University of Tennessee Labor Teach-in - March 3 & 4, 2000

["Wendy R. McCord" <wrm3k@virginia.edu>]

Dear VELLA Members:

Here's a message from Curtis Cooper (cbc8g). It sounds like 
a very interesting opportunity if you have an interest!

University of Tennessee Labor Teach-in
"Labor Rights as Human Rights at Home and Abroad"
March 3 and 4, 2000
University of Tennessee Knoxville
University Center

Featuring:

Richard Trumka, Secretary Treasurer AFL-CIO
Elaine Bernard, Director of the Harvard Trade Union Program
Bill Fletcher, Former Education Director and Special Assistant to the
President, AFL-CIO
Barbara Prear, University of North Carolina Housekeepers' Association

With the successful WTO protests in late November and the resurgence of an
active labor and student movement, a strong movement for economic and social
justice appears to be on the move in the US.  On March 3 and 4 of 2000 join
national and local figures at the University of Tennessee in a weekend of
labor and human rights education and vision building for the future as
people from all over the southeast and US participate in the University of
Tennessee's first labor teach-in.  Worker struggles locally, nationally, and
internationally will be linked in the discussion of where we are going as a
movement, with an additional focus going to the labor policies of the
University and how it participates in the exploitation of workers.

Some of the panels and plenaries include:

Workers affected by globalization (featuring workers from U.S. and Latin
America)
University Labor Policies
Historical Globalization
Careers in the labor movement
Immigrant Worker Struggles
Welfare "Reform"
Radical Labor History
Race, Gender, and the Labor Movement
Local Labor Struggles

And many more are still in the works.

There are no registration fees for the teach-in, and free housing is
available. For more information or if you have any questions, email
hopeutk@utk.edu or call (865) 546-6721.

In Solidarity,

Knoxville Area Jobs with Justice
Alliance for Hope at UTK, a student economic justice group
Tennessee Anti-Sweatshop Coalition (TASC)
UT Living Wage Campaign


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Wendy R. McCord
UVA Law Class of 2000
wrm3k@virginia.edu
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