At our annual membership meeting, which took place during the conference in San Diego, UALE members voted in new leadership and approved a number of measures that will guide our work in upcoming months.

Elissa McBride, Director of Education and Leadership Training for AFSCME, heads up our new Executive Board, which also includes several other new faces.

Sue Schurman, Rutgers, won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the UALE Conference in San Diego this year, and Kent Wong, UCLA, won the award for Outstanding Contribution to the field of Labor Education.

Awards were also given for Best Book, Best Labor Studies Journal Article, and best paper from a student or first-time presenter.

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!)

47th Annual CIRA Conference / International CRIMT Conference June 16–18  2010, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
 
The world of work is changing and this has tremendous implications for employee representation. Workplaces are continuously reconfigured through new information technologies and the transnational organization of production and services, economic globalization and financial crisis. Women’s labour market participation, labour migration and greater ethnic diversity are all changing the composition of workforces.

Embedded With Organized Labor describes how union members have organized successfully, on the job and in the community, in the face of employer opposition now and in the past.

In spite of being threatened with elimination in response to budget cuts, the Evergreen State College Labor Education and Research Center has survived -- for now.

UALE is happy to announce the recipients of the five 2009 annual awards. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Charlie Micallef. The award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Labor Education for 2008 went to Judy Ancel. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin have won the Best Book Award. Jason Albright got the award for Best Article in Labor Studies Journal, and Jason Stanley won the New Generation Award.