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...
There is great interest across government, industry, and academia in improving the U.S. innovation system, particularly in light of competitive threats from countries like China. American universities have long been a foundation of U.S. leadership in science, technology, and innovation. As with other U.S....
In her new book, One Fair Wage: Ending the Subminimum Pay in America, Saru Jayaraman shines a light on tipped workers illustrating how the people left out of the fight for a fair minimum wage are society's most marginalized: people of color, many of them immigrants; women...
SPEAKER: Mike Handel (Bureau of Labor Statistics, USDOL, Research Analyst) TITLE: "Occupational Projections, Automation, and the Future of Work"
If you missed the seminar, or want to review Mike Handel's excellent presentation, here's a link to the Zoom Video Recording. Content questions can be addressed to <m.handel@northeastern.edu>
Join us for a panel discussion on how criminal prosecutions protect workers’ rights and ensure a level playing field for law-abiding employers. Hear from elected district attorneys about why they support this work and from line prosecutors about cases they have brought. Speakers will share ways prosecutors and worker organizations can build relationships and work together to improve workplace enforcement.... Read more about Prosecutions of wage theft and other employer crimes
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...
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...
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...
In her new book, One Fair Wage: Ending the Subminimum Pay in America, Saru Jayaraman shines a light on tipped workers illustrating how the people left out of the fight for a fair minimum wage are society's most marginalized: people of color, many of them immigrants; women...