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Announcement :: Labor |
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Int'l Workers' Day Events, etc. |
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02 Apr 2004
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April 24, 2004. WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY HAYMARKET TOUR. Co-Sponsored by the Chicago Area Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (CACOSH). Visit the sites associated with the Haymarket rally for the 8-hour workday. Haymarket Square, the Courthouse, the Forest Home Cemetery where the martyrs and Emma Goldman are buried. Tour conducted by Bill Adelman. 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. $ 35 or $ 15 for students and low income. To sign up, call 312-996-6904.
May 1: Celebrate May Day with the ULTIMATE CHICAGO LABOR HISTORY TOUR. Visit Pullman, the site of the Republic Steel Massacre, Haymarket and Forest Home Cemetery where the Haymarket Martyrs are buried. Larry Spivak of AFSCME and the Illinois Labor History Society will tell the stories. $25 per person puts you on the bus. BCLS students will have first priority. Call 312-996-2623 to register.
May 12-15. REGINA V. POLK WOMEN'S LABOR LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles. Spanish-English translation will be available. See http://www.womenoflabor.com (website thanks to Melissa Palmer). We will begin to confirm acceptances April 15.
June 5. LEARN ABOUT THE RAILWAY LABOR ACT. Do you work under the RLA? Vanetta Mansfield, Chief of Staff for the National Mediation Board, will talk about representation, mediation and arbitration. At CLEP office, 9-3 Saturday June 5. $15 includes box lunch. Call 312-996-2623 to register.
June 18-19. EDUCATIONAL PLANNING 299, National Labor College class in which you learn to prepare the portfolio through which you earn credit for prior learning. Friday 6 pm - 9 pm, Saturday 9-4, our office. Call 312-996-2623 to register.
July 18-23: MIDWEST SCHOOL FOR WOMEN WORKERS will be held at Penn State College in State College, PA, jointly with the Northeast School for Women Workers. Penn State is right off Route 80 and accessible by plane through Detroit. We have a substantial amount of scholarship money to support women from the MidWest to go to this conference, thanks to the Regina V. Polk Fund for Women's Labor Leadership.
September 14: BASIC CERTIFICATE IN LABOR STUDIES CLASSES begin Tuesday nights with 6-week Introduction to the American Labor Movement.
October 6: NATIONAL LABOR COLLEGE CLASSES begin October 6 (Theories of Adult Learning), October 7 (Collective Bargaining) and October 11 (History of the Labor Movement II). |
See also:
http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/labor/labored.html
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