DAILY SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS
108th SESSION
THE HARVARD TRADE UNION PROGRAM
JANUARY 7 – FEBRUARY 15, 2019
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| Week 1: January 7-11 | ||
| Monday, January 07, 2019 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM | HTUP Registration | 100 Cahill Classroom Pound Hall (1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge) |
| Monday, January 07, 2019 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Welcome Dinner | Sheraton Commander Hotel (16 Garden St, Cambridge) |
| Tuesday, January 08, 2019 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM | Orientation- Marcy Goldstein-Gelb 2019 Ground rules for participation Susan Affel, HLS Title IX Coordinator Title IX handout | Wasserstein (WCC)- 2019 Milstein West A (1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge) |
| Wednesday, January 09, 2019 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | David Weil – Strategic Choice #1 “Facing the Storm: A First Discussion of Strategic Choices” Curriculum Area: Core – Strategic Choice Reading: –Turning the Tide, Preface, Chapter 1, (pp. 3-12). –The Fissured Workplace, Chapter 1, (pp. 1-23). Prepare for discussion: The PATCO Strike (HTUP Case) 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? PowerPoint presentation: noneReading mentioned in class: “The Return of the Strike,” by Steven Greenhouse, American Prospect, January 3, 2019 Current article that references PATCO: “Why aren’t they striking?,” Morning Shift, Politico.com, 01/10/2019 By REBECCA RAINEY “The Air Traffic Controllers Even the Score,” Harold Meyerson, 1/25/19, American Prospect | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North (1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge) |
| Wednesday, January 09, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Larry Katz – “Forces that Are Shaping the Labor Market” Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: – Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor ShareOptional:– The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements -Imagining a Future of Work That Fosters Mobility for AllPowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Wednesday, January 09, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Gautam Mukunda – Leadership #1 “Dangerous Mines: Saving Lives through Leadership”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:-“Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American,” (HRB Case) PowerPoint presentation: | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Wednesday, January 09, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Marshall Ganz – “Leadership, Organizing, and Action”Curriculum Area: Community RelationsReading:-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)-Daniel Schlozman (2015), “Political Parties and Social Movements” in When Movements Anchor Parties, Princeton University Press, Chapter 2, pp. 14-48PowerPoint presentation: none | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Thursday, January 10, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Arnold Zack #1 – “Federal Role in the Rise of Arbitration”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: The Steelworkers Trilogy• American Motors Case• Warrior and Gulf Case• Enterprise Wheel CaseClass PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Thursday, January 10, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | David Cutler – “What’s Up with Health Care?”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: noneClass PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Thursday, January 10, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Benjamin Sachs – “Current Labor Law Issues”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: none Class PowerPoint presentation: none | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Thursday, January 10, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | HTUP Merchandise Sale | LWP Office 50 Church Street Cambridge |
| Friday, January 11, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | KC Wagner – “Sexual Harassment #1”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading:–SexualHarassmentReport-NWLC 1(4)–Wagner et al Men and Women As Allies2(4)Optional:-Work Survey Report 3(4)–EEOC report 4(4)Class PowerPoint presentation: PDF | WCC – 2036 Milstein East A |
| Friday, January 11, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | David Harris – “Lurking in the Shadows: Bias and Structure #1”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: none Class PowerPoint presentation: PDF | WCC – 2036 Milstein East A |
| Friday, January 11, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Rand Wilson – “Leading with Labor’s Values #1”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:– 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). – John P. Kotter, “What Leaders Really Do,” Harvard Business Review, May-June 1990. – 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 | WCC – 2036 Milstein East A |
| Saturday, January 12, 20191:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Jack Trumpbour – History #1 “Tour of Harvard”Curriculum Area: History | Meet at front lobby Wasserstein (WCC) |
| Week 2: January 14-18 | top | |
| Monday, January 14, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Thomas Kochan – “Strategies for Labor’s Future”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading:AFL CIO memoFor future interest:Shaping the Future of Work – complete book (PDF)Shaping the Future of Work – videosClass PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Monday, January 14, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Wilma Liebman – “Debating the Gig Economy”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: noneClass PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Monday, January 14, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Chris Mackin and David Webber Capital Strategies #M1 , #W1 -“New Roles for Labor: Creating and Managing Wealth – Introduction to Capital Strategies”Curriculum Area: Capital Strategies Mackin Readings:– An Iron Chain of Bondage, Lessons from the Knights of Labor, Our Kingdom, Democratic Wealth, November 29, 2012, Alex Gourevitch- Employee Ownership in America: A Primer for Industrial Relations, Christopher Mackin, Perspectives on Work, Vol. 5, No. 2, January, 2003Webber Readings:The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, Preface and Chapters 1 (Preface, Chapters 1&2 were sent before program started) Optional: Chapters 2 & 4Readings discussed in class: “The Real Reason the Investor Class Hates Pensions,” NYTimes”California’s Most Powerful Voice on Wall Street? Its Pensions” LA Times”Will the Left Get Fooled Into Abadoning Worker Pensions? In These TimesClass PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Monday, January 14, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Judy Scott – “Why Janus & What Now: The Rightwing Assault on the Power of Workers’ Unions and How To Rebuild” pt 1 &2Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: – Janus v AFSCME Council 31, Supreme Court decision, June 27, 2018; skim especially Justice Alito’s majority opinion at pages 11-18; and Justice Kagan’s dissent at pages 23-28.- Brief amici curiae of Michigan & 19 other states: skim pages 9-19, in support of Janus- Brief amici curiae of New York and 19 other states plus D.C.: skim pages 19-30, in support of AFSCME- Lewis Powell Memo of August 23, 1971 to US Chamber of Commerce: “Attack on American Free Enterprise System” – skim– “How an Obscure Conservative Theory Became the Trump Era’s Go-to-Nerd Phrase”; by Derek Robertson, February 25, 2018: politico.comClass handouts: – AG Advisory: Affirming Labor Rights adn Obligations in Public Worplaces – Public Plicy Priorities for Partner Unions – Best Practice for Having ‘the Talk”Class PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Tuesday, January 15, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Josh Flax – “From the Factory Floor to the Platform: The Enduring Value of Workplace Mediation”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: noneClass PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Tuesday, January 15, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Judy Scott – “Why Janus & What Now: The Rightwing Assault on the Power of Workers’ Unions and How To Rebuild” pt 1 & 2Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: Same as January 14. Class PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Tuesday, January 15, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | HUCTW panel – “The Story of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading:“Solidaritas at Harvard,” John Hoerr, The American Prospect, Summer 1993HUCTW Collective Agreement Class PowerPoint presentation: none | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Tuesday, January 15, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | RIchard Freeman – “What Do Economists Do?”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: none Class PowerPoint presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom – North |
| Wednesday, January 16, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | David Weil – Strategic Choice #2 “Strategic Planning and Strategic Choice”Curriculum Area: Core – Strategic ChoiceReading:-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.- The Fissured Workplace, Chapters 2-3, (pp. 28-75).Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Wednesday, January 16, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | David Harris – “Lurking in the Shadows: Bias and Structure #2”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: noneClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Wednesday, January 16, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Barry Bluestone #1 – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: noneClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 102 Classroom |
| Wednesday, January 16, 20196:00 PM – 7:00 PM Remarks 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Reception | Wurf Forum – “Workers, Equality, and Democracy: How Labor and Its Partners Should Think About the Future “Speaker: Sarita Gupta, Co-executive Director of Jobs With Justice and Co-director of Caring Across GenerationsBackground reading:“It’s Not the ‘Future of Work,’ It’s the Future of Workers That’s in Doubt,” Prospect.com | WCC – Room 2036 Milstein East C |
| Thursday, January 17, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Arnold Zack #2 ” The Union Role in Protecting Labor Arbitration”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading:-Threats to Labor Arbitration from the Janus Decision; What the Supreme Court’s Decision on Forced Arbitration Means for You Digg.comAssignments: Mock Arbitration – ruling due by1/31 email to azack@law.harvard.edu Transcript of Case Instructions Class PowerPoint presentation: (PDF) | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Thursday, January 17, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Isabelle Ferreras – “Firms as Political Entities #1 Corporate Governance and the Role of Labor”Curriculum Area: TechnologyReading:Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism, Introduction pp 1-24″We must rethink the purpose of the corporation,” Martin Wolf, Financial Times, 12/18/2018.Video: Democratising CapitalismClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Thursday, January 17, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Isabelle Ferreras – “Firms as Political Entities #2 Critical Issues for Today and the Platform Economy”Curriculum Area: Technology | Pound Hall – 102 Classroom |
| Thursday, January 17, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | David Webber – Capital Strategies #W2 – “Labor’s Capital vs. Capital’s Capital: The Testy Relationship Between Worker Pensions, Hedge Funds and Private Equity Funds”Curriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReading:The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, Chapters 3 and 5Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | Pound Hall – 102 Classroom |
| Friday, January 18, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Rand Wilson – Leading with Labor’s Values #2 – “The Voice of Members”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:-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. -Elaine Bernard, “The State of U.S. Labor and Building Union Power,” Democratic Left, Fall 2008.- 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 |
| Friday, January 18, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Sophia Lee – “The Right to Work Then and Now”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading:–The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right, Chapter 3, “Conservatives Create a Workplace Constitution in the Courts” pp 56-78.Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, January 18, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Elaine Bernard – Leadership #2 “Leadership and Democratic Decision Making”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:To be distributed in class: “Arctic Simulation”Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 2019 Milstein West A |
| Week 3: January 21-25 | top | |
| Monday, January 21, 2019 | MLK Day No Classes | |
| Tuesday, January 22, 20198:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Florrie Darwin – Negotiation WorkshopCurriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor Relations | WCC – 2036 Milstein East C |
| Tuesday, January 22, 2019 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Movie Night – “13th Amendment” – Documentary | Austin Hall 100 Classroom – North |
| Wednesday, January 23, 20198:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Florrie Darwin – Negotiation WorkshopCurriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor Relations | WCC – 2036 Milstein East B |
| Thursday, January 24, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | David Weil – Strategic Choice #3 “What Drives Strategic Leverage?”Curriculum Area: Core – Strategic ChoiceReading: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 “ in Fissuring in The Fissured Workplace, 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?Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Thursday, January 24, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Linda Kaboolian #1 – “Introduction to Unionism in the Public Sector”Curriculum Area: Public SectorReading:– Peter Green, “Is the Los Angeles teacher Strike a Different Kind of Strike?” Forbes.com, 1/12/2019. Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Thursday, January 24, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Elaine Bernard – History #2 “Origins of US Labor”Curriculum Area: HistoryReading:-The Albert Shanker Institute, “Labor’s Untold Story: A Textbook Case of Neglect and Distortion,” American Educator, Summer 2012.-James Green, “A Short History of the Union Movement in the U.S.” (unpublished paper)Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Thursday, January 24, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | David Webber – Capital Strategies #W3 -“Worker Shareholder Power and Job Creation” with Dan Pedrotty, North America’s Building Trades UnionCurriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReading:-The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, Chapter 7 – Additional materials distributed at classClass PowerPoint Presentation: | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Friday, January 25, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Alexandra Mateescu “Beyond Disruption: How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic Work & Ridehailing” Curriculum Area: TechnologyReading: none Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Hauser Hall – 102 Malkin Classroom |
| Friday, January 25, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Jack Trumpbour -“Unions and Pop Culture”Curriculum Area: Community RelationsReading: none Class Handouts: – Highly Recommended Labor Films Index – Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff | Hauser Hall – 102 Malkin Classroom |
| Friday, January 25, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Rand Wilson – Leadership #3 – “Staff Expectations”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading: – “Managing with Labor’s Values,” (introduction) Ken Margolies-Dean R. Spitzer, “30 ways to motivate employees to perform better,” reprinted from Training, March 1980.-“Where do you need to build trust?,” UAW Managing with Labor’s Values, The Worker Institute, Cornell University, November 2014.Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Hauser Hall – 102 Malkin Classroom |
| Saturday, January 26, 20198:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Public Narrative WorkshopCurriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading:–Carol Dweck, The Mindsets –Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements –Why Stories Matter | WCC – 2019 Milstein West B |
| Week 4: January 28-February 1 | top | |
| Monday, January 28, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld – “New Technology and Worker Representation”Curriculum Area: TechnologyReading:–Designing Reality, Introduction, pp 1-15-“Five Ways Consortia Can Catalyse Open Science,” Nature, 3/29/17.- “Bargaining When the Future of an Industry Is at Stake: Lessons from UAW–Ford Collective,” Negotiation Journal, April 2011, pp 115-146.Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, January 28, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Tom Juravich – “Beating Global Capital”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading:–“Beating Global Capital “Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF How David Beats Goliath, New Yorker, 5/2009Class handouts: Comprehensive Bargaining Campaign Traditional Bargaining Campaign Strategic Corporate Research Reference website: StrategicCorporateResearch.org | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, January 28, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #M2 -Labor’s Capital – “Shareholder Campaigns and the Work of the AFL-CIO Office of Investments” with Brandon Rees, AFL-CIO Office of InvestmentsCurriculum Area: Capital StrategiesMackin-Rees Readings: – Responsible Investor Guidebook- DOL Field Assistance Bulletin 2018-01- AFL-CIO Comment Letter on SEC Rule 14a-8Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDFOther Resources:Proxy Voting Guide from AFL-CIO – recommended by Andrew Bennett AFL-CIO KEY VOTES SURVEY – recommended by Andrew Bennett | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, January 28, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Elaine Bernard – History #3 “Labor in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”Curriculum Area: HistoryReading:-Robin Archer, “Introduction” and “Conclusion” to Why is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007).-Rich Yeselson, “Fortress Unionism,” Democracy Journal, Summer 2013.Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Tuesday, January 29, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Barry Bluestone #2 “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: none Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, January 29, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Joanne Goldstein – “Anatomy of a Public Private Construction Project with Perspectives of all Participants: Municipal Officials, State Officials, Developer, General Contractor, Sub- Contractors and Unions.”Curriculum Area: Community RelationsReading: -“The Underground Construction Economy in New Jersey,” Stockton University, 2016. -“Ten Principles for Successful Public/Private Partnerships” – Charles Marohn, “4 Qualities of a Successful Public-Private Partnership,” 2018. – James Surowiecki, “The Underground Recovery,” The New Yorker, 2013. – Kriston Capps, “How Local Governments Came to Embrace Business Partnerships,” CityLab, 2017. –Construction Industry Wage Theft flyer from Stoptaxfraud.net –Tax Fraud Flyer from Stoptaxfraud.netClass PowerPoint Presentation: noneClass handout: Residential Construction-Then and NowSuggested Website: coworker.org | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, January 29, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Gautam Mukunda – Leadership #3 “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:Optional —Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Chapter 1 and choose one case study of special interest to you.Class Powerpoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, January 29, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Jack Trumpbour – History #4 “Operation Dixie and the Forward March of Labor Halted?”Curriculum Area: HistoryReading:-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.-Bryant Simon, “Rethinking Why There Are So Few Unions in the South,” Georgia Historical Review, vol. 81, no. 2, Summer 1997.-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. Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, January 29, 20195:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Movie Night – “Harlan County, USA” | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom North |
| Wednesday, January 30, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | David Weil – Strategic Choice #4 “Building Organizational Capacity”Curriculum Area: Core – Strategic ChoiceReading:Turning the Tide, Chapters 5 (pp. 117-126) and 7, 8 (All).Prepare: What Do Members Want? The MGEU Resource Centre (HTUP Case)Questions:• What are the upsides and downsides of the MGEU Resource Centre?• Would you choose to expand it as the leader of the MGEU Executive Board?Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Wednesday, January 30, 201910:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Travel to John F. Kennedy Library and Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate | Meet on corner of Everett Street and Mass Ave. |
| Wednesday, January 30, 201911:00 AM – 12:30 PM | JFK Library | |
| Wednesday, January 30, 201912:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Lunch and EMK Institute Tour | |
| Wednesday, January 30, 20194:00 PM – 5:00 PM | IBEW Local 103 Tour | |
| Wednesday, January 30, 20195:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Dinner IBEW Local 103 | Bus returns to Cambridge by 9pm |
| Thursday, January 31, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Arnold Zack #3 – “The Arbitration Hearing and the Role of the Arbitrator”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: Zack, Arnold, Arbitrating Discipline and Discharge Cases,Chapter Four the Arbitration hearing pp. 61-101 Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, January 31, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Mark Erlich and Darlene Lambos – “Labor and Community Alliances”Curriculum Area: Community RelationsReading:“1099 Nation spreads its Tentacles,” Commonwealth Magazine, April 10, 2018. Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, January 31, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Linda Kaboolian #2 – “Should Unions Take Responsibility for the Quality of Public Services?”Curriculum Area: Public SectorReading: 1. Prepare Case: Emily Bates (A) – teacher of MathematicsAdditional 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 University Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, January 31, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | David Webber – Capital Strategies #W4 “Understanding the Existential Threat of Pension Reform: How 401(k)s Threaten Labor’s Shareholder Activism “Curriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReading:-The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, Chapters 8Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Friday, February 01, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Rand Wilson – Leadership #4 – “Engaging diversity” Guests: Jorge Rivera, Painters And Allied Trades DC 35 and Nancy Luc, 1199 SEIU Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:-. AFL-CIO, “Overcoming Barriers to People of Color in Union Leadership,” ILR School, Cornell University, 2005. -. Bill Fletcher and Richard Hurd, “Is Organizing Enough: Race, Gender and Union Culture,” ILR School, Cornell University, from New Labor Forum, Spring Summer, 2000. – International Trade Union Confederation, “Our Economic and Political Agenda for Young Workers,” 2017.Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 3019 Classroom |
| Friday, February 01, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | KC Wagner – Sexual Harassment #2Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: –Sexual Harassment Resource List -Top 10 Things Unions Can Do to Address Sexual Harassment in WorkplaceAssignment Due: Preventing Harassment and Promoting Workplace Equity Worksheet Class Handouts: – Case Studies and Directions – Dyad Exercise and Case Studies – Bold, Inclusive ConversationClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 3019 Classroom |
| Friday, February 01, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Sharon Block – Overview of the Labor & Worklife Program and Q&A | WCC – 3019 Classroom |
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| Monday, February 04, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Michelle Kaminski – Leadership #4 “Leadership and the Labor Movement”Curriculum Area: LeadershipAssignment:Complete Survey by 1/15 sent earlier in programClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, February 04, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Michelle Kaminski Leadership #5 “Ethics and the Labor Movement”Curriculum Area: LeadershipAssignment:Complete Survey by 1/15 sent earlier in programClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, February 04, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #M3 “Capital Stewardship and the United Food and Commercial Workers” with Aaron Brenner, Capital Stewardship Program UFCWCurriculum Area: Capital StrategiesMackin-Brenner Readings: – HCMC SEC Petition- Canada v. Britain- WSJ Ketchup FightClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, February 04, 20193:15 PM – 3:45 PM | Private meeting with Congressman Kennedy – just for our program. | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, February 04, 20194:00 PM – 5:00 PM Remarks 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Reception | Dunlop Forum – “Building a Moral Capitalism” Speaker: The Honorable Joseph P. Kennedy III, U.S. Representative, Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional District | WCC – 2019 Milstein – West AB |
| Tuesday, February 05, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Barry Bluestone #3 “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: none Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 05, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Terri Gerstein – “Working Effectively with State and Local Government Agencies to Protect Workers’ Rights”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: States in general – Newly Elected Democratic Governors and Legislatures Should Enact These Labor Initiatives Right Away, Slate, November 26, 2018. – How States Can Counter Trump’s War on Workers, The American Prospect, January 28, 2019. – A State Agenda For America’s Workers: 18 Ways To Promote Good Jobs In The States, National Employment Law Project and the EARN Project of the Economic Policy Institute, December 2, 2018 (Skim, unless you want to read the whole thing)State attorneys general – Voters should keep eye on 2018 races for state attorneys general, The Hill, June 15, 2018. – Why a Vote for State Attorney General Is One of the Most Important Ballots to Cast on Tuesday, Slate, November 2, 2018. – State attorneys general can play key roles in protecting workers’ rights, Economic Policy Institute, May 7, 2018. (Skim, unless you want to read the whole thing)Cities – Fast-Food Workers Claim Victory in a New York Labor Effort, New York Times, January 9, 2018. – U.S. court revives challenges to Seattle’s Uber, Lyft union law, Reuters, May 11, 2018 – Stealing From Workers is a Crime. Why Don’t More Prosecutors See It That Way? The Nation, May 24, 2018. – Finally, NYC Is Doing Right by Lyft and Uber Drivers, Slate, December 7, 2018.Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 05, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Jack Trumpbour – History #5 “Labor in Crisis and the Rise of Neoliberalism”Curriculum Area: HistorySuggested Reading:-Michael Huberman, “Labor movements” from Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, eds., The Cambridge History of Capitalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).-Charlie Post, “The Forgotten Militants: Weak working class resistance is rooted in the loss of radical trade unionists,” Jacobin, issue 22, Summer 2016.-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).-Jane McAlevey, “Everything Old is New Again: Rebuilding the labor movement will take organizing, not just mobilizing,” Jacobin, issue 22, Summer 2016.-Gautam Mukunda, “The Price of Wall Street’s Power,” Harvard Business Review, June 2014-William Lazonick, “Profits without Prosperity,” Harvard Business Review, September 2014.-Mike Davis, “The Great God Trump and the White Working Class,” Catalyst, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2017. Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 05, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Richard Freeman – “America Works”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: none Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 05, 20195:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Movie Night – “Crash” – Attended by David Harris | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom North |
| Wednesday, February 06, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | David Weil – Strategic Choice #5 “A Self-Assessment of Union Strategic Position”Curriculum Area: Core – Strategic ChoiceReading:The Fissured Workplace, 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 February 3.Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 1010 Classroom |
| Wednesday, February 6, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Brad Darjean – “What/Who is the National Staff Organization?”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: none Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 1010 Classroom |
| Wednesday, February 06, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Linda Kaboolian #3 – – “Louisville Water – Union Strategy = Corporate Strategy”Curriculum Area: Public SectorPrepare: Louisville Water CaseClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 1010 Classroom |
| Wednesday, February 06, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Elaine Bernard – Leadership #6 “Lighting Fires”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:–“Why Transformation Efforts Fail” Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 1010 Classroom |
| Thursday, February 07, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Arnold Zack #4 “How Are Labor Disputes Resolved Elsewhere?”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading:Sack, Jeffrey QC., “US and Canada Labor Law: Significant Distinctions”Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, February 07, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Mark Erlich “Payroll Fraud and the Underground Economy”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading:“Labor Rises Up To Show the Way,” The Nation, December 26, 1988. Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, February 07, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Miles Rapoport and Wendy Fields – “Labor and a Movement to Make Democracy Work”Curriculum Area: Community Relations;Legal IssuesReading:“A New Playing Field for Democracy Reform,” American Prospect, 12/2018 | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, February 07, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Larry Brown – “Defending Public Services and Confronting the Real Crisis”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: none | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, February 07, 20195:00 PM – 7:00 PM | David DeSario “A Day’s Work” movieCurriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: none Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 101 Ballantine Classroom |
| Friday, February 08, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Mike Wright – “Building Stronger Unions Through Safety and Health”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading:–“The Changing the Nature of Work”–“Monforton Comments”–“The Decline of American Unions” –“Safety, Incentives, and the Reporting ofWork-Related Injuries Among Union Carpenters:‘‘You’re Pretty Much Screwed If You Get Hurtat Work’’”Resources:–“Agreement US Steel”–“Brief Guide to Occupational Safety and Health Law”–“Online Resources for Union Safety and Health Activists”–“Health, Safety & Environment Language”–Shake with Danger – recommended by Kevin Sheptycki. | WCC – 3019 Classroom |
| Friday, February 08, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Elise Bryant – “Using the Arts to Organize.”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: none Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | WCC – 3019 Classroom |
| Friday, February 08, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Rand Wilson – Leading with Labor’s Values #5 – “Bolstering Capacity Through Coalitions”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:–“Aim for the Bullseye, Secrets of a Successful Organizer,”– “You’re Different and That’s OK, Secrets of a Successful Organizer”– “How To Be A Good Listener, Secrets of a Successful Organizer”Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – 3019 Classroom |
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| Monday, February 11, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Bernie Evers and Vicki O’Leary – “Listening to Staff: Ironworkers’ Parental Leave Program”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading:Ironworkers Maternity Provision Policy, Benefit Description, June 2017 Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, February 11, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Rick Wartzman – “The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America.”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: none | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, February 11, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #M4 “Enterprise Strategies: ESOP’s Cooperatives and Democratic Ownership”Curriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReadings:– Employee Ownership: The Road to Shared Prosperity – Christopher Mackin, The Nation.- Silicon Valley and the Quest for a Utopian Workplace- ESOP Definition- Overview of Employee Stock Ownership Plans -The Employee Ownership Top 55 – National Center for Employee OwnershipClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Griswold Hall – 110 Classroom |
| Monday, February 11, 20194:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Green Forum -“Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South: Organizing Workers in the Southern USA”Speakers: Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Professor, West Virginia University and Ken Fones-Wolf, Professor, Stuart and Joyce Robbins Chair, West Virginia UniversityCommenter: Sister Marie-Therese Browne,Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, KentuckyCurriculum Area: Labor History | WCC 2019 Milstein West AB |
| Tuesday, February 12, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Aaron Halegua – “Fighting Human Trafficking and Labor Exploitation on U.S. Soil: Chinese Construction Workers in Saipan” Curriculum Area: Legal Issues Reading: Reading Packet Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 12, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Dan Schlademan-“The Power of Online to Offline Organizing – United 4 Respect/OUR Walmart.”Curriculum Area: TechnologyClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 12, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Jess Kutch and Hamilton Nolan “How We’re Organizing the Media, and How We Can Organize Everywhere Else?”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityClass PowerPoint Presentation – Nolan,Class PowerPoint Presentation – Kutch | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 12, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Karl Klare – “The NLRA & Post-Industrial Business Organization”Curriculum Area: Legal Issues Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall – 100 Cahill Classroom |
| Tuesday, February 12, 20195:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Movie Night – “Miners Shot Down” – South African miners movie Youtube | Austin Hall – 100 Classroom North |
| Wednesday, February 13, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb and Rand Wilson – Leading with Labor’s Values #6 – “Leadership in Action Plans”Curriculum Area: LeadershipClass Presentations: Action Plans Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – B015 Classroom |
| Wednesday, February 13, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Richard Parker – “How to Think Long-Term about Last November’s Election Results—and What They Tell Us About How America Is Changing and Why”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading:“How to understand the times we are living through” Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | WCC – B015 Classroom |
| Wednesday, February 13, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Emily Spieler – “Drugs and Opioids at Work.”Curriculum Area: Legal Issues Reading: –Reading packet Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | WCC – B015 Classroom |
| Wednesday, February 13, 20193:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Visit Massachusetts Nurses Association for Dinner Canton, MA | Bus Transportation will be arranged. |
| Thursday, February 14, 20198:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Arnold Zack #5 – “How Arbitrators Decide Cases”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading:Zack, Arnold, Arbitrating Discipline and Discharge Cases,Chapter Seven, Deciding the Case pp 151-173Class PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, February 14, 201910:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Thomas Kohler – “The Genesis and Meaning of the Union’s Duty of Fair Representation”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: –Steele v. Louisville & N.R.Co et al, 323 US 192, Nov 1944 -Reinhold Fahlbeck, The Demise of Collective Bargaining in the USA: Reflections on the Un-American Character of American Labor Law, 15 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 307 (1994) – The Significance of Religion for US-American Labor and Social Legislation – Thomas C. Kohler. “The Notion of Solidarity and the Secret History of American Labor Law.” Buffalo Law Review 53, (2006): 883-92 Class PowerPoint Presentation: none | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, February 14, 20191:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Avi Chomsky – “Settler Colonialism, Immigration, and Labor in the United States?”Curriculum Area: Legal IssuesReading: -“A Central American Drama in Four Acts,” Chapter 3 in Children from the Other AmericaClass PowerPoint Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Thursday, February 14, 20193:00 PM – 4:30 PM | Final Evaluations and Program wrap up | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Friday, February 15, 201911:00 AM – 2:00 PM | HTUP Graduation – Congratulations!Speaker: John Stocks, Executive Director, National Education Association Class Speakers: Leanne P. Kunze and Tyrek LeeArticle referenced by Professor Freeman | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
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