DAILY SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS
110th SESSION
THE HARVARD TRADE UNION PROGRAM
January 9 – February 10, 2023
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| Week 1: January 9-14 | ||
| Monday, January 9 8:00 AM | Shuttle bus outside of Doubletree to campus | |
| Monday, January 9 9:00-10:00 am | Get ID cards | Smith Campus Center 8th floor1350 Massachusetts Ave.; Suite 807 |
| Monday, January 9 10:00-4:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – Orientation – Curriculum area: Orientation How to prepare a case | Milstein East AWasserstein Hall 2nd floor |
| Monday, January 9 6:00-9:00 pm | Welcome Dinner 6:00-7:00 pm Reception 7:00-9:00 pm Buffet dinner Speaker: Steve Tolman’80 President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO | Doubletree Suites |
| Tuesday, January 10 8:30 -10:00 am | Keturah Raabe – “Preparing the Table – Part 1 of 2 Strategies for Forward Progress in Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: Unions Must Promote Diversity and Inclusion to Maintain Solidarity Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Milstein West AWasserstein Hall2nd floor |
| Tuesday, January 10 10:30-12:00 pm | Keturah Raabe – “The Table is Set, Now What? – Part 2 of 2” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Milstein West AWasserstein Hall 2nd floor |
| Tuesday, January 10 1:00-2:30 pm | Marshall Ganz – “Leadership, Organizing, and Action” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: – The Power of Story in Social Movements; – Chapter 19 Leading Change; – Reclaiming Civil Society Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Milstein West AWasserstein Hall2nd floor |
| Tuesday, January 10 3:00-4:30 pm  | Vonda Brunsting, Chris Mackin, and David Webber – “New Roles for Labor: Creating and Managing Wealth: Introduction to Capital Strategies”Curriculum area: Capital StrategiesReading: • An Iron Chain of Bondage, Lessons from the Knights of Labor, Our Kingdom, Democratic Wealth, November 29, 2012, Alex Gourevich • Employee Ownership in America: A Primer for Industrial Relations, Christopher Mackin, Perspectives on Work, Vol. 5, No. 2, January, 2003 • The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder, Preface, Chapter 1 (Chapters 2 and 4 optional) • Capital Strategies for the Common Good, a Tool for Labor’s Revival. Dixon, Labor Forum 2021, Vol. 30(1) 60–68 – Democracy and the future of work Classroom Presentation: Mackin [PDF]; Brunsting [PDF] | Milstein West AWasserstein Hall2nd floor |
| Wednesday, January 11 8:30 -10:00 am  | David Weil – “Facing the storm: A first discussion of strategic choices “Curriculum area: Strategic ChoiceReading: –Turning the Tide, Preface, Chapter 1, (pp. 3-12). – Sarita Gupta and Erica Smiley, The Future We Need. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), pp. 47-51; 121-125.. Case 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?Classroom Presentation: blackboard1; blackboard2; blackboard3 | Pound Hall – 102 |
| Wednesday, January 11 10:30-12:00 pm  | Mark Erlich – “Early America Through the Progressive Era”Curriculum area: HistoryReading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 1-5Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Pound Hall – 102 |
| Wednesday, January 11 1:00-2:30 pm | Richard Parker – “Are We Starting a Major New Era in American History Now—and If So, What Will It Bring?”Curriculum area: HistoryReading: –Issues for discussion–Why the Biden Presidency Feels Like Such a Disappointment – Looming Questions for the Democrats – How to understand the times we are living throughClassroom Presentation: none | Pound Hall – 102 |
| Wednesday, January 11 3:00-4:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Leading with Labor’s Values – Overview”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: —The Practice of Adaptive leadership (Theory behind the practice); – What Leaders Really Do – The Challenge Union Leaders Face When They Assume the Role of Managers Within a Labor Organization, Ken Margolies, LERA 63RD ANNUAL PROCEEDINGS, 2011Classroom Presentation: [PDF]Complete this survey by Wednesday, 1/18 at noon. If you have any problems with the link, let me know (marcy@nationalcosh.org). Survey: https://bit.ly/Leading-LaborBelow are other materials from the class: – Leadership Action Plan instructions – Your goals for the class (from the sticky notes) – What are Labor’s Values – from flip chart | Pound Hall – 102 |
| Thursday, January 12 8:30-4:30 pm  | Florrie Darwin – “Negotiations Workshop” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: handed out in class Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Milstein East AWasserstein Hall2nd floor |
| Friday, January 13 8:30 -3:30 pm | Florrie Darwin – “Negotiations Workshop” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: handed out in class | Milstein East AWasserstein Hall2nd floor |
| Friday, January 13 3:30-4:30 pm  | Jack Trumpbour – “Harvard Tour” | |
| Saturday, January 14 9:00 am-6:00 pm 8:30 am breakfast Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack provided | Abel Cano – “Public Narrative Workshop” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: –Overview – Public Narrative Manual – [PDF] – *Required: Ganz: Why Stories Matter – *Required: Growth Mindset – Carol Dweck – Recommended: Chapter 19 Leading Change – Recommended: Lesson 1: Public Narrative Do’s & Don’ts – Recommended: Lesson 2: Coaching Public Narrative | Milstein West A/BWasserstein Hall2nd floor |
| Week 2: January 17-20 | top | |
Monday, January 16 | No Class MLK Day | |
| Tuesday, January 178:30 -10:00 am | Elaine Bernard – “Learning from each other: Unions and labor relations in the US, Canada and New Zealand”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – U.S. Workers’ Organizing Efforts And Collective Actions: A Review Of The Current Landscape; – Social Unionism – read summary; – Lessons From New Zealand’s New Sectoral Bargaining Law – Center for American ProgressClassroom Presentation: [PDF]Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Halland Zoom |
| Tuesday, January 1710:30-12:00 pm | Jack Trumpbour – “Leadership and Democratic Decision-Making – A Simulation”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: Subartic Simulation – handed out in classClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
Tuesday, January 171:00-2:30 pm | HUCTW – “The Story of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers” – HUCTW PanelCurriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: “Solidaritas at Harvard,” John Hoerr, The American Prospect, Summer 1993 – Recent contract – HUTCW.orgClassroom Presentation: none | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
| Tuesday, January 173:00-4:30 pm | Vonda Brunsting, Chris Mackin, and David Webber – “Taking Control of Our Money and Resisting the Attack on Pensions” – David Webber, Boston University School of LawCurriculum area: Capital StrategiesReading: The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder, Chapters 5 and 8Classroom Presentation: none | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
Wednesday, January 188:30 -10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic planning and strategic choice”Curriculum area: Strategic ChoiceReading: -David Weil, “A Strategic Choice Framework for Union Decision Making” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, vol. 8, March 2005, pp. 327-347. –The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve It, Chapter 1, (pp. 1-23). -Paul Whitehead, Paul Clark, and Lois Gray. “Adapting Union Administrative Practices to New Realities: Results of a Twenty-Year Longitudinal Study.” Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations. vol.24, 2018, pp. 155-184. Prepare for discussion: Reflect carefully on your own union’s recent history (and your personal history in your union). Based on the framework described in the “Strategic Choice Framework” Questions: • What was the most significant change affecting its “strategic leverage”? • What was the most significant change affecting its “organizational capacity”? • How have the changes you have noted above affected your views on union leadership and management?Classroom Presentation: [PDF] blackboard image | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
| Wednesday, January 1810:30-12:00 pm | Mark Erlich – “Great Depression, New Deal, Birth of the CIO”Curriculum area: HistoryReading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 6Suggested in class: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era, by Gary Gerstle Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
| Wednesday, January 181:00-2:30 pm | Richard Freeman – “What path for union growth when polls show so many Americans favor unions?”Curriculum area: EconomicsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
| Wednesday, January 183:00-4:30 pm | Gautam Mukunda – “Dangerous Mines: Saving Lives through Leadership”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: “Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American ,” (HRB Case) | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
| Wednesday, January 185:30-7:00 pmReception follows | Jerry Wurf Memorial Forum – Pronita Gupta “Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities Still Ahead for Labor during the Biden-Harris Administration.”Curriculum area: Public Sector | Milstein West AWasserstein Hall2nd floor |
| Thursday, January 198:30 -10:00 am | Julie Battilana – “Becoming Effective Change Makers” Curriculum area: leadershipReading: Power for All, IntroductionClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
| Thursday, January 1910:30-12:00 pm | Tolle Graham and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – “Health and Safety Organizing for Worker Power“Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: • The Fight for Workplace Safety • Ten Things to Consider Before Going to OSHA • TUC – What makes health and safety a good organizing issue • Labor Notes, Safety – Bosses want to fix the worker, Unions want to fix the job Optional: • The Challenges Posed By COVID-19 Pushed Many Workers to Strike. Will the Labor Movement See Sustained Interest? • Model Workplace Safety and Health Demands for Essential Workers Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 1010Wasserstein Hall |
| Thursday, January 19 12:30-1:00 pm | Travel to John F. Kennedy Library | Meet on corner of Everett Street and Mass Ave |
| Thursday, January 191:00-4:00 pm | JFK Library and visit the UMass Labor Center | Columbia Point, Boston |
| Thursday, January 195:00-6:00 pm | IBEW 103 Tour | 256 Freeport St Dorchester |
| Thursday, January 196:00-9:00 pm | IBEW 103 Dinner | |
| Friday, January 208:30 -10:00 am | David Cutler – “What’s Up with Health Care?”Curriculum area: Negotations and Labor RelationsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 3019Wasserstein Hall |
| Friday, January 2010:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Breaking Barriers”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: – The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, Audre Lorde – Overcoming barriers to people of color in union leadership, AFL-CIO, ILR School, Cornell University, 2005 – Is organizing enough: Race, gender and union culture, Bill Fletcher and Richard Hurd, ILR School, Cornell University – Our economic and political agenda for young workers, International Trade Union Confederation, 2017Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 3019Wasserstein Hall |
| Friday, January 201:00-2:30 pm | Darlene Lombos – “Building a United Front with Community Partners”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | WCC – 3019Wasserstein Hall |
| Friday, January 202:30 – 3:00 pm | Class ring meeting – Jeff Quirk – HERFF JONES 401-383-0028 o 401-258-2201 c www.herffjones.com/college2nd option for class ring is Balfour – located at Harvard Shop 67 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge. Contact: Steven Erickson, steve.erickson@balfour-rep.com | WCC – 3019Wasserstein Hall |
| Week 3: January 23-27 | top | |
| Monday, January 238:30 -10:00 am | Henry Garrido – “Privatization and Corruption – Learning to Follow the Money Trail”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: Privatization and Corruption – Learning to Follow the Money Trail (case)Classroom Websites: no presentation –Checkbook NYC –Local Law 63 Procurements –Freedom of Information (FOIL) Requests | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
Monday, January 2310:30-12:00 pm | Gautam Mukunda – “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter”Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Monday, January 231:00-2:30 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of American Economic Growth”Curriculum area: EconomicsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Monday, January 233:00-4:30 pm | Vonda Brunsting, Chris Mackin, and David Webber – “Climate Change and a Just Transition” – Vonda Brunsting, Harvard Initiative for Responsible InvestmentCurriculum area: Capital StrategiesReading: • A Trade Union Guide of Practice for a Just Transition Industrial pg. 5-9 • Just Transition Guidance for Investors. Brunsting, Robins, Wood pg. 3-5 • Worker’s Voice and Investing in a Just Transition. Andre Almeida Santos, David Wood Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
Tuesday, January 248:30 -10:00 am | Isabelle Ferreras – “Firms as Political Entities 1&2”Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public PolicyReading: – A SEAT AT THE TABLE Worker Voice and the New Corporate Boardroom – Democratize Work op-ed – Recent Interview Short Video: https://youtu.be/m6cQ4NO6jxUClassroom Presentation: [PDF]Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floorand Zoom |
| Tuesday, January 2410:30-12:00 pm | Avi Chomsky – “Settler Colonialism, Immigration, and Labor in the United States?”Curriculum area: HistoryReading: A Central American Drama in Four Acts, Chapter 3 in Children from the Other AmericaClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Tuesday, January 241:00-2:30 pm | William B. Gould IV – “For Labor to Build Upon: Wars Depression and Pandemic”Curriculum area: HistoryReading: –America’s latest union push needs teeth – Now Is the Time for Unions to Go on the OffensiveClassroom Presentation: noneZoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd FloorAnd Zoom |
| Tuesday, January 243:00-4:30 pm | Vonda Brunsting, Chris Mackin, and David Webber – “ESG, Anti-ESG, And The Legal Battle Over Worker Pensions” – David WebberCurriculum area: Capital StrategiesReading: • The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder, Chapter 7 • It’s Time for ESG To Fight Bank, Classroom Presentation: none | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Tuesday, January 245:00-7:30 pm Dinner provided  | Movies: “Matewan” and “Children Who Labor.”Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, January 258:30 -10:00 am | David Weil – “Analyzing strategic leverage”Curriculum area: Strategic ChoiceReading: – Turning the Tide. Introduction to Part II; Chapter 2, pp. 23-42; Chapter 4, pp. 74-90. – 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). – Sarita Gupta and Erica Smiley, The Future We Need. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), pp. 127-137. – Mark Erlich, “Construction Workers and the Gig Economy.” Dissent. Spring 2020, pp. 83-89. Case for discussion: David Vernon, “A Deep-Dive on Amazon Flex and the Threat from Crowdsourced Delivery.” A/B Bernstein Analytics. May 14, 2018. [NOTE: This is a business evaluation of Amazon Flex by a private equity research firm]. CASE Questions: • What are the key factors that will affect whether Amazon Flex will be successful in the short, medium and long term? • If you are FedEx or UPS, how worried are you about Amazon Flex based on the analysis in the report? • How might the Amazon Flex business model impact other businesses and the people who work for them? Classroom Presentation: [PDF] Whiteboard image; blackboard image | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, January 2510:30-12:00 pm | Mark Erlich – “Post WWII “Social Contract”Curriculum area: HistoryReading:Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 7-8Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, January 251:00-2:30 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of American Economic Growth”Curriculum area: EconomicsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, January 253:00-4:30 pm | Bill Fletcher – “Race to Labor”Curriculum area: HistoryReading: Race Is About More Than Discrimination.Race to LaborClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, January 256:00-8:00 pmDinner provided | Bill Fletcher – “Attack on Democracy”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: Trump, Right-Wing Populism, and the Future of Organized Labor;‘STARS AND BARS’Classroom Presentation: none Mentioned in class: – Black Reconstruction in America -W. E. B. Du Bois (Author) – Movie: Conspiracy (2001) – Movie: They Live (1988) | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Thursday, January 268:30 -10:00 am | Isabelle Ferreras – “Firms as Political Entities 1&2”Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public PolicyClassroom Presentation:Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floorand Zoom |
| Thursday, January 2610:30-12:00 pm | Bill Fletcher – “Race to Labor – Part 2”Curriculum area: HistoryClassroom Presentation: none | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Thursday, January 261:00-2:30 pm | Kris Rondeau -” Six Important Things Before Breakfast: strong and happy at home”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Thursday, January 263:00-4:30 pm | No Class – free time | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Friday, January 27 8:30 -10:00 am  | Rick Wartzman – “Still Broke: Walmart’s Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism.”Curriculum area: EconomicsReading: Still Broke, Chapter 1Classroom Presentation: [PDF] Referred sites: – 2023 Overall Rankings from Just Capital – Living Wage for Us – The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales by Abigail Disney Documentary – PayPal Grew Its Profits 28 Percent–by Raising Workers’ Wages – Gazette Article on Warzman talk at HLS | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Friday, January 27 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Engaging members”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: – PSCOA case study – The state of US Labor and Building Union Power – Union leadership and members attitudes, Tove H. Hammer, Mahmut Bayazit, David L. Wazeter, ILR School, Cornell University, 2009Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Friday, January 27 1:00-2:30 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of American Economic Growth”Curriculum area: EconomicsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Week 4: January 30-February 3 | top | |
| Monday, January 30 8:30 -10:00 am | Bill Cole – “Leaders and Followers: Engaging Union Members” – Part 1Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Monday, January 30 10:30-12:00 pm | Thomas Kochan – “The Upsurge in Worker Organizing and Activism: Flash in the Pan or a Transformational Moment?”Curriculum area: Negotations and Labor RelationsReading: An Overview of U.S. Workers’ Current Organizing Efforts and Collective ActionsClassroom Presentation: [Slides with answers to challenge questions] – Draft letter to send to the new leader of the AFL-CIO Transformational Organizing Initiative that reports on the class’s suggestions. | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Monday, January 30 1:00-2:30 pm | Jack Trumpbour – “Learning from each other- follow up” and Alyson Gounden Rock – “Contributors to the gender wage gap”Reading: Alyson Gounden Rock research summary pageClassroom Presentation: Alyson [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Monday, January 30 3:00-4:30 pm | Vonda Brunsting, Chris Mackin, and David Webber – “Enterprise Strategies: ESOP’s, Cooperatives and Democratic Ownership” – Christopher MackinCurriculum area: Capital StrategiesReading – Employee Ownership Statistics – ESOP Definition and Union Issues – Nation Magazine-Employee Ownership: The Road to Shared Prosperity – Defining Employee Ownership: Four Meanings and Two Models Classroom Presentation: [PDF]Mentioned in class: The Take Documentary | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Tuesday, January 31 8:30 -10:00 am | Bill Cole – “Leaders and Followers: Engaging Union Members” – Part 2Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Tuesday, January 31 10:30-12:00 pm | Thomas Kohler – “The Genesis and Meaning of the Union’s Duty of Fair Representation”Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public PolicyReading: Steele v. Louisville & NR Co et al No 45Classroom Presentation: none | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Tuesday, January 31 1:00-2:30 pm | Bianca Cuningham, Bargaining for the Common Good and Marcelle Grair, SEIU 509 – “Bargaining for the Common Good: Building Union and Community Partnerships to Win Bigger”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: CONCRETE EXAMPLES OF BARGAINING FOR THE COMMON GOOD;We all need a home: It’s Time for The Labor and Housing Movements to UniteClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Tuesday, January 31 3:00-4:30 pm | Vonda Brunsting, Chris Mackin, and David Webber – “Global Capital Strategies” – Vonda BrunstingCurriculum area: Capital StrategiesReading Capital Strategies, An overview for activists and movement organizations. Briefing 2022. Transform Finance – Shared Prosperity: The Investor Case for Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining – Committee on Worker’s Capital – Capital Strategies and the Future of Work(ers), Case StudiesClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, February 1 8:30 -10:00 am | David Weil – “Building organizational capacity”Curriculum area: Strategic ChoiceReading:– Turning the Tide, Chapters 5 (pp. 117-126) and 7, 8 (All). – Paul Clark, Greg Bamber, Paul Whitehead, Lois Gray, Sandra Cockfield, and Kay Gilbert. “Does Modernizing Union Administrative Practices Promote or Hinder Union Revitalization?” British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol.59, no.2, June 2021, pp. 370-397. Case for Discussion: 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?Classroom Presentation: [PDF] whiteboard | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, February 1 10:30-12:00 pm | Mark Erlich – “Economic Transformation and the Decline of Unions”Curriculum area: HistoryReading:Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 9-14Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, February 1 1:00-2:30 pm | Cathy Gourley – “The Empathic Power of Film to Personalize the Political.”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: Reading Packet for MatewanClassroom Presentation: storyofstoryofmovies.org | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, February 1 3:00-4:30 pm | Open – relax but come back for the forum | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Wednesday, February 1 5:30-7:00 PM Reception follows | James Green Memorial Forum – John Womack Jr., and Peter Olney -Labor Power and Strategy” Curriculum area: History Reading: none Classroom Presentation: | Milstein West B Wasserstein Hall |
| Thursday, February 2 8:30 -10:00 am | Arnold Zack – “The genesis and place of labor arbitration.”Curriculum area: Negotations and Labor RelationsReading: John T. Dunlop and Arnold M. Zack, “The Current State of Employment Law Arbitration,” chapter four of John T. Dunlop and Arnold M. Zack, Mediation and Arbitration of Employment Disputes (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997), pp. 53-72.Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Thursday, February 2 10:30-12:00 pm | Will Jones – “Essential Workers: Public Service and the Dignity of Labor”Curriculum area: Public SectorReading: William P. Jones, “Other Operation Dixie: Public Employees and the New Deal Order,” Romain Huret, Jean-Christian Vinel and Nelson Lichtenstein, eds., Capitalism Contested: The New Deal and its Legacies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Thursday, February 2 1:00-2:30 pm | Tom Juravich – “A Participatory Approach to Conducting Strategic Corporate Research “Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: Beating Global CapitalClassroom Presentation: [PDF] www.strategiccorporateresearch.org | HLS Exec EdPound Hall,2nd Floor |
| Thursday, February 2 3:00-4:30 pm | Tova Wang – “The Persistent Problem of Low Voter Turnout: re-imagining increasing participation”Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public PolicyReading: –Election Reflections: 2022, The Forge –Engaging People on Probation or Parole in New Jersey – VOTING IN 2020: PROFESSIONAL SPORTS STADIUMS & ARENAS AS POLLING PLACESClassroom Presentation: [PDF] Video | HLS Exec EdPound Hall, 2nd Floor |
| Thursday, February 2 5:30-7:30 pm Dinner provided | Tom Juravich – “Union worker songs” – performance | HLS Exec EdPound Hall, 2nd Floor |
| Friday, February 3 8:30 -10:00 am | Spy Dénommé-Welch and Larry Savage – “Indigenizing and Decolonizing our Unions and our Workplaces.”Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: – Indigenization through collective bargaining: Lessons and ideas for academic staff associations;5 Actions For Indigenous Rights And Justice In The Workplace;Decolonizing LabourZoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Austin 100 North and Zoom |
| Friday, February 3 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Staff Roles & Organizational Justice”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading -Yean & Yusof (2016) Organizational Justice: A conceptual discussion (4 pages) – YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSsJ0-nup1E) An Introduction to Organizational Justice, Dr. Chris Martin (2020) (10 mins) -Rooks (2003) The Cowboy Mentality”Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Austin 100 North |
| Friday, February 3 12:30-2:00 pm Lunch provided | John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum – The Honorable Bobby Scott, U.S. Representative, VA 3rd District, “Labor Agenda for the 118th Congress.” Curriculum area: Public Sector | Milstein East B Wasserstein Hall |
| Friday, February 3 2:30 – 4:00 pm | Vicki O’Leary – “How Trade Unionists Become Upstanders”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – Microaggressions handoutAntiIsms handoutClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | Austin 100 North |
| Week 5: February 6-10 | top | |
| Monday, February 6 8:30 -10:00 am | Stepahnie Luce – “Worker Power and the State of the Labor Market.”Curriculum area: EconomicsReading: – People-Side Economics: Fighting Inflation As If Workers’ Lives Matter, interview with Heidi Shierholz, Convergence magazine. 2022. – Quiet hiring and the endless quest to coin terms about work, Vox. 2023. – Union Member Summary, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Jan. 19, 2023.Classroom Presentation: [PDF] ILR Labor Action Tracker | Austin 100 North |
| Monday, February 6 10:30-12:00 pm | Elizabeth Pellerito – “Organizing in the Age of Burnout: A Trauma-Informed Guide to Building Stronger Unions” Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityContent note and accommodations: In this workshop, we will discuss systems of oppression and there is a good chance that sensitive topics may arise. No participant will be required to share personal experiences with the group that they do not wish to share, and all participants are encouraged to take care of themselves and one another during the session in whatever ways they need to. Participants may share accommodation requests with the instructor at Elizabeth_Pellerito@uml.edu. Reading: noneClassroom Presentation: [PDF] Healing not Harming handout | Austin 100 North |
| Monday, February 6 1:00-2:30 pm | German Bender – “Swedish labor relations: current & future challenges”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – Swedish trade unions and migration: challenges and responses – Strengthening the Nordic working life model – The Swedish modelClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | Austin 100 North |
| Monday, February 6 3:00-4:30 pm | Emily Spieler – “Special Challenges Confronting Trade Unions”Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public PolicyReading: Reading packetClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | Austin 100 North |
| Tuesday, February 78:30 -10:00 am | Jennifer Zelnick – “Privatization, Covid-19, and employment security in the USA”Curriculum area: Public SectorReading: Read and prepare CASEClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | Milstein West B Wasserstein Hall |
| Tuesday, February 7 10:30-12:00 pm | Ben Sachs and Sharon Block – “Current Labor Law Issues”Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public PolicyReading: noneClassroom Presentation: none Cases referenced: Janus v. AFSCME Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid Epic Systems v. Lewis Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union 174 West Virginia v. EPA NFIB v. OSHA Harvard and UNC affirmative action cases | Milstein West B Wasserstein Hall |
| Tuesday, February 7 1:00-2:30 pm | Debbie Berkowitz – “Advocating for safe workplaces –including improving state and local policies”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – “With OSHA as an Employer Advice Columnist, States and Cities Should Protect Workers from COVID-19“ – “Protection from retaliation: additional workplace safety for Philadelphia workers during COVID-19“ – “Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Issues Groundbreaking Farmworker Safety Standards“ – “SDNY Amazon Warehouse Investigation“Classroom Presentation: [PDF], Osha Complaint handout | Milstein West B Wasserstein Hall |
| Tuesday, February 7 3:00-4:30 pm | Tina Wei, – “Three Case Studies: Fatigue, Silicon Valley, Higher Education”Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Milstein West B Wasserstein Hall |
| Wednesday, February 8 8:30 -10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic choice in action and over time”Curriculum area: Strategic ChoiceReading – 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). – Gerrit De Vynck and Lauren Kaori Gurley. “4,000 Google Cafeteria Workers Quietly Unionized during the Pandemic.” Washington Post, September 5, 2022. – Sarita Gupta and Erica Smiley, The Future We Need. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), pp. 137-152. Case for Discussion: The Dunlop Commission (A) [You can skim Appendices A and B] (HTUP CASE Program) Questions: • What is the FLOC strategy to represent workers in the agricultural industry? What are its key strengths and vulnerabilities? • What are the organization capacities required for this model of representing workers? What are its key strengths and vulnerabilities? • If you are Baldemar Velasquez, President of FLOC, what keeps you awake at night? What keeps you up awake at night if you are Wilma Liebman as the Chair of the Dunlop Commission? • What aspects of strategic leverage and organizational capacity will you be thinking about as you return to your labor organization? Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Austin 100 North |
| Wednesday, February 8 10:30-12:00 pm | Mark Erlich – “Gig Economy. Automation, and the Future of Work” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 15-21Classroom Presentation: [PDF] | Austin 100 North |
| Wednesday, February 8 1:00-2:30 pm | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld – “New Strategies for Worker Voice” Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading:Multi-Stakeholder Consortia in Employment RelationsClassroom Presentation: [PDF], Notes taken in class | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, February 8 3:00-9:00 pm | Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) – Tour, dinner, and discussion Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | 340 Turnpike St, Canton, MA 02021(Bus provided by MNA) |
| Thursday, February 9 9:00 am | Shuttle bus pick up at the DoubleTree | |
| Thursday, February 9 9:30 -10:00 am | Work on Leadership Plan PresentationsCurriculum area: Leadership | Pound 102 |
| Thursday, February 9 10:30-12:00 pm | Terri Gerstein, CLJE Fellow and Lauren Moran, Chief of the MA AG Fair Labor Division– “The Role of States and Localities in Advancing and Enforcing Workers’ Rights”Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public PolicyReading: Reading ListClassroom Presentation: [PDF] | Pound 102 |
| Thursday, February 9 1:00-2:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Putting it all together – “Leadership in Action” plans”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: Presenting Action PlansClassroom Presentation: | Wasserstein HallWCC 3009 WCC 3012 WCC 3015 |
| Thursday, February 9 3:00-4:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Putting it all together – “Leadership in Action” plans”Curriculum area: LeadershipReading: Presenting Action PlansClassroom Presentation: | Wasserstein HallWCC 3009 WCC 3012 WCC 3015 |
| Friday, February 10 9:00 am | Shuttle bus pick up at the DoubleTree | |
| Friday, February 10 9:15-9:45 am | Class Picture – Martha Stewart, professional photographer | Austin Hall |
| 10:00-11:00 am | Graduation Rehearsal | Loeb House |
| Friday, February 10 11:00-12:00 ceremony 12:00-2:00 reception | GRADUATION – Hooray! Speaker: Stephen Greenhouse, Journalist and former NYT reporter | Loeb House 17 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138top |
