Cipriani College of Labor and Co-operative Studies
Churchill Roosevelt Highway
Valsayn Park
St. Joseph,
Trinidad, West Indies
Fax: 868-645-0489
Phone: 868-663-0975
Phone (for outside US/CAN): 868-662-5014
The Labor Studies program of Cipriani College of Labor and Co-operative Studies builds on the disciplines of Sociology, Psychology, History, Political Science and Law to offer a multi-disciplinary approach to workers and work. Students take courses in labor history, labor law, information technology, economics, sociology, psychology and in other areas such as math, critical thinking and accounting. The aim is to prepare the student for the widest possible concern and interest of the worker. Our students pursue careers in labor unions, all levels of government and in the private sector as industrial relations officers. Cipriani College of Labor and Co-operative Studies offers: Associate of Arts Degree in Labor Studies; Associate of Arts Degree in Human Resource Management; One year Certificate in Industrial Relations (parttime); Ten-week Industrial Relations Program (full-time); an Introductory Course to Industrial Relations (40 hours); and two-day and weekend seminars
Director
Dr. Roosevelt Williams:
Senior Lecturer
Roy Thomas:
William Holder:
Lesmore Frederick:
City College of San Francisco
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Labor Studies Department |
The City College Labor Studies program was created by the San Francisco labor movement in association with the college. Its aim is to prepare students for careers in the labor movement and in labor relations, and to educate workers about their rights. The department's credit program leads to either an A.A. degree or a twenty-one unit Certificate in Labor Studies. Core courses are American Labor History, Collective Bargaining, Grievance Handling and Arbitration, Labor Economics and Labor and Employment Law. Elective courses cover a wide range of topics including: Labor in Literature and the Arts, Workplace Safety, Peer Counseling in the Workplace and Labor Leadership for People of Color, for Women, and for Gay and Lesbian People. The program meets the educational needs of San Francisco area union locals primarily through its non-credit program. Non-credit classes include condensed versions of the "big picture" credit courses and a wide range of shop steward and leadership development classes. Non-credit classes are free and their lengths are tailored to suit the needs of the sponsoring locals. Current projects include development of an Immigrant Workers' Rights/English as a Second Language curriculum and workbook, in collaboration with the Center for Labor Research and Education at U.C. Berkeley. New directions include partnering classes with college and community vocational education programs and the community based workers' rights groups. Future plans include an expansion of the credit program to include community organizing and environmental justice classes, linked with an area-wide internship network. This will be coupled with a labor and community arts program which will chronicle working peoples' contributions to the Bay Area and project these out into the broader public arena.
Department Chair
Bill Shields:
Faculty
Martin J Bennett
Joannie C Chang
Luis A Cuellar
Fred Glass
Linda Gregory
Christopher M. Hanzo
Rodney W Hart
Pamela Tau Lee
Sonya Z Mehta
Patti R Roberts
Thomas Ryan
Renee M Saucedo
Harvey Schwartz
Lamoin Werlein-Jaen
Patricia Wynne
Cornell-ILR
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Central Office |
For over 60 years the Cornell ILR School and its Extension division have provided support, education and scholarship to assist working people in ensuring their rights on the job, and building effective organizations and strong communities. ILR Extension Labor Programs are designed to deepen the knowledge and strengthen the skills of union leaders and activists, as well as unorganized workers interested in joining together for protection and benefits on the job.
Partnering with unions and other worker-focused organizations, ILR Extension labor faculty conduct critical research, provide comprehensive education and training, and offer a variety of customized services focused on labor, employment and workplace issues.
Central Office
Senior Extension Associate
Lee H. Adler:
Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations
Richard W. Hurd:
Director of Labor Education Research
Kate Bronfenbrenner:
Director, NY State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute
Fred B. Kotler:
Coordinator, NY State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute
Anne Sieverding:
Executive Staff Assistant
Claudia Strednak:
Administrative Assistant
Betty Phillips:
Capital Office
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
90 State Street, Suite 600
Albany, NY 12207-1706
Phone: (518) 449-4161
Fax: (518) 426-0643
(No labor faculty in Albany at present.)
Buffalo Office
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
237 Main Street, Suite 1200
Buffalo, NY 14203-2702
Phone: (716) 852-4191
Fax: (716) 852-3802
Labor Programs Administrator
Rebecca Daniels:
Workplace & Industry Ed. Specialist, Workforce, Industry & Ec. Dev
Arthur C. Wheaton:
Metropolitan Office
New York City
16 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016-4328
Phone: 212-340-2800
Fax: 212-340-2822
Director Cornell Labor Programs, Assoc. Dir., NY State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Lds. Inst.
Sally Alvarez:
Director, Labor & Employment Law Programs
Esta Bigler:
Assistant Director of Labor Programs
Legna Cabrera:
Director, Union Leadership Workshop Series
Gene Carroll:
Director of Labor and Industry Research & Senior Ext. Assc
Maria Figueroa:
Director, Construction Industry Programs
Jeff Grabelsky:
Profs. of Labor Mgt. Relations Emeritus
Lois Gray:
Jean McKelvey
Alice Grant
Assistant Director, Cornell Global Labor Institute
Jill Kubit:
Director of Organizing Programs, NYC Extension
Ken Margolies:
Administrative Assistant
Jo-Ann Perkins:
Administrative Assistant, Union Leadership Workshop Series
Jennie Pramualphol:
Admissions Coordinator Labor Programs
Stacy Reynolds:
Director, Workplace Issues
K.C. Wagner:
Director, Institute for Women and Work; Senior Extension Associate
Francine Moccio:
Director of Global Labor Institute
Sean Sweeney:
Assistant Director
Pamela Whitefield:
Rochester Office
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
16 Main St., Powers Building, Suite 118
Rochester, NY 14614
Phone: (585) 262-4440
Fax: (585) 262-3715
Senior Policy Analyst
Linda Donahue:
Cornell Labor Programs, Assoc. Dir., NY State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institutes
Sally Alvarez:
CUNY Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies
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Queens College |
Provides credit and non-credit courses to union members who receive tuition support from their unions. Students enrolled in the Bachelor's degree program complete a special Worker Education curriculum to meet the College's general education requirements and then select from among 50 majors, including a major in Labor Studies. Graduate programs are also available. Courses are offered at the College's Flushing campus and its mid-Manhattan Worker Education Extension Center. The program enrolls over 600 students in degree programs from 14 sponsoring unions. The Labor Resource Center conducts research, sponsors monthly forums, organizes conferences, develops curriculum, prepares educational material, and publishes New Labor Forum - a journal of ideas, analysis, and debate.
Senior Coordinator of Task Force
Adele Cohen
Assc. Director for Adm.
Margarita Colón-Pescador:
Senior Counselor
June Cumberbatch:
Senior Program Developer
Deborah D'Amico:
Business Manager
Suzette Ellington:
Assc. Director, and Editor New Labor Forum
Paula Finn:
Editor-at-Large, New Labor Forum
Steve Fraser:
Coordinator of Special Projects
Jeannette Gabriel:
Receptionist
Zenzile Greene
Associate Director, Planning & Development
Ellen Gurzinsky
Associate Director for Worker Education
Kitty Krupat:
Admissions Counselor
Navin Kumar
Skills Specialist
Linda Levin:
Associate Director for Research and Dev.
Olga Martinez:
CUNY Office Assistant
Eloiza Morales
Admissions
Padraig O'Donoghue: Padraig.O'
Assistant to the Director
Kimberly Ocasio
Academic Program Developer
Daniella Olibrice:
Union Semester Coordinator
Amanda Plumb:
College Assistant
Walter Romney
Urban Leadership Program Coordinator
Ajamu Sankofa
Assistant to Associate Director
Sofia Stefatos:
Center for Worker Education
Skills Specialist
Althea Davidson:
Senior Counselor
Iris DeLutro:
Coordinator of Administrative Services
Joanne Mason:
CUNY Office Assistant
Lorraine Morosoff
Graduate Admissions
Heysel Rodas:
Counselors
Carol Schwartz:
Pierre Tribuadi:
Undergraduate Admissions
Patrick Yu:
College Assistant
Maggie Zhao
DePaul Labor Education Program
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DePaul University School for New Learning |
The DePaul Labor Education Center offers a three-year certificate program in Labor Leadership that trains union members to become union leaders. The program consists of two semesters each year and cover a wide variety of topics. The first semester covers writing skills and grievance writing; the second semester emphasizes speaking skills, labor law (collective bargaining) and parliamentary procedure; the third semester covers collective bargaining; the fourth semester covers arbitration; the fifth semester covers organizing and economics for the trade unionist; and the six semester covers labor history and health and safety.
Credit towards a bachelor’s degree is available through the School for New Learning.The Labor Center also offers special classes on computer skills, labor laws, labor history tours and writing skills.
The Center’s three-day high school program involves 3,000 students from throughout the state of Illinois. Staff from the Labor Center teach students about unions, engage them in a collective bargaining role play and conduct tours of Pullman and other labor history sites.
Assistant Director
Bob Breving:
Instructor in Economics
Jack Metzgar: JackMetz
Florida International University Center for Labor Research and Studies
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Florida International University |
Provides comprehensive statewide labor education services, supports faculty research in labor relations and labor studies, offers credit and non-credit curriculum in labor studies. Houses projects such as the Immigration and Ethnicity Institute, the Human and Labor Rights Institute, Applied and Theoretical Research Projects, Florida Labor Archives, International Labor Program Union Leadership Academy Certificate Program, and Workplace Issues Certificate Program.
Program Director
Bruce Nissen:
Associate Director
Thomas Humphries:
Director of Vocational and Technical Education Programs
Dominic Mohamed:
Associate Professor
Mark Weinstein:
GA State University Labor Studies Program
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Georgia State University |
Long and short term continuing education classes. Classes are usually sponsored by local unions, central bodies, union regional offices, or the GA State AFL-CIO.
Assistant Director
Alex Stagliano:
Associate to the Director
Judy Archer:
Ph.D. Director of Sponsored Research
Stanley Sloan:
Harvard Trade Union Program
Harvard University
125 Mt. Auburn Street#3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-9265
Fax: 617-496-7359
Website: law.harvard.edu/programs/lwp
E-mail:
The Labor and Worklife Program is a public policy and research center at Harvard Law School, which sponsors the Harvard Trade Union Program an annual, 6-week residential session for approximately 30 experienced union officials and senior staff focusing on strategic planning and leadership skills. Additionally, the program organizes conferences, symposiums, and shorter educational sessions on important issues facing the labor movement.
Executive Director
Elaine Bernard:
Assistant Director
Lorette Baptiste:
Faculty Codirectors
Richard B. Freeman:
Paul C. Weiler:
Research Director
John Trumpbour:
Pensions & Capital Stewardship Project Director
Larry Beeferman:
Financial Assistant
Miki Matrician:
Web & Publications Coordinator
Jason Anastasopoulos:
Indiana University Labor Studies Program
Indiana University School of Social Work
902 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5156
Phone: 800-822-4743
Fax: 317-274-8630
Website: www.labor.iu.edu
Indiana University's Labor Studies program, established in 1946, encompasses the following areas of activity: 1) credit degree courses which lead to a Certificate, Associate, and Bachelor of Science in Labor Studies; 2) Union Education Program (UEP) non-credit courses and trainings; 3) Conferences and workshops.
Interim Executive Director
Irene Queiro-Tajalli, Professor
Email:
Phone: (317) 274-6725
Labor Studies Faculty
Gerrie Casey, Assistant Professor
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway
Gary, Indiana 46408-1197
Email:
Phone: (219) 980-6863
Fax: (219) 980-6834
Mark A. Crouch, Associate Professor
Indiana University/Purdue University Fort Wayne
2101 Coliseum Blvd., Kettler KT G-28
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Email:
Phone: (219) 481-6831
Fax: (219) 481-5784
Charles Davis, Professor
Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis
902 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5156
Email:
Phone: 317-278-1309
Fax: (317) 274-8630
Lynn Duggan, Associate Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
400 E. 7th Street, Poplars 628
Bloomington, IN 47405-3085
Email:
Phone: (812) 855-9082
Fax: (812) 855-1563
Thandabantu Iverson, Assistant Professor
Indiana University Northwest
3400 Broadway
Gary, Indiana 46408-1197
Email:
Phone: (219) 981-4272
Fax: (219) 980-6834
William Mello, Associate Professor
Indiana University Kokomo
2300 S. Washington, Kelly East Bldg. – Rm. 120
Kokomo, IN 46904
Email:
Phone: (765) 455-9403
Fax: (765) 455-9504
Paul C. Mishler, Associate Professor
Indiana University South Bend
1825 Northside Blvd.
South Bend, IN 46634-7111
Email:
Phone: (574) 520-4469
Fax: (219) 239-5006
Rae Sovereign, Lecturer
Indiana University South Bend
1825 Northside Blvd.
South Bend, IN 46634-7111
Email:
Phone: (574) 520-4849
Fax: (219) 239-5006
Joe Varga, Assistant Professor
Indiana University Bloomington
400 E. 7th Street, Poplars 628
Bloomington, IN 47405-3085
Email:
Phone: (812) 855-9085
Fax: (812) 855-1563
Marquita Walker, Assistant Professor
Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis
902 West New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5156
Email:
Phone: 317-278-2066
Fax: (317) 274-8630
Craig Campbell, Student Services Coordinator
Phone: 317-274-8340
Email:
Jefferson State Community College Center for Labor Education and Research CLEAR
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Fitzgerald Building, Suite 405 |
Created in 1972, CLEAR provides a full range of labor education programs to workers in Alabama and throughout the southeast. In addition to contract classes with local unions and state and regional organizations, CLEAR offers 4-6 conferences per year on topics such as law, economics, safety and health, arbitration, bargaining, and leadership skills.
CLEAR’s Workplace Safety Training program offers training in recognizing and working with the dangers of hazardous materials and wastes and confined space rescue operations to workers and first responders. Funded by a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant, WST staff work with labor, Native American, government emergency management agencies and other groups throughout the country.
Workplace Safety Training Program website: www.jeffstateonline.com/WST
Labor Education Personnel
Associate Professor
Judith L. King:
Marketing Project Director
Melody Izard:
Office Service Specialist III
Charmagne Sturgis:
Phone: 205-856-8030
Financial Associate
Kecia Carr:
Workplace Safety Training Personnel
Director
Kenny Oldfield: oldfield@ jeffstateonline.com
Instructor
Alan Veasey: aveasey@ jeffstateonline.com
Theodore H. Krayer: krayer@ jeffstateonline.com
Office Services Specialist
Tabitha Carter: tabithac@ jeffstateonline.com
Project Instructors
Lloyd Sam Hansen, Jr.: hansen@ jeffstateonline.com
Ervin Roy Stover: rstover@ jeffstateonline.com
Project Coordinator
Karen Blackwood: kblckwd@ jeffstateonline.com
Equipment Technician
Arizona Winborn, Jr.: winborn@ jeffstateonline.com
Middle Tennessee State University
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TN Ctr for Labor-Management Relations |
The Tennessee Center for Labor-Management Relations (TNCLMR) is funded by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development and is associated with Middle Tennessee State University. The Center provides grievance mediation services, assists in the formation of joint labor management committees and delivers educational and consulting services to Tennessee companies and unions. The TNCLMR facilitates two major conferences each year that provide workshops on current issues and celebrate the "best practices" of award-winning joint-labor management initiatives.
Assistant Director
Catherine Sutton:
Phone: 615-895-4166
National Labor College
10000 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20903
Phone: 301-431-6400
Fax: 301-434-0371
Web site: nlc.edu
National Labor College is the nation’s only institution of higher education designed exclusively to serve the educational needs of union members through fully online as well as low residency degree completion programs. It was founded by the AFL-CIO, who continues to sponsor the College and its programs. It is fully accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, its programs are approved by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and the College is a participant in the Title IV financial aid programs of the United States Department of Education.
The College’s School of Labor Studies offers a Bachelor of Arts degree completion program in Labor Studies with six majors; its School of Professional Studies offers bachelor degree completion programs in Construction Management, Business Administration, and Emergency Readiness and Response Management. The College provides an extensive assessment of experiential learning program, providing union members with the opportunity to earn credit for apprenticeship programs, military education, union training programs, and other collegiate learning gained in non-collegiate settings.
The College also offers short residency Union Skills courses and workshops focused on the necessary skills union leaders and members need to sustain and grow their unions. These courses are offered for collegiate credit and can be applied to an NLC degree program as elective credit.
The College is home to the Lane Kirkland Center, a state of the art conference center designed to serve as a resource for unions and other non-profit organizations wishing to hold meetings, conferences and training programs at an all- union facility. The College also is home to the George Meany Memorial Archives and the AFL-CIO Library.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Thomas Kriger:
Vice President for Business Affairs
Rosaline Pier:
Vice President for Government Relations/General Counsel
James Gentile:
Vice President for Operations
Beth Shannon:
Professors
Elise Bryant:
Jean Dearden:
Pat Greenfield:
Jennifer Harrison:
Pete Hoefer:
Henry Jajuga:
Steven Krone:
Julie Ann Mendez-DeLeon:
Robert Morris:
Ruth Ruttenberg:
Katherine Sciacchitano:
Sharon Simon:
Melanye Smith:
Archivists
Lynda DeLoach:
Sarah Springer:
Librarian & Professor
Jannie Cobb:
Assistant Librarian
Julia Offiong:
Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor Relations
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Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
Workshops currently being offered by the center include steward training, worker safety and health, and negotiations. The center can tailor other workshops to fit union's needs on topics including violence in the workplace, sexual harassment, organizing, labor history, chemical right-to-know, labor research over the internet, media campaigns, workers' compensation, family medical leave, Americans with disabilities, as well as others.
Other activities conducted by the Center include research on environmental issues, international labor issues, the history of workers and unions, and placement of historical markers commemorating the struggles faced by workers and unions across the state of Pennsylvania.
Director
Charles J. McCollester:
Assistant Director
Cynthia J. Spielman:
Rutgers Labor Education Program
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Labor Education Center
50 Labor Center Way
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-9502
Fax: 732-932-8677
Website: smlr.rutgers.edu/LSER/index.html
Labor studies and employment relations examines work, workers, the organizations employees create to defend their interests and non-work phenomena that affect and are affected by workers. This broad scholarly scope has been complemented by professional education of labor, management, and neutrals working in labor or employment relations. In the 1990's, Department faculty have increasingly emphasized intellectual, research, and scholarly activities, informed by their deep involvement with labor organizations, corporations attempting to transform their work systems, and public policy debates. LSER faculty participate in the undergraduate Labor Studies program, the graduate Master of Labor and Employment Relations Program, the School's PhD program in Industrial Relations and Human Resources, and non-credit adult education programs of the School. Faculty bring to teaching insights from their research and involvement in the world of employment relations (which is rapidly changing), and in turn involve their students in research and internship opportunities. Most fundamentally, the Department believes that all its activities inform on another and increasingly are creating a new paradigm for the study of labor and employment issues nationwide.
Chair, Labor Studies & Employment Relations, Director of Labor Extension
Adrienne Eaton:
Director of the Rutgers Union Leadership Academy
Robert C. Angelo:
Director, Center for Women and Work
Eileen Applebaum:
Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations
David Bensman:
Professor Human Resc.Mgt. Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Joseph R. Blasi:
Professor Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Dorothy Sue Cobble:
Professor Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Niki T. Dickerson:
Assistant Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Janice Fine:
Director, Center for Workplace Transformation
Charles Heckscher:
Professor Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Jeffrey H. Keefe:
Professor Human Resc.Mgt. Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Douglas Kruse:
Professor Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Saul Rubinstein:
Acting Dean of the UCC, Director of Lifelong Learning
Sue Schurman:
Professor Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Lisa Schur:
Director of Credit Programs in Labor Studies and Employment Relation
Paula B. Voos:
UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
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University of California, Berkeley |
The Labor Center is a public service and outreach program of the Institute of Industrial Relations at UC Berkeley. The Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment. Our curricula and leadership trainings serve to educate a diverse new generation of labor leaders
Labor Specialist
Cheryl Brown:
Senior Labor Policy Specialist
Carol Zabin:
Labor Policy Specialist
Veronica Carrizales:
Steven Pitts Labor Policy Specialist:
Professional Researcher
Arindrajit Dube:
Associate Labor Specialist
Karen Orlando:
UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program
University of California at Berkeley
2223 Fulton Street
Berkeley, CA 94720-5120
Phone: 510-642-5507
Fax: 510-643-5698
Website: www.lohp.org
Email:
We are a community outreach program at the University of California, Berkeley. Our work addresses today's health and safety needs in nearly every industry, from healthcare to agriculture to construction. Current projects deal with:
- Construction safety
- Environmental justice
- Ergonomics
- Hazardous waste
- Human factors
- Immigrant workers
- Lead hazards
- Teens in the workplace
- Union health and safety skills
- Workers' compensation
- Workplace violence
Coordinator of Public Programs, LOHP Director
Robin Baker, MPH:
Assistant Specialist, LOHP Library
Karen Andrews, MLS:
Coordinator of Public Programs, Projects: Hazardous Waste, Spanish Language Training
Dinorah Barton-Antonio, MA:
Coordinator of Public Programs, Projects: Young Workers, WOSHTEP Small Business Project
Diane Bush, MPH:
Coordinator of Public Programs, Project: Hazardous Waste
Jerilynn Campos, BA:
Coordinator of Public Programs, Projects: Lead Projects, WOSHTEP Small Business Project
Helen Chen, MS, JD:
Coordinator of Public Programs Projects: Lead Projects, Young Workers
Robin Dewey, MPH:
Coordinator of Public Programs Projects: Workplace Violence, Hazardous Waste, Construction Safety, Funding Development
Elaine El-Askari, MPH:
Coordinator of Public Programs Project: COEH Continuing Education
Linda Ellwood, MBA:
Coordinator of Public Programs Projects: Environmental Justice, Safety Committees,Ergonomics, Human Factors, Union Skills, Participatory Research, Popular Education
Pamela Tau Lee, BS:
Coordinator of Public Programs Director, COEH Continuing Education Program Associate Director, LOHP Certified Industrial Hygienist Certified Safety Professional Projects: Continuing Education, Lead Projects, Industrial Hygiene
Barbara Plog, MPH, CIH, CSP:
Coordinator of Public Programs Associate Director, LOHP Projects: Ergonomics,Human Factors, Homecare and Healthcare Workers, Safety Committees,Workers' Compensation
Laura Stock, MPH:
Coordinator of Public Programs Industrial Hygienist and Attorney Projects: Workers' Compensation, Workers' Rights, Legal Issues
Juliann Sum, JD, ScM:
Coordinator of Public Programs Projects: Young Agricultural Workers, Hazardous Waste, Spanish Language Training, Environmental Justice, Immigrant Workers
Suzanne Teran, MPH:
Coordinator of Public Programs Projects: Immigrant Workers, Labor Services
Valeria Velazquez:
UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education
UCLA
School of Public Policy & Social Research
Hershey Hall 2nd Floor,#Box 951478
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1478
Phone: 310-794-5981
Fax: 310-794-6410
Website: labor.ucla.edu/index.html
As part of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR), the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education plays a unique role as a bridge between the university and the labor community in Southern California.This role has grown in the past few years with the dramatic changes that have overtaken the Southern California economy. As part of the university, the Labor Center serves as an important source of information about unions and workers to interested scholars and students. Through its extensive connections with unions and workers, the Labor Center also provides labor with important and clearly defined access to UCLA's resources and programs. An advisory committee comprised of about forty Southern California labor and community leaders (representing more than one million members in the public and private sectors) provides advice and support for the center
Project Director
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado:
Senior Administrator
Julie Monroe:
Student Affairs Officer
Elizbeth Espinoza:
Administrative Assistant
Maria Ochoa:
Project Directors, Downtown Labor Center
Victor Narro:
Lola Smallwood Cuevas:
Janna Shadduck-Hernandez:
Jan Tokumaru:
Staff Director, Downtown Labor Center
Sharon Delugach:
Project Coordinators, Downtown Labor Center
Joaquin Calderon:
Gillian Claycomb:
Cristina López:
Lanita Morris:
Administrative Assistants, Downtown Labor Center
Alexandra Topete:
John Vu:
Office Manager, Downtown Labor Center
Andrea Arias:
Associate Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Christopher Erickson:
UMass Amherst Labor Center
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University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
The focus of the Labor Center is our Master's degree in Labor Studies. With course work in history, law, economics, research, organizing, and bargaining, we equip our graduates to work in the labor movement and associated social justice organizations. In addition to our residential Master's degree, we offer our Master's degree in a limited-residency format for union officers, staff, and activists. We provide extensive research support for national, regional, and local unions with corporate research, economic research in support of living wage campaigns, surveys, and qualitative research. The Center also participates in a four-campus labor extension program in Massachusetts, providing a variety of non-credit courses.
Director & Associate Professor
Eve Weinbaum:
Phone: 413-545-5986
Assistant Professor
Stephanie Luce:
Labor Extension Coordinator
Dale Melcher:
UMass Boston Labor Resource Center
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CPCS Labor Resource Center |
The Labor Resource Center (LRC) provides an integrated range of educational and research programs to workers and their organizations. The Center advocates for economic and social justice for working families as they seek to gain control over their futures at work, in their communities, and in the political arena. We lend our skills, expertise, and resources to workplace and community activists, assisting them in building a powerful, inclusive labor movement that can effectively advocate for all working people
The Center:
- Offers education and training to workers, to enhance their skills and knowledge as leaders, advocates, activists, and citizens
- Affects public policy debates by providing research and analysis to unions and other organizations
- Disseminates information to the media, community groups, and governmental institutions to enhance public understanding of working people's concerns
- Promotes dialogue and mutually respectful partnerships between labor and community organizations
- Seeks to engender strong and enduring connections between local campaigns and wider efforts to build movements for progressive social change at all levels: city, state, national and international
Professor, History and Labor Studies
James Green:
Program Manager
Anneta Argyres:
Labor Extension Coordinator
Tess Ewing:
Administrative Coordinator
Adam Thomas:
Phone: 617-287-7426
UMass Dartmouth Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center
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University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth |
The Arnold M. Dubin Labor Education Center was established in 1975 to meet the educational needs of workers as members and leaders in the labor movement and as active and responsible citizens in the community. The objectives of the Labor Education Center are:
- To provide non-credit courses, conferences, seminars and special programs in labor education to workers and unions;
- To offer support and consultation to labor organizations in the development and delivery of their own educational programs;
- To provide technical and informational resources to workers and unions;
- To integrate the concerns and contributions of labor into the curricula and activities of the University;
- To serve as a liaison and promote cooperation between the University and labor organizations, and to increase utilization of the University's resources by workers and unions;
- To promote greater awareness in the community of the history and present situation of workers and labor organization;
- To design and develop credit courses and a degree program in Labor Studies
- To promote greater understanding and cooperation between labor and business, religious, environmental, and other civic and community organizations
Director
José A. Soler:
Phone: 508-999-8796
Labor Extension Coordinator
Kim Wilson:
Director, Workers Education Program
Lisa Jochim:
Administrative Assistant
Diane Cruz:
Chair, Labor Studies Minor
Penn Reeve:
UMass Lowell Labor Extension Program
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University of Massachusetts-Lowell |
The University of Massachusetts - Lowell Labor Extension Program offers both training and education programs and technical and strategic assistance to unions, Central Labor Councils and other worker organizations. The Extension Program focuses in the geographic area covered by the Lawrence-Haverhill-Newburyport, Greater Lowell, North Worcester, Worcester-Framingham and North Shore Central Labor Councils. While offering a wide range of programming, the Program has particular expertise and focus in topic areas such as Research for Organizing and Contract Bargaining; Women's Leadership Development; Union Strategies for Dealing with Work Restructuring and Technological Change; and Critical Approaches to Labor-Management Program
Staff Assistant
Susan D'Amore:
Labor Extension Coordinator
Susan Winning:
University of AR - Little Rock Labor Education Program
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University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
LEP provides worker education and training programs throughout the state. Training programs are conducted for local unions, central labor councils, the Arkansas AFL-CIO, and international unions at the regional or district level. Several multi-day, special- topic seminars are also held each year. In addition to traditional offerings--steward training, grievance handling, arbitration techniques, collective bargaining, and occupational safety and health, LEP provides specific programs in response to needs expressed by client unions. LEP also develops and delivers site-based workplace skills courses through its Workplace Skills Enhancement Program.
Director
Diane Thomas-Holladay:
Labor Education Specialist
Tom Karson:
Labor Education Specialist
Randy Wright:
Accounting Technician II
Sandra Phillips:
Program Developers
Denise Leeson (Provost):
Tracey Spencer:
University of Connecticut Labor Education Center
University of Connecticut
U-4013
One Bishop Circle#Room 235
Storrs, CT 06269-4013
Phone: 860-486-3417
Fax: 860-486-5221
Website: http://continuingstudies.uconn.edu/centers/labor/index.htm
Offers non-credit courses throughout the state in addition to credit programing in the Bachelor of General Studies program offered by the University of Connecticut. We have specialized credit courses in Occupational Safety and Health leading to a certification.
We conduct residential institutes, conferences and seminars on specialized topics involving workforce development, labor management initiatives, and issues surrounding collective bargaining. The LEC administers a safety and health training program for Connecticut surface miners through a program funded by MSHA; conducts Annual Connecticut AFL-CIO Summer School; co-sponsored AFL-CIO/UCLEA Trade Union Women's Institutes and CLUW Conferences. The LEC is also involved in the development of contextually based workplace literacy programs and offers a 40-hour program on Alternative Dispute Resolution
University of Illinois Labor Education Program, School of Labor & Employment Relations
Provides credit and non credit courses in the range of union leadership topics including grievance handling, collective bargaining, arbitration, labor history, communications, union administration, labor law, organizing, occupational safety and health, labor economics, and legislative and political action. Conferences and residential institutes are conducted for regional and international unions, industry groups and on an open-enrollment basis. Major programs are held for women union leaders and Hispanic union activists. Recent developments include an on-line Labor Studies credit program, open to both UIUC on-campus students and the public; a partnership with the National Labor College in their degree completion program; and a Basic and Advanced Certificate in Labor Studies. The program operates out of three locations: UIUC in Champaign, the Hazardous Material Worker Safety Training Program in Urbana, and the Chicago Labor Education Program in Chicago.
Web site: http://www.illinoislabored.org
University of Illinois Labor Education Program
504 East Armory
Champaign, IL 61820
Ph: (217) 333-0980
Fax: (217) 244-4091
Associate Professor & Director
Robert Bruno:
Clinical Associate Professors
Helena Worthen:
Steven Ashby:
Outreach Coordinator
Jennifer Schneidman:
Program Coordinator
Yesenia Vargas-Garcia:
Assistant Professors
Monica Bielski Boris:
Ed Hertenstein:
Visiting Labor Education Specialist
Joe Berry:
Hazardous Materials Program
University of Illinois
School of Labor & Employment Relations
1112 W. University
Suite 202; MC-504
Urbana, IL 61801
Ph: 217-333-0640
Fax: 217-244-8396
Instructor
JP Childers:
Todd Hitt:
University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations
Chicago Labor Education Program
815 W. Van Buren, Suite 110, MC-216
Chicago, IL 60607
Ph: (312) 996-2491
Fax: (312) 413-2997
University of Iowa Labor Center
University of Iowa
100 Oakdale Campus
M210 OH
Iowa City, IA 52242-5000
Phone: 319-335-4144
Fax: 319-335-4464
General Email:
Website: continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/
Since 1951, labor education for Iowa's organized workforce has been carried out through the University of Iowa's labor education program. The Labor Center, located within the Division of Continuing Education, annually reaches over 3,000 Iowa union leaders with a wide range of non-credit educational programs in the areas of practical industrial relations, labor law, labor history, communication, leadership, and citizenship skills, economics and public policy, and related areas
Labor Educators
Angel Gonzalez:
Matt Glasson:
Robin Clark-Bennett:
Secretary for On-campus Programming
Judy Thirtyacre:
Program Assistant
Angela Ward:
University of MI Labor Studies Center
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University of Michigan |
The Labor Studies Center at the University of Michigan offers a number of non-credit conferences that promote self-empowerment and the participation of women and minorities in leadership roles, both in the workplace and in their communities. These include leadership, stewardship and educational workshops as well as programs on workers' culture.
Programs include on-site training (Collective Bargaining, Fighting Contracting Out, Grievance Handling, Labor History, Contract Interpretation & Labor Law, Effective Speaking, Parliamentary Procedure, Train-the-Trainer, Sexual Harassment, Labor and the Media, Cultural Diversity), corporate development training, joint-labor management training, and annual leadership institutes (the Michigan Summer School for Women Workers, Black Men in Unions Institute, the Latina/o Workers Leadership Institute, Winter Leadership Institute, and the Workers Unity Conference). These institutes, based on some of the major tenets of Popular Education Theory, take place annually and have addressed concerns of the labor community through workshop offerings (in addition to those listed above) such as: Basic Union Skills; Cultural Diversity in the Workplace; Health and Safety; Legal and Civil Rights in the Workplace; Organizing and Political Action and Strategy; Gender Relations in the Workplace; Privatization; Financial and Retirement Planning; Communication and Leadership Skills; and Youth and Unions.
Director
Larry Root:
Phone: 734-763-476
Program Associates I
Maurice (Skip) Turner:
Julio Cesar Guerrero:
Program Coordinators
Bonnie Fischer:
Billie M. Rohl:
Assistant Research Scientist
Roland W. Zullo:
University of MN Labor Education Service
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University of Minnesota |
The Labor Education Service (LES) is an outreach program of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies. LES was created in 1951 to provide training, applied research services and technical assistance to Minnesota workers and their organizations. Staff offer a variety of non-credit courses, workshops and conferences at both campus and off-campus locations throughout the state in subjects such as trade, labor economics, collective bargaining, steward training, immigration, labor law, politics, equity issues, communications and union administration. Education is offered in both English and Spanish. LES staff are also involved in the labor communications community and offer a wide range of media services including video production and web communications. The program publishes Workday Minnesota, a statewide daily internet labor news service.
Labor Educators
Mary Bellman:
Tony DeAngelis:
Deborah Rosenstein:
Video Producer
Randy Croce:
Executive Assistant
Joyce Hegstrom:
Editor: workdayminnesota.org
Barb Kucera:
Professor: Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies
John Remington:
Computer and Internet Specialist
John See:
University of MO Kansas City Institute for Labor Studies
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University of Missouri - Kansas City |
The Institute for Labor Studies offers credit and non-credit courses on a wide range of labor issues including bargaining, grievance handling, internal organizing, the global economy, labor history. It offers custom training for unions and a Labor Studies Credit Certificate Program on the Interactive Video Network in cooperation with other Missouri labor education programs. It's Labor in the Schools program has developed a 15-hour curriculum appropriate for high school 11th grade social studies classes and adaptable for apprenticeship and union education programs. ILS also sponsors and coordinates The Heartland Labor Forum, a one-hour weekly radio show on community radio in Kansas City. ILS does programming and tours on maquiladora issues in Mexico.
University of MO-Columbia Labor Education Program
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University of Missouri - Columbia |
The MU Labor Education Program is a comprehensive labor education center providing credit and non-credit classes, research and technical assistance to labor organizations throughout Missouri. Non-credit classes, conferences and institutes are developed both on a contract and open-enrollment basis. The credit program is delivered in cooperation with the University of Missouri campuses at Kansas City and Saint Louis, through an interactive video network.
Director and Associate Professor
Paul K. Rainsberger:
Assistant Professor and Labor Education Specialist
Samuel W. White:
Labor Education Specialist
Marquita R.Walker:
University of Nebraska William Brennan Institute for Labor Studies
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University of Nebraska at Omaha |
The Institute, established in 1980, offers a wide range of non credit programing to help Neraska labor leaders and activists gain the education and skills necessary for success in today's changing economy and workplace. Courses include: grievance handling, collective bargaining, labor history, strategic planning, parliamentary procedure, safety and health, FMLA,leadership skills, increasing political effectiveness, common sense economics, internal organizing, and the use and abuse of worker participation programs.
University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center
University of Oregon
1289 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1289
Phone: 541-346-5054
Fax: 541-346-2790
Website: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~lerc/
LERC provides a comprehensive labor education program for union members, officers, and staff. Classes and programs are generally non-credit, although LERC faculty offer occasional credit classes with other University of Oregon departments and coordinate an internship program to place students with unions. LERC also offers a non-credit certificate for union leaders. Major areas of emphasis include grievance handling, organizing, strategic planning, contract campaigns and strategic research, internal organizing and solidarity-building, occupational safety and health, labor and politics, and leadership development. LERC offers conferences, workshops, classes, and programs on an open enrollment basis and for individual unions. LERC faculty conduct research in the areas of occupational safety and health, labor history, labor relations, and public policy.
Associate Professor & Director
Bob Bussel:
Professors Emeritus
Steven Deutsch:
James Gallagher
Margaret Hallock:
Associate Professors
Gordon Lafer:
Marcus Widenor:
Research Associates
Jennifer Hess:
Laurel Kincl:
Grants Coordinator
Deborah Mailander:
Research Specialist
Norma Martinez-HoSang:
Program Secretary
Jennifer Smith:
Senior Research Associate
Marc Weinstein:
Portland Office
LERC
70 NW Couch Street, Suite 353
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: 503-412-3721
Fax: 503-412-3720
Senior Instructor & Portland Center Coordinator
Barbara Byrd:
University of Wisconsin School for Workers
University of Wisconsin Extension
422 Lowell Hall
610 Langdon St
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 608-262-2112
Fax: 608-265-2391
Website:schoolforworkers.uwex.edu
Education for a Democratic Workplace
The mission of the School for Workers (SFW) is to empower working people and labor organizations at the job site, in the national economy, and in the global economic system through a comprehensive program of lifelong adult learning opportunities.
Founded in 1925, SFW is the oldest University labor education program in North America. Annually the School provides over 120 non-credit courses to nearly 3000 students from Wisconsin and the rest of North America. Classes are held at the Extension Conference Centers on the UW – Madison campus as well as in communities around the State and throughout North America. Currently the School has eight active faculty members with a wide range of academic and real-world backgrounds reflecting a dedication to the concerns of working people. The faculty provides a full range of technical assistance and other outreach services related to worker and union concerns, conducts applied research, and actively contributes to the body of scholarship that informs the discipline of labor education.
Course and Technical Assistance Subject Areas:
- Union Leadership-a three part series: Union Administration, Leading Your Union, and Personal Leadership Skills, New Industrial Relations – high performance work practices, new compensation systems, team work, work group facilitation, interest-based bargaining
- Organizing and Mobilization – internal and external union and worker organizing, coalition building, political action techniques, using the media
- Labor Relations – labor law, employment laws (FMLA, discrimination laws, FLSA, unemployment insurance, etc.), grievance handling and labor arbitration
- Collective Bargaining – bargaining skills, contract costing, specialized bargaining for pensions and health care benefits
- Human Relations – communication skills, problem solving, conflict resolution, and dealing with difficult people, bullying and violence in the work place
- Safety and Health – ergonomics, hazard identification and prevention, safety committees, OSHA law and regulations, Worker’s Compensation law and procedures
- Labor History – understanding contemporary work force issues by studying history, culture, class and the struggles of working people in the global economic system
- Building Trades – specialized programs on organizing, collective bargaining, labor law and apprenticeship training for the building trades
- Special Requests – the School is responsive to client requests for training or technical assistance on virtually any topic related to work, the work environment, unions and industrial relations
Director and Professor
Neill DeClercq:
Program Coordinator
Carol Graham:
Professors
John Lund:
Ken Mericle:
Professors Emeritus
Maurice Better:
Frank Emspak:
George Hagglund:
Associate Professor
David Nack:
Corliss Olson:
Assistant Professors
Michael Childers:
Don Taylor Assistant Professor
W. Virginia University Labor Resources and Industrial Relations
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West Virginia University Institute of Technology |
Offers four year B.S. degree in Labor Resources and Industrial Relations. Courses include CB; Labor History; Labor Agreements; Arbitration Procedures; Labor Welfare Policies; Constitutional Law; Labor Law; Wage Theory; Contemporary Labor Issues; Industrial Sociology; and a Practicum. Program also conducts non-credit outreach programming through Southern Appalachian Labor School 304/442-3157 or 304/779-2772 on variety of issues including labor issues, work with the unemployed, community economic development, health, housing, and the environment. Academic Degree Program.
Professor/Economics and Chair, Department of Social Sciences
John P. David:
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Jan Rezek:
Professor, Economics
Mostafa Shaaban:
Professor, Political Science
Jim Oxendale:
Washington State Labor Education and Research Center At South Seattle Community College
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The Labor Center |
The Labor Center at South Seattle Community College is Washington State's only statewide higher education outreach program providing direct educational and research services to labor unions. The Labor Center's mission is to help union and community members develop the skills, confidence, and knowledge that will enable them to become more effective leaders, staff, and rank-and-file activists. To this end, we provide educational and technical services tailored to specific unions and community-based organizations, and offer ongoing classes through our Union P.O.W.E.R series (Programs on Worker Education and Rights). We also organize conferences, workshops, and schools open to a broad mix of union and community activists. We have a vision of a labor movement grounded in human rights, open to all working people, and dedicated to developing strong and democratic worker organizations effective at the local, national, and international levels. We join with workers in their unions and with community members to challenge divisions between people based on race, gender, age, sexual orientation, immigrant status, disability, or other characteristics. Our educational work is inspired by labor history but looks forward to substantial growth of the labor movement through disciplined and imaginative workplace organizing, as well as through effective union partnerships with organizations committed to social, economic, and environmental justice. Our teaching is based on a popular education model which draws heavily on the experiences of workshop participants, and which seeks to help people make sense of their experiences through an analysis of economic, political, and social power.
Labor Education & Research Center Director
Sarah Laslett:
Phone: 206-764-5382
Labor Educator
Cheryl Coney:
Phone: 206-934-5380
Wayne State University Labor Studies Center
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Wayne State University |
The Labor Studies Center is a comprehensive labor education center committed to strengthening the capacity of organized labor to represent the needs and interests of workers, while at the same time strengthening the University's interdisciplinary research and teaching on labor and labor relations issues. The Center's primary areas of research and practice include: training and technical assistance to unions on labor relations and workplace issues; an undergraduate Labor Studies major and internship program; interventions to increase the organizational effectiveness of unions; the development and diffusion of constructive labor-management relations practices, particularly in the public sector; the formation and institutionalization of labor-community coalitions; and the impact of lean production systems on workers and labor relations practice in the North American auto industry.
Union Skills and Strategy Program
Gail Hamilton:
Labor Program Specialist
Dave Reynolds:
West Virgina University Institute for Labor Studies and Research
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West Virginia University |
The Institute for Labor Studies and Research (ILSR) at West Virginia University Extension Service provides labor education and research services for rank and file workers, stewards, officers, and staff representatives. While the emphasis is primarily on service to West Virginia union members, some week-long residential summer institutes, weekend conferences and one-day study programs attract both regional and national participation.
Certificates are awarded to those who complete each course. Minimal registration fees are charged to help offset the cost of materials and instruction. There are no examinations or grades. All classes are taught by individuals who possess extensive knowledge and understanding of the labor movement, its function and its goals.
Classes or conferences are jointly planned by the Institute for Labor Studies and Research along with representatives of local unions, local central bodies, district councils, statewide organizations or international unions.
Program Leader, Extension Assistant Professor
David A. Michael:
CEWD Director, Extension Associate Professor
Steve Bonanno:
Extension Associate Professor
Stephen Cook:
Extension Professor
David Cormier:
Extension Associate Professor
Cheryl L. Johnson:
Research Statistician
Paul J. Martin:
Clinical Assistant Professor
Robert V. Massey Jr:
Administrative Associate
Sharon K. Mayfield:
Extension Associate Professor SE
Sarah Stevenson:
Youngstown State University Center for Working Class Studies and Labor Studies Program(s)
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Youngstown State University |
The Labor Studies Program is a two year program leading to an Associate's Degree in Labor Studies. The program offers courses that are both practical and theoretical including union leadership skills, negotiations, contract administration, labor law, grievance processing and arbitration, fundamentals of occupational safety and health, and the organizing model of unionism. The Center for Working-Class Studies is an interdisciplinary research and teaching center devoted to the study of working-class life and culture. The CWCS creates social spaces for civic and academic conversations on working-class life and culture and its intersections with other identities and serves as a clearinghouse for information on working-class culture, issues, and pedagogy. More than an intellectual project, the CWCS is also engaged with the broader society, providing assistance in creating a culture of organizing and education within working-class institutions and society.
The CWCS develops courses in working-class studies, organizes a biennial conference, publishes a newsletter, and sponsors an annual speaker series. It houses a library and maintains an on-line bibliography on working-class studies to help promote scholarship in the field.
Co-Director, CWCS
Sherry Linkon: