DAILY SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS
112th SESSION
THE HARVARD TRADE UNION PROGRAM
January 13 – February 14, 2025
Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/8615788077?pwd=ejNrdnd4RzRhaTV1MHBucys1MVZFdz09&omn=96730795062
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Week 1: January 13-17 | ||
| Monday, January 13 9:00-10:00 am | Get ID cards – meet in Lobby of Smith Campus Center | Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Campus Center Suite 8071350 Mass Ave. |
| Monday, January 13 10:00-4:00 pm | Billy Jo Joy and Alida Castillo – Orientation Curriculum area: orientation Reading: How to prepare a case | WCC 1010Wasserstein Hall (WCC) 1st floor 1585 Mass Ave. |
| Monday, January 13 6:00-9:00 pm | Welcome Dinner 6:00-7:00 pm Reception 7:00-9:00 pm Buffet dinner | DoubleTree Suites Boston/Cambridge 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston |
| Tuesday, January 14 8:30-10:00 am | Keturah Raabe – “Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging – We Still Have Work to Do” Labor unions and worker centers/organizations have a history of publicly supporting racial and social justice issues. How is that support reflected within their systems and work culture? This two part session will provide participants with an opportunity to individually and collectively reflect on what equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging currently looks like within their organization and imagine or reimagine what’s possible. Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: –Race, Gender and the Rebirth of Trade Unionism –United National Economic and Social Council Commission on the Status of Women -Optional: Empowering women of color in labor unions: A rising force for change Classroom Presentation: PDF | HLS Library – Langdell 272 – Kirkland and Ellis Classroom – South |
| Tuesday, January 14 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | HLS Library – Langdell 272 – Kirkland and Ellis Classroom – South |
| Tuesday, January 14 10:30-12:00 pm | Keturah Raabe – “Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging – We Still Have Work to Do” Part 2 Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | HLS Library – Langdell 272 – Kirkland and Ellis Classroom – South |
| Tuesday, January 14 1:00-2:30 pm | Elaine Bernard – “Learning from Each Other: Unions and labor relations in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – Why Unions Matter – 2007 Collective Bargaining as a Constitutional Right – History of Australian Unions – TUC Three Charts on Trade Union Membership Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1019 |
| Tuesday, January 14 3:00-4:30 pm | Marshall Ganz – “Leadership, Organizing, and Action” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: – People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal by Marshall Ganz: – Introduction Why me, Why us, Why now, pp 1-13 – Chpt. 1 Practicing Democracy, pp 14-34 Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1019 |
| Wednesday, January 15 8:30 -10:00 am | 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). Case for discussion: The PATCO Strike (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? • What lesson does the PATCO case have for leading change in your union? Classroom Presentation: none, Picture of chalkboard #1, Picture of chalkboard #2 | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 15 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 15 10:30-12:00 pm | Elaine Bernard – “Leadership and Democratic Decision-Making – A Simulation” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 15 1:00-2:30 pm | Mark Erlich – Labor History #1 – “Early America Through the Great Depression” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Introduction to Chapter 5 (xi – p. 79) Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 15 3:00-4:30 pm | Vonda Brunsting – Capital Strategies #1 – “History of Workers’ Capital” Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: New Labor Forum: Capital Strategies for the Common Good – Turning patients into profit Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 16 8:30-10:00 am | Erin Shackelford – Capital Strategies #2 – “Retirement Security” Curriculum area: Capital Strategies #2 Reading: – Capitalism’s Washing Machine – CalPERS Labor Principles – CalPERS weighs labor principles for its managers, portfolio companies – Criteria for an Effective Labour Rights Assessment – Navigating State Regulation of ESG Questions to Prepare for Class Discussion: – Does your union/local have members in a pension plan? Is it a private or public plan? Is it a Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution plan? – What kind of representation do members/the union have on the pension plan board? – If you have trustees on the board, how are those leaders chosen? Is there a leadership development track for those positions? Classroom Presentation: PDF | HLS Library – Langdell 272 – Kirkland and Ellis Classroom – South |
| Thursday, January 16 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | HLS Library – Langdell 272 – Kirkland and Ellis Classroom – South |
| Thursday, January 16 10:30-12:00 pm | Heidi Shierholz – “Economic Policy that Works for Working People” Curriculum area: Economics Reading: – Middle-out economics is good for workers, their families, and the broader economy –Working families need an end to wage suppression more than new tax cuts – The policies that will determine whether Trump’s labor secretary pick supports workers –Vouchers undermine efforts to provide an excellent public education for all – Executive summary only: The U.S. benefits from immigration but policy reforms needed to maximize gains Classroom Presentation: PDF Inequality for All – Bob Reich movie | HLS Library – Langdell 272 – Kirkland and Ellis Classroom – South |
| Thursday, January 16 1:00-2:30 pm | William B. Gould IV – “Union Organizing and Growth, Labor Law and Washington: What Now in the Trump Era?” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – Unions are scoring big wins for workers. Why isn’t membership surging? – America’s latest union push needs teeth Classroom Presentation: none | Pound 102 and Zoom |
| Thursday, January 16 3:30-4:30 pm Tour 4:30+ Democracy Brewing | Nick Juravich – “Boston Labor History Tour and Democracy Brewing” 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 Optional Reading: “Working People’s Heritage Trail,” Jim Green – People’s History of Boston Walking Tour, Tina Groeger -A. Philip Randolph and Boston’s African-American Railroad Worker – On the lives and labors of Boston’s Pullman Porters, this article by Jim Green and Bob Hayden is lovely, and details their reasons for creating the panels that accompany the – | Meet at Harvard Square Red Line station MBTA on the corner of Church St and Mass Ave at 3 pm. We will take the train to Back Bay Station |
| Friday, January 17 8:30-10:00 am | Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs – “Current Labor Law Issues” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none Cemax NLRB Decision | WCC 2009 |
| Friday, January 17 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC 2009 |
| Friday, January 17 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Leading with Labor’s Values/Overview” Curriculum area: Labor’s Values Reading: – Pennsylvania State Correction Officers Association case study (CASE) Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2009 |
| Friday, January 17 1:00-2:30 pm | Richard Parker – “Will Trump Turn Out to be a Transformative President? Lessons from the Six Presidents Who Were Truly Transformative” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: Summary and readings Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1019 |
| Friday, January 17 3:00-4:30 pm | Jack Trumpbour – “Harvard Tour” Curriculum area: orientation Reading: none | WCC 1019 |
Week 2: January 21-25 | back to top | |
| Monday, January 20 | No class MLK Day | |
| Tuesday, January 21 8:30-10:00 am | Richard Freeman – “The New Frontier for US Unions: Young Student-Employees and Post-Docs” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: How Clark Grad Workers Won Their First Contract, Working Mass Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Tuesday, January 21 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC 1010 |
| Tuesday, January 21 10:30-12:00 pm | Gautam Mukunda – “Dangerous Mines: Saving Lives Through Leadership” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: “Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American” (HRB Case) Classroom Presentation: PDF “Credible signals are expensive signals” | WCC 1010 |
| Tuesday, January 21 1:00-2:30 pm | David Cutler – “What’s Up with Health Care?” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Tuesday, January 21 3:00-4:30 pm | David Webber – Capital Strategies #3 – “Resetting the Relationship with Private Equity” Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: Chapters 5 and 7, The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, David Webber, Harvard University Press. Classroom Presentation: none Reading mentioned in class: Putting Labor’s Capital to Work for Labor How to get changes with pensions: 1. Go to State legislation – change laws 2. Interpretive Letter to State AG 3. Pension Fund Policy | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 22 8:30-10:00 am | David Weil – Strategic Choice #2 – Strategic Planning and Strategic Choice Curriculum area: Strategic Choice Reading: Read: – 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). Case 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 improving the strategic position of your union? Classroom Presentation: PDF, Picture of chalkboard | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 22 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: Classroom Presentation: | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 22 10:30-12:00 pm | Gautam Mukunda – “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 22 1:00-2:30 pm | Mark Erlich – Labor History #2 – “The New Deal through the Great Compression” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Chapter 6-8 (pp. 80 – 121) Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Wednesday, January 22 3:00-4:30 pm | Open | |
| Wednesday, January 22 4:30-9:00 pm | IBEW 103 Dinner Bus transportation provided Bus will leave from the corner of Everett and Mass Ave. | 256 Freeport St, Dorchester, MA 02122 |
| Thursday, January 23 8:30 -10:00 am | Debbie Berkowitz – “Advocating for Safe Workplaces, Impact of Climate Change, and Child Labor” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: Worker Safety in Crisis: The Cost of a Weakened OSHA Classroom Presentation: none | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 23 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 23 10:30-12:00 pm | Avi Chomsky – “Is Science Enough? Critical questions about Climate Justice” Curriculum area: Reading: Last chapter of Is Science Enough?: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice , Avi Chomsky, Beacon Press, 2022 Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 23 1:00-2:30 pm | Barry Bluestone and Brian Corr – “A New Vision for Trade Unionism” Curriculum area: Economics Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF Negotiating the Future – book with father The Reckoning, by David Halberstam Grassroots Power Project Grassroots Power Project Three Faces of Power | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 23 3:00-4:30 pm | Tom Juravich and Andrew Gorry – “What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know: Discovering Power and Winning Campaign” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: “What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know” Classroom Presentation: PDF –http://strategiccorporateresearch.org/ –http://altarofthebottomline.com/index.php –What the Boss Doesn’t Want Us to Know | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 23 5:30-7:00 pm Dinner provided | Tom Juravich – “Union Worker Songs” – performance | WCC B010 Singer Classroom |
| Friday, January 24 8:30 -10:00 am | Renaye Manley – Capital Strategies #4 – “The Racialized History of Finance and Current Efforts Towards Racial Equity in Investments and Portfolio Companies” Curriculum area: Capital Strategies #4 Reading: Civil Rights Audit Standards Classroom Presentation: none | Ash Center 124 Mt Auburn Street, 2nd floor north. When you exit the elevator, the Ash Center main entrance is to the left. You’ll need your HUID to tap in. |
| Friday, January 24 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Ash Center 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200 |
| Friday, January 24 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Breaking Barriers” Curriculum area: Labor’s Values Reading: – Is organizing enough: Race, gender and union culture, Bill Fletcher and Richard Hurd, ILR School, Cornell University (required) – Tool: Anti-racist organization continuum Classroom Presentation: PDF – Organizational Justice Components | Ash Center 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200 |
| Friday, January 24 1:00-2:30 pm | Vicki O’Leary ’18 – “Listening to Your Membership” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Ash Center 124 Mt Auburn Street, Suite 200 |
| Saturday, January 25 8:30 am-6:00 pm | 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 Classroom Presentation: none | Milstein West A/BWCC |
Week 3: January 27-31 | back to top | |
| Monday, January 27 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 | Austin Hall 100 |
| Monday, January 27 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | AUS 100 |
| Monday, January 27 10:30-12:00 pm | Abel Cano – “Public Narrative-Follow up” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | AUS 100 |
| Monday, January 27 1:00-2:30 pm | Minsu Longiaru – Technology #1 – “Worker Data, Worker Power” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | AUS 100 |
| Monday, January 27 3:00-4:30 pm | Max Kiefel – “Labor and Political Democracy: Relationships between Unions and Parties” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – How to Take Over a Political Party – The Alliance of U.S. Labor Unions and the Democratic Party Classroom Presentation: PDF | AUS 100 |
| Tuesday, January 28 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 CASE Classroom Presentation: none | WCC B015 |
| Tuesday, January 28 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC B015 |
| Tuesday, January 28 10:30-12:00 pm | Minsu Longiaru and Naomi Campbell – Technology #2 – “Worker Surveillance” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: – Limitless Worker Surveillance – Surveillance and the Loneliness of the Long- Distance Trucker Classroom Presentation: classroom material – Poem by Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents | WCC B015 |
| Tuesday, January 28 1:00-2:30 pm | Chris Mackin – Capital Strategies #5 – “Enterprise Strategies: ESOP’s, Cooperatives and Democratic Ownership” Curriculum area: Capital Strategies Reading: – An Iron Chain of Bondage, Lessons from the Knights of Labor – Employee Ownership Statistics – ESOP Definition and Union Issues – Nation Magazine-Employee Ownership: The Road to Shared Prosperity – (Extra Reading) Defining Employee Ownership: Four Meanings and Two Models Classroom Presentation: PDF | AUS 100 |
| Tuesday, January 28 3:00-4:30 pm | Movie – “9 to 5” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | AUS 100 |
| Wednesday, January 29 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). – 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? • What factors most influence strategic leverage for your union? Classroom Presentation: PDF Chalkboard Photos: photo1, photo2, photo3, photo4 | AUS 101 |
| Wednesday, January 29 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | AUS 101 |
| Wednesday, January 29 10:30-12:00 pm | Mark Erlich – Labor History #3 – “Rise and Fall of Labor” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Chapters 9-14 (pp. 125 – 214) Classroom Presentation: PDF | AUS 101 |
| Wednesday, January 29 12:15-1:45 pm Lunch provided Notice time change | Al Davidoff – “Unionizing the Ivory Tower” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – Davidoff, Unionizing the Ivory Tower – Figuring It Out: pp. 151-155 -Getting More Than We Bargained For: pp. 161-165 -Afterword: pp. 235-238 Classroom Presentation: none | AUS 101 |
| Wednesday, January 29 3:00-4:30 pm | Vonda Brunsting – Capital Strategies #6 – “Local to Global Strategies” Curriculum area: Capital Strategies #6 Reading: Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good Classroom Presentation: PDF | AUS 101 |
| Thursday, January 30 8:30-10:00 am | 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 Family Values at Work | AUS 100 |
| Thursday, January 30 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | AUS 100 |
| Thursday, January 30 10:30-12:00 pm | Bill Cole – “Leaders and Followers: Engaging Union Members, part 1″ Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: – Union Member Engagement & Participation #1 – Union Member Engagement & Participation #2 – Union Member Engagement & Participation #3 Classroom Presentation: PDF | AUS 100 |
| Thursday, January 30 1:00-2:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Organizational Democracy” Curriculum area: Labor’s Values Reading: – Yean & Yusof (2016) Organizational Justice: A conceptual discussion (required) – Union leadership and members attitudes, Tove H. Hammer, Mahmut Bayazit, David L. Wazeter, ILR School, Cornell University, 2009 (optional) Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 30 3:00-4:30 pm | Bill Cole – “Leaders and Followers: Engaging Union Members, part 2” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1010 |
| Thursday, January 30 5:30-7:00 pm Reception to follow | James Green Memorial Forum on Labor History: “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era” Speaker: Jacqueline Jones, Professor Emerita; Ellen C. Temple Chair in Women’s History and Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History, University of Texas Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2036 Milstein East C |
| Friday, January 31 9:00-5:00 pm | Robert Forrant – “Bread and Roses and Boott Mills Worker Tour – Lawrence and Lowell, MA” Curriculum area: History Optional readings: –Democratic Party’s embrace of organized labor in 2024 elections has long roots that had started to wither – Trump and Harris, with starkly different records on labor issues, are both courting union voters – Autoworkers, Boeing machinists, cannabis drivers: Labor unions are mobilizing in new and old industries alike | Bus leaves Mass Ave and Everett Street at 9:00 am For those driving: arrive by 10am at Lawrence Heritage State Park 1 Jackson St., Lawrence, MA 01840 |
Week 4: February 3-February 7 | back to top | |
| Monday, February 3 8:30-10:00 am | Yoorie Chang – “Introduction to ‘Building Worker Power in Cities and States’: A Policy Toolkit for State and Local Labor Policy Innovation” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – Building Worker Power in Cities and States: A Toolkit for State and Local Innovation (interactive web version) – recommended to skim for familiarity with the different policy sections –Toolkit PDF – note that the PDF is slightly out of date, but linking for ease of reading – Clean Slate for Worker Power Executive Summary -Optional: Clean Slate for Worker Power Full Report Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 |
| Monday, February 3 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound 201 |
| Monday, February 3 10:30-12:00 pm | 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 – In These Times, 12/16/23 Classroom Presentation: PDF Movie – Conspiracy Movie – Hotel Rwanda Las Castas Many Headed Hydra – book, PDF available on request. | Pound 201 |
| Monday, February 3 1:00-2:30 pm | HUCTW Panel: – Carrie Barbash, Natasha Williams, Donene Williams, and Adrienne Landau – “The Story of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: “Solidaritas at Harvard,” John Hoerr, American Prospect, Summer 1993- HUCTW.org Classroom Presentation: none – Interest Based Bargaining – Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) | Pound 201 |
| Monday, February 3 3:00-4:30 pm | Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol – “Rust Belt Union Blues” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 |
| Monday, February 3 5:30-7:30 pm Dinner provided | Bill Fletcher – “Attack on Democracy” Dinner discussion | Pound 201 |
| Tuesday, February 4 8:30-10:00 am | Bill Fletcher – “Race to Labor, part 2” Curriculum area: History Reading: The Reckless Creation of Whiteness Classroom Presentation: none Wilmington, NC Coup Movie – Sophie’s Choice – John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry – Solidarity Divided – Book by Fletcher -Trump’s Madison Square Garden, NYC rally on Oct. 27, 2024.- toxic | Pound 201 |
| Tuesday, February 4 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound 201 |
| Tuesday, February 4 10:30-12:00 pm | Julie Battilana – “Becoming Effective Change Makers” Curriculum area: Leadership Reading: Power for All, Introduction Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 |
| Tuesday, February 4 1:00-2:30 pm | Michelle Miller and Cynthia Conti-Cook – Technology #3 – “The Global Business of Artificial Intelligence” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: – The Messy Reality Behind a Silicon Valley Unicorn – ”AI Act” at a Glance: Workplace Surveillance and Employee Rights” – Checking on the Progress of Content Moderators in Africa Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 |
| Tuesday, February 4 3:00-4:30 pm | Hamilton Nolan – “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | Pound 201 |
| Tuesday, February 4 5:30-6:30 pm | HTUP Alumni Association Annual Meeting Pound 201 and on Zoom | Pound 201 and on Zoom |
| Wednesday, February 5 8:30-10:00 am | David Weil – Strategic Choice #4 – “Building Organizational Capacity” Curriculum area: Strategic Choice Reading: –Turning the Tide, Ch. 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 CASE 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? • What factors most influence organizational capacity in your union? What barriers exist to changing organizational capacity in your union? Classroom Presentation: PDF Picture of chalkboard #1, picture of chalkboard #2, picture of chalkboard #3 | Pound 201 |
| Wednesday, February 5 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound 201 |
| Wednesday, February 5 10:30-12:00 pm | Arnold Zack – “Labor-Management Arbitration: The Growth, Threats and Questionable Survival of Workplace Justice” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: (Background) 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 | Pound 201 |
| Wednesday, February 5 1:00-2:30 pm | Mark Erlich – Labor History #4 – “Automation and the Gig Economy” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Chapters 15-20 (pp. 217-322) Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 |
| Wednesday, February 5 3:00-4:30 pm | Michelle Miller and Cynthia Conti-Cook – Technology #4 – “Voices from the Frontlines” Curriculum area: Technology Reading: – Elon Musk’s tech projects are inseparable from his authoritarian one – Inescapable AI – Mouth breathing Machiavelli’s Dream of a Silicon Reich Classroom Presentation: PDF Notes on the Crisis Imagination a Manifesto, Ruha Benjamin The Net – movie with Sandra Bullock | Pound 201 |
| Wednesday, February 5 4:45 pm | Jeff Quick, HERFF JONES “Class Ring information and sizing” Download sales flyer | Pound 201 |
| Thursday, February 6 8:30-4:30 pm | Florrie Darwin – “Negotiations Workshop” Curriculum area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: Reading Packet Classroom Presentation: PDF of manual | Pound 201 |
| Thursday, February 6 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound 201 |
| Thursday, February 6 6:00-7:30 pm Reception to follow | Jerry Wurf Memorial Forum “An Evolving Economic Force” Speaker: Claudia Goldin, 2023 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Professor, Harvard University | Austin Hall – 100 North |
| Friday, February 7 8:30-10:00 am | Will Jones – “Essential Workers: Public Workers and the Dignity of Labor” Curriculum area: Public Sector Reading: Background reading: William P. Jones; The Essential Worker: A History from the Progressive Era to COVID-19. Labor 1 December 2023; 20 (4): 6–23. Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 |
| Friday, February 7 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | Pound 201 |
| Friday, February 7 10:30-12:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Stories from the Field” Curriculum area: Labor’s Values Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 |
| Friday, February 7 12:00 – 12:15 pm | Vote for Graduation Speakers Use Rank Choice Voting | Pound 201 |
| Friday, February 7 1:00-2:30 pm | Terri Gerstein and Lauren Moran – “State and Local Governments: Critical Players on Workers’ Rights” Curriculum area: Legal Issues and Public Policy Reading: Reading list -PDF Classroom Presentation: PDF | Pound 201 and Zoom |
Week 5: February 10-14 | back to top | |
| Monday, February 10 8:30-10:00 am | * * * * CANCELED* * * * * Curriculum area: Public Sector Reading: Privatization and Corruption – Learning to Follow the Money Trail CASE Classroom Presentation: | Canceled WCC 1015 |
| Monday, February 10 10:15-10:30 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC 1015 |
| Monday, February 10 10:30-12:00 pm | Tom Kochan – “How Can We Recruit and Organize the Next Generation??” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: –Read and Prepare for Class –The Rise of the “Union Curious” Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 1015 |
| Monday, February 10 1:00-2:30 pm | Pronita Gupta – “Don’t Mourn – Organize! How the Historic Federal Climate Investments Are Continuing to Provide A Critical Lever for Union Organizing and Building Worker Power.” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: “Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities Still Ahead for Labor during the Biden-Harris Administration.” transcript 2023 Wurf Lecture Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC – 2036 Milstein East A |
| Monday, February 10 3:00 – 4:30 pm | Open | WCC – 2036 Milstein East A |
| Monday, February 10 5:30-7:30 pm Dinner provided | Movie – UNION (Amazon organizing) Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC 1023 |
| Tuesday, February 11 8:30-10:00 am | Harris Freeman – “It May Be Illegal but It’s Not Immoral: Lessons of the Massachusetts Teacher Strikes for Collective Bargaining, the Right to Strike, and Union Democracy” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: –THE PUBLIC SECTOR – WORKERS NEED THE RIGHT TO STRIKE – Teaching Each Other to Strike – The Newton strike is over. Was it worth it? Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC B015 |
| Tuesday, February 11 10:00-10:10 am | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity | WCC B015 |
| Tuesday, February 11 10:30-12:00 pm | Isabelle Ferreras – “Democratizing the Corporation” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: Reading: – Democratizing the Corporation: The Bicameral Firm and Beyond, Edited by Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson and Joel Rogers, March 2024, Verso. pages 15-60. Classroom Presentation: PDF Article from Thor – WBUR – Rome Traded Freedom For Autocracy. How Does America’s Republic Compare? | WCC B015 |
| Tuesday, February 11 12:15-1:30 pm Lunch provided- Notice time change | Kim Kelly and Nick Juravich – “Fight Like Hell” Curriculum area: History Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | WCC – 2009 |
| Tuesday, February 11 2:00-3:30 pm | Raj Nayak – “Federal Agencies and Labor Protections” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: – Making Your Voice Heard in the Federal Rulemaking Process – HOW UNIONS AND UNIONIZED WORKPLACES ADVANCE THE MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT Classroom Presentation: none | WCC – 2036 Milstein East A |
| Wednesday, February 12 8:30-10:00 am | David Weil – Strategic Choice #5 – “Strategic Choice and Building Sustainable Worker Organizations” 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). Case for Discussion: Jane McAlevey, “Make the Road New York.” Chapter 6, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age. CASE Questions: • What is the Make the Road New York strategy to represent workers in New York? What are its key strengths and vulnerabilities? • What are the organizational capacities required for this model of representing workers? What are its key strengths and vulnerabilities? • What are the key steps to allow Make the Road New York to become a sustainable model for worker representation? As a leader of the organization, 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? Classroom Presentation: PDF Chalkboard pic #1, Chalkboard pic #2, Chalkboard pic #3 | Griswold Hall – 110 |
| Wednesday, February 12 10:30-12:00 pm | Mark Erlich – Labor History #5 – “Labor – Today and Tomorrow” Curriculum area: History Reading: Greenhouse, Beaten Down, Worked Up, Chapter 21 (pp. 323 – 338) The Musk-Bezos War on Collective Bargaining Classroom Presentation: PDF | Griswold Hall – 110 |
| Wednesday, February 12 1:00-2:30 pm | Billie Jo Joy – “Mindful Minutes – final debrief” Curriculum area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: Mindful Minutes Resource Page Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC – 2036 Milstein East C |
| Thursday, February 13 9:30-11:00 am | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Putting It All Together – ‘Leadership in Action’ plans” Curriculum area: Labor’s Values Presenting Action Plans | WCC – 3012 WCC – 3034 WCC – 3036 |
| Thursday, February 13 11:30-1:00 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Putting It All Together – ‘Leadership in Action’ plans” Curriculum area: Labor’s Values Reading: Presenting Action Plans | WCC – 3012 WCC – 3034 WCC – 3036 |
| Thursday, February 13 2:00-3:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Nancy Luc, Anneta Argyres – “Putting It All Together – ‘Leadership in Action’ plans” Curriculum area: Labor’s Values Reading: Presenting Action Plans | WCC – 3012 WCC – 3034 WCC – 3036 |
| Thursday, February 13 6:00-7:30 pm Reception to follow | John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum: “What is the future of the labor movement in the age of AI?” Speaker: Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Economics, Institute Professor, MIT | Austin Hall – 100 |
| Friday, February 14 9:30-10:00 am | Class Picture – Martha Stewart, professional photographer | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Friday, February 14 10:00-10:30 am | Graduation rehearsal | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Friday, February 14 11:00-12:00 pm | GRADUATION – Hooray! Speaker: Julie Su, former Acting United States Secretary of Labor | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Friday, February 14 12:00-2:00 pm | Graduation Reception | Austin Hall – 200 Ames Courtroom |