workforce - was 13.3 %
in 2002.  On total there were 15.8 million workers in unions in 2003, a
drop of 369,000.  In the government sector 37.2% of workers were union
members (7.35 million), compared to 8.2 % of private sector workers
(8.45 million). Site has breakdown by Industry, Occupation and by
States.
For a comment on these figures go to Harry Kelber's site
(http://www.laboreducator.org) - he also has a recent 8 part series on
"A New Game Plan for Union Organizing".
Also the Jan 16 issue of In These Times has an article by David Moberg,
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=557_0_1_0_C  Organize,
Strategy, Revitalize: by Andy Stern:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=555_0_1_0_M and Gerald
McEntee http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=556_0_1_0_M

OSHA NEWS
According to the http://spewingforth.blogspot.com web site, OSHA's FY
2005 budget basically remained the same, excluding drops in training
grants.
A posting on http://www.safetyonline.com on Jan. 21 reports on 2 new
OSHA http://www.osha.gov  services on their website, one is MyOSHA a
tool to create personalized links to OSHA online resources and Quick
Start, a step-by-step guide to identify major OSHA requirements and
guidance materials.

STUDY GROUP PROPOSES MONITORING GLOBAL PRACTCIES
http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu then search for "Fiorito" Chair of
report
Difficult to know what to make of these recommendations - the result of
a study by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of PRIVATE ENTERPRISE and
of a group that included representatives of the AFL-CIO, the Sierra
Club, Levi Strauss, Oxfam, Starbucks, Toys R Us and the Fair Labor
Association.

ORAL LABOR HISTORY
Having been involved in the only State Federation sponsored oral history
program, always looking for items on subject.  Recently L-Labor mailing
list referenced this site:  "Oral History & Labor History: A
Historiographic Assessment After 25 Years" in the Journal of American
History 85:2 (September 1998).
Wonder if others in the field are involved in oral labor history
projects.

On the same mailing list, these are some of the web sites cited as good
Labor History resources (in addition to the American Labor Studies
Center http://www.labor-studies.org  of Paul Cole cited in earlier
newsletters):
American Labor History
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~joerusse/laborhistory.html
Labor History Links by Rosemary Feurer
http://www3.niu.edu/~td0raf1/labor/index.htm
Illinois Labor History Society http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/view_issue.asp?IssueNumber=9  These
leads to http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/laborconflict  Labor
Mgmt Conflict in American History and to Emma Goldman Exhibit
http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/goldman

NY TIMES LESSION PLAN - OCCUPATIONAL OXYMORON
http://www.nytimes.com/learning then search for "Poverty"
See items for grades 9-12, where students consider own notions of
poverty, the definition of "working poor" and relation between poverty
and work.

BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCE CENTER
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Home
With the unions emphasis recently on Human Rights, here is another site
on the topic - with focus on corporations.  Developed by Amnesty
International, business groups & leading academic institutions.

2nd EDITION OF LABOR FILM GUIDE -
By Tom Zaniello - "Working Stiffs, union Maids, Reds..and Riffraft" - An
Expanded Guide to Films about Labor" Cornell University Press.

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE  http://www.southernstudies.org
Always like to support an old friend - by subscribing to the magazine,
you get access to their New Report - Facing South.  Last issue uncovered
a pattern of waste by US companies in Iraq.

ARTICLE ON AFL-CIO INTERN'L AFFAIRS  http://www.labornotes.org
By Kim Scipes kimscipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx entitled "AFL-CIO Refuses to Clear
the Air on Foreign Policy Operations" it reviews a meeting in California
which was a response to earlier articles and convention resolutions.
There is an excellent "bibliography" appended to the article covering
various articles/resources on the topic.

10 WORST CORPORATIONS OF 2003 http://www.multinationalmonitor.org
Each year Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman compile this list - worth
a look.

BOOKS (Just listing titles and authors - for more info go to web sites
listed

Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity and Voice by
John Budd jbudd@xxxxxxxxxxxx published by Cornell Univ Press
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of Labor, Ind.
Rel. & Working Class Culture by
Jonathan Roes, jonathan.rees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Colorado St. Univ. &
Jonathan Pollack, Madison Area Tech College  Published by Harlan
Davidson Inc. http://www.harlandavidson.com

Unions, Radicals and Democratic Presidents: seeking Social Change in the
20th Century by Martin Halpern
Halp9ern@xxxxxxx ,
http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313324/0313324719.html

LABOR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Feb. 12-15 USAS National Convergence - Atlanta GA
http://studentsagainstsweatshops.org
United Students Against Sweatshops is holding this convention; they are
also sponsoring a Nat'l Student Labor Week of Action from March 29 to
April 4.  Details of both on the above website.

Feb. 13 - Newberry Seminar in Labor History - 3 -5 PM - Lake Forest
College Ill
Co-sponsored by the Univ. of Ill. (Chi./Urbana campuses) and Labor &
Working Class History Assoc.  Talk: Class, Gender & Religion during the
US Catholic Labor Moment.  Phone 312-255-3524 or e-mail
scholl@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Feb. 19-22 Forum on Sustainable Careers - New Options for a New
Workforce
Sponsored by Cornell Careers Institute and Bronfenbrenner Life Course
Center.  Contact Physsis Moen phylmoen@xxxxxxx

Feb. 25 CWCS Lecture - Youngstown State Univ.
Speaker is  Dorian Warren, Yale Univ. and topic is "The Relationship
Between the Civil Rights Movement and the Labor Movement. Contact John
Russo f0036238@xxxxxxxxxx

Feb. - March Southwest School Courses - sponsored by George.Meany Center
Feb 15-19 - Arbitration, Feb 22-26Construction Org in Phoenix Arizona
March 21-25 Building Power in Workplace, March 26-27 Working in Media
and March 28-April 1 Grievance Handling/Internal Organizing - Denver
Colo
Contact Morty Simon simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

March 13-20 5th Bilateral US-Cuba Exchange of Labor and Employment
Lawyers, Trade Unionists etc.
Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild.  Contact Dean Hubbard of Sarah
Lawrence College dhubbard@xxxxxxx or visit
http://www.nlg.org/cuba/guildcubatrip.htm

March 14-16 26th Annual Union Rep's in Health Care Conf. - Washington DC
Hilton Embassy Row Hotel
http://www.lir.msu.edu/event/healthcare
Presented by Michigan State & Illinois Labor Educ. Programs.  Call
1-877-241-7757

March - UAW-LEP Courses - Michigan State
John Revitte revitte@xxxxxxx and http://www.msu.edu/~revitte has
circulated info on his Coll Barg. Course which is one of four 3-creit
classes and results in a certificate in "modern labor concepts".  Other
three courses are Labor History, Labor & Employment Law and a Research
Seminar.

Southern Labor Studies Conf - April 15-17 Birmingham Alabama
http://www.slsc2004.org
Theme "Moving Workers: Migration and the South".  Looking for additional
papers.  Contact Robert Cassanello Robert@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Labor Tech Conf - April 2-4 Stanford University
More info now available at http://www.labortech2004.org or call
415-282-1908

April 13-14 H & S Leadership Training Workshop Alameda (CA) CLC
http://www.lohp.org
Sponsored by the Labor Occupational Health Program at U. Cal - Berkeley.
Contact Betty Szudy bszudy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

May 2-7 Train the Trainer Program on Workplace H & S - George. Meany
Center.  For unions who would like to teach their own membership.
Contact Sharon Simon ssimon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or go to
http://www.georgemeany.org/html/train_the_trainer.html

George Meany Memorial Archives offers fellowships in 2 categories:
Archives and Museum
Deadline March 15. No fax or e-mail applications. Phone 301-431-5441

Compiled by Ed Czarnecki  eczarnecki2@xxxxxxxxxxx

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HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR]
www.hunterbear.org

When you cut to the bone  and cut away the college degrees, academic and
other titles, published books and articles, ours is essentially a working
class and Indian family.  We consistently join unions  -- and we always
support them with the greatest vigor.


It's critical to always keep fighting -- and to always remember that, if one
lives with grace, he/she should be prepared to die with grace.




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dirt."
--Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter 31

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