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2018 HTUP – schedule

DAILY SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS

107th SESSION

THE HARVARD TRADE UNION PROGRAM

JANUARY 8th – FEBRUARY 16th 2018

Week 1: January 8-13
Monday, Jan 08, 2018
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
 Registration  Sheraton Commander Hotel
16 Garden St
Cambridge 
 
 Monday, Jan 08, 2018
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
 Welcome Dinner  Sheraton Commander Hotel
16 Garden St
Cambridge 
 
 Tuesday, Jan 09, 2018
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
 Orientation  WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Tuesday, Jan 09, 2018
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM
 Orientation WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
   
 David Weil – Strategic Choice #1 “Facing the Storm: A First Discussion of Strategic Choices”
Core Curriculum – Strategic Choice
Reading:
1. Turning the Tide, Preface, Chapter 1, (pp. 3-12).
2. The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve It, Chapter 1, (pp. 1-23).
Prepare for discussion:
The PATCO Strike (HTUP Case Program)
Questions:
· How do you prepare for the upcoming contract negotiations as the Reagan administration?
· How do you prepare for the upcoming contract negotiations as a leader of PATCO?Current article:“Trump Appointee Is Trying to Squelch Us, Labor Board Staff Says” by Noam Scheiber, NY Times
WCC 2036 Milstein East C 
 Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
 Ben Sachs – “Current Labor Law Issues”
Legal Issues 
WCC 2036 Milstein East C
 Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
 
 Tom Kochan – “Options for Rebuilding Worker Voice and Bargaining Power”
Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
Chapter 6, “How Labor Can Contribute to a New Social Contract,” in Kochan and Dyer, Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract. MITx Press, 2017.
Full Book Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract.
Class Powerpoint Presentation[PDF]Tom Kochan article in the Conversation: Here’s how workers would spend the corporate tax cut – if they had a voice,1/29/2108. New forms of worker voice in the 21st century
 WCC 2036 Milstein East C
 Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
 Richard Parker – “Taking the Long View: Why Trump Is Not the Future. Cycles in American Politics—and How They Work”
Legal Issues 
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Thursday, Jan 11, 2018
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
 Arnold Zack – Negotiations #1 “Two Kinds of Arbitration: Negotiated (Labor) or Forced (Employment)”
Core Curriculum: Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
1.Dunlop and Zack handout pp 23-72
2.Steelworkers v. American Mfg 363 US 564
3. Steelworkers v. Enterprise Wheel and Car v. Steelworkers 363 US 593
4. Steelworkers v. Warrior and Gulf 363 US 574
5.  ‘Privatization of the Justice System’ Class Powerpoint Presentation[PDF] 
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Thursday, Jan 11, 2018
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
 Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – Leadership #1 “Leading with Labor’s Values”
Core Curriculum – Leadership
Reading:
1. Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky, “The Theory Behind the Practice,” chapter 2 of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2009).
2. John P.Kotter,“What Leaders Really Do,” Harvard Business Review, May-June 1990.
3. Ken Margolies,“The Challenge Union Leaders Face When They Assume the Role of Managers Within a Labor Organization,” LERA 63rd Annual Proceedings, 2011
Class Powerpoint Presentation[PDF] 
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Thursday, Jan 11, 2018
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
 Larry Beeferman #1 “The Challenge of Assuring Financial Security in Retirement: Key Questions, Important Principles, and Possible Solutions”
Economics
Reading:
“The Economics of Pensions,” by Nicholas Barr and Peter Diamond, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 1. 2006, Pages 15–31, 36-39.   
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Thursday, Jan 11, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
 Elaine Bernard – History #1 – “The Birth of U.S. Labor”
Core Curriculum: History- Bernard/Trumpbour
Reading:
1. The Albert Shanker Institute,“Labor’s Untold Story: A Textbook Case of Neglect and Distortion,” American Educator, Summer 2012. – long version   short version
2. James Green,“A Short History of the Union Movement in the U.S.” (unpublished paper)Class powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Friday, Jan 12, 2018
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
 Laura Fortman – #1 “HTUP Seminar”
ORID Template: [Downoad]  
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
Friday, Jan 12, 2018
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
 David Cutler – “Current State of Health Care”
Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
1. “Hooray For Sing—I Mean, Universal Health Care,” Kevin Drum, Aug. 29, 2017, Mother Jones.
2. “It’s time for Democrats’ wonk class to write some single-payer plans activists need help from real experts, not condescension,” Matthew Yglesias, Vox, Aug 29, 2017.Class Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF] 
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Friday, Jan 12, 2018
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
 Elaine Bernard Leadership #2 “Leadership and Democratic Decision Making”
Core Curriculum – Leadership
Reading:
1. Donelson R. Forsyth, “Effective Group Meetings and Decision Making” in Rachel MacNair, ed., Working for Peace: A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools (Atascadero, CA: Impact Publishers,2006).
2. Marissa L.Shuffler, Deborah Diaz Granados, and Eduardo Salas, “There’s a Science for That: Team Development Interventions in Organizations,” Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20 (6) 2011.
3. A class exercise will be distributed in class. 
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Friday, Jan 12, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
 Richard Freeman – “What Economists Do?”
Economics 
 
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Saturday, Jan 13, 2018
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
Optional Tour of Boston — John Trumpbour   
  back to top week 1
 Week 2: January 15-20 
 Monday, Jan 15, 20189:00 AM – 5:00 PM Martin Luther King Day  
 Tuesday, Jan 16, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Barry Bluestone #1 “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”
EconomicsPowerpoint presentation
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Tuesday, Jan 16, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Dennis Slaughter – “Personality Type, Conflict, Social Theories, Leadership, & You”
LeadershipResults of Myers-Briggs (Personality) Type Instrument (MBTI).
Test given during registration.
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Tuesday, Jan 16, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Linda Kaboolian – Public Sector #1 “Introduction to Unionism in the Public Sector”
Core Curriculum: Strategic Public Sector Labor RelationsReading:1. Richard Freeman, “Unionism Comes to the Public Sector,” Journal of Economic Literature. Vol. XXIV (March 1986) read Section III The New Setting pages 49-53 only
2. Frederick Mosher, Democracy in the Public Service. Oxford University Press, 1982. pp 214-216.
3. Paul Johnston, Success While Others Fail, Cornell ILR Press, 1995. pp 11-14.Chris Edwards, “Public Sector Unions” Cato Institute, March 2010.”     
Class Powerpoint Presentation[PDF]       
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Tuesday, Jan 16, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Elaine Bernard – History #2 “Constructing the House of Labor”Core Curriculum: History – Bernard/TrumpbourReading:
1. Robin Archer, “Introduction” and “Conclusion” to Why is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).
2. Rich Yeselson, “Fortress Unionism,” Democracy Journal, Summer 2013.
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Wednesday, Jan 17, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM David Weil – Strategic Choice #2 – “Strategic Planning and Strategic Choice”
Core Curriculum – Strategic ChoiceReading:
1. David Weil, “A Strategic Choice Framework for Union Decision Making” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, v. 8, March 2005, pp. 327-347.2. The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve It, Chapters 2-3, (pp. 28-75).
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Wednesday, Jan 17, 201811:00 AM – 5:00 PM Bus for JFK Library, EMK Inst, and IBEW  
 Wednesday, Jan 17, 201811:30 AM – 12:45 PM Visit JFK Library  
 Wednesday, Jan 17, 201812:45 PM – 4:00 PM Edward M. Kennedy Institute12:45 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 Tour
3:30 – 4:00 Transportation to IBEW
 
 Wednesday, Jan 17, 20184:00 PM – 9:00 PM IBEW Tour and Dinner  Bus transportation provided back to Harvard
 Thursday, Jan 18, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM
 
 Arnold Zack – Negotiations #2 “Holding on to Grievance Arbitration in the Era of Mandatory Arbitration”Core Curriculum: Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
1. Zack, Arbitrating Discipline and Discharge Cases pp 5-34Class Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Thursday, Jan 18, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Larry Beeferman #2 -“Challenges for Unions in Assuring Financial Security in Retirement for Members…and Others?”
Economics
Reading:
The Economics of Pensions,” by Nicholas Barr and Peter Diamond, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 1. 2006, Pages 15–31, 36-39. 
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Thursday, Jan 18, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Isabelle Ferreras with Auriane Lamine – “SMart, a Cooperative and Democratic Alternative to Uberization?”
TechnologyClass Powerpoint Presentation[PDF]
 AUS 111 Classroom – West
 Thursday, Jan 18, 2018
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
 
 Green Forum – Janice Fine and Natalicia Tracy – “New Forms to Settle Old Scores? Worker Centers and their Recent Trajectories” and Natalicia Tracy, Executive Director, Brazilian Worker CenterJanice Fine class powerpoint presentation: [PDF]Natalicia Tracy class powerpoint presentation: [PDF]  AUS 111 Classroom – West Open to the public
 Friday, Jan 19, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Laura Fortman – #2 “HTUP Seminar”
ORID Template
Week 1/2 Jan 10-18: [Online Evaluation]  
 WCC 2019 Milstein West B
 Friday, Jan 19, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM HUCTW Panel – “The Story of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers”
Organizing and Capacity Building
Panel Participants:
Carrie Barbash, President, HUCTW
Tasha Williams, past President, HUCTW
Adrienne Landau, past President, HUCTW
Donene Williams, past President, HUCTW
Reading: “Solidaritas at Harvard,” John Hoerr, The American Prospect, Summer 1993
 WCC 2019 Milstein West B
 Friday, Jan 19, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #1 “New Roles for Labor: Introduction to Capital Strategies and Worker Ownership”Core
Curriculum – Capital Strategies for Labor
with Larry Beeferman
Reading:
1. An Iron Chain of Bondage, Lessons from the Knights of Labor, Our Kingdom, Democratic Wealth, November 29, 2012, Alex Gourevitch
2. Employee Ownership in America: A Primer for Industrial Relations, Christopher Mackin, Perspectives on Work
3. The Labor Day Lessons of Market Basket. PBS Newshour, Dollars & Sense, September 1, 2014Class Powerpoint presentation: [PDF] 
 WCC 2019 Milstein West B
 Saturday, Jan 20, 20188:30 AM – 6:00 PM Public Narrative Workshop
Union Organizing and Capacity Building
Mr.Abel Rey Cano, Leadership Coach &Trainer
Reading:
1. Carol Dweck, The Mindsets
2. Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements
3. Why Stories Matter 
 WCC 2012 ClassroomWCC 2019 Milstein West AB
  back to top Week 2
 Week 3: January 22-26 
 Monday, Jan 22, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – Leadership #3 “The Voice of Members”
Core Curriculum – Leadership
Reading:
1. Cindy McManus with the assistance of Elaine Bernard and David Weil, “Pennsylvania State Corrections Officers Association (PSCOA),” Harvard University Trade Union Program case study, July 27, 2003.
2. Elaine Bernard, “The State of U.S. Labor and Building Union Power,” Democratic Left, Fall 2008.
3. Tove H. Hammer, Mahmut Bayazit, David L. Wazeter, “Union leadership and members attitudes,” ILR School, Cornell University, 2009.Class Powerpoint Presentation:[PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Monday, Jan 22, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Karl Klare – “Trump & the End of Labor Law As We Know It.”
Legal Issues
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Monday, Jan 22, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Larry Beeferman  “Capital Stewardship: Goals and Roles for Labor in the Management and Uses of Pension Assets”Core
Curriculum: Capital Strategies for Labor
Reading:
1.“Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy,” by Sanford Jacoby, UCLA Working Papers WP 2009-001, February 22, 2009.
2. “Complexities of Shareholder Primacy: A Response to Sanford Jacoby,” by Brishen Rogers, Comparative. Labor Law and Policy Journal, Volume 30, 2008, pp. 95-110. RECOMMENDED BUT OPTIONAL
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Monday, Jan 22, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Isabelle Ferreras – “Firms as Political Entities”
Organizing and CapacityClass Powerpoint Presentation[PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Tuesday, Jan 23, 20189:00 AM – 5:00 PM Florrie Darwin – Negotiations Workshop #1
Negotiations and Labor RelationsClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East AB
 Wednesday, Jan 24, 20189:00 AM – 4:30 PM Florrie Darwin – Negotiations Workshop #2
Negotiations and Labor Relations
 WCC 2019 Milstein West AB
 
 Wednesday, Jan 24, 20185:00 PM – 7:00 PM Wurf Forum – William Lucy – “History Revisited: Memphis Sanitation Workers 1968”Introduction by Elissa McBrideAmes Courtroom, Austin Hall Open to the public
 Thursday, Jan 25, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM
 David Weil – Strategic Choice #3 “What Drives Strategic Leverage?”
Core Curriculum -Strategic Choice
Reading:
Turning the Tide. Introduction to Part II; Chapter 2, pp. 23-42; Chapter 4, pp. 74-90.Prepare for discussion: iPhones, Cell Phones, and Telecommunications Fissuring in The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve It., pp. 107-113 and footnotes on pp. 318-320 (very important for preparing for the discussion).Questions:
· What are the key strategic decisions for AT&T in expanding its cell network to support iPhone use?
· How have those strategic decisions been changed by the fissured workplace?
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Jan 25, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Miles Rapoport and Wendy Fields – “Democracy at a Crossroads: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Role of Labor”
Legal Issues
Reading: “Democracy at Crossroads” Tova Wang
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Jan 25, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Linda Kaboolian- Public Sector #2 “Should Unions Take Responsibility for the Quality of Public Services?”
Core Curriculum: Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations
Reading:
1. Prepare Case: Emily Bates (A) – teacher of Mathematics 
Additional Reading:
2. Allyne Beach with Linda Kaboolian, Public Service, Public Savings: Case Studies in Labor-Management Initiatives in Four Public Services, The Public Sector Labor-Management Committee & The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard UniversityClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF] 
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Jan 25, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM John Trumpbour – History #3 “Operation Dixie and the Forward March of Labor Halted?”
Core Curriculum: History – Bernard/Trumpbour
Reading:
1. Joshua B. Freeman, review of Barbara S. Griffith, The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO, in American Historical Review, vol. 94, no. 4, October 1989.
2. Bryant Simon, “Rethinking Why There Are So Few Unions in the South,” Georgia Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 2, Summer 1997.
3. William P. Jones, “The Legacy of Failure: Why the Solid South Has Proved So Hard to Crack,” New Labor Forum, vol. 15, no. 3, Fall 2006.
 WCC B015 Classroom
 Friday, Jan 26, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Laura Fortman – #3 “HTUP Seminar”
ORID Template
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Friday, Jan 26, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Mark Erlich and Darlene Lombos – “Labor and Community Alliances “
Community Relations
Reading:
Labor Rises Up To Show the Way,” NationClass powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Friday, Jan 26, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Mark Erlich – “Payroll Fraud and the Underground Economy”
Economics
Reading:
1. “(In)Dependent Contractor Misclassification” – EPI
2. “Independent Contractors vs. Employee: Why Misclassification Matters and What We Can Do To Stop It” – NELPClass Powerpoint presentation: [PDF] 
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
  back to top Week 3
 Week 4: January 29-February 2 
 Monday, Jan 29, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM David Weil – Strategic Choice #4 “Building Organizational Capacity”
Core Curriculum – Strategic Choice
Reading:
Turning the Tide, Chapters 5 (pp. 117-126) and 7, 8 (All).
Prepare:
What Do Members Want? The MGEU Resource Centre (HTUP Case Program)
Questions:
· What are the upsides and downsides of the MGEU Resource Centre?
· Would you choose to expand it as a leader of the MGEU Executive Board?
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Monday, Jan 29, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Wilma Liebman “Debating the Gig Economy”
Legal Issues
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Monday, Jan 29, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Dennis Slaughter – #1 “Toward Understanding Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging”
Leadership
Bring $5 to classClass Presentation: “Who is Stephen Colbert” [Video]
Class reading: “It’s About Time Campaign” [PDF]Class Powerpoint Presentaion [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Monday, Jan 29, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Dennis Slaughter – #2 “Toward Understanding Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging”
Leadership 
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Tuesday, Jan 30, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Barry Bluestone #2 “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”
EconomicsPowerpoint presentation
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Tuesday, Jan 30, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM
 
 Rick Wartzman -“The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America”EconomicsClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF] WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Tuesday, Jan 30, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #2 Labor’s Capital – “Shareholder Campaigns and the Work of the AFL- CIO Office of Investments”
Core Curriculum – Capital Strategies for Labor
with Larry Beeferman
Presenter: Brandon Rees, AFL-CIO Office of Investments
Reading:
1. Responsible Investor Guidebook
2. The Business Case for the Current Shareholder Proposal Process, CERES, April, 2017Class Powerpoint presentattion:[PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Tuesday, Jan 30, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM
 
 Bernard/Trumpbour – History #4 – “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter”
Core Curriculum: History – Bernard/Trumpbour
Guest lecture by Gautam Mukunda
Reading:
1. Gautam Mukunda, “The Price of Wall Street’s Power,” Harvard Business Review, June 2014.
2. William Lazonick, “Profits without Prosperity,” Harvard Business Review, September 2014.
3. Gautam Mukunda, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012). Book will be distributed to class.
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Wednesday, Jan 31, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – Leadership #4 “Staff Expectations”
Core Curriculum – Leadership
Reading:
1. Elaine Bernard and David Weil, “British Columbia Nurses Union,” Harvard University Trade Union Program case study, September 2001.
2. Dean R. Spitzer, “30 ways to motivate employees to perform better,” reprinted from Training, March 1980.
3. “Where do you need to build trust?,” UAW Managing with Labor’s Values, The Worker Institute, Cornell University, November 2014.Class Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Wednesday, Jan 31, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Abhi Adhikari – “Technology and Innovating the Labor Movement”
Technology[Youtube video]
Claasroom Powerpoint Presentation [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Wednesday, Jan 31, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Linda Kaboolian – Pubic Sector #3 “Louisville Water – Union Strategy = Corporate Strategy”
Core Curriculum: Strategic Public Sector Labor Relations|
Prepare: Louisville Water Case
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Wednesday, Jan 31, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Richard Freeman #2 “America Works”
Economics
Classroom Powerpoint Presentation [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Feb 01, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Arnold Zack – Negotiations #3 “Preparing for Interest and Rights Arbitration”
Core Curriculum: Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
Zack, Arbitrating Discipline and Discharge Cases pp 151-178
Zach and Kochan, “Mediation:  America’s Flexible Approach to Supporting Collective Bargaining”Classroom Powerpoint presentation
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Feb 01, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Peter Colavito – “Social Transformation Through Labor/Community Partnership”
Community RelationsClassroom Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Feb 01, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM David Prouty – “Labor Relations in Baseball”
Organizing and CapacityClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Feb 01, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Elise Bryant – “Arts to Organize”
Organizing and Capacity
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Thursday, Feb 01, 20186:00 PM – 9:00 PM Movie Night – “9 to 5 Film Project”6-6:30 pizza/salad
6:30-8 movie
8-9 discussion with film maker, Julia Reichert, and survey
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Friday, Feb 02, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Laura Fortman – #4 “HTUP Seminar”
ORID Template TOP (Technologies of Participation)  “5 Creative Steps You Must Take for Productive Meetings” 
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Friday, Feb 02, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Sophia Lee – “The Right to Work Then and Now”
Legal Issues
Reading:
“Conservatives Create a Workplace Constitution in the Courts,” The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right, Chapter 3
Class Powerpoint Presentation:[PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Friday, Feb 02, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM  
Manuel Cortes “Brexit and Labour”
Economics
Reading:
1. “Labour leadership under pressure to support free movement after Brexit” – Guardian
2. “The Road to Reversing Brexit may have just begun at Labour’s conference fringe” – Guardian
3. “Without EU migrants, our economy will buckle under the pressure of Brexit” – Independent
4. “Manuel Cortes: left-wing Brexiteers are deluded, Labour should keep all options on the table” New Stateman
5. “Allies of Jeremy Corbyn urge him to commit to EU freedom of movement” Independent
6. “Manuel Cortes: There is no good Brexit – Labour needs to restart the Remain fight” Labour List
7. “Manuel Cortes: There’s a way out from the Brexit nightmare – a second referendum” Labour List
8. “Corbyn Changed The Narrative On The Economy – Now He Must Do The Same For Free Movement” HuffPost
9. “Labour activists demand freedom of movement after Brexit” Financial Times
10. “Union leader challenges Jeremy Corbyn over ‘fallacious’ migrant claims” Politics Home
11. “Support for a second referendum to prevent Brexit is surging” Business Insider
12. “We Must Never Accept a Tory Brexit,” ChartistClass Videos (youtube): 
One Day WIthout Us
‘Migrants feel like second class citizens’
Brexit and the Establishment: what you need to knowExtra Articles:
Only Jeremy Corbyn could keep Britain in a reformed EU 
Secret Brexit analysis warns of financial hit to Britain 
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
  back to top Week 4
 Week  5: February 5-9 
 Monday, Feb 05, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Bernie Evers and Vicki O’Leary – “Listening to Staff: Ironworkers’ Parental Leave Program”
Leadership
Reading:
“MATERNITY PROVISION POLICY” (PDF)Class Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 3019 Classroom
 Monday, Feb 05, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Sharon Block WCC 3019 Classroom
 Monday, Feb 05, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM
 
 Avi Chomsky – “A Country of Immigrants? Making Sense of Trump’s Policies Towards Immigration
Legal Issues
Reading:
“A Central American Drama in Four Acts“Class Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 AUS 200 Ames Courtroom
 Monday, Feb 05, 2018
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM 
 Marshall Ganz – “Leadership, Organizing, and Action”
Community RelationsReading:
1. Marshall Ganz, “Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements”, Chapter 19 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Nohria and Khurana; HBS Press, (2010), (pp. 527-568)
2. Daniel Schlozman (2015), “Political Parties and Social Movements” in When Movements Anchor Parties, Princeton University Press, Chapter 2, pp. 14-48
3. “Can The Democrats Get Organized? An Interview With Marshall Ganz” by John Judis, Talking Points Memo, Feb 24, 2017.
 AUS 200 Ames Courtroom
 Monday, Feb 05, 2018
5:30
 
 John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum – Tom Perez,  
Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, former US Secretary of Labor, “Labor Policy as the Defining Issue of Our Time”
Moderated by Sharon Block, HLS.  Additional remarks by Archon Fung, HKS and David Weil, Brandeis Heller School. 
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Tuesday, Feb 06, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Barry Bluestone #3 – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”
Economics
Class Powerpoint presentation:https:/drive.google.com/open?id=1cGIXdAAgq4_vQzFlgiHDDpkJYdp64wdP
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Tuesday, Feb 06, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Terri Gerstein – “How Unions Can Work with Enforcement Agencies”
Community Relations
Reading:
1.California Co-Enforcement Initiatives that Facilitate Worker Organizing – ​Page 1, pages 8 – 17 (up to IV California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement), pages 20-21 (12 pages)
2.ADDING LABOR TO THE DOCKET: THE ROLE OF STATE ATTORNEYS GENERAL IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF LABOR LAWS,
Pages 2 – 3 and 23-25 (5 pages)
3. Fighting for New York’s Workers (skim only)
4. State quashes right-to-work law in Sussex
5.DA VANCE: CONSTRUCTION COMPANY CONVICTED AT TRIAL FOR DEATH OF 22-YEAR-OLD WORKER AT MEATPACKING DISTRICT SITE
6.Fired Washington Hts. Dominos workers to be reinstated after walkout, sez Attorney General
7.  NYC’s Fast Food Deductions LawClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Tuesday, Feb 06, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Brad Darjean – “What/Who is the National Staff Organization?”
Organizing and CapacityClass powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Tuesday, Feb 06, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM John Trumpbour- History #5 – “Labor and the Rise of Neoliberalism”
Core Curriculum: History – Bernard/TrumpbourReading:
1. Michael Huberman, “Labor movements” from Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., The Cambridge History of Capitalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).
2. Charlie Post, “The Forgotten Militants: Weak working class resistance is rooted in the loss of radical trade unionists.” Jacobin, Summer 2016.
3. Susan J. Schurman, Adrienne E. Eaton, and Martha A. Chen, “Expanding the Boundaries of Labor Organizing and Collective Bargaining” from the conclusion of Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017).
4. Jane McAlevey, “Everything Old is New Again: Rebuilding the labor movement will take organizing, not just mobilizing,” Jacobin, issue 22, Summer 2016.
5. Mike Davis, “The Great God Trump and the White Working Class,” Catalyst, vol. 1, no. 1,
Spring 2017.
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Wednesday, Feb 07, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM David Weil – Strategic Choice #5 “A Self-Assessment of Union Strategic Position”
Core Curriculum – Strategic Choice
Reading:
The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve It., Chapters 9-10, (pp. 214-267).
Review:
“A Strategic Choice Framework for Union Decision Making” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, v. 8, March 2005, pp. 327-347.
Prepare:
Using the Strategic Choice Assessment Tool (SCAT)” This short handout provides step-by-step instructions to using the online assessment tool. PLEASE NOTE: It is important that you complete this self-assessment by Feb 4.
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Wednesday, Feb 07, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Thomas Kohler – “The Duty of Fair Representation: Roots, Quandaries, Implications”
Legal Issues
Reading: 
Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co.
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Wednesday, Feb 07, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Michelle Miller – “Organizing for the Future: How We’re Supporting Workers in a Digitized Economy”
Technology
Reading:
New Frontiers of Worker Power: Challenges and Opportunities in the Modern Economy“Class Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Wednesday, Feb 07, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Hamilton Nolan – “Turning a Non-Union Industry Into a Union Industry”
Organizing and Capacity
Reading:
1. “A Billionaire Destroyed His Newsrooms Out of Spite,” Nolan, NYTimes
2. “Autocracy at Work: Understanding the Gothamist Shut Down,” Sachs, OnLabor.orgClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2019 Milstein West A
 Thursday, Feb 08, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Arnold Zack – Negotiations #4 “Cost Control in Arbitration
Core Curriculum: Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
Zack, Arbitrating Discipline and Discharge Cases pp 84-93

Classr Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East C
 Thursday, Feb 08, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – Leadership #5 “Engaging Diversity”
Core Curriculum – Leadership
Reading:
1. AFL-CIO, “Overcoming Barriers to People of Color in Union Leadership,” ILR School, Cornell University, 2005.
2. Bill Fletcher and Richard Hurd, “Is Organizing Enough: Race, Gender and Union Culture,” ILR School, Cornell University, from New Labor Forum, Spring Summer, 2000.
3. International Trade Union Confederation, “Our Economic and Political Agenda for Young Workers,” 2017.Class Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
Biggest gains in union membership in 2017 were for younger workers”  EPI, John Schmitt, 1/18/18
“Union membership in the United States” BLS
Megan Dunn and James Walker, 9/2016
 WCC 2036 Milstein East C
 Thursday, Feb 08, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Edward Bantle – “Technology at the Table: (Potentially) Transforming Negotiation and Dispute Resolution”
TechnologyClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East C
 Friday, Feb 09, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Laura Fortman – #5 “HTUP Seminar”
ORID Template 
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
Friday, Feb 09, 2018
11:00 PM-12:00
Dora Sari – “Trade union rights around the world and new avenues for global labor policy (?)”WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Friday, Feb 09, 201812:00 PM-12:30 Donald Sheehan – “HTUP Alumni Association Issues” WCC 2036 Milstein East B
 Friday, Feb 09, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #3 – “A Worker Voice in Boardrooms – UFCW Capital Stewardship Program”
Core Curriculum – Capital Strategies for Labor
with Larry Beeferman
Presenter: Aaron Brenner, Capital Stewardship Program, United Food and Commercial Workers
Reading:
1.Ketchup Fight: Peltz, Heinz CEO Go At It, Wall Street Journal, 08-04-06
2. CSP Valuing Decent Work in Your Investments
3.CSP WalMart Resolution
4. CSP Calpers Investment Beliefs Class powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 2036 Milstein East B
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 Week  6: February 12-16 
 Monday, Feb 12, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM David Harris – “Lurking in the Shadows: Bias and Structure”
Legal IssuesClass Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
Video clips from presentaion: 
Tulsa Clip
Ted Talk Clip
Race 3: The house we live in
Presedent Obama
Crash the Invisible Protection Cloak
Crash Clip2
Awareness
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Monday, Feb 12, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Mike Wright #1 – “A Union Approach to Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety”
Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
1. Wright, “The decline of unions is a threat to public health,” American Journal of Public Health, June 2016, pp. 968-9.
2. Wright, “The changing nature of work,” AJPH, March 2018, pp. 315-6.
3. Montfortin, “Comments,” APJH, March 2018, pp. 314. 
4. “Looking For Trouble: A Comprehensive Union-Management Safety Program,” United Steelworkers, 2015.
5. Lipscomb, et.al.. “Safety, Incentives, and the Reporting of Work-Related Injuries Among Union Carpenters: ‘‘You’re Pretty Much Screwed If You Get Hurt at Work,’’ American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 25 October, 2012.
6. “Health, Safety and Environment Language: Must-haves and Not-haves,” United Steelworkers, 2016.
7. USW and United States Steel Labor Agreement. “Article 3, Health Safety and Environment,” 2012.
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Monday, Feb 12, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Mike Wright #2 – “A Union Approach to Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety”
Negotiations and Labor RelationsClass Handouts: [PDF]
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Monday, Feb 12, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Dan Schlademan – “Paradigm Shift – The Power of Online to Offline Organizing – How Walmart Workers Are Changing the World’s Largest Employer”
Technology
Reading:
1. Case study “OURWalmart” Caraway
2. “How Walmart Keeps an Eye on Its Massive Workforce” BloombergClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Tuesday, Feb 13, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Allison Beck – “From the Factory Floor to the Platform: The Enduring Value of Workplace Mediation”
Negotiations and Labor Relations
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Tuesday, Feb 13, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Tom Juravich – “The Promise of Strategic Research and Campaigns”
Organizing and capacity
Reading: “Beating Global CapitalPost Class Readings:
“Ten Things Every Organizer Should Know about the Employer”
“How a Strike Was Won”Class Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Tuesday, Feb 13, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #4 “Enterprise Strategies: ESOP’s as a Conversion Strategy and The Working World and the United Electrical Workers-Republic Windows and Doors”
Core Curriculum: Capital Strategies for Labor
with Larry Beeferman
Reading:
1.Employee Ownership: The Road to Shared Prosperity –Christopher Mackin, The Nation
2. What is an ESOP? – National Center for Employee Ownership
3. Overview of Employee Stock Ownership Plans – The EmployeeOwnership Top 55 National Center for Employee Ownership
4.A New Era for Workers: A Chicago Factory Goes Cooperative, Chorus FoundationClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 AUS 100 Classroom North
 Tuesday, Feb 13, 20183:15 PM – 8:00 PM Massachusetts Nurses Association – Dinner
3:15 – 4:15 Bus to Massachusetts Nurses Union, Canton |
4:15 – 6:30 Meeting with Officers & Staff MNA
6:30 – 8:00 Dinner with MNA
8:00 Return to Harvard
 Bus transportation provided
 Wednesday, Feb 14, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – Leadership #6 “Bolstering Capacity Through Coalitions”
Core Curriculum – Leadership
Reading:
1. Amanda Tattersall, Introduction to Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change, ILR Press/ Cornell University Press, 2010.
2. John Russo, “The Future of Labor Unions and Community Coalitions,” posted by Working Class Perspectives, 2013.
3. Justin Miller, “Worker Centers: Organizing the ‘Unorganizable’,” The American Prospect, Feb 26, 2015.
4. Sexual Harrassment fact sheet NWLC
5. Sexual Harrassment fact sheet UE
 WCC B015 Classroom
 Wednesday, Feb 14, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Emily Spieler – “Drugs and Opioids at Work”
Legal Issues
Reading:“DRUGS, DRUG TESTING, AND THE SCOURGE OF THE DRUG EPIDEMIC” Class Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC B015 Classroom
 Wednesday, Feb 14, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Elaine Bernard #2 “Unions and Climate Change”
Community RelationsClass Powerpoint Presentation: [PDF]
 WCC B015 Classroom
 Wednesday, Feb 14, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM John Trumpbour – “Labor and Pop Culture”
Community Relations
 WCC B015 Classroom
 Thursday, Feb 15, 20189:00 AM – 10:30 AM Arnold Zack – Negotiations #5 “How Arbitrators Decide Cases”
Core Curriculum: Negotiations and Labor Relations
Reading:
Shulman, Reason Contract and Law, Harvard Holmes LectureClassroom Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 3018
 Classroom
 Thursday, Feb 15, 201811:00 AM – 12:30 PM Michelle Kaminski – #1 “Leadership and the Labor Movement”
Leadership
Go over results of survey given earlier in programClass Powerpoint presentation: [PDF]
 WCC 3018
 Classroom
 Thursday, Feb 15, 20181:30 PM – 3:00 PM Michelle Kaminski – #2 “Leadership and the Labor Movement”
Leadership
Go over results of survey given earlier in program – continued
 WCC B015
 Classroom
 Thursday, Feb 15, 20183:30 PM – 5:00 PM Laura Fortman – #6 “HTUP Seminar”
ORID Template
 WCC B015
 Classroom
 Friday, Feb 16, 201811:00 AM – 2:00 PM Graduation CONGRATULATIONS!
Guest Speaker: Richard F. Griffin, former General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board
 AUS 200 Ames Courtroom 
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