Labor Education Program Update
April 20, 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 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.