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DAILY SCHEDULE AND SYLLABUS
109th SESSION
THE HARVARD TRADE UNION PROGRAM
FEBRUARY 3 – MARCH 6, 2020
| Week 1: February 3-8 | ||
| Monday, February 3 noon – 4:30 pm | HTUP Registration | LWP Office (50 Church Street, 3rd floor) |
| Monday, February 3 6:00 – 9:00 pm | Welcome Dinner | Sheraton Commander Hotel (16 Garden St, Cambridge) |
| Tuesday February 4 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM | Orientation Classroom presentation: PDF Title IX Handouts: Resources Page Policies Page2020 Participation Ground Rules – developed and agreed upon on 2/4/20 at Orientation | Wasserstein (WCC)- 2036 Milstein East B(1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge) |
| Wednesday, February 5 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). The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve It, Chapter 1, (pp. 1-23). Prepare 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: none | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, February 510:30-12 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth” Curriculum Area: Economics Reading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, February 51:00-2:30 pm | Marshall Ganz – “Leadership, Organizing, and Action” Curriculum Area: Community Relations Reading:-Marshall Ganz, “Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements”, Chapter 19 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Nohria and Khurana; HBS Press, (2010), (pp. 527-568)-Daniel Schlozman (2015), “Political Parties and Social Movements” in When Movements Anchor Parties, Princeton University Press, Chapter 2, pp. 14-48Classroom Presentation: none | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, February 53:00-4:30 pm | Benjamin Sachs – “Current Labor Law Issues” Curriculum Area: Current Legal Issues Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 68:30-4:30 pm | Florrie Darwin – “Negotiations Workshop” Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: reading packetClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2036 Milstein East B |
| Friday, February 78:30-10:00 am | Richard Parker – “Looking Forward to November 2020 Elections”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading:–The Fight Over How Trump Fits in With the Other 44 Presidents–Trump, the Political Order, and Stephen Skowronek–What Time Is It?Extra reading mailed out after class: America DecidesHow Voters Think About the Economy, Government, and Poverty Ahead of the 2020 ElectionClass Video: CBS Income Inequality Pie Example Books mentioned in class: Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality, Heather Boushey Classroom Presentation: none | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, February 710:30-12 pm | Chris Mackin and David Webber – “New Roles for Labor: Creating and Managing Wealth”Curriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReading: Mackin Readings:–. An Iron Chain of Bondage, Lessons from the Knights of Labor, Our Kingdom, Democratic Wealth, November 29, 2012, Alex Gourevitch- Employee Ownership in America: A Primer for Industrial Relations, Christopher Mackin, Perspectives on Work, Vol. 5, No. 2, January, 2003- Silicon Valley and the Quest for a Utopian Workplace The New Republic Webber Readings: 1. The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, Preface, Chapter 1 (Chapters 2 and 4 optional)Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, February 71:00-2:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – “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, 2011Assignment: Leadership action plan survey – due 2/12Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Sunday, February 91:00-3:00 pm | Jack Trumpbour – “Harvard Tour” | Meet at WCC in lounge area first floor |
| Week 2: February 10-14 | Back to top | |
| Monday, February 108:30-10:00 am | Thomas Kohler – “The Genesis and Meaning of the Union’s Duty of Fair Representation”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: Steele v. Louisville & NR Co et al No 45 Classroom Presentation: none | WCC 2036 Milstein East B |
| Monday, February 1010:30-12 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2036 Milstein East B |
| Monday, February 101:00-2:30 pm | Elaine Bernard – “Small and Large Differences: Labor Relations in the US, Canada and Australia”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – US Union Density – Canadian Union Coverage – 2018 Canadian Union Coverage – Australian Union Coverage – Employment Relations in Australia – DIVERGENT PATHS OF LABOR IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADAClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2036 Milstein East B |
| Monday, February 103:00-4:30 pm | Elaine Bernard – “Leadership and Democratic Decision-Making – A Simulation”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading: Subartic Simulation -handed out in classClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2036 Milstein East B |
| Monday, February 105:30-7pm | James Green Memorial Forum – “Public Servants: Race, Gender and the Roots of Public Employee Unionism” William P. Jones, Professor, University of MinnesotaClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2036 Milstein East A |
| Tuesday, February 118:30-10:00 am | Tom Kochan – “Union Strategies for Shaping the Future of Work.”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: – Report of the AFL-CIO Commission on the Future of Work and Unions– Worker Voice and Policy PaperClassroom Presentation: | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Tuesday, February 1110:30-12 and 1-2:30 | Isabelle Ferreras – “Corporate Governance and the Role of Labor – Special focus: the Climate”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – “The contradiction between capitalism and democracy is at a point of no return” Le Monde – Democratizing Firms by Isabelle Ferreras -Firms as Political Entities: Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism , Introduction pp 1-24Video: How can we save democracy?Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Tuesday, February 113:00-4:30 pm | Will Jones – “The Rise, Fall and Possible Rebirth of Organized Labor”Curriculum Area: HistoryReading: none | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Wednesday, February 128:30-10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic Choice #2: 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, v. 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, Chapters 2-3, (pp. 28-75).Suggested reading from class: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson Classroom Presentation: PDF Pictures of Industry Strategies: Health Care, Public Sector, Public Safety Manufacturing, Logistics, Construction | WCC 2036 Milstein East C |
| Wednesday, February 1210:30-12 pm | Michelle Miller – “How we’re organizing the media, and how we can organize everywhere else?”Classroom Presentation: PDFTiffany Ferguson – “Innovating Our Way to Worker Power”Classroom Presentation: PDFCurriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: none | WCC 2036 Milstein East C |
| Wednesday, February 121:00-2:30 pm | KC Wagner – “Unions Addressing Gender Equity Using An Intersectional Framework”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: – Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace– EEOC – Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State – Out of the Shadows – NWLC report Class handout: Steps Unions and Other Labor Organizations Can Take Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2036 Milstein East C |
| Wednesday, February 123:00 – 9:00 pm | Visit Massachusetts Nurses Association for Dinner Canton, MA | Bus Transportation will be arranged. |
| Thursday, February 138:30-10:00 am | Arnold Zack – “Federal Role in the Rise of Arbitration- #1”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: – Steelworkers v. American Mfg. 363 US 564– Steelworkers v. Enterprise Wheel and Car v. Steelworkers 363 US 593– Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Co., 363 U.S. 574 (1960)Homework Distributed: (due on 2/20 email to azack@law.harvard.edu, do not print nor bring to class, just email) – Arbitration homework instructions – Arbitration homework transcriptClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 1310:30-12 pm | David Webber and Chris Mackin- “Labor’s Capital vs Capital’s Capital”Curriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReading: Webber: Tab 2 – The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder, Chapters 3 and 5Classroom Presentation: none | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 131:00-2:30 pm | HUCTW Panel – “The Story of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading:– “Solidaritas at Harvard,” John Hoerr, The American Prospect, Summer 1993– HUCTW Collective Agreement Classroom Presentation: none | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 133:00-4:30 pm | David Harris – “Integratin Imperative”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: none Video: https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/watch/#home.Suggested Books: –The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, Karen Chilton, et al. –The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Friday, February 148:30-10:00 am | Larry Brown – “Defending Public Services and Confronting the Real Crisis”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: none Classroom for Presentation: none Class Video: Unions are Great! | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, February 1410:30-12 pm | Barry Bluestone – “Understanding the Nuts and Bolts of U.S. Economic Growth”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, February 141:00-2:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – “The voice of 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, 2009 Classroom Presentation: PDFMentoring HandbookHomework Distributed: Leadership action plan – due 2/21 | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Week 3: February 17-22 | Back to top | |
| Monday, February 17 | Presidents Day – Holiday – No Classes | |
| Tuesday, February 188:30-10:00 am | James Shaw, Esq. – “How the Labor Movement Can Respond and Thrive in a Post-Janus World”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: – Massachusetts Legislature Passes Post-Janus Bill Over Governor’s Veto – Disaster Averted: How Unions Have Dodged the Blow of Janus (So Far) – A New Assault on Organized LaborClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Tuesday, February 1810:15 am – 11:00 am | Travel to John F. Kennedy Library and Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate | Meet on corner of Everett Street and Mass Ave. |
| Tuesday, February 1811:00 AM – 1:00 PM | EMK Institute Tour and Lunch | |
| Tuesday, February 181:00 PM – 4:30 PM | JFK Library | |
| Tuesday, February 185:00 PM – 6:00 PM | IBEW Local 103 Tour | |
| Tuesday, February 186:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Dinner IBEW Local 103 | Bus returns to Cambridge by 9pm |
| Wednesday, February 198:30-10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic Choice #3: What drives strategic leverage?”Curriculum Area: Strategic ChoiceReading: -Turning the Tide. Introduction to Part II; Chapter 2, pp. 23-42; Chapter 4, pp. 74-90.Prepare for discussion: iPhones, Cell Phones, and Telecommunications Fissuring in The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can be Done to Improve It, pp. 107-113 and footnotes on pp. 318-320 (very important for preparing for the discussion). Questions: What are the key strategic decisions for AT&T in expanding its cell network to support iPhone use? How have those strategic decisions been changed by the fissured workplace?Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, February 1910:30-12 pm | Gautam Makunda – “Dangerous Mines: Saving Lives through Leadership”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading: “Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American ,” (HRB Case)Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, February 191:00-2:30 pm | Elaine Bernard – “Exploring who we are; what we want; and how we get there #1”Curriculum Area: HistoryReading: – American Labor in Textbooks–AFL-CIO Short HistoryClassroom Presentation: none | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, February 193:00-4:30 pm | Richard Freeman – “The Future of Work”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 208:30-10:00 am | Arnold Zack – “The Work of the Neutral #2”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: Zack, Arbitrating Discipline and Discharge Cases, Chapter 4, The Arbitration Hearing, pp 61-101 Due: 1. Mock Arbitration Instructions 2.Mock Arbitration TranscriptClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Thursday, February 2010:30-12 pm | David Webber and Chris Mackin – “Worker Shareholder Power and Job Creation”Curriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReading: -Webber: Tab 3 –The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder, Chapters 7 and 8Suggested reading: The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits by Zeynep Ton Classroom Presentation:: none | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Thursday, February 201:00-2:30 pm | KC Wagner – “Unions Addressing Gender Equity Using An Intersectional Framework” with George Kilpatrick, Vera HouseCurriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading:–Creating Masculine Identities: Bullying andHarassment “Because of Sex”-Engaging Men on Gender and Domestic Violence Prevention–Top 10 Things Unions Can do Right Now to Address Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Vera House “To be a man” VideoClassroom Presentation: PDFUSW ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY Queenland’s Teachers Union Facebook Code of Behavior QTU Statement on Safety and Respect | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Thursday, February 203:00-4:30 pm | Miles Rapoport and Tova Wang- “Labor Rights, Voting Rights and Democracy”Curriculum Area: Community RelationsReading:– DEMOCRACY AT A CROSSROADS–Not a typo: States made 2019 a historic year for election reform.Classroom for Presentation: none | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, February 218:30-10:00 am | Emily Spieler – “Drugs, Drug Testing, and the Problem of Opioids”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: Reading PacketClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Friday, February 2110:30-12 pm | Karl Klare – “The Trump Labor Board”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: noneClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Friday, February 211:00-2:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – “Staff expectations”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:– Managing with Labor’s Values , Ken Margolies- Organization 30 ways to motivate employees to perform better– Management tools, UAW Managing with Labor’s Values , The Worker Institute, Cornell University, November 2014 – The Cowboy Mentality: Organizers and Occupational Commitment in the New Labor Movement, Daisy Rooks, 2003Homework Due: Leadership action plan – due 2/21 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Saturday, February 228:45 AM-6:00 PM | Able Cano – “Public Narrative”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacitySchedule for the dayReading: –Carol Dweck, The Mindsets –Leading Change: Leadership, Organization, and Social Movements –Why Stories Matter | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Week 4: February 24-28 | Back to top | |
| Monday, February 248:30-10:00 am | Brad Darjean – “What/Who is the National Staff Organization?”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: none Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Monday, February 2410:30-12 pm | Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld – “New Technology and Worker Representation”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: Designing RealityClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Monday, February 241:00-2:30 pm | Rick Wartzman – “The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America.”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading mentioned in class: “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” by Milton Friedman, NY Times 1970 Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Monday, February 243:00-4:30 pm | Mark Erlich and Terri Gerstein – “Confronting Misclassification and Payroll Fraud”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: – “Confronting Misclassification and Payroll Fraud” –Executive summary and Full Report (for reference) – “1099 Nation spreads its tentacles” -Commonwealth – “Stealing from Workers Is a Crime. Why Don’t More Prosecutors See It That Way?” The Nation – “More states should follow new Colorado policy on wage theft” The Hill – “Newly Elected Democratic Governors and Legislatures Should Enact These Labor Initiatives Right Away” Slate Classroom Presentation: Erlich Gerstein | Austin 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Tuesday, February 258:30-10:00 am | Debbie Berkowitz – “Assuring Worker Safety Rights: OSHA, & other initiatives, to keep workers safe”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: – Packaging Pain: Wokplace Injuries in Amazon Empire –How today’s unions help working people – Health and Safety Must Haves – Accident Contests Classroom Presentation: none Extra resources: – Guidance from CDC for nurses and other health professionals who are meeting planes/buses/ etc of people possible infected. – Worker’s rights at OSHA – OSHA 300 logs – AFSCME Preventing Exposure to Chemicals | Austin 101 East |
| Tuesday, February 2510:30-12 pm | Julie Battilana – “Becoming Effective Change Makers”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?Classroom Presentation: PDF Reading for after class: “The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents,” HBS Review, 2013 | Austin 101 East |
| Tuesday, February 251:00-2:30 pm | Gautam Makunda – “Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading:Optional — Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Chapter 1 and choose one case study of special interest to you.Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Tuesday, February 253:00-4:30 pm | Elaine Bernard -#2 “Exploring who we are; what we want; and how we get there”Curriculum Area: HistoryReading:– Fortress Unionism– AFL-CIO memoClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Wednesday, February 268:30-10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic Choice #4: Building organizational capacity”Curriculum Area: Strategic ChoiceReading: –Turning the Tide, Chapters 5 (pp. 117-126) and 7, 8 (All). Prepare: What Do Members Want? The MGEU Resource Centre (HTUP Case 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 | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Wednesday, February 2610:30-12 pm | David Cutler – “What’s Up with Health Care?”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Wednesday, February 261-2:30 and 3-4:30 | Josh Flax – “The Fine Art of Negotiation Analysis and Your Collective Bargaining Skills”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: –Intraorganizational Bargaining Tactics, Walton and McKersie, from A Behavioral Theory of Labor NegotiationsClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Wednesday, February 265:30-7pm | Jerry Wurf Memorial Forum – “Demanding Change in the Loopholes: Protecting Workers Left Out By Our Laws” Fatima Goss Graves, President and CEO at the National Women’s Law Center | WCC Milstein West B |
| Thursday, February 278:30-10:00 am | Arnold Zack – “#3: How arbitrators Decide Cases”Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor RelationsReading: -Zack, Arbitrating Discipline and Discharge Cases, Chapter 7, Deciding the Case, pp 151-173 – Reason, Contract, and Law in Labor Relation , Shulman, Harvard Holmes Lecture Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 2710:30-12 pm | Chris Mackin and David Webber- “Capital Stewardship and the United Food and Commercial Workers” with Aaron Brenner, Capital Stewardship Program United Food and Commercial Workers Curriculum Area: Capital StrategiesReading: Mackin: Tab 4- HCMC SEC Petition– Canada v. Britain– WSJ Ketchup FightClassroom Presentation: Brenner PDF video | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 271:00-2:30 pm | Larry Katz – “Labor Market Challenges, Rising Inequality, and the Fading American Dream”Curriculum Area: EconomicsReading: noneClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, February 273:00-4:30 pm | Jennifer Zelnick – “Child Welfare Privatization in Florida: A Case Study”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: Child Welfare Privatization in Florida: A CaseClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Friday, February 288:30-10:00 am | Elaine Bernard – “Union Life Cycles and Legacies – the Case of the Maritime Union of Australia”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading: – Maritime Union of Australia – (case)Classroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, February 2810:30-12 pm | 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) Website: https://www.checkbooknyc.com/ Classroom Presentation: none | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Friday, February 281:00-2:30 pm | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – “Engaging diversity”Curriculum Area: LeadershipReading: – Overcoming barriers to people of color in union leadership , AFL-CIO, ILR School, Cornell University, 2005- The Paradox of Diversity in Social Change Organizations , Heather Berthoud and Bob Greene, 2014- Is organizing enough: Race, gender and union culture, Bill Fletcher and Richard Hurd, ILR School, Cornell UniversityClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Week 5: March 2-6 | Back to top | |
| Monday, March 28:30-10:00 am | Darlene Lombos and Mark Erlich – “Labor and Community Alliances”Curriculum Area: Community RelationsReading:Classroom Presentation: Erlich Lombos | Austin 111 West |
| Monday, March 210:30-12 pm | Sophia Lee – “The Right to Work Then and Now”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: – The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right, Chapter 3, “Conservatives Create a Workplace Constitution in the Courts” pp 56-78.Classroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Monday, March 21:00-2:30 pm | Avi Chomsky – “Settler Colonialism, Immigration, and Labor in the United States?”Curriculum Area: Current Legal IssuesReading: A Central American Drama in Four Acts, Chapter 3 in Children from the Other AmericaClassroom Presentation: PDFfrom j’Amey Bevan: Canada effect of settler colonialism Home Fire – Ending the Cycle of Family Violence | Austin 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Monday, March 23:00-4:30 pm | Tom Juravich – “Beating Global Capital”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: BEATING GLOBAL CAPITALClassroom Presentation: PDF Website: http://strategiccorporateresearch.org/ | Austin 200 Ames Courtroom |
| Monday, March 25-8pm | Cathy Gourley – Movies “Salt of the Earth” and “Children Who Labor”Curriculum Area: Organizing and CapacityReading: noneDinner will be served | Austin 101 East |
| Tuesday, March 3 8:30-10:00 am | Sharon Block – “Clean Slate for Worker Power” and Dora Sari – “Trade Union Rights and the ILO” Curriculum Area: Current Legal Issues Reading: Clean Slate Executive Summary Short Video Classroom Presentation: Sari | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Tuesday, March 3 10:30-12 pm | Cathy Gourley – “The Empathic Power of Film to Personalize the Political” Curriculum Area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: Reading PacketClassroom for Presentation: coming | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Tuesday, March 3 1:00-2:30 pm | Elise Bryant – “Using the Arts to Organize” Curriculum Area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none Class Handout: PDF QTU original song ATU original song | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Tuesday, March 3 3:00-4:30 pm | Alex Gourevitch – “Labor, The Strike and the State” Curriculum Area: History Reading: – Police Work: The Centrality of Labor Repression in American Political History – A Radical Defense to the Right to StrikeClassroom Presentation: PDF | WCC 2019 Milstein West A |
| Wednesday, March 4 8:30-10:00 am | David Weil – “Strategic Choice #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). Review: “A Strategic Choice Framework for Union Decision Making” Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, v. 8, March 2005, pp. 327-347. Prepare: The Dunlop Commission (A) (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, what keeps you awake at night? What keeps you up awake at night if you are Wilma Liebman?Classroom Presentation: PDF Book Suggestion: In dubious battle, by John Steinbeck | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, March 4 10:30-12 pm | Robert McKersie – “Lessons Learned from Six Decades in the Trenches of Industrial Relations” Curriculum Area: Negotiations and Labor Relations Reading: noneClassroom for Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, March 4 1:00-2:30 pm | Chris Mackin and David Webber – “Enterprise Strategies: ESOP’s Cooperatives and Democratic Ownership” Curriculum Area: Capital Strategies Reading: 1. Employee Ownership: The Road to Shared Prosperity, Christopher Mackin, The Nation 2. The Labor Day Lessons of Market Basket , PBS Newshour 3. ESOP Definition 4. Overview of Employee Stock Ownership Plans The Employee Ownership Top 15 National Center for Employee Ownership Q&AClassroom Presentation: PDFBook reccomendation: From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century, by Alex Gourevitch | Austin 111 West |
| Wednesday, March 4 3:00-4:30 pm | Michael Goldfield – “Organizing the South – lessons from the 1930s and 1940s” Curriculum Area: History Reading: – Partial Unionization of Toyota – America as the South and Alabama ExceptionalismClassroom Presentation: PDF | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, March 5 8:30-10:00 am | Bernie Evers and Vicky O’Leary – “Listening to Staff: Ironworkers’ Parental Leave Program” Curriculum Area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: Ironworkers Maternity Provision Policy , Benefits Description, June 2017Classroom Presentation: PFD | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, March 5 10:30-12 pm | Baldemar Velásquez – “Putting Agriculture Back on Labor’s Agenda” Curriculum Area: Organizing and Capacity Reading: none Classroom Presentation: none Class Handout: page 1 page 2 3 Lessons: 1 Do not demonize the other side. 2 Do not ask someone to do that you would not do 3 Do not ask for yourself, ask for others | Austin 111 West |
| Thursday, March 5 1:00-2:30 and 3:00-4:30 | Marcy Goldstein-Gelb – “Putting it all together -Leadership in Action- plans” Curriculum Area: Leadership Reading: This class will be dedicated to presenting your Action Plans and discussing it with the class. You’ll come prepared to do a short presentation on next steps — both short and long term — to improve or transform your union. | Austin 111 West and Austin 100 North |
| Thursday, March 5 5:30-7:00pm | John T. Dunlop Memorial Forum – “John Dunlop and the Art of Problem Solving” Jennifer Berkshire, AuthorPanel including:Kris Rondeau, AFSCME;Baldemar Velásquez , Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFLCIO;David Weil, Brandeis University;Moderator: Sharon Block, LWP, HLS | Malkin Penthouse in Littauer Building, 4th floor, Harvard Kennedy School |
| Friday, March 6 11:00am -1:30pm | HTUP Graduation –Hooray! Guest Speaker: Rebecca Dixon, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project (NELP) | Loeb House, Harvard Yard, 17 Quincy St Back to top |
