> > Workers at universities throughout the country are increasingly under > attack. For dining service workers and technical staff as well as tenured > professors and part-time faculty, downsizing, out-sourcing and union > busting are becoming familiar parts of the college curriculum. Wages and > benefits are being slashed in the name of "competition," while cuts in > student loans and the assault on affirmative action are making it > increasingly difficult for the children of workers to go to college at all. > > What can we do about it? On April 5, university workers from throughout the > Northeast will be meeting at UMass Boston for a conference on "Resisting > the Corporate Agenda in Higher Education." > > We'll hear from faculty who are under attack, clerical workers who's > benefits are threatened, and graduate employees just trying to make a > living. We'll also hear from folks who've been fighting back and winning! > > Join university workers from around the region to forge links across > campuses, disciplines, and job categories, and resist the corporate agenda > in higher education! > > Sponsors include: Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, CWA, AFL-CIO Organizing > Institute, Center for Campus Organizing, Massachusetts AFL-CIO, SEIU 285, > Mass. Teachers Association, and the Mass. Federation of Teachers. > > For more information, call 617-491-2525, or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Resisting the Corporate Agenda in Higher Education > April 5, Lipke Auditorium, UMass Boston > 9:00am-5:00pm > Registration: $10 > $5 for students or low-income participants. > > Welcome: Elizabeth Mock, President, UMass Boston Faculty/Staff Union > Opening Charge: Meline Kasparian, President MTA > > 9:30 AM Panel: The Right to Education > Chair: Meline Kasparian, MTA > A. Democracy in Higher Education: A Personal History, Howard Zinn, Author, > A Peoples History of the United States > B. Downsizing Access: The Attack on Affirmative Action, Diane Dujon, UMass > Boston, Member, Bargaining Committee, SEIU 509 > C. The Corporate Agenda for Higher Education & Its Alternatives, Jonathan > King, MIT > > 10:30 Coffee > > 10:45 AM: Panel: The Campus as a Workplace > Chair: Erin Enwright, GEO, UMass Amherst > A. Faculty Collective Bargaining for Public Higher Education: Past, > Present and Future Perspectives, Bill Murphy, President, Mass. State > College Association > B. The "Part-Timing" of the Campus Workforce, " Nancy Young, AAUP, > Curry College > C. Lessons of the Yale Contract Struggle, Andrea Cole, HERE, Locals 34/35, > Yale University > > 11:30 AM Concurrent Workshops > > A. The Temporary Campus > Faciliator: Julie Livingstone, Boston University > Participants: Jeff Lacher, CWA 1031, Annie Zirin, Harvard University, > B. What gets taught: who decides? For what purpose? > Facilitator: Jose Soler, UMass Dartmouth Labor Studies Program > Participants: Ruth Perry, MIT; Wilma Bonaparte, Campus Dean, Bunker Hill > Community College, Chelsea Campus > C. Equal Pay for Equal Work: An Idea Whose Time Has Come > Facilitator: Lynn Reid, Organizer, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical > Workers (AFSCME) Participants: Nancy Young, AAUP, Curry College; Ellen > Zucker, Director, Northeast Region, National Organization for Women > D. The Myth of the Impoverished University: Evaluating Your Institution's > Financial Health > Mark Blum, CWA Higher Education Project > E. Job Security: What's Left? > Facilitator: John Williams, AAUP, Wheaton College > Participants: Andrea Cole, HERE 34/35; Gary Goldstein, President, AAUP, > Tufts University; Patrick Crowley, President UAW 2322/GEO, UMass Amherst. > > 1:00 PM Lunch > > 2:00 PM Concurrent Workshops > F. Emerging Organizing Drives / New Organizing Strategies > Facilitator: Warren Heyman, Organizer, HERE 217, Providence RI > Participants: Donene Williams, AFSCME University Organizing; > Representative, Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), Yale > University; Representatives UE organizing drive, University of Vermont > G. Fighting for a Safe and Healthy Campus > Facilitator: Tom Goodkind, SEIU 509, UMass Boston > H. Students and Campus Organizing > Facilitator: Jennifer Jones, Students Together Ending Poverty > Participants: Pat Gozemba and Janet Goba, Salem State College; > Representative, AFL-CIO Organizing Institute > I. Empowering Media and Communications Strategies > Facilitators: Mark Blum, Higher Education Project, CWA; Charlotte Ryan, > Media Research and Action Project, Boston College > J. Political Strategies > Facilitator: Judy Atkins, President, UE District 2 > Participants; Ed Marth, Executive Director AAUP, University of Connecticut; > Representative, Campus Organizing Project; Ed Bruno, Labor Party > > 4:00 PM Closing Session: > Proposals/Reports back from the Workshops: Jennifer Berkshire, Academic > Committee for Workplace Justice > Taking the Initiative: Elaine Bernard, Harvard Trade Union Program > Entertainment: The Pipettes, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers > > > > > Jennifer C. Berkshire > Jean Baker Miller Training Institute > Stone Center > Wellesley College > Wellesley, MA 02181-8268 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------------------- Name: Mark Weisbrot E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Preamble Center for Public Policy 1737 21st Street NW Washington DC 20009 (202) 265-3263 (offc) (202) 333-6141 (home) fax: (202)265-3647
