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    2022 Mar 16

    2022 Harvard Trade Union Workshops

    Wed Mar 16 (All day) to Thu Mar 24 (All day)

    Location: 

    Online on Zoom

    Unfortunately, the Covid crisis is not over. We regret that a variety of obstacles blocked us from carrying out the residential Trade Union Program at Harvard this year. We had hoped and began to plan for the program, but it has turned out not to be feasible. Nevertheless, in our effort to continue to support and educate the labor community, we will hold a new set of online workshops providing potent ideas and compelling visions for revitalizing unions and democracy.

    The theme for this year’s online workshop is “Democracy Under Attack: What should unions do?” The workshop will...

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    2021 May 06

    2021 Harvard Trade Union Workshop - Follow-up - May

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom - online

    We are excited that Elissa McBride, Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME, and Larry Brown, President of NUPGE, will join us in the follow-up session to give brief remarks on the opportunities and future for unions coming out of the pandemic.  Elissa's discussion will include the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act which guarantees that public service employees in every state have the freedom to stand together and negotiate for fair wages and working conditions.   

    We will also have some of your fellow participants share how the workshop has impacted their...

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    2021 Apr 08

    2021 Harvard Trade Union Workshop - Follow-up April

    5:30pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Zoom - online

    We are excited that Elissa McBride, Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME, and Larry Brown, President of NUPGE, will join us in the follow-up session to give brief remarks on the opportunities and future for unions coming out of the pandemic.  Elissa's discussion will include the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act which guarantees that public service employees in every state have the freedom to stand together and negotiate for fair wages and working conditions.   

    We will also have some of your fellow participants share how the workshop has impacted their...

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    2021 Mar 11

    2021 Harvard Trade Union Workshop - March

    Thu - Fri, Mar 11 to Mar 19, 3:00pm - 8:00pm

    Location: 

    online Zoom

    Building upon the Trade Union Program’s commitment to education and guidance for the labor movement, we have designed a multi-class online workshop that combines the highlights and strengths of our core curriculum with a focus on current urgent challenges: overcoming the raging pandemic, navigating the economic recession, and achieving pathways to racial justice.

    The workshop consists of ten class sessions led by experts in their fields. The workshop will not be a passive webinar where participants only listen to the experts, but instead this will be an interactive learning...

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    2021 Feb 11

    2021 Harvard Trade Union Workshop - February

    Thu - Fri, Feb 11 to Feb 19, 3:00pm - 8:00pm

    Location: 

    online zoom

    Building upon the Trade Union Program’s commitment to education and guidance for the labor movement, we have designed a multi-class online workshop that combines the highlights and strengths of our core curriculum with a focus on current urgent challenges: overcoming the raging pandemic, navigating the economic recession, and achieving pathways to racial justice.

    The workshop consists of ten class sessions led by experts in their fields. The workshop will not be a passive webinar where participants only listen to the experts, but instead this will be an interactive learning...

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    2019 Feb 11

    James Green Forum -“Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: Organizing Workers in the Southern USA”

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    WCC 2019 Milstein West AB, Harvard Law School

    James Green Forum 2019Speakers: Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Professor, West Virginia University and Ken Fones-Wolf, Professor, Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair, West Virginia University
    Commenter: Sister Marie-Therese Browne, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky... Read more about James Green Forum -“Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: Organizing Workers in the Southern USA”

    2019 Feb 04

    John T. Dunlop Forum – “Building a Moral Capitalism” featuring Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    1585 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA | 2036 Milstein East ABC

    Slideshow of Event:
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    Congressman Joe Kennedy III discusses his recent call for “moral capitalism” and outline how he believes a new Congress can recalibrate our country’s economy back towards American workers.

    The John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum is hosted by Harvard Law School Labor & Worklife Program and co-sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

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    2018 Feb 05

    John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum:  Tom Perez, DNC Chair and former U.S. Secretary of Labor “Labor Policy as the Defining Issue of Our Time”

    5:30pm

    Location: 

     Room 100, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

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    We are proud to present this year's John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum speaker: The Honorable Tom Perez, HLS and HKS'87, DNC Chair and former U.S. Secretary of Labor. Moderated by Sharon Block, HLS.  Additional remarks by Archon Fung, HKS and David Weil, Brandeis Heller School. 

    OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

    Sponsored by the Harvard Trade Union Program
    Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
    Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, 
    Harvard Kennedy School 

    Reported in "Former Labor Secretary Perez says everyone should have a seat at the table."  Harvard Law Today

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    2018 Jan 24

    Jerry Wurf Memorial Forum:  "History Revisited: Memphis Sanitation Workers 1968"

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School

    Wurf Lecture Lucywith AFSCME
    2018 Wurf Memorial Lecture: WIlliam Lucy with members from AFSCME
    We are proud to present this year's Jerry Wurf Memorial Forum speaker: William Lucy, former Secretary-Treasurer of AFSCME and  founding President of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). 

    Sponsored by the Harvard Trade Union Program
    Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
    Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
    Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University 

    OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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    2018 Jan 18

    JAMES GREEN MEMORIAL FORUM: "New Forms to Settle Old Scores? Worker Centers and Their Recent Trajectories"

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Austin Hall, Room 111 Harvard Law School 1515 Mass. Ave., Cambridge

    We are proud to present this year's James Green Memorial Forum speaker: Janice Fine, Research and Strategy Director at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO), Rutgers University 
    and Natalicia Tracy, Executive Director, Brazilian Worker Center

    Open to the Public

    Sponsored by the Harvard Trade Union Program,
    Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

    Forum Flyer: [Download PDF]

    2017 Feb 15

    "THE OBAMA LABOR LEGACY"

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall Harvard Law School 1515 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
    M. Patricia Smith
    M. Patricia Smith
    former, Solicitor of Labor
    2017 Feb 14

    "INFRASTRUCTURE: LABOR, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES"

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall Harvard Law School 1515 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
    infrastructure
    Larry Beeferman, Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project, LWP
    Brent Booker, Secretary Treasurer, North America's Building Trades Unions
    Donald Cohen, Executive Director, In the Public Interest
    Kevin DeGood, Director, Infrastructure Policy, Center for American Progress

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