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“THE NEW FACES OF THE AMERICAN WORKER: What Implications for Organized Labor?”
March 8-11, 2007
National Labor College (NLC), Silver Spring, MD
Call for:
1.) Paper, Interactive Workshop, Panel and other session proposals
2.) Volunteers for UALE Conference Review Committee
DEADLINE: Proposals can be submitted on line through December 15,2006.
We are calling for presenters to describe the research, demonstrate the practices, celebrate the achievements, and chart the challenges of:
Organizing and representing the issues of new immigrant groups
Promoting worker self-organization
Supporting increased activity of women and non-anglo people in leading
their union organizations
Fighting against the expansion of informal conditions of employment
Opposing deregulation of economic life as it impacts U.S. workiers
Developing strategies to protect the individual against corporate greed
Identifying and opposing increased anti-union and anti-working class
activity by employers
Exposing the recycling of race and gender stereotypes
Promoting the access of minorities and working class to wealth-building
opportunities
Defending our rights to democracy and the democratic participation of
working-class communities
Confronting conservative anti-union attitudes
The ability of union strategies and structure to respond to the needs of
the new American workers
Strengthening community partnerships
Strengthening the relationship between Universities and Unions.
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