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NEWS and EVENTS
Crisis and Working Class Resistance:
Solidarity in Global/Local Contexts
2012 Southwest Labor Studies Association conference
Friday May 18-Saturday May 19
UC-Riverside, Interdisciplinary Studies Building-South 1113
This 2-day conference —free and open to the public—explores the current crisis in living and working conditions that workers are facing locally and globally and their resistance. We also seek to build and strengthen relationships among students, faculty, and labor and community activists and take action for workers' rights.
Speakers include: Laurie Stalnaker (Central Labor Council), Chris Tilly (Director of the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, UCLA and former editor of Dollars & Sense magazine), Shigueru Tsuha (Director of the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute), representatives of AFSCME UDW, California Partnership, Inland Action, Lideres Campesinas, SEIU-ULTCW, Project Reach, Refund California, UFCW 1167, Warehouse Workers United, & more!
FRIDAY 5/18: 9am-5pm: CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS AT UCR (REGISTRATION BEGINS AT 8:30am IN INTS 1113)
FRIDAY 5/18: 6pm-9pm: DINNER, DIALOGUE & CELEBRATION: YOUTH, LABOR, & COMMUNITY UNITE! WHERE: Central Labor Council Meeting Hall (1074 East La Cadena Drive, Suite 1, Riverside, CA 92507)
SATURDAY, MAY 19: 10AM-12PM: WAL-MART ACTION (organized by Warehouse Workers United, meet-up location TBA)
Co-sponsored by AFT 1966, UFCW 1167, UAW 2865, Riverside Faculty Association, Warehouse Workers United, Labor Studies, Program on Global Studies, Applied Economics/UC Miguel Contreras Labor Studies Development Fund, and the Department of Sociology at UCR. For more info & the full program: See the attached program or contact Ellen Reese (Labor Studies, UCR) at ellen.reese@ucr.edu or 213-793-0326.
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