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Updated 5/4/2004; 4:14:40 PM
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 |
LaborTech activists focus on labor, technology
By John See, Workday Minnesota webmaster ‹ April 4, 2004
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/view_article.php?id=98c02205a3f511e20eecc973ce31b3ea
PALO ALTO, California
Over 100 labor activists attended LaborTech 2004 www.labortech2004.org at Stanford University during the weekend of April 2-4 to participate in a wide assortment of 25 workshops about labor and technology in the United States, Germany, Brazil, Belgium and Korea.
Sessions included "How the Stream Labor's Video and Audio on the Internet," "Labor Radio," "Censorship and the Media Workplace," "Technology, Stress and Health & Safety," and "Labor and Research Tools," to name a few.
Featured speakers included Ken Hamidi of the Intel v. Hamidi e-mail case which Mr. Hamidi won in 2003, yet who is still prevented by the state of California from sending e-mails; Henry Norr, Newspaper Guild member and computer technical writer who was fired from the San Francisco Chronicle after participating in a labor rally on his day off; researcher Nancy Bupp from the Education Department, IAM, about researching companies, and spying and surveillance techniques used by some companies; and Steve Stallone, Communication Director for the ILWU during the ILWU lock-out on the docks in San Francisco and the experiences of the dockworkers dealing with the media and the Bush administration.
John See, Labor Education Service/Workday Minnesota, presented at three workshops, "Labor Education in the Schools and Using Technology," "Organizing Media/Tech Workers," and "Community Access Cable-How to Establish A Labor TV Show." He also shared his experiences with the Minnesota labor movement and its support of Workday Minnesota, and which remains a unique service in the United States. The web site generated numerous questions about how such a service might be started in other states.
The LaborTech Conferences began in 1990, and are held almost annually in different cities around the U.S. and Canada. It was held in Minneapolis in 1994, and there was a strong interest among this year's participants to bring the conference back to the Twin Cities in 2005.
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Labor Study Is Alone Under Gov.'s Budget Ax
Schwarzenegger plan to eliminate institute sets off debate about the role taken on by colleges.
Los Angeles Times
By Evan Halper, Times Staff Writer
April 8, 2004
Sacramento - Of the hundreds of research institutes in California's public university system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has targeted just one for elimination: a think tank dedicated to organized labor.
It is the scourge of conservatives and industry groups. They call it "Union U" and charge that the institute has been used to train union "thugs" to beat up political opponents.
But to founders, the Institute for Labor and Employment, based at UCLA and UC BERKELEY, is a place where union leaders and academics can come together to explore workforce issues and trends.
The fate of the small institute is taking a prominent role in a high-stakes budget battle in Sacramento and a national debate over the place of organized labor in university classrooms, fueled by charges that the programs are merely a training ground for union activists....
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor ROBERT REICH [CURRENTLY A VISITING SCHOLAR AT UC BERKELEY] says "the information they provide has been extremely useful. They look at the entire labor market and ask hard questions about why the labor market looks the way it does, how it is evolving and how it could evolve."...
Staff members at the institute say charges that they sponsored political events, much less beatings, are nonsense. But the groundswell of opposition caught them off guard.
PETER OLNEY, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE, points out the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 made "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining" official government policy.
"Given the corporate offense against unions, some folks forget this is the law of the land," he said. "Is anyone talking about eliminating the business school for balance? They receive a lot more funding than we do."...
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