Updated UT Labor Teach-in Schedule

**Please Forward to All Interested Parties**

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, President of the North Carolina Public Service Workers
Union, UE 150
Workers from Latin America
And many others

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 United States.   On March
3 and 4 of 2000 join national and local figures 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.

Schedule for the UT Labor Teachin

Friday, March 3

12:00 p.m.- UT Living Wage Campaign Rally with Richard Trumka.  Location-
University Center Plaza.

6 p.m.  Opening Plenary with Richard Trumka
Location- University Center Ballroom

Saturday 4 March 2000- All events in the University Center

8:00 a.m.-bring your own breakfast

9:00-10:30 a.m.-Workers Affected by Globalization: Faces of the Global
Economy featuring: Bill Fletcher, Jr., Assistant to the President,
AFL-CIO; workers and organizers from Mexico; workers from Tennessee

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Workshop Session I
Workshops:
*Organizing in the Global Economy
*Labor 101: An Introduction to Labor Unions
*Exploitation of Graduate Student Labor
*Welfare to What? Tough Choices for Working Parents
*Careers in Organizing
*Women at Work: Double Shifts and Double Binds

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:30-3:00 p.m.-Bringing It Home: Labor Policies at the University.
Featuring: Elaine Bernard, Director, Harvard Trade Union Program; Barbara
Prear, President, North Carolina Public Service Workers Union; current and
former workers of the University of Tennessee.

3:15-4:30 p.m. Workshop Session II
Workshops:
*Organizar el Sur: Latino Workers Speak Out
*Racism in the Workplace: What Unions Are Doing About It
*Work, Workers, and the Daily Grind
*The Movement Against Sweatshops
*The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend ... A Labor History
*Anti-Labor Bias in the Media
*Pride at Work: GLBT Issues on the Job
*UT Labor Policies: The Nuts and Bolts of the Big Orange Screw

4:30-6:00 p.m.  Closing Plenary with Elaine Bernard and Bill Fletcher


There are no registration fees for the teach-in, and we can help you find
housing.  Please contact us as soon as possible so we can accommodate your
needs.  For more information or if you have any questions, email
hopeutk@utk.edu or call (865) 546-6721.  Our web address is:
http://web.utk.edu/~hopeutk.

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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and even optimism."     

        Noam Chomsky

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(865) 546-6721
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