The governing body of UALE is the Executive Board, elected every two years at the annual meeting. Go to the Executive Board page to see the current Board members and their contact information.
The work of UALE between meetings is carried out by Working Groups, Committees, Caucuses and Task Forces listed below, as well as by the Labor Studies Journal Editorial Board (for the latter, see the Labor Studies Journal page of this website.)
Constitutional Standing Committees
These Committees are mandated in our Constitution.
Annual Conference Planning Committee: Helena Worthen, Chair
Academic Standards: Chair and Committee to be named
Constitution and Bylaws: Inactive at present
Institutional Membership Committee: Bob Bussel, Chair
Professional Welfare Committee: Inactive at present
Membership is open to any member in good standing. Please contact the chair if you would like to participate in a caucus.
Women Workers' Caucus: Monica Bielski, and P.J. Dowsing-Buie, Co-Chairs
Workers of Color Caucus: Kim Smith and Stephanie Harris Kuiper, Co-Chairs
Union Caucus: (inactive at present)
Lesbian and Gay Caucus: (inactive at present)
Women's Committee
The Women's Committee oversees the planning of the regional Women's Summer Schools
Women's Committee: Monica Bielski and P.J Dowsing-Buie, Co-Chairs
Monica Bielski
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Institute for Labor & Industrial relations
Labor Education Program
504 East Armory Ave. (Room 235)
Champaign, IL 61820
217-244-4094
mbielski@illinois.edu
Patricia (P.J.) Dowsing-Buie
AFSCME
5446 Maple Ave.
St Louis, MO 63112
Phone:314-995-9707
dowsingbuie@sbcglobal.net
Working Groups
Working Groups are self-organized groups within UALE that come together around a particular topic or area of interest. Recognition of a Working Group as an officiual UALE body is based on consistency and support for the mission of UALE. They are open to all UALE members to join, and may also include non-members of UALE.
Find out more about the Working Groups by visiting their pages on this website.
Central Labor Councils and State Federations: Monica Bielski, Dave Reynolds and Cathy Howell, Co-Chairs
Monica Bielski
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Institute for Labor & Industrial Relations
Labor Education program
504 East Armory Ave. (Room 235)
Champaign, IL 61820
212-244-4094
mbielski@illinois.edu
David Reynolds
Wayne State Labor Studies Center
Building Partnerships USA
656 W Kirby
Detroit, MI 48202
313-577-2197
aa2589@wayne.edu
Cathy Howell
AFL-CIO
815 16 St NW
Washington, DC 20006
wphone: 202-257-5358
chowell1@aflcio.org
Immigration and Globalization: Mary Bellman and Peter Kardas, Co-Chairs
Mary Bellman
University of Minnesota
Labor Education Service, IRC
321 19th Ave., S #3-300"
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone:612-624-9072
Fax: 612-624-1585
bellm019@umn.edu
Peter Kardas
Labor Center at the Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway
Olympia, WA
Sem II E2126
Phone: 360-867-6526
kardasp@evergreen.edu
K-12 Labor Education: Fred Glass and Anneta Argyres, Co-chairs
Fred Glass
CA Federation of Teachers
1201 Marina Village Parkway, Suite 115
Alameda, CA 94501
Phone: 510-523-5238
cftoakland@igc.org
Anneta Argyres
Labor Resource Ctr, UMass-Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125
Phone: 617-287-7229
anneta.argyres@umb.edu
On-Line Education: Lucy Callaghan and Joseph Varga, Co-chairs
Lucy Callaghan
AFSCME Education Dept
1625 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-429-1233
lcallaghan@afscme.org
Joseph Varga
IUPUI
1131 West Sixth Street
Bloomington, IN 47404
jjvarga@iupui.edu
Popular Education: Tess Ewing, Eric Muldoon and Steve Schnapp, Co-chairs
Tess Ewing
UMass Boston Labor Resource Center
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
Phone: 617-287-7352
tess.ewing@umb.edu
Eric Muldoon
CSEA/ AFSCME Local 1000
143 Washington Ave
Albany, NY 12210
Phone: 518-257-1458
eric.muldoon@cseainc.org
Steve Schnapp
United for a Fair Economy
29 Winter Street
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-423-2148 x110
sschnapp@faireconomy.org
Worker Writers:Timothy Sheard, Betsy McConnell Gutierrez, Richard Egeland, Howard Kling, Joe Berry
Chair:
Timothy Sheard
NWU, New York
Lenny Moss Mysteries
917.428.1352
timsheard@optonline.net
Co-chairs:
Betsy McConnell Gutierrez
SSCC Georgetown Apprenticeship Training Center & AFSCME
6737 Corson Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98108
206.763.5134
bmcconne@sccd.ctc.edu
Richard Egeland
Teamsters Local 705, Chicago
richardegeland@hotmail.com
Howard Kling
University of Minnesota, Labor Education Service
hkling@umn.edu
Joe Berry
University of Illinois, Labor Education Program
joeberry@uiuc.edu
Task Forces are groups that form to do a certain task, and then disband once their work has been accomplished. There are no Task Forces currently in existence.
