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

http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu

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.

CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago

60607

CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820 Labor and Organizing in the African American Community (CHICAGO). Feb 25, Monday, 6:00 – 8:30 pm, also March 3 and March 10: Instructor, Emanuel Blackwell, Local 17 Heat and Frost Insulators and National

Labor

College graduate. African American organizing in the

Chicago stockyards, the Last Campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King, and current organizing in the building trades. A problem-focused class that will build on the experience of participants. Call 312-996-2624 to register. $75 for 3 sessions.

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.

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

NATIONAL

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.

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.

OI TRAINING: 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. We can bring our Book Table and set it up to sell and talk about good labor books provided to us by the Illinois Labor History Society, books that you may not see out on the shelf in most bookstores.

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

Labor Education Program Update
January 1, 2008

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

January 23. (CHAMPAIGN). Introduction to Workers’ Rights. Douglass Library, Grove Street, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. FREE, everybody welcome. 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.

CERTIFICATE CLASSES IN LABOR STUDIES (CHICAGO): Intro to Labor Law starts Tuesday January 15 and runs every Tuesday night for 6 weeks, from 6:00 –8:30 pm. Steven Ashby, instructor. Cost for all 6 weeks: $150.

Advanced Labor Law: Dealing with the Boards starts Wednesday January 16 and runs every Wednesday night for 6 weeks, from 6:00 – 8:30. Bob Bruno, instructor. Cost for all 6 weeks: $150.

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.

The Intro to Collective Bargaining and Advanced Collective Bargaining: Case Studies classes begin March 4 and March 5 respectively.

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

NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE CLASSES LABOR STUDIES COURSES 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. Labor and the economy, comparative union structure and governance, membership attitudes and behavior, labor movement theories, changing member demographics, labor law and legislation, labor history, organizing strategies, globalization, and other contemporary labor issues. (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. Students will be expected to see four or five films during class hours. (3 semester credits)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 COURSES (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 4 through April 8, at the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations. 3 credits. Instructor: Joe Berry. Cost: $490.

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. The three Online Labor Studies classes that are being offered in Spring 2008 are Intro to Labor Studies; Globalization and Workers; and Workers, Unions and Politics. 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.

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

On the Global Waterfront: The Fight to Free the Charleston 5, by Suzan Erem and Paul Durremberger is now out. According to the authors, “This is the definitive story of South Carolina longshoremen who fought racial and economic injustice with a worldwide campaign to end the prosecution of men guilty only of protecting their way of life. It’s more than what happened that January night in 2000 when 660 riot police faced off against 150 longshoremen. It’s more than the 2-year prosecution that could have wiped out the last well-funded, organized group of black workers in South Carolina. It is the story of the beginnings of the Bush Era. It exposes the roots of neoconservativism and the new, more insidious religious right but it also shows the path to demanding more and better from global capital.” More details at 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.

CERTIFICATE CLASSES IN LABOR STUDIES Champaign : the entire Basic and Advanced Certificate sequences can be offered at your location. Call Joe Berry at 217-333-2388

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
Dec 12, 2007

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

January 23. (CHAMPAIGN). Introduction to Workers’ Rights. Douglass Library, Grove Street, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. FREE, everybody welcome.

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.

CERTIFICATE CLASSES LABOR STUDIES Chicago : Intro to Labor Law starts Tuesday January 15 and runs every Tuesday night for 6 weeks, from 6:00 –8:30 pm. Steven Ashby, instructor. Cost for all 6 weeks: $150. Advanced Labor Law: Dealing with the Boards starts Wednesday January 16 and runs every Wednesday night for 6 weeks, from 6:00 – 8:30. Bob Bruno, instructor. Cost for all 6 weeks: $150. The Intro to Collective Bargaining and Advanced Collective Bargaining: Case Studies classes begin March 4 and March 5 respectively.

CERTIFICATE CLASSES LABOR STUDIES Champaign : the entire Basic and Advanced Certificate sequences can be offered at your location. Call Joe Berry at 217-333-2388

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

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. Labor and the economy, comparative union structure and governance, membership attitudes and behavior, labor movement theories, changing member demographics, labor law and legislation, labor history, organizing strategies, globalization, and other contemporary labor issues. (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. Students will be expected to see four or five films during class hours. (3 semester credits)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 4 through April 8, at the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations. 3 credits. Instructor: Joe Berry. Cost: $490.

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. The three Online Labor Studies classes that are being offered in Spring 2008 are Intro to Labor Studies; Globalization and Workers; and Workers, Unions and Politics. 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.

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. Applications for scholarships will go out to our mailing lists in early December. If you want to make sure you’re on the list, call Yesenia Vargas at the number above. You can download an application form from our new website at http://lep.ilir.uiuc.edu

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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

Labor Education Program Update
November 27, 2007
CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820

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

CENTER FOR WORKING CLASS STUDIES (Chicago): November 30, 2-5 pm. The Politics of the New Chicago Labor Movement – the Future of the New Chicago Labor-Community Coalition. At Roosevelt University, Auditorium Building, Room #320. FREE, but register by calling Bob Bruno at 312-996-2491.

HISPANIC INITIATIVE CONFERENCE: (Chicago). Dec. 5, from 6-8:30 p.m.: Knowing your contract: The Nuts and Bolts of Language that Matters. FREE. Call Francisco Montalvo Jr. for more information.

PERU REPORT-BACK (Chicago): Monday Dec 10 at CLEP, 6:00 – 8:30. Helena Worthen and Joe Berry visited Peru Nov. 12-17 at the invitation of a representative of the Ministry of Labor and met with various labor leaders from different parts of the labor movement. During this week the Peru Free Trade Act was passed in the US House, the miners were on strike and there was a strike among professors at all the public universities, as well as a hunger strike. Helena and Joe will report back what we saw, what we heard. Free. Co-Sponsored by Chicago Jobs with Justice and the Global Justice Committee.

PERU REPORT-BACK (Champaign): Tuesday December 11 in the Wisegarver Room, Illinois Disciples Foundation (same building as the Co-op), corner of Wright and Springfield. 6-9 pm. Same program as above. Co-Sponsored by the Champaign-Urbana Jobs with Justice.

CERTIFICATE CLASSES (Chicago): Intro to Labor Law starts Tuesday January 15 and runs every Tuesday night for 6 weeks, from 6:00 –8:30 pm. Steven Ashby, instructor. Cost for all 6 weeks: $150.
Advanced Labor Law: Dealing with the Boards starts Wednesday January 16 and runs every Wednesday night for 6 weeks, from 6:00 – 8:30. Bob Bruno, instructor. Cost for all 6 weeks: $150.
The Intro to Collective Bargaining and Advanced Collective Bargaining: Case Studies classes begin March 4 and March 5 respectively.

CERTIFICATE CLASSES: (Champaign): the entire Basic and Advanced Certificate sequences can be offered at your location. Call Joe Berry at 217-333-2388

HISPANIC INITIATIVE CONFERENCE: Jan. 19- 9:00 a.m.-12 p.m.: Collective Bargaining and Membership Involvement. Contact Francisco Montalvo Jr.

NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE CLASSES:
CHICAGO: Ed Planning Jumpstart November 29 at CLEP. These are short drop-in meetings that allow NLC students who are working on their portfolios or other papers to confer with other NLC students or the instructor. There is no charge for jumpstarts but you must sign up in advance. Call Helena Worthen at 217-444-4095.
LBST 2990: Educational Planning. Friday Jan 15, 6-9 pm and Saturday Jan 16, 9-4 pm. This required course is designed to help students clarify their educational goals. Students learn 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 that all NLC students have to take. It introduces participants to the required writing and analytical standards of the College. Through course discussions and essays, students critically evaluate recent scholarship in the field of labor studies. Subject areas include: labor and the economy, comparative union structure and governance, membership attitudes and behavior, labor movement theories, changing member demographics, labor law and legislation, labor history, organizing strategies, globalization, and other contemporary labor issues. (3 semester credits). This course meets 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. Working people, their unions, labor issues, in general, and political movements involving the working class have not been a major presence in film. But when images of labor do appear, they are rarely presented in a favorable light. It is, therefore, very important to see and to understand those images that have appeared because we live in a culture that receives so much of its information (and ultimately many of its opinions) from visual media. The course will survey a number of important films that have strong images of labor, both positive and negative. Students will be expected to see four or five films during class hours. (3 semester credits)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: 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 4 through April 8, at the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations. 3 credits. Instructor: Joe Berry. Cost: $490.

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. The three Online Labor Studies classes that are being offered in Spring 2008 are Intro to Labor Studies; Globalization and Workers; and Workers, Unions and Politics. 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.

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. Applications for scholarships will go out to our mailing lists in early December. If you want to make sure you’re on the list, call Yesenia Vargas at the number above.

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 Digitized Book of the Week: Was it a fair trial? A plea to the Governor to save the lives of the Haymarket martyrs. Follow the following link. If it doesn’t come up on the Haymarket book, search “Haymarket.” Click on the pdf to see every inch of the actual book bigger than life: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/digitizedbotw

Unless otherwise noted, Champaign programs take place at 504 East Armory, in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Chicago programs take place at CLEP, Suite 110 The Rice Building, 815 West Van Buren Street (near Halsted and W. Van Buren). Both locations accessible by public transportation. The LEP Update appears every two weeks. Our downstate faculty can now offer most of our programs at your location. If you would like us to come to your organization or local union meeting, call the numbers listed above or email Illinoislabored@uiuc.edu

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In spring 2008 Labor and Industrial Relations is offering our first online courses! Each semester we will offer more courses on labor studies. Soon we will apply for the creation of a new B.A. degree where all labor studies courses can be taken online. If you also take your general education requirements as UIUC or UIS online courses, you will be able to earn a UIUC Labor Studies degree entirely online.
Who do I call if I have a question about Labor and Industrial Relations’ Online Courses?
Contact Prof. Steven Ashby, Online Coordinator, at skashby@uiuc.edu. Prof. Ashby is in the ILIR Labor Education Program’s Chicago office at (312) 996-8733.