Oct. 29: Conference: Radicalism in Labor

Oct. 29, 10:00AM - 4:00PM

Radicalism in Labor: Radical Approaches to the Crisis in the Labor Movement

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St
Recital Hall (located on the first floor)

Students: $5/Public: $10

Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work

Featuring:
Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY),
Barbara Bowen (PSC),
Bill Henning (CWA Local 1180),
Saru Jayaraman (ROC-NYC),
Kim Moody (Labor Notes),
Andrew Ross (NYU), and many others

The issues:

The decline in union membership
The rapid deterioration of workers' living standards
The large number of contract settlements that do not match inflation
The proliferation of temporary and contingent work

The questions:

Can Change to Win muster the rhetoric and the style that attracts workers?
Is the top brass of organized labor prepared to promote labor solidarity?
What would constitute an effective politics and strategy to revitalize the labor movement?
What is the state of democracy in the unions?
What organization or network can be formed to intervene in the labor movement?
Who are the key new constituencies of the labor movement?
Should contract administration remain the core of union activity?
In James P. Hoffa's words, should labor continue to "throw money at the Democrats"?

The schedule:

10:00-10:15AM: Welcome and Introductions
10:15-11:45AM: Professional and technical unionism
11:45AM-12:45PM: Break for lunch
12:45-2:15PM: Unions of the working poor
2:30-4:00PM: The politics and strategy of labor radicalism (Plenary)

Phone: 212-817-2001 / Email: saronowitz@igc.org
vox: 646.321.5710
aim/skype: whyloo

The philosophers have already interpreted the world, in various
ways; the point is to change it. -- Karl Marx, 1845, Theses On
Feuerbach