It is likely the U.S. Senate will take up the Employee Free Choice Act soon after Al Franken is seated.
Please consider writing and placing a pro-Employee Free Choice Act op ed during the next 4-6 weeks. To help you, a fact sheet entitled “How to Submit Op-Ed Articles and Letters to the Editor” has been uploaded to our Employee Free Choice Act page. Click on the "What You Can Do" link to find it.
Friday night March 26 at UALE we are hosting the amazing Los Angeles dance troupe, Contra Tiempo. Go to their website to get a glimpse of what they do.
This year, UALE will offer conference participants an opportunity to visit and meet with Mexican maquiladora workers in Tijuana before the begining of the conference proper.
This and other new information about the conference can now be seen from the 2010 Conference page.
In North America for the first time in its 28 year existence, the International Labour Process Conference will take place in Brunswick, NJ, March 15-17, 2010, hosted by Rutgers University. A number of UALE members are among its organizers and presenters.
Alert: Early registration rate ends after January 31!
Union activist and URI Professor Scott Molloy is looking for a good home for his collection of about 2,000 books on labor history.
"As part of my downsizing plans I want to sell the books, pamphlets, and miscellaneous items at a reasonable price to another labor history scholar who might appreciate such instant gratification and academic respectability!"
The Executive Committee of theAmerican Association of University Professors has issued a statement strongly condemning the recent attacks against university labor centers by the right-wing Landmark Legal Foundation.
Bruce Kingery, UALE member and long-time labor educator at the UAW National Education Department, has come out with a new book of poetry aimed at a Labor Studies audience.
Real World Labor, Edited by UALE member Immanuel Ness, Amy Offner, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense Collective, examines important issues facing workers today, as well as new forms of resistance that are springing up around the world.
A new book outlining how unions can help their laid off members, protect those still working, and prevent the gutting of their hard-won contracts – and their very unions themselves – has been written by UALE member Bill Barry and published by Union Communication Services, Inc. (UCS).
(By the way, UALE receives a commission for every book that is bought through the "UCS labor books" link at the bottom left of this page. So buy it there, and help us all out!)
