At 80 years old, the Harvard Trade Union Program is the second oldest executive education program at Harvard University. The program is currently part of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School. The co-faculty chairs are Benjamin Sachs, the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School, and Richard B. Freeman, the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. The executive director of the Center is Sharon Block, a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School.
The Harvard Trade Union Program is composed of three parts:
- HTUP Program – 5-week residential union leadership education program
- Online workshops
- HTUP Alumni Association
HTUP TEAM
Alida J. Castillo
Director, Harvard Trade Union Program
Salesforce Administrator
In 2019 Alida became the director of the Harvard Trade Union Program. She is also the resident techie on staff and is moving the CLJE to a more efficient system with Salesforce.
Alida spent 25 years doing economic research on labor issues at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also spent 17 years as the technology consultant at Project Hope, a social service agency and family shelter in Dorchester, MA.
Alida earned a Master’s in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BA at Radcliffe College. Pixie, the director of stress management, regularly came to the office until she passed over the rainbow bridge in 2023.
CONTACT INFORMATION – acastillo@law.harvard.edu p: 617-495-7678
John “Jack” Trumpbour
Research Director, CLJE
John Trumpbour studied history at Stanford University and later received a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the author of Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920–1950 (Cambridge Univ Press, 2002) and served as editor of The Dividing Rhine: Politics and Society in Contemporary France and Germany (Berg, 1989). He has contributed an array of essays examining the following topics: Latino contributions to the labor movement for the book Latinos: Remaking America (Univ of California Press, 2002); “the clash of civilizations” thesis in The New Crusades (Columbia Univ Press 2003); and the U.S. culture industry’s global dominance in The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry (Blackwell, 2008). In Winter 2007, he served as guest editor of The Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal for its special issue on “The Crisis in Workplace Governance.”
CONTACT INFORMATION – jtrumpbo@law.harvard.edu p: 617-495-9265