Thanks for sending this Joe,
Many years ago, as an undergraduate labor studies student I became a member of Worker Education Local  189, AFT, due to the influence of mentors who were active.
My view is that affiliation would be a positive step for UALE, and therefore support exploring this further.
Best,
Jerry
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Let's bring back local 189--it was great for the overalls brigade.

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM Jerry Levinsky jerry.levinsky@gmail.com
wrote:

--
"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

Local 189 can vote to join HELU…. which just had its convention and elected new YOUNG leadership!!!

H

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On May 24, 2024, at 1:51 PM, William Barry billbarry21214@gmail.com wrote:

Let's bring back local 189--it was great for the overalls brigade.

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM Jerry Levinsky <jerry.levinsky@gmail.commailto:jerry.levinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for sending this Joe,
Many years ago, as an undergraduate labor studies student I became a member of Worker Education Local  189, AFT, due to the influence of mentors who were active.
My view is that affiliation would be a positive step for UALE, and therefore support exploring this further.
Best,
Jerry
Sent from my iPhone

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Even though local189 no longer exists (though a reaffilitation of UALE to AFT could reinstate the historic local number) UALE could right now vote to affiliate with HELU and I would suggest that it do so.  higheredlabor.org

In solidarity,

Joe

co-author with Helena Worthen, of Power Despite Precarity: strategies for the contingent faculty  movement in higher education. Order at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345529/power-despite-precarity
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Hello, UALE members,

I want to confirm that the Board is following this thread, but we have not yet discussed the issues or proposals brought forward.

Thank you for sharing the important history with this community. We will be able to take all of this into consideration at our next meeting in June.

In solidarity,

Amanda
UALE President

From: Joe Berry joeberry@igc.org
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2024 1:30 PM
To: Helena Worthen hworthen@illinois.edu
Cc: UALE listserv ualelist@list.uale.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Ualeindiv] Re: AAUP Local 6741 of the AFT | AAUP

Even though local189 no longer exists (though a reaffilitation of UALE to AFT could reinstate the historic local number) UALE could right now vote to affiliate with HELU and I would suggest that it do so.  higheredlabor.org

In solidarity,

Joe

co-author with Helena Worthen, of Power Despite Precarity: strategies for the contingent faculty  movement in higher education. Order at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345529/power-despite-precarity
Paperbacks come with free e-books. Books ship from Chicago. Or order from Labor’s Bookstore at https://www.laborsbookstore.com/collections/all/products/power-despite-precarity-strategies-for-the-contingent-faculty-movement

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———————
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21 San Mateo Road,
Berkeley, CA 94707
cell-510-999-0751
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joetracyberry@gmail.commailto:joetracyberry@gmail.com
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On May 25, 2024, at 10:49 AM, Worthen, Helena Harlow <hworthen@illinois.edumailto:hworthen@illinois.edu> wrote:

Local 189 can vote to join HELU…. which just had its convention and elected new YOUNG leadership!!!

H

On May 24, 2024, at 1:51 PM, William Barry <billbarry21214@gmail.commailto:billbarry21214@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's bring back local 189--it was great for the overalls brigade.

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM Jerry Levinsky <jerry.levinsky@gmail.commailto:jerry.levinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for sending this Joe,
Many years ago, as an undergraduate labor studies student I became a member of Worker Education Local  189, AFT, due to the influence of mentors who were active.
My view is that affiliation would be a positive step for UALE, and therefore support exploring this further.
Best,
Jerry
Sent from my iPhone

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Amanda, Thanks for acknowledging that the UALE Board is following this.

I wonder if Ron Peters still reads this list. I saw a photo of him recently at an event in Chicago. I remember back when the merger between 189 and UCLEA was being discussed. I asked him what the problem was. He was against the merger.  He said that it would undermine the credibility of labor education as an academic discipline. How? By diluting the membership, the content of conferences, the kind of research that would get done, and so on. (If he reads this I hope he will correct me.)

It would be worth asking, what makes a discipline academic? Or, academic in whose eyes? Academic for what purpose? The famous for-whom, by-whom, for-what-purpose questions. And what did this have to do with the attacks on labor ed programs that were occuring in the 2010s? And today?

Or, in what world is the thoughtful evaluation of a steward training program NOT academic?

I don’t mean to clog up this list, but I’d love to hear my dear colleagues tear this one to shreds.

Helena Worthen

On May 30, 2024, at 11:58 AM, Pacheco, Amanda Amanda_Pacheco@IBEW.org wrote:

Hello, UALE members,

I want to confirm that the Board is following this thread, but we have not yet discussed the issues or proposals brought forward.

Thank you for sharing the important history with this community. We will be able to take all of this into consideration at our next meeting in June.

In solidarity,

Amanda
UALE President

From: Joe Berry <joeberry@igc.orgmailto:joeberry@igc.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2024 1:30 PM
To: Helena Worthen <hworthen@illinois.edumailto:hworthen@illinois.edu>
Cc: UALE listserv <ualelist@list.uale.orgmailto:ualelist@list.uale.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Ualeindiv] Re: AAUP Local 6741 of the AFT | AAUP

Even though local189 no longer exists (though a reaffilitation of UALE to AFT could reinstate the historic local number) UALE could right now vote to affiliate with HELU and I would suggest that it do so.  higheredlabor.orghttp://higheredlabor.org/

In solidarity,

Joe

co-author with Helena Worthen, of Power Despite Precarity: strategies for the contingent faculty  movement in higher education. Order at <https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345529/power-despite-precarityhttps://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345529/power-despite-precarity__;!!DZ3fjg!7awLSblnOLWPoGWBiam4pLhIs19iENV2r1XfJMElDnqsZlcBXmHNUfF-sGRtP49IUwpl0nLBNNYMkG7jPI5n_XRSiiNT$>
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cell-510-999-0751
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On May 25, 2024, at 10:49 AM, Worthen, Helena Harlow <hworthen@illinois.edumailto:hworthen@illinois.edu> wrote:

Local 189 can vote to join HELU…. which just had its convention and elected new YOUNG leadership!!!

H

On May 24, 2024, at 1:51 PM, William Barry <billbarry21214@gmail.commailto:billbarry21214@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's bring back local 189--it was great for the overalls brigade.

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM Jerry Levinsky <jerry.levinsky@gmail.commailto:jerry.levinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for sending this Joe,
Many years ago, as an undergraduate labor studies student I became a member of Worker Education Local  189, AFT, due to the influence of mentors who were active.
My view is that affiliation would be a positive step for UALE, and therefore support exploring this further.
Best,
Jerry
Sent from my iPhone

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I  need to correct my error. the URL is <higheredlaborunited.org> and the newly officially founded national coalition devoted building and industry wide higher education labor movement “wall to wall and coast to coast” out of the 13 unions that represent higher education workers today. This is of course a separate question from UALE affiliating directly with a national union itself.

Very glad that this thread has raised some interest and action.

In solidarity,

Joe

co-author with Helena Worthen, of Power Despite Precarity: strategies for the contingent faculty  movement in higher education. Order at https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345529/power-despite-precarity
Paperbacks come with free e-books. Books ship from Chicago. Or order from Labor’s Bookstore at https://www.laborsbookstore.com/collections/all/products/power-despite-precarity-strategies-for-the-contingent-faculty-movement



———————
Joe Berry
21 San Mateo Road,
Berkeley, CA 94707
cell-510-999-0751
joeberry@igc.org or
joetracyberry@gmail.com
Skype: joeberry1948