DAILY SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS
111th SESSION
THE HARVARD TRADE UNION PROGRAM
January 8 – February 9, 2024
Return to 2024 HTUP
| Week 1: January 8-13 | ||
| Monday, January 8 9:00-10:00 am | Get ID cards | Smith Campus Center 8th floor 1350 Massachusetts Ave.; Suite 807 |
| Monday, January 8 10:00-4:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – “Orientation” Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Orientation Reading: How to prepare a case Class Agreement: | Milstein East AWasserstein Hall (WCC) 2nd floor1585 Mass Ave, |
| Monday, January 86:00-9:00 pm | Welcome Dinner6:00-7:00 pm Reception7:00-9:00 pm Buffet dinner Speaker: Chrissy Lynch ’19 President, Massachusetts AFL-CIO | Sheraton Commander, 16 Garden St. Cambridge |
| Tuesday, January 9 8:30 -10:00 am | Nancy Luc and Anneta Argyres – “Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – Unions must promote diversity and inclusion to maintain solidarity– Antiracism, Social Justice and the California Faculty Association Classroom Presentation: PDF Classroom Definitions Handout Classroom notes | Pound Hall 102 |
| Tuesday, January 9 10:30-12:00 pm  | Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs – “Current Labor Law Issues” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | Pound Hall 102 |
| Tuesday, January 9 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound Hall 102 |
| Tuesday, January 9 1:00-2:30 pm  | David Weil – “Strategic Choice #1: Facing the storm: A first discussion of strategic choices” Curriculum area: Strategic Choice Reading: –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 for discussion: – 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? – What lesson does the PATCO case have for leading change in your union?Classroom Presentation: none | Pound Hall 102 |
Tuesday, January 93:00-4:30 pm | Marshall Ganz – “Leadership, Organizing, and Action”Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – The Power of Story in Social Movements; – Chapter 19 Leading Change; – Reclaiming Civil Society Classroom Presentation: PDF Books referred to in class: – When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History by Daniel Schlozman (Author) –THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS by Jo Freeman aka Joreen –Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 10 8:30 -10:00 am | Gautam Mukunda – Dangerous Mines: Saving Lives through Leadership Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: “Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American,” (HRB Case)Classroom Presentation: none | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 10 10:30-12:00 pm | David Cutler – “What’s Up with Health Care?” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 10 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 10 1:00-2:30 pm  | Mark Erlich – “Early America Through the Progressive Era” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 1-5 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 10 3:00-4:30 pm  | Capital Strategies #1- “New Roles for Labor: Creating and Managing Wealth: Introduction to Capital Strategies” – Chris Mackin and David Webber Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: • 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, 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 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall 102 |
| Thursday, January 11 8:30 -10:00 am | Stephanie Luce – “Worker Power and the State of the Labor Market.” Curriculum area: Economics Reading: – Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce, “Why isn’t Bidenomics sticking? Because social change is about lived experiences.“Forthcoming January 2024 in Fortune magazine. – What a Mix of Goods and Bads | Dollars & Sense – Website on Worker Power Classroom Presentation: PDF – IRL Union Labor tracker website – https://www.project2025.org/ – Heritage Foundation battle plan | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Thursday, January 11 10:30-12:00 pm | Richard Parker – “Why This November’s Election Will Be Transformative–for Reasons (and in Ways) You Won’t Expect” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: Discussion Questions – Why Joe Biden Needs More Than Accomplishments to Be a Success –The Habitation Economy –Looming Questions for Dems Classroom Presentation: none | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Thursday, January 11 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Thursday, January 11 1:00-2:30 pm  | David Weil – “Strategic Choice #2: Strategic planning and strategic choice” Curriculum area: Strategic Choice Reading: – 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” think about the following 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? – How has your union engaged in planning / strategic planning in recent years? How successful have those efforts been in to improving the strategic position of your union? Classroom Presentation: PDF – CALPERS – California Public Employees’ Retirement System | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Thursday, January 11 3:00-4:30 pm | Capital Strategies #2- “Taking Control of Our Money and Resisting the Attack on Pensions” – David Webber, Boston University Law School Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder, Chapters 5 and 8 Classroom Presentation: none | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Friday, January 12 8:30 -10:00 am | Bill Cole – “Leaders and Followers: Engaging Union Members” – Part 1 Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: none Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC – Milstein East Aand Zoom |
| Friday, January 12 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Leading with Labor’s Values #1- Overview”Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: 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, 2011 Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Friday, January 12 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Friday, January 12 1:00-2:30 pm | Jack Trumpbour – “Arctic Simulation” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC – Milstein East A |
Friday, January 123:00-4:30 pm | Jack Trumpbour – “Harvard Tour” Curriculum area: History Reading: none Classroom Presentation: | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Saturday, January 13 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 *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 | WCC – Milstein West A/B |
| WEEK 2: January 16 -19 | Top | |
Monday, January 15 | No Class MLK Day | |
| Tuesday, January 16 8:30 -10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic Choice: #3 Analyzing strategic leverage” Curriculum area: Strategic Choice Reading: –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 | Pound Hall 102 |
| Tuesday, January 16 10:30-11:15 am  | Tova Wang – “When Organizers Lead Democracy Wins” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: – The New Mexico Voting Rights Act – New Mexico is Making it Easier to Vote – Democracy for the People Act summary Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall 102 |
| Tuesday, January 16 11:15-12:00 pm | Darlene Lombos and Renee Dozier ’23 – “Building a United Front with Community Partners” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF Women Building Boston Video | Pound Hall 102 |
| Tuesday, January 16 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound Hall 102 |
| Tuesday, January 16 1:00-2:30 pm  | William B. Gould IV – “For Labor to Build Upon: Wars, Depression, and Pandemic” Curriculum area: History Reading: – America’s latest union push needs teeth– Now Is the Time for Unions to Go on the Offensive–Activists Helped Get Huge UAW Win, Wall Street Journal, 11/1/23, pp A 1,10 – William Gould on the UAW Strike and the Summer of Red-Hot Labor Unrest– Stanford Law School, 9/18/23 – Gould Discusses ‘Hot Labor Summer” and Why More Strikes Likely are Coming – Stanford Law School 7/25/23- Fain’s biting style creates momentum – Detroit Free Press, 9/25/23 Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 Classroom Presentation: none | Pound Hall 102 and Zoom |
| Tuesday, January 16 3:30-4:30 pm | Nick Juravich – “Boston Labor History Tour” Curriculum area: History The tour will start at Back Bay Station. The tour will end at Democracy Brewing, A worker-owned brewery located at 35 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111- “A Working-People’s Heritage Trail” Jim Green’s pamphlet, 2001 – Tina Groeger’s 2018 interactive website based on Jim Green’s work – People’s Guide to Greater Boston, published in 2020- Alida has this book if you want to borrow it. Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development by Mel King (out of print) but can be accessed for free online at: https://archive.org/details/chainofchange00melk Black Lives and the Boston Massacre By Farah Peterson John Adams’ defense of the British soldiers who carried out the Boston massacre. | MBTA to Back Bay Station |
| Wednesday, January 17 8:30 -10:00 am | Jennifer Zelnick – “Privatization, Covid-19, and employment security in the USA” Curriculum area: Public Sector Reading: Read and prepare CASE Classroom Presentation: PDF BLS- unemployment insurance_measuring who receives it | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 17 10:30-12:00 pm  | Barry Eidlin – “Class vs. Special Interest: Why Unions are Stronger in Canada than in the U.S.” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: From Class to Special Interest – JacobinOptional: From Class to Special Interest (full article) -Special Interest Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 17 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 17 1:00-2:30 pm | Mark Erlich – “Great Depression, New Deal, Birth of the CIO” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Chapter 6 Classroom Presentation: PDFLivingnewdeal.org – Lists the WPA sites and projects that still exist. | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 17 3:00-4:30 pm | Capital Strategies #3- “Climate Change and a Just Transition” – Vonda Brunsting, Harvard Initiative for Responsible Investment Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: • A Trade Union Guide of Practice for a Just Transition IndustriALL Global Union 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 | Pound Hall 102 |
| Wednesday, January 17 5:30-7:00 pm Reception to follow | John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum – “The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work” Speaker: Mark Erlich, Wertheim Fellow, CLJE, Harvard Law School and retired Executive Secretary-Treasurer, New England Regional Council of Carpenters Introduction: Raheem Shepard, Regional Manager of the North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters for the City of Boston and Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) Board of Directors. | WCC – Milstein East A |
| Thursday, January 18 8:30 -10:00 am | Elaine Bernard – “Learning from each other: Unions and labor relations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – History of Australian Unions – Collective Bargaining as a Constitutional Right -Canada – NZ Unions Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall 102 |
| Thursday, January 18 10:30-12:00 pm | Bill Cole – “Leaders and Followers: Engaging Union Members” – Part 2 Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: TBD Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound Hall 102and Zoom |
| Thursday, January 18 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound Hall 102 |
| Thursday, January 18 1:00-2:30 pm | Harris Freeman – “Arbitration and Its Role in a Time of Rising Labor Militancy” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: SCOTUS Majority gives short shrift to worker rights Classroom Presentation: PDF UMass Labor Center Master’s program UMass Labor Center Internship | Pound Hall 102 |
| Thursday, January 18 3:00-4:30 pm | Capital Strategies #4- “ESG, Anti-ESG, And the Legal Battle Over Worker Pensions” – David Webber Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: • The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder, Chapter 7 • It’s Time for ESG To Fight Back, Classroom Presentation: none | Pound Hall 102 |
| Friday, January 19 8:30 -10:00 am | Will Jones – “Essential Workers: Public Service and the Dignity of Labor” Curriculum area: Public Sector Reading: –The Essential Worker: A History from the Progressive Era to COVID-19, forthcoming Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 20:4 (Winter 2023), 6-23 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Hauser 102Malkin Classroom |
| Friday, January 19 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Labor’s Values #2-Breaking Barriers” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: – 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, 2017 Classroom Presentation: PDF Anti-Racist Organization Continuum handout | Hauser 102Malkin Classroom |
| Friday, January 19 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Hauser 102Malkin Classroom |
| Friday, January 19 1:00-2:30 pm | Vicki O’Leary ’18 – “How Trade Unionists Become Upstanders” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – Microaggressions handoutAnti-Isms handout Classroom Presentation: PDF | Hauser 102Malkin Classroom |
| WEEK 3: January 22-26 | ||
| Monday, January 22 8:30 -10:00 am | Spy Dénommé-Welch and Larry Savage – “Indigenizing and Decolonizing our Unions and our Workplaces” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: – Indigenization through collective bargaining: Lessons and ideas for academic staff associations;- 5 Actions For Indigenous Rights And Justice In The Workplace;- Decolonizing Labour Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 Classroom Presentation: PDF Resources shared by Julie, USW:1. USW guide on negotiating from an Indigenous perspective (available in English): https://www.metallos.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/USW-Indigenous-Bargaining-Guide-2021-EN_Final.pdf2. Truth and Reconciliation Day bargained as a holiday at the Bloom Lake Mine (French article that can be translated in browser): https://www.metallos.org/actualites-et-medias/actualites/la-journee-nationale-des-peuples-autochtones-feriee-a-la-mine-du-lac-bloom/3. Truth and Reconciliation Day bargained in a first CBA at Quality Inn Hotel in Sept-Îles (French article that can be translated in browser): https://www.ledroit.com/2018/09/12/metallos-ftq-un-syndicat-forme-dautoc… | Austin Hall 100 and Zoom |
| Monday, January 22 10:30-12:00 pm  | Gautam Mukunda – “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 |
| Monday, January 22 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 100 |
| Monday, January 22 1:00-2:30 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of American Economic Growth” Part 1 Curriculum area: Economics Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 111 |
| Monday, January 22 3:00-4:30 pm | Class Sharing: Julie Herbet: 80 Years of Steelworkers Milestones in Quebec, 12 min video Jon Goddard: Member Support and Welfare Programs for his members. PDF | Austin Hall 111 |
| Monday, January 22 5:30-7:00 pm Reception to follow  | James Green Memorial Forum on Labor History “Organizing for Power: Building a 21st Century Labor Movement in Boston” Speaker: Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History and the Coordinator of Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC Milstein West B |
| Tuesday, January 23 8:30 -12:30 pm  | Florrie Darwin – “Negotiations Workshop” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: reading packet Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC Milstein West B |
| Tuesday, January 23 12:30-12:40 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC Milstein West B |
| Tuesday, January 23 1:30-4:30 pm | Florrie Darwin – “Negotiations Workshop” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations | Austin Hall 100 |
| 4th-floor conference room, Pound Hall | Class rings with Jeffrey Quirk from Herff Jones | 4th floor conference room, Pound Hall |
| Wednesday, Jan 24 8:30 -10:00 am  | Julie Battilana – “Becoming Effective Change Makers” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: Power for All, Introduction Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 101 |
| Wednesday, January 24 10:30-12:00 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of American Economic Growth” Part 2 Curriculum area: Economics Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 101 |
| Wednesday, January 24 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound 101 |
| Wednesday, January 24 1:00-2:30 pm | Mark Erlich – “Post WWII “Social Contract” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 7-8 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 101 |
| Wednesday, January 24 3:00-4:30 pm | Capital Strategies #5 – “Enterprise Strategies: ESOP’s, Cooperatives and Democratic Ownership” – Christopher Mackin, Rutgers University Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading – 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 | Pound 101 |
| Thursday, January 25 8:30 -10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic Choice #4: Building organizational capacity” Curriculum area: Strategic Choice Reading: – 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. Prepare for Discussion: What Do Members Want? The MGEU Resource Centre (HTUP Case Program)Questions for Discussion: – 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? – What factors most influence organizational capacity in your union? What barriers exist to changing organizational capacity in your union? Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, January 25 10:30-12:00 pm | Hila Shamir – “The challenges of labor law under supply chain capitalism: the tools we have and the tools we need” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: Fichter, M. (2015). Organising In and Along Value Chains: What Does It Mean for Trade Unions?, Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stifung. Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, January 25 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, January 25 1:00-2:30 pm | Tom Kochan – “How to Build on the Year of Labor’s Disruptions” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: Labor’s Great Reset, Steven Greenhouse Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, January 25 3:00-4:30 pm | Capital Strategies #6- “Global Capital Strategies” – Vonda Brunsting Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: – 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 Workers– Investor Statement on the Rights to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining _ CWC (Committee) Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 111 |
| Friday, January 26 8:30 -10:00 am | Thomas Kohler – “Cornerstones of the Civil Rights Movement: The Pathbreaking Significance of Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Ry. Co” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: Steele v Louisville Classroom Presentation: none | Austin Hall 100 |
| Friday, January 26 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Labor’s Values #3 – Engaging members” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: – 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, 2009 Classroom Presentation: PDF Class handout: PDF The Change Handbook, 2nd Edition | Austin Hall 100 |
| Friday, January 26 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 100 |
| Friday, January 26 1:00-2:30 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of American Economic Growth” Part 3 Curriculum area: Economics Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 |
| WEEK 4: January 29 – February 2 | ||
Monday, January 298:30 -10:00 am | Bill Fletcher – “Race to Labor, part 1” Curriculum area: History Reading: – Race Is About More Than Discrimination. – Race to Labor – optional “The Man Who Changed Colors” Hardball Press – novel Review- Why Leftists Should Read The Man Who Changed Colors – InThese Times, 12/16/23 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 |
| Monday, January 29 10:30-12:00 pm | Justin Conley ‘23 – “Which Side Are You On: Using Digital to Build Power” Part 1 Curriculum area: Technology Reading: Social Media Seen as Mostly Good for Democracy Across Many Nations, But U.S. is a Major Outlier – excerpt Full report Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 |
| Monday, January 29 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 100 |
| Monday, January 29 1:00-2:30 pm | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld – “New Technology and Collective Bargaining” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: When Launching a Collaboration Keep it Agile, Stanford Social Innovation Review Classroom Presentation: PDF New tech and collective bargaining – session notes: PDF | Austin Hall 111 |
| Monday, January 29 3:00-4:30 pm | Class Sharing:– Justin Power: Noone Deserves a Serve Campaign – PDF – John Lepley – Mental Health Matters – PDF – John Lepley – Stewards Corner Monthly Newsletter – PDF – Frank Anderson – time/energy management – PDF – Anil NAIDOO – Union video | Austin Hall 111 |
| Monday, January 29 5:30-7:30 pm Dinner provided | Bill Fletcher – “Attack on Democracy” Dinner talk Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 111 |
| Tuesday, January 30 8:30 -10:00 am | Class Sharing:– Justin Power: Noone Deserves a Serve Campaign – PDF – John Lepley – Mental Health Matters – PDF – John Lepley – Stewards Corner Monthly Newsletter – PDF – Frank Anderson – time/energy management – PDF – Anil NAIDOO – Union video | Austin Hall 100 |
| Tuesday, January 30 10:30-12:00 pm | Justin Conley ‘23- “Which Side Are You On: Using Digital to Build Power” Part 2 Curriculum area: Technology Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 |
| Tuesday, January 30 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 100 |
| Tuesday, January 30 1:00-2:30 pm | Mark Erlich – “Economic Transformation and the Decline of Unions” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 9-14 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 |
| Tuesday, January 30 3:00-4:30 pm | Richard Freeman – Can recent CB successes spark a new union spurt (and save capitalism from mad billionaires)? Curriculum area: Economics Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 |
| Tuesday, January 30 5:00-6:30 pm Dinner provided  | Disney Movie – “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC 2012 |
| Tuesday, January 30 6:30-7:30 pm | Abigail Disney – “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Disney Vault video SNL Disney Vault videos SNL: Bambi | WCC 2012 |
| Wednesday, January 31 9:00-5:00 pm  | Robert Forrant – “Bread and Roses Boott Mills Worker Tour – Lawrence and Lowell, MA” Curriculum area: History Itinerary Mentioned books: “Where Are the Workers?: Labor’s Stories at Museums and Historic Sites” 2022, by Robert Forrant (Editor), Mary Anne Trasciatti (Editor), & 7 more A Contradictory Place – Documentary of Lowell by Forrant Royall House and Slave Quarters – In the eighteenth century, the plantation was home to the Royalls, the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts, and at least sixty enslaved women, men, and children whose forced labor helped build the Royall family’s wealth. Located in Medford, one of the only remaining freestanding quarters where enslaved people lived and worked in the North, the museum bears witness to their lives, | Bus leaves Mass Ave and Everett Street at 9:00 am |
| Thursday, February 1 8:30 -10:00 am  | John Womack Jr. – “Labor Power and Strategy” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: noneClassroom Presentation: none | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, February 1 10:30-12:00 pm | Arnold Zack – “The genesis and place of labor arbitration” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: 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 | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, February 1 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, February 1 1:00-2:30 pm | Laura Weinrib – “Unions and Campaign Finance Law in the Twentieth Century” Curriculum area: History Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | Austin Hall 111 |
| Thursday, February 1 3:00-4:30 pm | Terri Gerstein and Lauren Moran – “The Role of States and Localities in Advancing and Enforcing Workers’ Rights” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: Reading material Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 111 and Zoom |
| Thursday, Friday 1 4:45-9:00 pm  | IBEW 103 Dinner 256 Freeport St #1, Dorchester, MA 02122 Bus transportation provided Bus will leave from the corner of Everett and Mass Ave | 256 Freeport St, Dorchester, MA 02122 |
| Friday, February 2 8:30 -10:00 am  | Ifeoma Ajunwa – “The Quantified Worker” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: The Quantified Worker, Chapter 12 Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin Hall 100 and Zoom |
| Friday, February 2 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Labor’s Values #4-Staff Roles & Organizational Justice” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: -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 Classroom handout – Organizational Justice | |
| Friday, February 2 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Austin Hall 100 |
| Friday, February 2 1:00-2:30 pm | Steven Greenhouse – “Why are things so stacked against America’s workers & unions — and what can be done about it?” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: How Corporations Crush New Unions – New Republic –US unions winning big gains amid ‘Great Reset’ in worker power – Will Starbucks’ union-busting stifle a union rebirth in the US? – Calls for Starbucks boycott grow amid aggressive union-busting activities – ‘Old-school union busting’: how US corporations are quashing the new wave of organizing Why Dollar General Might Just Be the Worst Retail Job in America Classroom Presentation: PDF Extra articles: – ‘Constantly monitored’: the pushback against AI surveillance at work, by Steven Greenhouse, Guardian, 1/7/24 – Obit of a worker who was one of the last living participants in the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968 –Elon Musk says letting workers unionize creates ‘lords and peasants’. What? by Steven Greenhouse, Guardian, 12/20/23 | Austin Hall 100 |
| Friday, February 2 2:30 pm | Voting for graduation speakers – we will use https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/proportional-ranked-choice-voting/ | Austin Hall 100 |
| WEEK 5: February 5-9 | ||
| Monday, February 5 8:30 -10:00 am | Henry Garrido ’09 – “Privatization and Corruption – Learning to Follow the Money Trail” Curriculum area: Public Sector Reading: Privatization and Corruption – Learning to Follow the Money Trail (case) Classroom Presentation: none Website: Checkbook2.0 | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Monday, February 5 10:30-11:15 pm | Michelle Miller – “Worker Organizing, Technology, and the Future” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: The Datafication of Employment Classroom Presentation: PDF | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Monday, February 5 11:15 – 12:00 pm | Tina Wei – “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Labor” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Monday, February 5 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Monday, February 5 12:30 – 2:00 pm (note time change) Lunch provided  | Kim Kelly “FIGHT LIKE HELL: The Untold History of American Labor”Moderator: Nick Juravich, Assistant Professor of History & Labor Studies at UMass Boston Curriculum area: history Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Monday, February 5 2:00-2:30 pm | Class Sharing: – Kylee Houpapa: Incorporation of our indigenous people into our organisation – Mohammed Awol Alhassan – video Giving Information | |
| Monday, February 5 3:00-4:30 pm | Tom Juravich – “A Participatory Approach to Conducting Strategic Corporate Research” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: Beating Global Capital Classroom Presentation: PDF | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Monday, February 5 5:30-7:00 pm Dinner provided. | Tom Juravich – “Union worker songs” – performance | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Tuesday, February 6 8:30 -10:00 am | David Weil – “#5- Strategic choice in action and over time” Curriculum area: 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). – Sarita Gupta and Erica Smiley, The Future We Need. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), pp. 137-152. Prepare for Discussion: The United Mine Workers Trilogy (all in Turning the Tide): – Case 7-1: “Financial Restructuring of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)” (pp. 159-162); – Case 8-2: “The UMWA Safety and Health Strategy and Structure” (pp. 195-201); – Case 11-2: “The UMWA Pittston Campaign” (pp. 262-267). Questions:- What is the impact of the UMWA internal restructuring in finances and health and safety on the union’s strategic leverage? – What is your assessment of Rich Trumka’s decision to pursue the strategies described in the three cases as a new and untested President of the UMWA?- If you are Rich Trumka at the end of the Pittston strike described in case 11-2, what keeps you awake at night? – What aspects of strategic leverage and organizational capacity will you be thinking about as you return to your labor organization? Class Presentation: PDF | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Tuesday, February 6 10:30-12:00 pm  | “The Story of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers” – HUCTW Panel: Carrie Barbash, Natasha Williams, Donene Williams, and Adrienne Landau Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: “Solidaritas at Harvard,” John Hoerr, American Prospect, Summer 1993 – Recent contract – HUTCW.org Classroom Presentation: none | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Tuesday, February 6 12:00-12:10 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Tuesday, February 6 12:30-1:45 pm (note time change) Lunch provided  | Renee Dudley and Dan Golden – “The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | WCC 1023 |
| Tuesday, February 6 2:00-2:30 pm | Lynne Fox, International President of Workers United – “Brewing change: The fight for a Union @ Starbucks” Curriculum area: Organizing and CapacityReading: none Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 and Zoom |
| Tuesday, February 6 3:00-4:30 pm | Movie – “9 to 5”Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Tuesday, February 6 5:30-6:30 pm | HTUP Alumni Association Annual MeetingZoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09 | Hybrid Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 and Zoom |
| Wednesday, February 7 8:30 -10:00 am | Debbie Berkowitz – “Labor and Worker Safety: New Challenges” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: The Union Difference- The Impact of Unions on Construction Worksite Health and Safety Algorithms: – Amazon again cited by US regulators over Worker Safety – Reuters 8/4/23. Press Coverage: -The Worst Retail Job in America – Morning New Beat, 09/25/2023 Covering public employees with OSHA protection: House, Senate Dems discuss bills to extend workplace protections to public employees The Conservative Campaign to Rewrite Child Labor Laws Classroom Presentation: | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Wednesday, February 7 10:30-12:00 pm  | Ellen Cassedy – “Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Wednesday, February 7 1:00-2:30 pm | Mark Erlich – “Gig Economy. Automation, and the Future of Work” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Steven, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Ch. 15-21 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Wednesday, February 7 3:00-3:40 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” – final session and wrap-up Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Wednesday, February 7 3:40-4:30 pm | Class Sharing – Trish Creech – “Raising the Bar on Women’s Health Safety Charter” Handout Laura Donovan “Will This Victory Transform The South?” Dan Sulivan – What is a Boilermaker? Matthew Stafford – BAC-Apprenticeship-Recruitment-Video | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Wednesday, February 7 5:30-7:00 pm Reception to follow | Jerry Wurf Memorial Forum – “Meeting the Moment – building the Labor Movement during the most pro-union Presidency in history“ Speaker: Lynn Rhinehart, Senior fellow at EPI and former general counsel of the AFL-CIO. Presentation: PDF Resource Sheet: PDF Website mentioned: Invest.gov – where infrastructure money is being invested | Austin 111 |
| Thursday, February 8 9:15 -10:00 am | Class Sharing – – Kyle, Kris, and Sean – “Firefighters v Dupont” BURNED DOWNLOAD LINK IAFF PFAS INFORMATION EDZO ADDRESS AT PREMIER – Mark Henry- ATU video | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 |
| Thursday, February 8 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Putting it all together – ‘Leadership in Action’ plans” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: Presenting Action Plans | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 and Pound 4th-floor conference room |
| Thursday, February 8 1:00-2:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Putting it all together – ‘Leadership in Action’ plans” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: Presenting Action Plans | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 and Pound 4th floor conference room |
| Thursday, February 8 3:00-4:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, and Anneta Argyres – “Putting it all together – ‘Leadership in Action’ plans” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: Presenting Action Plans | Exec Ed classroom Pound 200 and Pound 4th-floor conference room |
| Friday, February 9 9:15-10:00 am | Class Picture – Martha Stewart, professional photographer | Austin Hall -front under the arches |
| Friday, February 9 10:00-10:30 am | Class -Graduation rehearsal | Milstein East, Wasserstein Hall |
Friday, February 9 11:00-12:00 pm ceremony 12:00-2:00 pm reception | GRADUATION – Hooray! Speaker: PresidentShawn Fain, UAW Harvard Trade Union Program Graduation 2024 (youtube.com) – full ceremony Harvard Trade Union Program 2024 Class Speakers (youtube.com) Shawn Fain, President of the UAW, Harvard Trade Union Program 2024 Commencement Speech – YouTube Graduation reported on Harvard Law Today | Milstein East, Wasserstein Hall Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02138 |
| Friday, February 9 12:00-2:00 pm | Graduation Reception | Milstein West A/B, Wasserstein Hall |