2021 HTUP Workshop Schedule
Readings

Thursday, February 11

or

Thursday, March 11

Session 1: Introduction - Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Co-executive director of National COSH 

No Reading

Session 2: Advancing Worker Protections in a Covid and Post-Covid Workplace - David Weil,

• David Weil, "New Laws for the Fissured Workplace." The American Prospect, April 2020.
• David Weil "Understanding the Present and Future of Work in the Fissured Workplace Context." Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, December 2019.

Session 3: Covid-19: An Institutional Stress Test – Elaine Bernard

• “Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis,” by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2009.
• “Global Labour Studies in the Pandemic: Notes for an Emerging Agenda,“ Maria Lorena Cook, et al., Global Labour Journal, 2020, 11(2), Page 74.

Friday, February 12

or

Friday, March 12

Session 4: The Scary Reality of Climate Change and Implications for Work– Richard Freeman, and Xi Hu

• Denchak (2017). Global Climate Change: What You Need to Know.
• ILO (2020). Frequently Asked Questions on Climate Change and Jobs.  
• Kahn et al (2020). Unions Fracture Over Climate.
• Rathzel and Uzzel (2011). Trade unions and climate change: The jobs versus environment dilemma. Global Environmental Change  
• Phuong (2020). The Black Swan: The Most Compelling Reason Why You Should Be Worried About Climate Change.

Session 5: Opportunities to Advance Labor Law Reform in the New Administration – Benjamin Sachs, 

Reading:

• Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs, “Clean Slate for Worker Power Report,”  Introduction, 2020.
• Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs, “Labor Law Reform Opportunities 2020,” American Constitution Society, 2021.

Session 6: Labor, Capitalism and the Question of Racial Justice – Bill Fletcher Jr.

• Race Is About More Than Discrimination: Racial Capitalism, the Settler State, and the Challenges Facing Organized Labor in the United States,  by Bill Fletcher Jr.
• Race to Labor: Can Organized Labor Be an Agent of Social and Economic Justice?  by Bill Fletcher Jr.

Thursday, February 18

or

Thursday, March 18

Session 7: The Labor Market and Workers: Coping with the Pandemic - William Spriggs

Readings: TBA

Session 8: Pandemic around the World – HTUP Alumni

Readings:

• "How the Coronavirus Pandemic May Be Causing Support of Labor Unions to Rise," ABIGAIL JOHNSON HESS, DC37Blog, 2/2/2021.
• "How New York’s Vaccine Program Missed Black and Hispanic Residents," by Editorial Board, New York Times, 2/1//2021.

Session 9: COVID and Capital Stewardship – David Webber, and Christopher Mackin

• A Pandemic Dividend for Every American, New Republic, 1/1/2021, Christopher Mackin.
• The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, Chapter 1 and Preface, David Webber, Harvard University Press (April 2, 2018).
• Why millennials will win Trump's war on socially responsible investing, The Hill, BY Michal Barzuza, Quinn Curtis and David H. Webber, Opinion Contributors, 10/27/20.

Friday, February 19
or
Friday, March 19

Session 10: Health and safety Crash Course for Organizers,
Facilitators: Jessica E. Martinez, , Peter Dooley, Marianela,  Acuña Arreaza

• COVID-19 Worker Rights and Strategies
• The Fight for Workplace Safety
• Ten Things to Consider Before Going to OSHA
• Hazard Mapping Exercises for Organizers
• Body Mapping Exercises for Organizers

Optional:

• The Challenges Posed By COVID-19 Pushed Many Workers to Strike. Will the Labor Movement See Sustained Interest?
• Safe and Just Return to Work
• Model Workplace Safety and Health Demands for Essential Workers

Session 11: Innovation in Worker Organization for a 21st Century Labor Movement – Marilyn Sneiderman, and Sheri Davis

• Sheri Davis Faulkner and Marilyn Sneiderman, “Moneybags for Billionaires, Body Bags for Workers: Organizing in the Time of Pandemics,” New Labor Forum, CUNY, October 2020.
• Lauren Jacobs , Marilyn Sneiderman , Sheri Davis-Faulkner , and Renata Pumarol, “We Want Bread and Housing Too: Bargaining for the Common Good an Intersectional Feminist Strategy,” The Forge Organizing, March 2020.

Session 12: What Have We Learned and Where Do We Go from Here –Elaine Bernard and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb

No reading