THE FUTURE OF LABOR ORGANIZING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

pcassuto | 27 août, 2011 23:54

http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/lrc/images/LaborLogobig_Page_1.jpgTHE FUTURE OF LABOR ORGANIZING IN HIGHER EDUCATION.  Friday, September 30 - Saturday, October 1, 2011  University of Massachusetts Boston.
SEIU Local 615, the MTA, the AFT-MA, and The Labor Resource Center invite you to join us for an international conference at UMass Boston.
The higher education industry is changing rapidly in the US and internationally. Through this conference we will analyze the trends in the higher education industry in the US and the implications for union organizing, examine national and international efforts to craft a more expansive vision of higher education that works for all stakeholders, and explore building union mutual aid and support networks.
Union activists, leaders and staff, as well as industry scholars, employees and students will participate in presentations, panel discussions and workshop on topics, including:
• assessing the impacts of the corporatization of higher education
• comparing NLRB elections, community campaigns for union recognition and minority unionism
• demanding institutional responsibility to the community: from “report card” to endowment transparency
• redefining the public mission of the higher education industry
• building community-labor coalitions
Keynote speakers will include:
• Sheila Slaughter, Ph.D., Institute for Higher Education, University of Georgia
• Benjamin Thomas, a National Officer for UNISON, Britain and Europe’s biggest public sector union, and the UNISON representative on the Higher Education National Equalities Forum.
• Ed Marsh, the Vice-President of the National Union of Students from the UK.
Workshop tracks will include (tentative):

• Building Industry Density: Organizing the Unorganized
• Bad Jobs in Higher Ed: Contracting Out, Casual Labor & Privatization
• Your Tax Dollars at Work: All Higher Education is Public
• It's an Industry: Higher Education as an Economic Driver.

Click here for more details on the developing program.
Email Anneta Argyres to receive conference details and registration information. Join us for this interactive conference for workers, activists, union leaders and staff in the higher education industry, and our allies.

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