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| Wednesday, December 5, 2001 7 PM Director's Lounge Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way in Berkeley |
From
Sweatshop Labor to Worker Power: Meet the Nike workers who made Mexican
labor history. This January, the workers of the Kukdong apparel factory (now called "Mexmode") in Puebla, Mexico went on strike to protest poverty wages and rancid cafeteria food. After a 10-month struggle, they have completed one of the most important and inspiring victories for the cause of labor rights in the world this year. A factory once dominated by an illegal and unrepresentative labor union is now one of the only workplaces in the Mexican garment industry with a democratic, independent union chosen by the workers themselves. The factory produces garments for Nike, Reebok, and dozens of universities including UC Berkeley. Participants will include: Marcela Muñoz Tepepa - Kukdong worker and the founding General Secretary of the Independent Union of Mexmode Workers, Ivan De Erick Diaz Xolo - Kukdong worker and another leader in the reform effort at Kukdong, Catalina Gúzman Albafull - Research Assistant in Economics at the Autonomous University of Puebla, Scott Nova - Executive Director of the Worker Rights Consortium, Katie Quan - Director of the Henning Center for International Labor Relations, UC Berkeley. |
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| May
9, 2001 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. |
Presentation
by visiting scholars from the Denki Rengo electronics workers union
in Japan Yosuke Inoue, Executive Committee Member of Battery Branch - Matsushita Electric Industrial Workers Union, Takeshi Matsuo, Executive Committee Member, Fujitsu Workers Union, and Chifumi Kawasaki, Senior Staff of Publishing/Media Department - Denki Rengo have been visiting scholars with the Henning Center for three months and will present their research interests as well as initial impressions of differences between the American and Japanese labor movements. |
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| May
9, 2001 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. |
Roundtable
seminar with Chee Soon Juan, Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party Dr. Chee Soon Juan is presently a Fellow at the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. In addition to serving as Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Party, Dr. Chee Soon Juan is also interim chair of the 14-nation Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia (ARDA) and a university lecturer. Through these roles, he has been a consistent leader and an outspoken critic against censorship and repression in Singapore. Dr. Juan will discuss plans by the governments of the US and Singapore to launch a new free trade agreement, focusing on how the proposed agreement will impact Singapore's labor relations and environmental standards. |
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| May
2, 2001 SEIU Local 250 Meeting Hall 560 20th Street, Oakland (near 19th Street Bart Station) 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. |
Globalization,
Unions and the FTAA: what free trade means for workers An evening of education and discussion about the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The event willl feature presentations by Kathleen Conner, President of the Canadian Federation of Nurse's Unions, Liliane Fiuza, noted activist and expert on child labor and unions in Brazil, Harley Shaiken, Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies, Stan Gacek, Assistant Director of International Affairs, AFL-CIO, and an organizer with the Kukdong apparel factory strike in Mexico. |
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| May
1, 2001 Institute for East Asian Studies Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. |
Presentation
by Anita Chan, Senior Research Fellow at the China and Korea Center
at Australian National University Dr. Chan has written widely on labor relations in China. She will present a new paper titled "The Culture of Survival – Lives of Chinese Migrant Workers Through the Prism of Private Letters." Dr. Chan's research provides a rare glimpse of the inner lives of Chinese migrant workers based on a collection of dozens of their letters to friends and relatives. The experiences depicted by the letters reveal lives and feelings in a culture of survival. This culture is an astonishing indictment of how we as social scientist have misread their lives. |
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| December
7, 2000 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
Roundtable
seminar with visitors from the Hong-Kong Special Administrative Region
of the People's Republic of China Mr. Ting-Kwok Leung, Chief Labor Inspector, and Mr. Wodd-Mann Poon, Senior Labor Inspector, from the Labor Department, Hong-Kong Special Administrative Region. Mr. Leung and Mr. Poon have been invited to the United States to participate in an international study program under the auspices of the United States Department of State International Visitor Program. |
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| December
4, 2000 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge 9 a.m. to 12 noo |
Roundtable
seminar with organizers from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
Shin Ern Jik, Director, First Organizing Department, Kim Jeong Geun, Director, Second Organizing Department (Atypical workers/organizing program), Park Sang Yun, Director, Organizing Department, KCTU Seoul Regional Council, and Park Jin Hee, Deputy General Secretary, Korean Federation of Tourism Workers Union. The KCTU organizers are in the U.S. to dialogue with union organizers about non-traditional strategies. Therefore, this seminar will also feature presentations from: David Bacon, Labor Immigrant Organizing Network, on immigrant organizing, Chris Benner, Working Partnerships USA, on temporary worker organizing in Silicon Valley, and Leon Chow, SEIU Local 250, on homecare worker organizing in Silicon Valley. |
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September 13, 2000
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Roundtable with international
labor leaders |
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September 7, 2000
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Dialogue
with delegation of Japanese trade union leaders The delegation is interested in sharing information about US and Japanese efforts to organize workers in the face of corporate downsizing and the increasing usage of part-time and temporary workers. The union leaders are visiting the US as part of the National Community Union Network (NCUN) Summer Program. NCUN is an association of 60 unions in Japan, representing some 64,000 workers nationwide. |
| June
27, 2000 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge 4 p.m. |
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Conversation
between Mr. Henning and Mr. Gasiorowski Mr. Jacek Gasiorowski is the Chairman of the Polish Solidarity Trade Union of the Warsaw Region, and Mr. John F. Henning is the Distinguished Labor Leader-In-Residence, Institute of Industrial Relations, UC Berkeley. Mr. Henning and Mr. Gasiorowski will discuss emerging trends in labor-management relations, including best practices and the high technology workplace. |
| June
23, 2000 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. |
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Roundtable
with Ms. Hsiu-chen Lai, Employment Specialist Labor Affairs Department, Taiwan Ms. Lai will be discussing her work as a consultant to labor unions and mediating disputes between employers and employees.
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| April
20, 2000 Center for Latin American Studies 2334 Bowditch St Conference Room 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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The
UE-FAT Strategic Organizing Alliance Robin Alexander of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE) in the US, and Benedicto Martinez of Frente Autentico del Trabajo (FAT) in Mexico, will be discussing the strategic organizing alliance that has been formed between their unions..
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| April
6, 2000 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Library 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Informal
exchange with Mr. Tsuneyuki Tanaka, Assistant Manager Economic Research Division, NIKKEIREN Mr. Tanaka is an Eisenhower Exchange Fellow, and is interested in creating new employment opportunities by exploring the labor market, personnel management, human resource management, entrepreneurship, and the relationship between management and labor unions.
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| April
6, 2000 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
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Informal exchange with Ms. Nguyen Thi Bich THUY, President Khanh Hoa Provincial Women's Union, Vietnam Ms. Thuy is Editor-in-Chief of Khanh Hoa Newspaper, and is interested in the status of women in America, their involvement in poverty reduction, health education, and environmental programs. She is also interested in learning how grassroots organizations manage their personnel and resources within "tight budget contraints."
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| November
15, 1999 Boalt Hall School of Law Booth Auditorium 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
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A Forum on
The World Trade Organization featuring: Thea Lee, AFL-CIO Brian McWilliams, ILWU Don Kegley, Alliance for Sustainable Jobs and the Environment Garrett Brown, Maquiladora Health and Safety Network Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization Anuradha Mittal, Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) John James, AIDS Treatment News
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| November
4, 1999 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge Noon to 2 p.m.
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Roundtable
with Apo Leong, Executive Director Asia Monitor Resource Center Kowloon, Hong Kong
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| October
19, 1999 Institute of Industrial Relations 2521 Channing Way Director's Lounge Noon to 1:30 p.m.
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"The
Working Poor: New Organizing Initiatives in Durban, South Africa" Brown Bag with Ari Sitas Chair, Department of Sociology and Industrial Labor Studies University of Natal Durban, South Africa
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