Invite to this one day workshop - please circulate
Understanding power and strategy for effective organizing
10am-5.30pm Tuesday 28 June 2016
University of Leeds,
Attendance fees (includes lunch & refreshments) £20
NOTE: places are limited. You must register and pay in advance. Details
can be found at www.buira.org
Understanding Power and Strategy for Effective Organizing
Jane McAlevey is well-known in the American labor movement as the
hard-charging organizer who racked up a string of victories at a time
when union leaders said winning wasn’t possible.
In her book /Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)/ Jane argues that
labor can be revived, but only if the movement acknowledges its mistakes
and fully commits to deep organizing, participatory education,
militancy, and an approach to workers and their communities that more
resembles the campaigns of the 1930s.
In short, she advocates whole worker organising through social movement
unionism.
Attendance fees (includes lunch & refreshments) £20 or £5 unwaged/students.
Rather than building community-labour alliances, the whole worker
organizing approach merges workplace and non-workplace issues into a
tight blend. Jane had years of experience in community organizing prior
to becoming a fulltime union organizer and negotiator and her approaches
flow from the combined experience of union and community organizing.
These methods have been successful in winning local political campaigns
in addition to worker organizing campaigns.
Jane has recently completed her PhD and is currently teaching at Harvard
University Law School on the Labor and Worklife Program.
This day-long workshop, supported by the British Universities Industrial
Relations Association, is aimed at trade union an community activists
who are interested in developing a greater understanding of the
differences between organizing and mobilizing and how to undertake power
analysis for effective organizing.
Workshop details
10am: Registration and refreshments
10.15am: introductions
10.30-1pm: morning workshops
/1pm-2pm: Buffet Lunch: provided in attendance fee/
2pm-5.50pm: afternoon workshops
Topics to be covered include:
* Core differences between organizing and mobilizing approaches.
* What is an organic leader?
* Differences between activists and leaders.
* Understanding power: the relationship between strategies and power
analysis.
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This event is being sponsored by the British Universities Industrial
Relations Association. Its annual conference on ‘Employment relations
towards 2020 and beyond: reflection, prospects and opportunities’ will
follow this workshop on 29 June–1^st July at The Carriageworks,
Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD.
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Professor Jane Holgate
Professor of Work and Employment Relations
Work and Employment Relations Division
Leeds University Business School
31 Lyddon Terrace (room 2.05)
University of Leeds LS2 9JT
email: [log in to unmask]
Mobile: 07960 798399
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