April 23, 2009. Building Labor-Management
Relationships in a New Era.
American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation &
Conciliation Service, Kentucky Labor-Management Conference,
National Labor Relations Board, and Northern Kentucky
University. Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at Northern
Kentucky University in Highland Hts, Ky (5 minutes from
downtown Cincinnati). Topics, faculty, fees and
registration form in program brochure.
Program brochure
March 2009. SERB Conference on 25th Anniversary of
Collective Bargaining in Ohio's Public Sector.
April 1-2, 2009. University Plaza Hotel and
Conference Center, 3110 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus, OH 43202.
Retrospective and current topics. Refer to program
brochure for specific topics and faculty. Registration
available for one or both days. Form attached to program
brochure. Registration closes March 24.
Program brochure
March 2009. Labor Arbitration in a Time of Economic
Crisis. American Arbitration
Association and Cornell ILR School. This is a 2-day
program held in 3 different sites (New York, Washington, D.C.
and San Francisco) on 3 different dates (April 30-May 1, October
22-23, and November 9-10). Faculty varies by site.
Refer to program brochure for topics, faculty, sites, and cost.
Program brochure
March 2009. FMCS Region 2 Arbitrator & Advocate
Symposium, April 23-24, 2009, Columbus,
Ohio. Topics include the Employee Free Choice Act,
Electronic Evidence, External Law, Past Practice, Remedial
Issues, Remedial Issues, Just Cause & Arbitrability. CLE
available. Click on the text icon for full program,
faculty, accommodations and registration material.
Program brochure
March 2008. Cleveland-Marshall
College of Law, Cleveland State University, announces its
Visiting Scholar Program spring series of lectures.
March 26. Masculinities, Gender
Identity and Harassment at Work. Ann McGinley,
William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las
Vegas.
April 10. Laws, Limits and
Exceptions: Lessons of the Constitutional Crisis in
Pakistan. Tayyab Mahmud, Seattle University School
of Law.
April 16. Toward a Hip-Hop Theory
of Justice. Paul Butler, The George Washington
University Law School.
For more information, go to
Cleveland-Marshall's website.
January 6, 2007. Northeast Ohio
Chapter wins two National Merit Awards, Turnaround/Startup
and Member Innovation. President Jack Buettner traveled to
Chicago to attend the annual meeting where the awards were made.
Chapter's
Statement of Self-Nomination
March 25, 2006. Nominations
Requested. A new Executive Board composed of members
from both the public and private sectors will be elected at the
spring Annual Meeting. Please submit names for
consideration to one of the vice presidents,
Joyce Goldstein or
Bill Menzalora.
March 24, 2006. Members ratify
By-Laws amendment. Members in attendance at the March
23 meeting voted unanimously to amend the By-Laws to provide
that, in the event the Chapter dissolves, all funds default to
the national organization. The amendment protects our
non-profit status. The revised By-Laws are posted on the
Chapter's webpage.
March 1, 2006. Membership of the
combined PSLRA and former IRRA Northeast Ohio Chapter tops 125,
putting the Chapter in the second highest category of the
national organization.
January 26, 2006. New By-Laws
Ratified and Transitional Executive Board Elected
Members attending the sell-out January meeting
unanimously ratified new by-laws for the now-combined LERA
Northeast Ohio Chapter and elected a transitional Executive
Board to serve until the start of the new fiscal year, September
1, 2006.
Summary of By-Laws Changes
1. Fiscal Year
changed from calendar year to September 1-August 31
2. Officers:
Formerly 4, now 5 adding 1 vice president. Terms of
offices changed from 2 years to the following schedule:
President - 1 year
Vice Presidents - 2 years, elected in alternate years and
rotating sectors (public/private) and partisanship
(labor/management/neutral). Vice President in second
year is President Elect and Chair of Program Committee.
Vice President in first year is member of program committee.
Secretary - 3 years
Treasurer - 3 years
3. Executive Board
reduced from 21 to 18; good faith effort for equal
representation instead of mandatory.
Full text of the new bylaws are
posted on the By-Laws page.
November
17, 2005. Public Sector Labor Relations Association
to merge with LERA Northeast Ohio
Members in attendance at the November 17,
2005, meeting of the PSLRA voted unanimously to merge with the
Labor and Employment Relations Association Northeast Ohio
Chapter.
Outline
of proposed merger (pdf format)
November
14, 2005. AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION CLOSES
OHIO OFFICES
Ohio arbitrators received a letter from AAA
senior vice president Christine L. Newhall (newhallc@adr.org)
on November 14 via email announcing the closing of both Ohio
offices by December 16, 2005, and removal of labor case
administration to the Southfield, Michigan labor center.
American
Arbitration Association announcement (pdf format)
October 3, 2003 John
Dunlop
John T. Dunlop, the most influential of all the New Deal industrial relations scholars and policy makers, died on October 2nd at the age of 89.
Industrial relations reserves its greatest respect for individuals who move effectively across the worlds of research, teaching, and public service. John Dunlop functioned with distinction in these multiple roles from the beginning of his career to just days before he died. He was a past president of both the Industrial Relations Research Association and the International Industrial Relations Association. |
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His seminal book, Industrial Relations Systems,
published in 1958, set the framework for scholarly analysis of
our field for decades and became the focal point for debates
over how relationships among labor, management, and government
were structured and evolved over time.
He served as Secretary of Labor under President Gerald Ford in
1974-75 and was a central figure in all of the national and
many state labor policy discussions and changes that took
place since World War II.
As an arbitrator, mediator, and negotiator, he helped to
resolve disputes in construction, railroads, textiles and
apparel, agriculture, and state and local government. His
unmatched command of the history of 20th century labor
management relations was grounded in these first hand
experiences.
He taught many of the current generation of scholars in
industrial relations and continued, after his so-called
"retirement" from the Harvard faculty, to teach an
undergraduate seminar and a course on Trade Union
Administration to the students attending the Harvard Trade
Union Program.
Anyone who disagreed with John's views on an issue, as some of
us did from time to time, knew we would be in for a lively and
challenging debate. He relished the opportunity to
sharpen his views by sparring with others. Yet below his
famous feisty persona was a deep commitment to the view that
negotiations were a means to building a more just society. In
1994 in the heat of the debate of the Commission on the Future
of Worker Management Relations (fittingly known as the Dunlop
Commission), he stressed that our economy and society simply
could not continue to function and prosper with labor and
business being as polarized as they are today. He
believed deeply that labor and management have a shared
responsibility to serve the public interest. He fought
for this principle until the end of his life.
We would do well to continue this fight in his memory.
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Thomas A. Kochan
George Maverick Bunker Professor of Work and Employment
Relations
MIT Sloan School of Management
Institute for Work and Employment Research
Room E52-583
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
Phone: 617-253-6689
Fax:
617-253-7696
Email: tkochan@mit.edu
http://mitsloan.mit.edu/iwer/
