Events
Black Trade Union Leadership Academy
The Black Trade Union Leadership Academy is a program designed to give emerging Black trade unionist the skills and concepts that will help them to be a succesful union leaders. Read more
Union Leadership Workshops: January - June 2008
- Topic: The Union Leadership Workshop Series is a non-credit practical education, training and leadership development program designed for labor union officers, staff, stewards, member activists and worker advocates. See list of classes here.
- Date: January - June 2008
- Time: Workshops run weekdays 9:00AM - 4:30PM
- Location: Cornell-ILR School Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, Manhattan
- Cost: Unless indicated otherwise, the fee for a one-day program is $250; a two-day workshop is $350; and three days is $500. Fee includes food service and class materials.
- Contact: To register call 212-340-2827 or email jp424@cornell.edu
Unions & Diversity: Skills for Making Diversity Work
- Topic: Online Labor Credit Course
- Date: March 27 - June 5, 2008
- Time: Online
- Location: Online
- Cost: $420.00
- Conact: Becky Daniels rpd2@cornell.edu
- Description: The United States has always been defined as a so-called "melting pot." Yet current demographic and socio-economic changes are redefining the American cultural landscape and its institutions. This course aims at exploring and analyzing these historical, cultural and economic changes as they shape workplace culture. Emphasis will be placed on how changes in attitudes, values, perceptions and communication techniques regarding "different" groups can have a positive effect on corporate culture in the direction of greater productivity and equal opportunity.
Stategies of Collective Bargaining
- Topic: Online Labor Credit Course
- Date: March 27 - June 5, 2008
- Time: Online
- Location: Online
- Cost: $420.00
- Contact: Becky Daniels rpd2@cornell.edu
- Description: Principles of contract bargaining. Bargaining environments and structures. Standards used in bargaining, preparing bargaining demands, costing economic items, drafting non-economic contract language, negotiating economic and non-economic issues, resolving a contract bargaining impasse. The impact of contract bargaining outcomes on workers, unions, employers, and the public.
Labor Breakfast Forum
- Date: April 3, 2008
- Time: 8:30AM - 10:15AM
- Location of Event: Cornell ILR School NYC Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, NYC
- Cost: $20.00
- Contact: Jennie Parmualphol, 212-340-2827, jp424@cornell.edu
- Description: Telecom Workers (CWA and IBEW) Prepare for Showdonw @ VERIZON: A Contract Fight with Implications for All of Organized Labor (At Stake: Job Security, Health Benefits, Wages and Organizing Rights)
Buffalo Labor Studies April 3, 2008- May 15, 2008
Labor Breakfast Forum
- Date: April 7, 2008
- Time: 8:30AM - 11:00AM
- Location of Event: Cornell ILR School NYC Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, NYC
- Cost: $20.00
- Contact: Jennie Parmualphol, 212-340-2827, jp424@cornell.edu
- Description: Domestic Violence in the Workplace: THE UNION RESPONDS
Participating Effectively in Meetings
- Topic: Non-Credit Course
- Date: April 15, 2008
- Time: 9:00AM - 4:30PM
- Location: 249 Highland Ave, Rochester, NY
- Cost: $145.00
- Contact: Alice Torres amb27@cornell.edu
Preventing Workplace Violence
- Date of event: April 29, 2008
- Time of event: 9:00AM - 12:00PM
- Location of event: 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620
- Cost: $7/per person
- Contact person: Alice Torres amb27@cornell.edu
- Description of event:
* What is the extent of the workplace violence problem?
* How should we define issues of workplace violence?
* Who are the victims? Who are the perpetrators? What are the origins of the problem?
* NYS Workplace Violence Prevention Law
* Elements of a workplace violence prevention program
* Using the hierarchy of controls to problem-solve for hazard reduction; examples of crime prevention through environmental design
* Communications skills and listening skills: strategies to prevent violence by keeping the situation on a verbal level
* Behaviors to avoid/what not to say
* Dealing with the aftermath of a critical incident: critical incident stress
"Green" Cleaning Products
- Date of event: April 29, 2008
- Time of event: 1:00PM - 4:00PM
- Location of event: 249 Highland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620
- Cost: $7/per person
- Contact person: Alice Torres amb27@cornell.edu
- Description of event:
* Product substitution: why we should consider alternatives
* Using the hierarchy of controls to select products or processes of lesser hazard
* What's in major categories of cleaning products: ingredients/alternatives and how such products work
* General principles for selecting alternative cleaning products; using material safety data sheet information for hazard reduction
* Reducing fire hazard
* Reducing chemical exposure of students, faculty, and staff (short-term and long-term effects)
* Reducing environmental burdens through biodegradability, packaging, and other choices
* Environmentally Sensitive Cleaning and Maintenance Products for Schools In NYS: a look at the new NYS Education Law
Costing Out Contract Proposals for Union Negotiators
- Date of event: May 3, 2008 (Saturday)
- Time of event: 8:30AM - 4:00PM
- Location of event: NYSUT Central New York Office, 4983 Brittonfield Parkway, East Syracuse, NY
- Cost: $150.00
- Contact person: Alice Torres amb27@cornell.edu
- Description of event: This is a practical, how-to workshop to give union negotiators and bargaining committee members the skills they need to prepare for contract negotiations. Exercises are used throughout the workshop to illustrate how to calculate the projected costs of an agreement.
Labor Breakfast Forum
- Date: May 14, 2008
- Time: 8:30AM - 10:15AM
- Location of Event: Cornell ILR School NYC Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, NYC
- Description: Looking Forward to Election '08: Labor's Stake in the Immigration Debate.
- Cost: $20.00 or $200.00 for breakfast and Workshop: Addressing Anti-Immigrant Sentiment within Labor's Ranks: Tools for Officers, Staff and Stewards
- Contact: Jennie Parmualphol, 212-340-2827, jp424@cornell.edu
Workshop: Addressing Anti-Immigrant Sentiment within Labor's Ranks: Tools for Officers, Staff and Stewards
- Date: May 14, 2008
- Time: 10:15AM, following breakfast forum
- Location of Event: Cornell ILR School NYC Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, NYC
- Cost: $200.00 for workshop, or $200 for breakfast and Workshop
- Contact: Jennie Parmualphol, 212-340-2827, jp424@cornell.edu
Labor Breakfast Forum
- Date: May 29, 2008
- Time: 8:30AM - 10:15 AM
- Location of Event: Cornell ILR School NYC Conference Center, 16 East 34th Street, 6th Floor, NYC
- Cost: $20.00
- Contact: Jennie Parmualphol, 212-340-2827, jp424@cornell.edu
- Description: Men and Women as Allies: A Labor/Management Strategy to Address Domestic Violence Through Workplace Education and Social Change
