Past Events
Union Skills Schedule (June - July 2010)
Date: June 09, 2010 at 04:20 PM| June | |
| 6-11 | Organizing in the Construction Industry: Level One |
| 13-18 | Teaching Techniques II: Building Trades Multi-craft Core Curriculum Train the Trainer |
| July | |
| 11-16 | Strategic Planning for Construction Organizing: Level Two |
| 18-23 | Arbitration Preparation and Presentation Level I |
Southern School for Union Women
Date: May 13, 2010 at 11:40 AMAugust 19—22, 2010
CHOOSE FROM 5 EXCITING WORKSHOPS:
1. Basic Union Skills: Learn, Teach, and Organize
2. Bread and Roses: Women in Labor History
3. Effective Meetings: Parliamentary Procedure is Just the Beginning
4. Money Matters: Basic Economics at Work and at Home
5. Women and Leadership: Run for Office, Not for Coffee
Limited Scholarships
Available
REGISTER TODAY!
For A Registration Brochure and More Information Contact:
| Elise Bryant | Barbara Miller |
| ebryant@nlc.edu | bmiller@nlc.edu |
301-431-5449
Primary sponsor: NLC
Secondary sponsor: UALE
National Labor College
10000 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20903
Union Skills Schedule (August - December 2010)
Date: May 12, 2010 at 04:34 PM| August | |
| September | |
| 19-24 | Arbitration Preparation and Presentation Level I |
| 19-24 | Closing the Deal |
| 19-24 | Organizing 1 |
| 19-24 | Secretary-Treasurers LM2 Requirements |
| 20-24 | Introduction to Green Jobs and Green Workplaces* |
| 26–Oct 1 | |
| October | |
| 10-15 | Arbitration Preparation and Pres Level II |
| 10-15 | New Union Staff |
| 17-22 | Organizing in the Construction Industry: Level One |
| 17-22 | Teaching Techniques I |
| 24-29 | Contract Negotiations in Private Sector |
| 24-29 | Secretary-Treasurers Total Solution |
| November | |
| 7-12 | Negotiating and Writing Contract Language |
| 29-Dec 3 | Labor Relations in the Federal Secto |
| 30-Dec 2 | Grievance Mediation |
| December | |
| 5-10 | Strategic Planning for Construction Organizing: Level Two |
| 5-10 | Green Audit I, Building the Sustainable Workplace* |
| 12-17 | Contract Negotiations in the Construction Industry |
Prof. Bethany Moreton Book Signing
Date: February 09, 2010 at 07:00 PMUpcoming Book Signing Event:
When: February 9, Tuesday evening, 7:00--8:30 pm
Where: National Labor College
The National Labor College will host Prof. Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia, Athens, to discuss and sign her new book To Serve God & Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard University Press, 2009) for an evening discussion and book signing.
The book explores the complex role of grass roots and top-down Sunbelt evangelical culture in the making of the Wal-Mart retail empire. Prof. Moreton’s analysis and insights into the complex inner workings of Wal-Mart will be of particular interest to labor and other social justice activists seeking to organize the South.
AFL-CIO BLOG: King Day Celebration in Greensboro, NC
Date: January 18, 2010 at 12:00 PMFrom the AFL-CIO NOW Blog:
This Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, more than 400 union activists will remind the nation that without economic justice, King’s vision is unfulfilled. During the annual AFL-CIO King Day celebration in Greensboro, N.C., Jan. 14-18, union members will call on the White House and Congress for meaningful jobs creation policies.