The Hans Boeckler Foundation of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) is pleased to announce the Hans Boeckler Doctoral Fellowship for 2012-2013. In March a committee will award one fellowship. The deadline for applications is February 15, 2012.

The Hans Boeckler Doctoral Fellowship provides funding for international grad students interested in conducting research in Germany.
 

With the theme of Bread, Yes, But Roses Too: Commemorating the Lawrence Strike of 1912 and Reflecting on the Roles of Government and Public Sector Unions in Creating and Sharing Our Common Wealth, the Pacific NW Labor History Conference will be held May 18-20, 2012, in Tacoma, Washington. 

"Crossing the Border to Cananea" is the title of a 32 minute documentary produced by members of a 2010 UALE delegation to Cananea, Mexico. The film concerns the three year strike by members of Los Mineros at the huge copper mine in Cananea operated by Grupo Mexico.

Harvest of Loneliness, a documentary about the Bracero Program by UALE member Vivian Price and UC Irvine Chicano/Latino Studies professor Gilbert Gonzalez, is being shown on PBS stations al across the US this fall.

This new volume, edited by UALE member Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini, brings together essays on workers' control from the dawn of the indtustrial age until the present.

Yesterday, University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor Thomas George and Provost Glen Cope issued a statement to faculty and students supporting academic freedom and expressing regret for "the distress to [Don Giljum] and others that has been caused by the unauthorized copying, editing and distribution of the course videos." The statement also says that Don "remains eligible to teach at UMSL"

For the whole statement, as well as other articles and documents about this case of a right-wing smear campaign against labor studies, visit our "Attack on UM Labor Studies" page.

An online petition set up by UALE in support of the beseiged UM faculty members garnered 803 signatures in the few days it was up.