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The United Association for Labor Education (UALE) is a national organization of labor educators working towards progress, growth, and hope for the labor movement. Education is an essential tool of union transformation, developing new leadership and meeting the ever-changing needs of unions and workers.

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Save the date for UALE 2013 conference

Mar 15 |19:34
What Are Workers Saying? Save the date and find out!

UALE 2013 Annual Conference
April 17-20, 2013 in Toronto

Metropolitan Hotel

Hotel reservations for the conference are now available, access code 18176.

Please contact the hotel directly by phone: 416-599-0555 or 1-800-668-6600 or by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Metropolitan Hotel it is centrally located (just behind City Hall) and comfortable, so it will fill up quickly. You can revise or cancel your reservation without penalty up to 5 days ahead of your scheduled visit. The conference rate is $180 single, $220 double and includes breakfast and lunch.

Additional details forthcoming, including pre-conference program, conference theme, call for papers and presentations, and registration details.

Questions? Contact D’Arcy Martin < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. > This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Tony Michael < This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. >

 

UALE launches new website!

Mar 15 |03:01

We have completely reorganized and redesigned our website in preparation for the conference.  Please report any comments, questions, bugs, or suggestions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

 

UALE endorses Occupy Wall Street Movement

Feb 9 |20:10

UALE endorses the extraordinary movement of students, workers, families, the employed and unemployed, and people across the political spectrum who have joined the demonstrations called Occupy Wall Street. We agree that now is the right time to protest what Wall Street has done to our society, specifically our jobs, wages, savings, healthcare, retirement, educational system and physical infrastructure. As labor educators, we have studied and taught the realities of growing inequality for many years. We are happy to accept the challenge to our teaching practice raised by OWS and the worldwide movement of which it is a part.

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  The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center at the South Seattle Community College has an opening for a Labor Educator. The Labor Educator will work with Labor Center staff to plan and implement trainings and workshops with unions, community organizations, and campus programs. These trainings and workshops will provide education and skills development for and about workers and their organizations. Some of the workshops the Labor Educator may be asked to facilitate include classes for union stewards, collective bargaining, leadership and communication, community-labor alliances, and organizing. The Labor Educator will do strategic outreach to the labor community to develop programs, and be a resource to faculty and staff at the Seattle Community Colleges.

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2012 Women's Summer Schools

The 2012 Northeast Regional Women's School will take place at UMass Amherst, from Saturday, July 28 through Thursday, Aug. 2. (Please note Saturday through Thursday schedule!) Coordinators will be Dale Melcher, Anneta Argyres, Kim Wilson and Susan Winning all from the UMass Labor Extension Program, and Kathy Casavant, AFL-CIO. Brochure and other materials can be downloaded here.

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