LEP Update
April 13, 2009
Apprentices and journeymen willing to be interviewed for a study of what people learn during the OJT part of apprenticeship training please respond to this email.
May 2: Celebrate May Day at the Central Illinois Social Forum, 1 pm to 12 midnight, at the Indy Media Center in downtown Urbana. There will be an anti-foreclosure/eviction group coming down from Chicago to conduct a workshop, and activists from Charleston, Effingham, Decatur, Bloomington and Danville. For more information contact the Champaign-Urbana Jobs with Justice or Ricky Baldwin at 217-328-3037 or peoplespotluck@chambana.net
May 9: What’s the backup plan in case EFCA doesn’t pass? Come to the 2009 Chicago Troublemakers School at Malcolm X College on Saturday, May 9. Address: 1900 West van Buren, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.
www.labornotes.org/chicago to register online, or call 313-842-6262.
May 21: Danville. Conference on Older Workers: Achieving work satisfaction, Avoiding health and legal problems. Danville Area Community College Bremen Conference Center Contact:
www.ocdanville.com or w.gingold@uiuc.edu
LEP SUMMER ONLINE CREDIT CLASSES
(For more information about the online program and to view course syllabi, go to the online section of our website www.illinoislabored.org)
12 week session May 12 - July 31
LIR 130 Introduction to Labor and Working Class History
LIR 200 Globalization and Workers
8 week sessions June 9 - July 31
LIR 100 Introduction to Labor Studies
LIR 110 Labor and Social Movements
LIR 120 Contemporary Labor Problems
STATEWIDE CONFERENCES
LEP has planned a sequence of statewide labor conferences on the campus in Champaign. Our intent is to repeat these or other conferences, depending on requests and input from the labor movement, on an annual basis. The goal of these conferences is to:
- Engage current Illinois labor leaders, elected, staff and rank and file;
- Identify and develop future leaders;
- Encourage them to meet each other and learn each other’s issues;
- Help them stay up to date on a wide range of issues critical to the labor movement;
- Facilitate communication and action across unions, trades and workplaces;
- Move an effective labor agenda in our unions, workplaces and in the public sphere.
The schedule proposed for 2009-2010 is:
Union Communications: the Face and Voice of Labor
June 25-26-27
Union Education: Why teaching is the first step in organizing
July 23-24-25
Local Union Presidents Conference
September 24-25-26 (tentative)
Collective Bargaining: Negotiations and Contracts
October 29-30-31 (tentative)
Safety and Health at Work
January 28-29-30, 2010
The rate for all five conferences is $1300, payable in advance. The cost of each conference is $325, with a $275 early bird rate except for the Union Communications conference which is only $220 with a $200 early bird rate. Most meals are included but hotel reservations are separate. For registration details call Martha Kelley at 217-333-0980 or email her at memoore1@illinois.edu
April 23: 8 Hr Hazwoper Refresher - Springfield
April 20-24: 40 Hr Technician - Peoria
April 15-18: UALE 2009 CONFERENCE “Imagining Alternatives: The Challenge to Labor” http://uale.org/
United Association for Labor Education, Annual Conference at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, MD. UALE is the professional organization for union-based, community organization-based and university-based labor educators.
WEB LABOR INFO
CONTACTS
CHICAGO: Yesenia Vargas, 312-996-2624, 815 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago 60607
CHAMPAIGN: Joe Berry, 217-333-2388, 504 East Armory, Champaign 61820
Helena Worthen
217-244-4095
hworthen@illinois.edu
