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2021 HTUP Workshop |
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EVALUATION - Raffle winner - Beth Tripathi, Mass Teachers Association
Follow-up session on Thursday, April 8 from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm:
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Session 1: Introduction - Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Co-executive director of National COSH (National Council for Occupational Safety and Health) |
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Session 2: Advancing Worker Protections in a Covid and Post-Covid Workplace - David Weil, Dean and Professor at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University The COVID-19 crisis and the deep economic recession accompanying it require us to provide broad protections to all workers: We need workers to be paid—and paid adequately—for delivering food to elderly neighbors and people at risk. We need workers—regardless of employment status—to use paid sick days if they are ill, rather than exposing others to potential contagion. We need those working in essential occupations, whether medical professionals or workers delivering food and packages to the home, to be able to exercise their right to voice concerns over health and safety and other workplace conditions without fear of reprisal. And we must ensure that the millions of people who have lost their jobs in the accompanying recession to have access to unemployment insurance so they can sustain themselves and continue to participate in their local economies. In this session, David Weil will explore how work became so bad for so many over the last four decades, how this erosion was exposed by the pandemic and what can be done to address it. Reading:
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Session 3: Covid-19: An Institutional Stress Test – Elaine Bernard, Wertheim Fellow, LWP and Former Executive Director, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School How do we identify priorities for action when facing a massive disruptive challenge? Millions of workers have lost their jobs, while millions more have been designated “essential” and have faced a multitude of problems both at home and at work. In a world of “social distancing” how can unions support and build resiliency and capacity in this new environment where traditional union organizing and servicing models that emphasized “hands on” and “face-to-face” interaction is no longer possible. Reading:
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Session 4: The Scary Reality of Climate Change and Implications for Work– Richard Freeman, The Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University and Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School and Xi Hu, Labor and Worklife Fellow, LWP, Harvard Law School While the world is still battling with COVID-19, the threat of climate change has not gone away. In this class, we will explore the basic science that underpins climate change and global warming. We will learn the implications for the economy and discuss what climate change means for the world of work. We will end the class with participants discussing how they see their union and trade unions as a movement engaging with the climate agenda and the challenges going forward. Reading:
Additional articles from presentation: - Global rise in human infectious disease outbreaks, Katherine F. Smith, Michael Goldberg, Samantha Rosenthal, Lynn Carlson, Jane Chen, Cici Chen and Sohini Ramachandran Published:06 December 2014.
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Session 5: Opportunities to Advance Labor Law Reform in the New Administration – Benjamin Sachs, Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry, Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program Sachs will provide an overview of the labor and employment law priorities for the Biden Administration and the 117th Congress. Reading:
Additional references: British Columbia, Ministry of Labour and Consumer Services, Recommendations for Labour Law Reform: A Report to the Honourable Moe Sihota, Minister of Labour / Submitted by the Sub-Committee of Special Advisers, John Baigent, Vince Ready, Tom Roper (Victoria, Canada: Ministry of Labour and Consumer Services, 1992); Sara Slinn, “Broader-based and Sectoral Bargaining Proposals in Collective Bargaining Law Reform: A Historical Review” (2018), Diane MacDonald, “Sectoral Certification: A Case Study of British Columbia,” Canadian Labor & Employment Law Journal 5 (1997): 279–283. "How to Promote Sectoral Bargaining in the United States," David Madland, Center for American Progress Action Fund, July 10, 2019 No Class presentation |
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Session 6: Labor, Capitalism and the Question of Racial Justice – No Class presentation Reading:
Books by Bill Fletcher: "'They're Bankrupting us' - And Twenty other myths about unions" Co-author of "Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and A New Path Toward Social Justice" Books and resources discussed in chat or presentation:
Ben Flecther: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, (PM Press) by Peter Cole, 2021 The Southern Key Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s, by Michael Goldfield, Oxford University Press, 2020. John Murray, “Mexican and Japanese Laborers Form a Union,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed February 18, 2021, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/2261. Latinos Remaking America, by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco (Editor), Mariela Paez (Editor), (University of California Press) December 2008. Jack and Elaine have an article in this book. THE PEOPLE, NO A Brief History of Anti-Populism, Thomas Frank, Metropolitan Books, 2020. How 'white fragility' reinforces racism – video explainer
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Session 7: The Labor Market and Workers: Coping with the Pandemic - William Spriggs, Professor of Economics, Howard University and Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO. "From the Bargaining Table to the Ballot Box: Political Effects of Right to Work Laws":
"Outrage as Facebook blocks access to news content in Australia," Nick Baker, NBC News, February 18, 2021.
Trampling Out the Vintage:Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers, |
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Session 8: Pandemic around the World – HTUP Alumni HTUP Alumni in several nations will how they are using their HTUP experiences to help them deal with the current challenges: overcoming the raging pandemic, navigating the economic recession, and achieving pathways to racial justice. Panel includes:
Moderator: Jack Trumpbour, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
Links from MIchael O'Connor
Supplemental Readings from Barbara Ingram-Edmonds
Supplemental Readings from Andrea Fox Z Dogg MD*- YouTube Videos (ZDoggMD is a Doctor who can sometimes use colorful language and is good at explaining these topics):
- It’s Not Burnout, it’s Moral Injury
This resource is a collection of work by the late and great Labor troublemaker Charley Richardson. Called the Charley guide to kicking ass for the working class
Supplemental Readings from Dayna Sykes
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Session 9: COVID and Capital Stewardship – David Webber, Professor of Law, Boston University and Christopher Mackin, Fellow, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations The COVID crisis presents new challenges and opportunities for the labor movement. This session will describe Capital Stewardship initiatives both at the macro level of pension funds and the micro level of enterprise ownership and governance. In his book The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon, David Webber describes both existing and latent power that labor pension funds exercise in defense of workers’ rights. The Covid-19 crisis presents a new setting to assert labor values and demand new ownership and governance roles when public funds rescue private corporations. Reading:
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Session 10: Health and safety Crash Course for Organizers,
Get access to further health and safety training and resources Subscribe to National COSH Email list Reading:
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Session 11: Innovation in Worker Organization for a 21st Century Labor Movement – Marilyn Sneiderman, Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization at Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations and Sheri Davis, Associate Director for WILL Empower with the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University. This experience of triple pandemics including: COVID-19, white supremacy and state violence, in addition to austerity and mass unemployment demands a diversity of worker organizations imagining another world where exploitation is unacceptable. Arundhati Roy writes, "the pandemic is a portal... We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas.... Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it." This moment demands innovative strategies that raise the floor and significantly improve laboring conditions with transformed employer practices and government regulations that are enforced. The future of workers’ demands a 21st century labor movement; the question is whether we are willing to fight to build it. ‘When We Fight, We Win’: UTLA Strike Ends With Historic Agreement Video Tentative agreement ends L.A. teachers strike, Mercury News, January 22, 2019. Concrete Examples of Bargaining for the Common Good Bargaining for the Common Good Drink Em Dry campaign against Moosehead management -Movie Reading:
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Session 12: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here –Elaine Bernard and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb Breakout groups questions: What is a challenge you’d like to address in your union? What’s a goal that you can achieve within the next year? What ideas from the workshop can help you address the problem? How will you go about addressing the problem? What steps will you take to address the problem? Deep Canvassing as a way to deal with political divide:
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| Thursday, April 8 5;30-7 EDT |
Follow-up Session - Where are we? What have we been able to implement?
Featured Speakers: Larry Brown, President, NUPGE
Panel: Poll results
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2021 Harvard Trade Union Program Workshops
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