The Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) = worker education, research, and public programming for the common good at the Rutgers Labor Ed Center
In Black Reconstruction in America, W.E.B. Du Bois outlines the concept of the "general strike," that enslaved people fled plantations during the Civil War as a collective general strike against the system of slavery.
#BlackHistoryMonth
@LearnRutgers Director Todd Vachon spoke about his research on just transition at @MITSloan in Cambridge for the Institute of Work and Employment Research (IWER).
In this interview, Vivian Price, LEARN Director Todd E. Vachon, Dimitris Stevis, & J. Mijin Cha discuss the research and findings of their recent article in Environmental Politics: environmentalpoliticsjournal…
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Resistance gives us joy. Share the gift of Resistance with your fellow rabble rousers. All our classes are online. So this is a great gift for anyone around the country. See our website for all our courses: smlr.rutgers.edu/LEARN
Railroads and their #unions are rushing to finalize contracts. SMLR's Todd Vachon of @LearnRutgers tells @AP that President Trump's return to office "may lead the unions and employers to want to bargain more intensively and come to agreements sooner."
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CNN Business talks to SMLR's Todd Vachon of @LearnRutgers about President-elect Trump's pick for labor secretary. He says, "I’m not certain she’ll be able to act on her pro-worker impulses if they run counter to the administration’s pro-business plans."
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Join CIWO's free Resilience Series for all who need a place to ground in the coming weeks.
Sessions are Nov 14 Nov 21 from 12-1pm ET hosted by Movement Resilience Practitioner Chalene Jones. Join individually or bring your whole staff.
🫶 REGISTER: bit.ly/CIWOResilienceSeries
ALT The Seeding Holistic Innovation for Transformation (SHIFT) program at the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO) presents a 2-Part Resilience Series!
The goal of this series is to provide a space to reset. This offering includes mindful & gentle body movements for support after a period of sustained mobilization.
Log in by yourself or with a group and engage in focused Qi Gong & TaiJi with Chalene Jones, an experienced resilience practitioner for movement leaders.
Sessions are Nov 14 Nov 21. Register at bit.ly/CIWOResilienceSeries or through the QR code in the image.
Excited that our article looking at how power dynamics within progressive sustainability coalitions is out! Read about how #WA1631 and #OJT came about.
ALT Article screenshot. Title reads: Negotiating just transitions: power and interest dynamics in insurgent sustainability coalitions. Abstract reads: Politics and power are increasingly central to the study of sustainability transitions, including just transitions. One line of research differentiates between incumbent coalitions that resist and insurgent coalitions that promote these transitions. More recently, there has been attention on the politics and power within these coalitions and the implications of who participates and how for the kinds of policy preferences that emerge. Here, we focus on how insurgent coalitions of relatively marginalized social forces negotiate differences in interests and power. We do so by comparing insurgent just transition coalitions in two US states, Washington State and Colorado. Our study also highlights the variability amongst actors within categories, whether labour or environmental and community justice...
Join CIWO Workplace Justice Lab@RU at the Labor Ed Center @RU_SMLR on 10/16 for "Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market" w/Dr. Michelle Holder, PhD!
Explore economic theories identifying inequalities in wage gaps, unemployment rates, & occupational crowding ✨Lunch provided!✨
We mourn the passing of AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Mr. William “Bill” Lucy, one of the labor and civil rights movement’s great leaders. In honor of his memory, please listen to our conversation recorded with Mr. Lucy three years ago.
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Les Leopold will be speaking with LEARN on Oct 1 at 6:30pm EST. Join us for Les' online book talk about his most recent book Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed are Destroying the Working Class and What To Do About It. Register here: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi…
@LearnRutgers spoke with The Record about the firing, rehiring, & pay cutting of employees at the American Dream Mall.
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“This is something they should have bargained over,” Vachon said.
We at Rutgers LEARN would like to wish everyone a happy & safe Labor Day.
As we fire up grills or head to beaches during the final days of summer, lets not forget the true purpose of the holiday - celebrating workers & all they & their orgs have contributed to our country & world
The @AP traces the 130-year history of #LaborDay with Todd Vachon of @LearnRutgers. He says, "Alot of the millennial and Gen Z folks are coming into the labor market in a period that’s not a lot different from [1894] where there was a lot of labor unrest."
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