2008 marks the launching of Labor and Industrial Relation’s new online labor studies credit program. Anyone can enroll in our online courses. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students enroll in the courses as they would for an on-campus course. Nondegree or off-campus students enroll through UIUC’s Academic Outreach program. Each semester LIR will introduce new online course offerings. Soon we will apply for the creation of a new UIUC B.A. degree in “Global Labor Studies.”

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Labor Education Program Update
April 20, 2008
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This LEP Update includes activities for both Champaign-Urbana and Chicago sites.
CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

April 22, and 29 (Tuesdays, Chicago) 6:00 – 8:30 pm: A Seminar on the National Labor Relations Board: Election Issues, ULP cases, and Novel Areas in Labor Law. NLRB Field Attorney Lisa Friedheim-Weis will examine critical areas of NLRA that affect your experience of workplace union representation. Two sessions remaining. Register by calling Bob Bruno at 312-996-2491.

April 21 (Monday, Chicago, in Spanish) 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Review of OSHA. $20

May 2 (Friday, Chicago) 4 pm. “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker.”  NY Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, David Moberg, In These Times; Kim Bobo, Interfaith Worker Justice; Nancy MacLean, Northwestern; Prexy Nesbitt, activist and educator. UIC Student Center East Room 302, 750 S Halsted. Hosted by Chicago Center for Working Class Studies.

May 3, Saturday: (East Alton). Solidarity Workshop, hosted by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor, full-day dramatization of the challenges to solidarity plus dose of Labor History, in honor of MayDay. Machinists Lodge 660 Hall, 161 Shamrock Street, East Alton, IL. Cost: $40 includes coffee and donuts, etc. Call Norma Gaines, 618-931-1068.

May 10 (Saturday), 12 noon: Unemployment Benefits Filing Party. The IEA won an NEA grant to help adjuncts file for unemployment benefits between semesters. Filing as a group may increase your chances of winning your rightful benefits. You do not have to be a member of any particular union to join in. Register at filing@chicagococal.org but no one will be turned away even if you show up at the last minute. Refreshments.

May 7, 6-7:30 pm at Chicago Cultural Center at 78 E Washington (at Michigan), First Floor West Meeting Room. For information email www.intersections.colum.edu or email Janina Ciezadlo at merelycirculating@sbcglobal.net. Panel on “Academic Labor in the Neo-liberal Economy.” Joe Berry, Cris Thale, Pete Insley, Janina Ciezadlo panelists on the process of unionization as a step toward equity. Sponsored by Columbia College.

MAY 15-18. REGINA V. POLK CONFERENCE. The application deadline was March 14 and we now have a long waiting list. Thanks to all who applied.

May 19 (Monday, Chicago, in Spanish) 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Review of FMLA. $20.

July 10-13,  Midwest School for Women Workers. The location this year is St. Louis, Roz Sherman-Voellinger is hosting. Some scholarships available through the Regina V. Polk Fund for Women’s Labor Leadership and the United Association for Labor Education. Email hworthen@uiuc.edu

ON-LINE CLASSES – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DEGREE
You don’t have to be a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student to enroll in UIUC online classes. If you are a University of Illinois employee, you can take these classes for free. The cost per 3-credit class is $882.  Unionists receive a scholarship that reduces the cost to $706 per course.  For more information and course syllabi go to our website at:  http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu/.   If you’ve a question please call Steven Ashby at (312) 996-8733 or email him at skashby@uiuc.edu.
Summer Courses (8 weeks: June 9 – July 31)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits)
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)

Fall Courses (August 25 – December 10)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits)
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)
LIR 200     Globalization and Workers  (3 credits)
LIR 220     Gender, Race, Class, and Work (3 credits)
LIR 250     Grievance Representation  (3 credits)

The Labor Ed program at UIUC is located at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The Labor Ed program in Chicago is at Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu. We can bring our Book Table to sell and talk about good labor books from the Illinois Labor History Society, books that you may not see out on the shelf in most bookstores.

Labor Education Program Update
April 2, 2008
http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu

This LEP Update includes activities for both Champaign-Urbana and Chicago sites.

CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

April 4-6: The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute will be holding a 3-day organizer training in Chicago.  The training will be held at IAM Lodge 1487, 50 W. Oakton St, Des Plaines, IL.  Contact Carol Edelson at 202-320-1410 or via email at cedelson@aflcio.org

April 8: (Chicago) Democracy Burlesque at the No Exit Café, 6970 North Glenwood in Chicago, presents “Poor Houses, or This Economy is Killing Me,” celebrating Jobs with Justice and The Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues. Tickets $10. Political satire, Joe Fedorko directing.

April 11: 6:00 – 7:30 pm. (Chicago) Rep. John Conyers, NNOC and Northwestern Law and Medical Schools on the healthcare crisis. Conyers is lead author of HR 676, the Single Payer bill. 375 E. Chicago Ave, Lincoln Hall. Free and open to the public but please RSVP to m-carter2010@nlaw.northwestern.edu

April 15, 22, and 29 (Tuesdays, Chicago) 6:00 – 8:30 pm: A Seminar on the National Labor Relations Board: Election Issues, ULP cases, and Novel Areas in Labor Law. NLRB Field Attorney Lisa Friedheim-Weis will examine critical areas of NLRA that affect your experience of workplace union representation. $75 for three sessions. Register by calling Bob Bruno at 312-996-2491.

April 17, (Champaign). 7 pm. Talk by Marc Bousquet whose book “How the University Works:  Higher Education in the Low-Wage Nation,” has just been published by NYU Press. Free and open to the public. Directly following the membership meeting of the Association of Academic Professionals at ILIR.

April 21 (Monday, Chicago, in Spanish) 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Review of OSHA. $20

May 3, Saturday: (East Alton). Solidarity Workshop, hosted by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor, full-day dramatization of the challenges to solidarity plus dose of Labor History, in honor of MayDay. Machinists Lodge 660 Hall, 161 Shamrock Street, East Alton, IL. Cost: $40 includes coffee and donuts, etc. Call Norma Gaines, 618-931-1068.

May 10 (Saturday), 12 noon: An Unemployment Benefits Filing Party. The IEA won an NEA grant to help adjuncts file for unemployment benefits between semesters. Filing as a group may increase your chances of winning your rightful benefits. You do not have to be a member of any particular union to join in. Register at filing@chicagococal.org but no one will be turned away even if you show up at the last minute. Refreshments.

May 7, 6-7:30 pm at Chicago Cultural Center at 78 E Washington (at Michigan), First Floor West Meeting Room. For information email www.intersections.colum.edu or email Janina Ciezadlo at merelycirculating@sbcglobal.net. Panel on “Academic Labor in the Neo-liberal Economy.” Joe Berry, Cris Thale, Pete Insley, Janina Ciezadlo panelists on the process of unionization as a step toward equity. Sponsored by Columbia College.

MAY 15-18. REGINA V. POLK CONFERENCE. The application deadline was March 14 and we now have a long waiting list. Thanks to all who applied.

May 19 (Monday, Chicago, in Spanish) 6:00 – 8:30 pm. Review of FMLA. $20.

ON-LINE CLASSES – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DEGREE
You don’t have to be a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student to enroll in UIUC online classes. If you are a University of Illinois employee, you can take these classes for free. The cost per 3-credit class is $882.  Unionists receive a scholarship that reduces the cost to $706 per course.  For more information and course syllabi go to our website at:  http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu/.   If you’ve a question please call Steven Ashby at (312) 996-8733 or email him at skashby@uiuc.edu.
Summer Courses (8 weeks: June 9 – July 31)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits)
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)

Fall Courses (August 25 – December 10)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits)
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)
LIR 200     Globalization and Workers  (3 credits)
LIR 220     Gender, Race, Class, and Work (3 credits)
LIR 250     Grievance Representation  (3 credits)

The Labor Ed program at UIUC is located at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The Labor Ed program in Chicago is at Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu. We can bring our Book Table to sell and talk about good labor books from the Illinois Labor History Society, books that you may not see out on the shelf in most bookstores.

Labor Education Program Update
March 23, 2008
http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu

This LEP Update includes activities for both Champaign-Urbana and Chicago sites.
CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

March 24 (Champaign), 6 – p pm. Labor Film at 504 East Armory: “The Killing Floor”, about African-American organizing in the Chicago meatpacking industry in the 1920’s. Also, same evening: “Nothing But A Man”, extraordinary black and white film from early 60’s about a black railroad worker who marries and settles down in a southern town. Ivan Gordon, who just died, stars. Next week: April 1, cartoons: Chicken Run and Mouseland, the one where mice elect cats until they figure out the problem.

March 24, (Chicago). 6 pm. Workers Comp workshop taught by Dave Menchetti who drafted the 2005 Illinois Workers Comp law. Cost $20. Call Bob Bruno at LEP to register.

March 27, Thursday. (Chicago) 6:00 – 8:00 pm.  Labor history music and theater: “The March of the Mill Children”. A speech by Mother Jones, adapted and performed by Betsey Means of WomanLore, with music by Bucky Halker. At CLEP, Admission $10.

April 4-6: The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute will be holding a 3-day organizer training in Chicago.  The training will be held at IAM Lodge 1487, 50 W. Oakton St, Des Plaines, IL.  Contact Carol Edelson at 202-320-1410 or via email at cedelson@aflcio.org

April 10-12, UALE Conference, Minneapolis, annual labor education conference. www.uale.org

April 11-12, Labor Notes conference, Dearborn, Michigan. www.labornotes.org

April 17, (Champaign). 7 pm. Talk by Marc Bousquet whose book “How the University Works:  Higher Education in the Low-Wage Nation,” has just been published by NYU Press. Free and open to the public. Directly follwoign the membership meeting of the Association of Academic Professionals at ILIR.

April 17, (Peoria). HAZWOPER Refresher. http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/labor/hasmat.html  phone: 217-333-0640

April 21-25, (Peoria) 40 Hour Hazmat Technician. http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/labor/hasmat.html  phone: 217-333-0640

May 3, Saturday: (East Alton). Solidarity Workshop, hosted by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor, full-day dramatization of the challenges to solidarity plus dose of Labor History, in honor of MayDay. Machinists Lodge 660 Hall, 161 Shamrock Street, East Alton, IL. Cost: $40 includes coffee and donuts, etc. Call Norma Gaines, 618-931-1068.

May 7, 6-7:30 pm at Chicago Cultural Center at 78 E Washington (at Michigan), First Floor West Meeting Room. For information email www.intersections.colum.edu or email Janina Ciezadlo at merelycirculating@sbcglobal.net. Panel on “Academic Labor in the Neo-liberal Economy.” Joe Berry, Cris Thale, Pete Insley, Janina Ciezadlo panelists on the process of unionization as a step toward equity. Sponsored by Columbia College.

MAY 15-18. REGINA V. POLK CONFERENCE. The application deadline was March 14 and we now have a long waiting list. Thanks to all who applied.

ON-LINE CLASSES – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DEGREE
Yes, Rich Trumka has signed on to teach as an adjunct! Take a course with Rich Trumka!
In January our new online program was launched and we’ve already over 400 enrollments.  You don’t have to be a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student to enroll in UIUC online classes. All U of Illinois Labor Studies classes will count toward the NLC degree.  If you are a University of Illinois employee, you can take these classes for free. The cost per 3-credit class is $882.  Unionists receive a scholarship that reduces the cost to $706 per course.  When the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations has established its BA degree, these courses will apply to your University of Illinois degree. For more information and course syllabi go to our website at:  http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu/.   If you’ve question please call Steven Ashby at (312) 996-8733 or email him at skashby@uiuc.edu.

Summer Courses (8 weeks: June 9 – July 31)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits)
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)

Fall Courses (August 25 – December 10)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits)
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)
LIR 200     Globalization and Workers  (3 credits)
LIR 220     Gender, Race, Class, and Work (3 credits)
LIR 250     Grievance Representation  (3 credits)

LABOR STUDIES CLUB (CHAMPAIGN). Contact Dierdre Darnall at d-darnall@hotmail.com for information about the Labor Studies Club at UIUC.

WORKERS COMP: The CACOSH guide to the 2005 Illinois Workers Compensation Law is now available in Spanish. To get a copy ($5), call Emanuel Blackwell at 708-359-3303.

The Labor Ed program at UIUC is located at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The Labor Ed program in Chicago is at Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu. We can bring our Book Table to sell and talk about good labor books from the Illinois Labor History Society, books that you may not see out on the shelf in most bookstores.

Learn about the new law and what it means specifically to you.
Learn what to do if you or someone in your group gets injured.
Learn about your rights and get all your questions answered.
Infórmese sobre la nueva ley y que significa para usted.
Conozca lo que debe hacer cuando usted o alguien en su grupo se lastime.
Conozca sus derechos y le contestaremos todas sus preguntas
Date & Time / Fecha y Hora:  March/ Marzo 24th 2008 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location / Lugar:  University of Illinois Labor Education Program 815 W. Van Buren Ste. 110 Chicago, IL
Cost / Costo: $20
RSVP/ Llame para inscribirse:  Bob Bruno 312.996.2491 Español 312.996.2624

Labor Education Program Update

March 3, 2008

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CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

AFL-CIO SEC-TREAS RICH TRUMKA TO TEACH ONLINE INTRO TO LABOR STUDIES COURSE. See below, under OnLine classes.

March 3 and March 10, Mondays: 6:00 – 8:30 pm: Labor and Organizing in the African American Community CHICAGO. Meatpacking, sanitation, construction trades: a problem-focused class that will build on the experience of participants. Call 312-996-2624 to register. Two sessions left.

March 4, Tuesday: CHICAGO. Intro to Collective Bargaining Certificate class, 6:00 – 8:30 pm,  Steven Ashby, Instructor. $150 per person for six weeks.

March 5, Wednesday: CHICAGO. Advanced Collective Bargaining, Certificate class, 6:00 – 8:30 pm, Bob Bruno, instructor. $150 for six weeks.

March 12: CHICAGO. Book reading and signing of On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5, by Suzan Erem and Paul Durremberger.  At UNITE! HERE, 333 S. Ashland, 5 to 7 p.m. with refreshments etc.  www.ontheglobalwaterfront.org  Check out some of the links to videos of the strike on this.

LBST 2990 (National Labor College Class). CHICAGO.  Educational Planning. Required Jumpstarts will take place, March 12 (note: This is a Wednesday, not a Thursday) and April 17 from 6-9 pm at CLEP. All NLC students who have not completed their portfolios are welcome.

March 27, Thursday. CHICAGO. 6:00 – 8:00 pm.  Labor history music and theater: “The March of the Mill Children”. A speech by Mother Jones, adapted and performed by Betsey Means of WomanLore, with music by Bucky Halker. At CLEP, Admission $10.

April 4-6: The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute will be holding a 3-day organizer training in Chicago.  The training will be held at IAM Lodge 1487, 50 W. Oakton St, Des Plaines, IL.  Contact Carol Edelson at 202-320-1410 or via email at cedelson@aflcio.org

April 10-12, UALE Conference, Minneapolis, annual labor education conference. www.uale.org

April 11-12, Labor Notes conference, Dearborn,Michigan. www.labornotes.org

May 3, Saturday: EAST ALTON. Solidarity Workshop, hosted by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor, full-day dramatization of the challenges to solidarity plus dose of Labor History, in honor of MayDay. Machinists Lodge 660 Hall, 161 Shamrock Street. Cost: $40 includes coffee and donuts, etc. Call Norma Gaines, 618-931-1068.

May 7, 6-7:30  pm at Columbia College, CHICAGO, www.colum.edu. Panel on “Academic labor in the neo-liberal economy.” Joe Berry, Cris Thale, Pete Insley, Janina Ciezadlo panelists on the process of unionization as a step toward equity.

MAY 15-18. REGINA V. POLK CONFERENCE. ST. CHARLES. Application deadline March 15, download from lep.ilir.uiuc.edu. The collective bargaining focus this year will be on the public sector and what used to be the public sector – transportation, post office, healthcare, schools. What’s going on with the public sector? 

ON-LINE CLASSES – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DEGREE
Yes, Rich Trumka has signed on to teach as an adjunct! Take a course with Rich Trumka!
In January our new online program was launched and we’ve already over 400 enrollments.  You don’t have to be a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student to enroll in UIUC online classes. All U of Illinois Labor Studies classes will count toward the NLC degree.  If you are a University of Illinois employee, you can take these classes for free. The cost per 3-credit class is $882.  Unionists receive a scholarship that reduces the cost to $706 per course.  When the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations has established its BA degree, these courses will apply to your University of Illinois degree. For more information and course syllabi go to our website at:  http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu/.   If you’ve question please call Steven Ashby at (312) 996-8733 or email him at skashby@uiuc.edu.
Summer Courses (8 weeks: June 9 – July 31)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits) 
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits)
Fall Courses (August 25 – December 10)
LIR 100     Introduction to Labor Studies  (3 credits) 
LIR 110     Labor and Social Movements (3 credits) 
LIR 200     Globalization and Workers  (3 credits)
LIR 220     Gender, Race, Class, and Work (3 credits)
LIR 250     Grievance Representation  (3 credits)

LABOR STUDIES CLUB (CHAMPAIGN). Contact Dierdre Darnall at d-darnall@hotmail.com for information about the Labor Studies Club at UIUC.

WORKERS COMP: The CACOSH guide to the 2005 Illinois Workers Compensation Law is now available in Spanish. To get a copy ($5), call Emanuel Blackwell at 708-359-3303.

Library goodie: Original document from 1919 nChicago race riots:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/digitizedbotw/2008/02/chicago_race_riots_c1919_1.html

This Socialist labor pamphlet, published shortly after a violent race riot
in Chicago during the summer of 1919, was digitized from the original in
the Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana in the Library of the
University of Illinois at Chicago. The article “Our Real Enemy” by Mary Marcy, urges black and white workers to organize together against their  mutual exploitation by capitalist interests, in this case the owners of Chicago’s meat packing businesses.
Mary Marcy (1877-1922), born in Belleville, Illinois, was a columnist and
editor of the International Socialist Review, published in Chicago from
1900 to 1918.

The Labor Ed program at UIUC is located at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The Labor Ed program in Chicago is at Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu. We can bring our Book Table to sell and talk about good labor books from the Illinois Labor History Society, books that you may not see out on the shelf in most bookstores.

Labor Education Program Update

February 17, 2008http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu 

This LEP Update includes activities for both Champaign-Urbana and Chicago sites.  

Labor history music and theater: “The March of the Mill Children”. A speech by Mother Jones, adapted and performed by Betsey Means of WomanLore, with music by Bucky Halker. At CLEP, Admission $10. March 29, Saturday. 6:00 – 8:00 pm.  

Go to our calendar to see upcoming events! Also be sure to scroll down to see some of the latest posts.

Labor Education Program Update

February 3, 2008

This LEP Update includes activities for both Urbana-Champaign and Chicago sites.

CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: Chicago. Instructor, Emanuel Blackwell, Local 17 Heat and Frost Insulators and National Labor College graduate. The history of African American organizing in the Chicago stockyards, the Last Campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King, and current organizing trends in the building trades. This will be a problem-focused class that will draw on the experience of participants. Call 312-996-2624 to register. $75 for 3 Monday night sessions (Feb 25, March 3, March 10, 6:00 – 8:30).

LABOR FILM CLASS: Champaign. Joe Berry, Instructor, starts Tuesday February 12 for seven weeks. Watch great known and unknown films, compare, discuss, analyze both as film documents and in their historical and political/economic contexts. At the Wagner Education Center at ILIR, 6-9 pm. This is the NLC class reconfigured to open it to people who wanted the class but didn’t need college credit. $60.

REGINA V. POLK CONFERENCE MAY 15-18. Download an application at http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu Please fax it to 312-413-2997. Fax number on brochure was incorrect. This conference draws about 35-45 union women from Illinois and the Midwest. We have funding from the Polk Fund to provide about 35 full scholarships. The collective bargaining focus this year will be on the public sector and what used to be the public sector – transportation, post office, healthcare, schools. What’s going on with the public sector? You know who you are!

UCAN classes (DECATUR) start January 21 and continues: 2.4: Helena Worthen, Basic Worker Rights. 2.11: Joe Berry: Political Economy, ours and theirs. 2.18: Amy Girardi, Winning back the American Dream. 2.25: Community Outreach: FCFH, Salvation Army, NECF, IDES, Catholic Charities. 3.3: Effective communication. 3.10: Graduation at IBEW Local 146. Contact: Sarah Sylvester, 217-422-8537.

UNION CARPENTERS APPRENTICESHIP (CHICAGO): February 7, 6 PM at St. Anselm at 110 East 61st Street, Chicago, church basement. The Building Bridges Project of the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues has room for 12 more students in our pre-apprenticeship program. Classes are 11 weeks long and are 8am to 4pm, Monday through Friday, and include math and hands-on training. Stipends, child care. Call 773-728-8400 Extension 19 for details.

LABOR STUDIES CLUB (CHAMPAIGN). Contact Dierdre Darnall at d-darnall@hotmail.com for information about the Labor Studies Club at UIUC.

NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE CLASSES: LABOR STUDIES CHICAGO
LBST 2990: Educational Planning. Required Jumpstarts will take place February 21, March 12 (note: This is a Wednesday, not a Thursday) and April 17 from 6-9 pm at CLEP. All NLC students who have not completed their portfolios are welcome. Remember, you have 14 weeks from the date of your Ed Planning class to complete your portfolio; after that, you need to get an extension from Helena and after that you will have to re-register with the NLC.
LBHU 2160 - Images of Labor in Film. The course will survey a number of important films that have strong images of labor, both positive and negative. This class meets 9 am to 4 pm, four Saturdays in a row in March: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22 with Steven Ashby. Cost: $490.

LABOR STUDIES ON-LINE CLASSES – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DEGREE
Even if you are not a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student, you can register for our new on-line degree program. All U of Illinois Labor Studies classes will count toward the NLC degree. If you are a University of Illinois employee, you can take these classes for free. The three Online Labor Studies classes are described below. The cost per 3-credit class is $882. When the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations has established its BA degree, these courses will apply to your University of Illinois degree. For more information, call Steven Ashby at 312-996-8733 or email him at skashby@uiuc.edu.

LIR 100 Introduction to Labor Studies (3 credits) The course provides an overview of workers and unions in American society.

LIR 200 Globalization and Workers (3 credits) Is globalization good for working people in the United States and around the world? Globalization is the driving force in the world economy but it is also provoking tremendous debate and popular resistance.

LIR 300 Workers, Unions and Politics (3 credits) The course explores political power, political participation, and political change from a broad historical and cross-cultural perspective, always focusing on a view of politics from the bottom up.

The AFL-CIO Organizing Institute will be holding a 3-day organizer training in Chicago on April 4-6. The training will be held at IAM Lodge 1487, 50 W. Oakton St, Des Plaines, IL. Contact Carol Edelson at 202-320-1410 or via email at cedelson@aflcio.org

BASIC CERTIFICATE INTRO TO LABOR LAW is under way at CLEP as of now. Intro to Collective Bargaining starts March 4, Steven Ashby, Instructor. Advanced CB will start March 5, Bob Bruno, instructor.

March 12: Book reading and signing of On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5, by Suzan Erem and Paul Durremberger. At UNITE! HERE, 333 S. Ashland, 5 to 7 p.m. with refreshments etc. www.ontheglobalwaterfront.org Check out some of the links to videos of the strike on this.

WORKERS COMP: The CACOSH guide to the 2005 Illinois Workers Compensation Law is now available in Spanish. To get a copy ($5), call Emanuel Blackwell at 708-359-3303.

The Labor Ed program at UIUC is located at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations. The Labor Ed program in Chicago is at Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu

Labor Education Program Update

LEP HOME

January 17, 2008

This LEP Update includes activities for both Champaign-Urbana and Chicago sites. We can put on our entire Certificate Program in Labor Studies anywhere in Illinois.

CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

January 23. (CHAMPAIGN). Introduction to Workers’ Rights. Douglass Library, Grove Street, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. FREE. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen, instructors.

UCAN classes (DECATUR) start January 21, 6-8 pm at the United Way of Decatur and Mid Illinois, 202 E Eldorado Street, Suite B, Decatur, IL. Cost is $60 per person for eight classes. 1.21: Denise Smith and Bill Francisco, Welcome and introductions. 1.28: Mike Matejka, Labor History. 2.4: Helena Worthen, Basic Worker Rights. 2.11: Joe Berry: Political Economy, ours and theirs. 2.18: Amy Girardi, Winning back the American Dream. 2.25: Community Outreach: FCFH, Salvation Army, NECF, IDES, Catholic Charities. 3.3: Effective communication. 3.10: Graduation at IBEW Local 146. Contact: Sarah Sylvester, 217-422-8537.

UNION CARPENTERS APPRENTICESHIP (CHICAGO): February 7, 6 PM at St. Anselm at 110 East 61st Street, Chicago, church basement. The Building Bridges Project of the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues has room for 12 more students in our pre-apprenticeship program. Classes are 11 weeks long and are 8am to 4pm, Monday through Friday, and include math and hands-on training. Stipends, child care. Call 773-728-8400 Extension 19 for details.

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY CLASS (CHICAGO): February 25, March 3, & March 10 (CHICAGO): African American Labor History Class. Instructor, Emanuel Blackwell. 6:00 – 8:30 PM Mondays at CLEP. Focus on the central role of African American organizing in the Chicago packinghouses 1910-60, the civil rights movement and the Final Campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King among sanitation workers. Cost: $75 per person for three sessions and instructional materials. Call 312-996-2624 to register.

HISPANIC INITIATIVE CONFERENCE (CHICAGO): Jan. 19- 9:00 a.m.-12 p.m.: Collective Bargaining and Membership Involvement. Contact Francisco Montalvo Jr. Fee: $20

LABOR STUDIES CLUB (CHAMPAIGN). Contact Dierdre Darnall at d-darnall@hotmail.com for information about the Labor Studies Club at UIUC.

NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE CLASSES - Labor Studies CHICAGO LBST 2990: Educational Planning. Friday Jan 25, 6-9 pm and Saturday Jan 26, 9-4 pm. This required course teaches students how to develop the portfolio which will become the basis for claiming credit for prior learning, both in and out of college. The class is followed by monthly jumpstart meetings. Cost: $490. Instructor, Helena Worthen
LBST 2000: Introduction to Labor Studies. This, along with the Ed Planning class, is one of the required classes for NLC students. (3 semester credits). 9 am to 4 pm four Saturdays in a row, 2/2, 2/9, 2/16, and 2/23. Instructor: Bob Bruno. Cost: $490.
LBHU 2160 - Images of Labor in Film. The course will survey a number of important films that have strong images of labor, both positive and negative. This class meets 9 am to 4 pm, four Saturdays in a row in March: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22 with Steven Ashby. Cost: $490.

NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE CLASSES - Labor Studies CHAMPAIGN LBHU 2160 - Images of Labor in Film. The course description for the Champaign Images of Labor in Film is the same as for the Chicago class. However, this class will meet Tuesday evenings, 6-9 pm, February 12 through April 15, at the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations. 3 credits. Cost: $490. People have begun to enroll in this class so it may actually run. Call Joe Berry at 217-333-2388.

ON-LINE CLASSES Labor Studies – UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DEGREE
Even if you are not a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student, you can register for our new on-line degree program. Also, all U of Illinois Labor Studies classes will count toward the NLC degree. If you are a University of Illinois employee, you can take these classes for free. The three Online Labor Studies classes are described below. The cost per 3-credit class is $882. When the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations has established its BA degree, these courses will apply to your University of Illinois degree. For more information, call Steven Ashby at 312-996-8733 or email him at skashby@uiuc.edu.
LIR 100 Introduction to Labor Studies (3 credits)
The course provides an overview of workers and unions in American society..
LIR 200 Globalization and Workers (3 credits)
Is globalization good for working people in the United States and around the world? Globalization is the driving force in the world economy but it is also provoking tremendous debate and popular resistance.
LIR 300 Workers, Unions and Politics (3 credits)
The course explores political power, political participation, and political change from a broad historical and cross-cultural perspective, always focusing on a view of politics from the bottom up.

REGINA V. POLK CONFERENCE MAY 15-18. This year the Polk Conference will run Thursday through Sunday to reduce the lost time cost to participants. The collective bargaining simulation will be based on a public sector contract in order to generate workshops dealing with public sector issues. Download an application at http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu Please fax it to 312-413-2997. Fax number on brochure was incorrect.

March 12: Book reading and signing of On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5, by Suzan Erem and Paul Durremberger. At UNITE! HERE, 333 S. Ashland, 5 to 7 p.m. with refreshments etc. www.ontheglobalwaterfront.org
WORKERS COMP: The CACOSH guide to the 2005 Illinois Workers Compensation Law is in its second printing. To get a copy ($5), call Emanuel Blackwell at 708-359-3303.

The Labor Ed program at UIUC is located at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
The Labor Ed program in Chicago is at Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu