It is likely the U.S. Senate will take up the Employee Free Choice Act soon after Al Franken is seated.
Please consider writing and placing a pro-Employee Free Choice Act op ed during the next 4-6 weeks. To help you, a fact sheet entitled “How to Submit Op-Ed Articles and Letters to the Editor” has been uploaded to our Employee Free Choice Act page. Click on the "What You Can Do" link to find it.
UALE members have put together some wonderful reports, articles, and teaching materials on the Employee Free Choice Act. Take a look at our Employee Free Choice Act web page for resources you can download to teach about this important piece of legislation.
And keep checking back-- new items are being added all the time.
47th Annual CIRA Conference / International CRIMT Conference June 16–18 2010, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
The world of work is changing and this has tremendous implications for employee representation. Workplaces are continuously reconfigured through new information technologies and the transnational organization of production and services, economic globalization and financial crisis. Women’s labour market participation, labour migration and greater ethnic diversity are all changing the composition of workforces.
Embedded With Organized Labor describes how union members have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past.
In spite of being threatened with elimination in response to budget cuts, the Evergreen State College Labor Education and Research Center has survived -- for now.
UALE is happy to announce the recipients of the five 2009 annual awards. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Charlie Micallef. The award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Labor Education for 2008 went to Judy Ancel. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin have won the Best Book Award. Jason Albright got the award for Best Article in Labor Studies Journal, and Jason Stanley won the New Generation Award.
Class is not dead! Many people are actively using working class heritage as a resource to reflect on the past, reassess the present, and plan for the future. In this proposed volume we aim to theorize and document this phenomenon as an under-represented form of cultural heritage.
