I’m happy to see this announcement of Kalmanovitz Labor Spring 2023 and so many UALE people on the planning committee. Helena Worthen hworthen@illinois.edu<mailto:hworthen@illinois.edu> helenaworthen@gmail.com<mailto:helenaworthen@gmail.com> 510-828-2745 Begin forwarded message: From: Todd Wolfson <wolfsont@gmail.com<mailto:wolfsont@gmail.com>> Subject: [HELU] Labor Spring 2023 Date: January 18, 2023 at 8:04:26 AM PST To: "labor-in-higher-ed@googlegroups.com<mailto:labor-in-higher-ed@googlegroups.com>" <labor-in-higher-ed@googlegroups.com<mailto:labor-in-higher-ed@googlegroups.com>> Reply-To: wolfsont@gmail.com<mailto:wolfsont@gmail.com> Dear HELU members, We’re writing to share a call for a special month of events with a partner organization, the Kalmanovitz Initiative. It’s coordinating Labor Spring 2023 -- a series of local teach-ins, events and actions on campuses, in schools and in communities across the nation. The bulk of events will happen between March 20 and April 21. Local committees will plan and implement the teach-ins and events, and can sign up to be part of the national effort. Here’s the initial website for Labor Spring<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flwp.georgetown.edu%2F9404-2%2F&data=05%7C01%7Caimee.loiselle%40uconn.edu%7C9b001a99e35448d5d69b08daf95c45cd%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638096471975453584%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=iIakCe27Xk%2BJDM0hvvSv6D7Jxsz2uEfb2jUGHv9FTjs%3D&reserved=0> and the Kalmanovitz Initiative will continue to update it. It includes a listing of the initial organizing committee<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flwp.georgetown.edu%2Fannouncements%2Flabor-spring-planning-committee%2F&data=05%7C01%7Caimee.loiselle%40uconn.edu%7C9b001a99e35448d5d69b08daf95c45cd%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638096471975609815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Lxx9vYuT7KQdnGjR%2BpVOcXbZRDSN6m3gfWmsplEie0I%3D&reserved=0>. Please circulate this Labor Spring Call for Participation<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1bcxisYgktuicB-wHVFYCv58onTOJcavgD7W84fXeqTQ%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=05%7C01%7Caimee.loiselle%40uconn.edu%7C9b001a99e35448d5d69b08daf95c45cd%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638096471975609815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=lRRRRxRXZJ1aBQr04uYMYby%2BV09%2FkKlE2IeL1Z%2FpwHo%3D&reserved=0> to your networks and colleagues (also attached as a PDF). We hope you might consider planning an event at your campus as well. You can sign up through the Labor Spring google sign-up form<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSdxgLNZSIGsDTewkVA02BB-VOc73-ttWdT8-wbKDDe5pfUWyg%2Fviewform%3Fusp%3Dsf_link&data=05%7C01%7Caimee.loiselle%40uconn.edu%7C9b001a99e35448d5d69b08daf95c45cd%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638096471975609815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=f5%2BTPEJsZCOhB%2B78amlKcNK5HY%2BeG5gLKPPjDpl0%2Bbg%3D&reserved=0> if you’re planning to hold an event in your area. Now is the time to join a committee -- we plan to convene the committees in the coming weeks. Sign up here<https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fspreadsheets%2Fd%2F1vzInyUTA_sylPzm4El3qz1X1qXpC3wcVNiQRCd_n80o%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=05%7C01%7Caimee.loiselle%40uconn.edu%7C9b001a99e35448d5d69b08daf95c45cd%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C638096471975609815%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nS%2BFt%2Btx6yiQdulvd9Jyxx%2FHGckJGGJFjjNF%2FCuCKG4%3D&reserved=0> to join the 1) resources; 2) student outreach; 3) media outreach; 4) national launch planning committee. The next Labor Spring national Organizing & Planning committee meeting will be Tuesday, January 31 at 4 pm ET. We can send the zoom link if you are interested. Thank you for your commitment to claiming higher education as a public good. Best, Todd, Rafael & Levin HELU Interim Steering Committee -- Todd Wolfson, Associate Professor Department of Journalism and Media Studies Rutgers University Vice President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT<http://rutgersaaup.org/> Co-director, MIC Center<https://www.miccenter.org/> Twitter: @twolfson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Higher Ed Labor United (HELU)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to labor-in-higher-ed+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<mailto:labor-in-higher-ed+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/labor-in-higher-ed/70e4eb5b-c697-ea16-3607-3ce6dcd0e366%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/labor-in-higher-ed/70e4eb5b-c697-ea16-3607-3ce6dcd0e366%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.

Hello, UALE friends - I am writing on behalf of the Outreach Committee of Higher Education Labor United (HELU, higheredlaborunited.org<http://higheredlaborunited.org>). We are finding, as we draw in more local unions and organisations that represent workers in higher ed, that there is a need for basic labor education. We want to compile a list of places we can refer them to. We have been referring them to the national EWOC trainings and Jane McAlevey’s Organizing for Power workshops on https://www.rosalux.de/en/o4p but it seems to me that this would be an obvious place for college or university-based labor education programs to step in, too. This would most typically be a multi-session intro to labor fundamentals, directed at any worker in higher ed (meaning tenure line, clerical, hospital/med school, IT, custodians, adjuncts, etc etc), in line with HELU’s wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast organizing mission. It would probably be offered on line and might include groups from states where there are no higher ed collective bargaining enabling laws. We look forward to hearing from you — Helena Worthen helenaworthen@gmail.com<mailto:helenaworthen@gmail.com> hworthen@illinois.edu<mailto:hworthen@illinois.edu>

Another location for union training is Labor's Bookstore, https://www.laborsbookstore.com/ which runs 2-hour programs and attracted a number of higher ed participants last year to programs like My Members Don't' Want to Do Anything SigningUp Free Riders Looking for Leverage Being a Great Steward New Officers Making My Union Visible Organizing New Hires Labor Law There are also discussion boards so participants can share Best Union Practices On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 5:48 PM Worthen, Helena Harlow <hworthen@illinois.edu> wrote: > Hello, UALE friends - > > I am writing on behalf of the Outreach Committee of Higher Education Labor > United (HELU, higheredlaborunited.org). We are finding, as we draw in > more local unions and organisations that represent workers in higher ed, > that there is a need for basic labor education. We want to compile a list > of places we can refer them to. We have been referring them to the national > EWOC trainings and Jane McAlevey’s Organizing for Power workshops on > https://www.rosalux.de/en/o4p but it seems to me that this would be an > obvious place for college or university-based labor education programs to > step in, too. > > This would most typically be a multi-session intro to labor fundamentals, > directed at any worker in higher ed (meaning tenure line, clerical, > hospital/med school, IT, custodians, adjuncts, etc etc), in line with > HELU’s wall-to-wall and coast-to-coast organizing mission. It would > probably be offered on line and might include groups from states where > there are no higher ed collective bargaining enabling laws. > > We look forward to hearing from you — > > Helena Worthen > helenaworthen@gmail.com > hworthen@illinois.edu > > > _______________________________________________ > UALEList mailing list -- ualelist@list.uale.org > To unsubscribe send an email to ualelist-leave@list.uale.org > > See UALE's website at <uale.org>. You can also like us on Facebook and > follow us on Twitter -- "We are either part of the solution or part of the problem" "The only reason an organization has dead wood is that management either hired dead wood or it hired live wood and killed it." - W. Edwards Deming