Fall Term
Monday Evenings

1st period 7:00-8:10pm pick one:

THE STEWARD'S JOB
George Embleton, AFSCME
Martin Callaghan, Printing Pressman #3

The steward as the dynamo for making collective bargaining work.
Duties as first-line administrator of the contract: problem solving,
grievance handling, membership solidarity. Role playing.

BUILDING TRADES: Moving to the Future
Frank Callahan, Pres
Mass Bldg Trades Assoc

Issues facing the Building Trades and current strategies to address
them. Includes: PLA's, Responsible Employer Ordinances, Targeting
Specific Industry Sectors, Lobbying, Public Construction Laws and
Organizing..

ARBITRATION II

Arbitrators James Cooper, John Hansen & Others

Continuation of Arb. I & additional areas. Discussion of procedural
issues in arbitration,. For new Labor/Management representatives – you
will meet more arbitrators in eight weeks than you will in five years
of practice. Arb I or permission of instructors is required. Limited
to fifteen participants

FINANCIAL REVIEW FOR UNIONS

Greg Dee & Tom Iacobucci,
First Trade Union Bank

Understanding union financial statements, budgetary controls, managing
cash flow, preparing for audits, investing fundamentals, and
accounting terms/ processes. We will also cover reporting and filing
guidelines for the IRS, US DOL, MA Labor Rels. Div., MA Campaigns and
Political Finance.

LABOR STRATEGIES

Joseph Sandulli, Esq
Sandulli & Grace

How to coordinate legal action, public relations, and negotiations to
deal effectively on the range of labor-management issues in both
public & private sectors. Guest speakers.

SECOND PERIOD — 8:20 - 9:30 P.M. pick one:

ROOTS OF LABOR LAW

Paul Kelly, Esq
Segal, Roitman , LLP

The relation between the US legal system and American labor from the
mid-19th Century, including anti-trust laws, The Railway Labor Act,
the, Norris-LaGuardiaAct, Wagner Act, Taft-Hartley Act. Landrum
Griffin Act and major judicial decisions.

THE WORKING VOTER

Bob Bower and Tim Sullivan, Massachusetts AFL-CIO

This class will examine the issues that will
confront voters in the upcoming national & local elections in
November. Each class will look at a
different issue from a number of perspectives, considering its impact
on working people.

THE HISTORY of LABOR THRU STORY & SONG

Sr. Mary Priniski, OP
The Labor Guild

Throughout the union movement song has been both a rallying cry and an
inspiration. This course will explore the history by looking at and
learning
movement songs.

BUILDING POWER

Ashley Adams
Massachusetts Teachers Association

Building Power: How to increase membership power internally through
intentional-relationship- building and collective action. Developing
internal structures to better mobilize the
membership. Case studies and role playing.

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