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December 2004 - January 2005 (No.3)
Editor: Terence K. Huwe
Contributors: Elizabeth del Rocío Camacho, Janice Kimball
IIR NEWS AND EVENTS
IIR Faculty Seminar: Candace Howes, December 6, 2004
IIR Holiday Reception: December 15, 2004
Center for the Study of Child Care Employment News
CPER Issue 169 is Published and Staff to Attend
CFT Conference
Library Collection News
Labor Center: New Training Events and Publication
Updates
Labor Project for Working Families: New Publications
News
Paid Family Leave News
CAMPUS NEWS & EVENTS
Center for Studies in Higher Education
Center for Korean Studies
Center for South Asian Studies
Department of Economics
Department of Sociology
Haas School of Business
BEYOND THE CAMPUS
The Campus News Center
The Campus Calendar
IIR NEWS AND EVENTS
IIR Faculty Seminars
Monday, December 6, 2004 - 12 to 1 pm, Directors Lounge
Professor Candace Howes, Economics Department,
Connecticut College
"Upgrading California's Homecare Workforce: The
Impact of Political Action and Unionization"
Howes will present the results of the first stage of
a two-year project that examines the impact of wage and benefit
differentials on the recruitment and retention of homecare workers.
This paper, which is forthcoming in The State of California
Labor, 2004, tells the story of the political process by which
some homecare jobs have been upgraded in California. Using descriptive
statistics and logit regression analysis, it also shows that
turnover is lower in those counties where wages and benefits
are higher, after controlling for other factors that affect
turnover.
Candace Howes is the Hogate-Ferrin Associate Professor of Economics
at Connecticut College and a Visiting Scholar at the IIR, where
she is conducting a study of homecare workers in collaboration
with the UC Berkeley Labor Center and SEIU Locals 250 and 434B.
Howes is the author of "Living Wages and Retention of Homecare
Workers in San Francisco," forthcoming in Industrial Relations,
January 2005, Special Issue: the Impacts of Living Wage Policies.
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/events/fall04/seminars/index.html
IIR Holiday Reception
IIR's holiday party will be held on a Wednesday afternoon this
year and is scheduled to help commuters catch van pools and
buses! Please attend. This year as always, Terry's Legendary
Eggnog will make its annual appearance..
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/events/fall04/holiday/index.html
Center for the Study of Childcare Employment News
This month, the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
(CSCCE) is launching the first-ever statewide California Early
Care and Education Workforce Study, in partnership with the
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, and with
support from First 5 California. Through this study, we will
obtain essential statewide and regional workforce data including
demographics, education, training, tenure, turnover, and wages.
Every county will have a portion of its licensed childcare centers
and family childcare homes included in the survey, based on
the size of its provider population. During the coming year,
CSCCE will use these data in combination with other datasets
to make detailed workforce projections related to an anticipated
change in teacher training standards.
http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cscce/index.html
Calfornia Public Employee Relations News
The December 2004 issue of CPER, No. 169, includes the main
article "Putting a Conscious End to Unconscious Bias,"
which grapples with the questions of what public employers
should do about reflexive, unconscious racial bias. The second
main article, "Employee Leaves of Absence," summarizes
the most important statutes relating to this area. CPER's
Recent Developments section covers the controversy regarding
teachers wearing union buttons, legislation concerning the
California correctional system, sexual harassment training
for supervisors, and more.
In January 2005, CPER will publish the second edition of Pocket
Guide to Workplace Rights of Public Employees. CPER staff will
also attend and participate in the California Federation of
Teachers conference in Sacramento.
http://cper.berkeley.edu/
Library Collection News
On December 1, our first list of periodicals that we have
selected to discard will be circulated. Please take the time
to read the list and comment. Your voice must be heard in
order for us to retain items on this list. Starting in December
2004, lists will be kept on the Library Web at http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/library/collections.
Labor Center News
Financial Skills Workshop
Unions are complex organizations that face difficult management
issues in financial planning and accounting. This two-day workshop
is for chief officers and financial staff. Thursday and Friday,
Jan 20 and 21, 9 a.m.5 p.m. At the Institute of Industrial Relations,
2521 Channing Way, Berkeley. For information, contact Raahi
Reddy at 510-642-1851 or reddyr@berkeley.edu.
California Lead Organizers Institute
A new five-day training with two follow-up sessions, specifically
designed for lead organizers. The first California Lead Organizers
Institute will focus on healthcare advocacy and campaigns. Monday-Friday,
Feb 7-11. At the Ben Lomond Center near Santa Cruz. For information,
contact Raahi Reddy at 510-642-1851 or reddyr@berkeley.edu.
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/leadershipschool/cloi.shtml
New Video and Curriculum: Eyes on the Fries: Young Workers
in the Service Economy
This half-hour documentary is the perfect primer to engage
young people about their experiences in the workplaceand how
they can take action to make their jobs better. Designed for
educational use in classrooms and union halls, the film comes
with an interactive curriculum kit, including workshops, fact
sheets, and discussion questions.
Price: $25.00 individual rate
$60.00 institutional rate
Updated Publication From The Labor Center
"Hey, the Boss Just Called Me Into the Office": The
Weingarten Decision and the Right to Representation on the Job.
By Steve Diamond, Kirsten Snow Spalding, and Lisa M. Vanderford-Anderson.
Updated and revised by David Rosenfeld and Caren Sencer. Updated
in 2004 to reflect recent changes in the law on the right to
representation at work. A must-have resource for any union member.
Price: $8.00
21-50 copies: $6.00
51+ copies: $5.00
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/
The Labor Project for Working Families
Bargaining Manual for Work and Family Issues
The Labor Project for Working Families has created a comprehensive
bargaining manual to help union leadership bargain around work
and family issues. The manual includes union highlights, contract
language examples, first steps in moving forward a work/family
agenda and resources. The manual will be available in January.
For pricing and ordering information, email ndones@berkeley.edu
California’s New Paid Family Leave Law
Trainings for Shop Stewards and Union Representatives
On July 1, 2004 working Californians who participate in SDI
became eligible to take up to 6 weeks a year of paid family
leave benefits to care for a seriously ill family member or
bond with a newborn or adopted child. We are the first state
in the country to pass this legislation and it would not have
happened without the support of the statewide labor movement.
The Labor Project for Working Families is working with the California
Labor Federation and members of the Paid Family Leave Coalition
to conduct regional trainings on paid leave for union members.
The trainings cover the basics of the law, bargaining for improvements
and educating members. For information about a training near
you, contact Jenya Cassidy at 510-642-5498 or e-mail jcassidy@berkeley.edu
CAMPUS NEWS AND EVENTS
Center for Studies in Higher Education
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
"The Education Gospel and Higher Education: The
Transformations of the Twentieth Century"
Speaker: Norton Grubb, David Gardner Chair in Higher Education,
Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation, Graduate
School of Education, UC Berkeley
4:00 - 5:30 PM
CSHE Library, South Hall Annex
642-7703
Center for Korean Studies
Friday, December 3, 2004
"Democracy,
History, and Migrant Labor in South Korea: Korean Chinese, North
Koreans, and Guest Workers"
Hyun Ok Park, New York University
IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
4:15 p.m
Center for South Asia Studies
Friday December 3, 2004
"The
Indian Economy and Globalization: Recent Performance and Prospects"
Kaushik Basu: C. Marks Professor of International Studies and
Professor of Economics at Cornell University.
5:00 pm
402 Barrows Hall
642-3608
Department of Economics
Thursday, December 2, 2004
Econ 251 Lecture: The Relationship between Industry Clockspeed
And HRM Practices"
Clair Brown and Yooki Park, UC Berkeley
Location and Time: TBA
Thursday, December 2, 2004
IDS 270 Lecture: "Employment versus Contracting in Procurement:
Theory and Evidence from U.S. Cities"
Ignacio Palacios Huerta, Brown University
4:pm 6:pm
C325 Cheit Hall
Friday, December 3, 2004
Econ 271 Lecture: "Gender and Say: A Model of Household
Behavior with Implications for Female Labor Supply"
Kaushik Basu, Cornell and Harvard Universities
2-3:30 p.m.,
608-7 Evans Hall
Department of Sociology
Thursday December 2, 2004
"Does
Bad Pay Cause Occupations to Feminize? Does Feminization Reduce
Pay?"
Paula England, Stanford University
Sociology Departmental Colloquium Series Fall 2004
Blumer Room 402 Barrows Hall
Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Haas School of Business
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Seminar
Elizabeth Mannix, Cornell University
Wednesday, December 1
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Room C220
For more information, contact Deborah Houy at houy@haas.berkeley.edu.
Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Seminar
Trond Petersen, Haas School of Business
Wednesday, December 8
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Room C220
For more information, contact Deborah Houy at houy@haas.berkeley.edu.
Special Issue of California Management Review
The Fall 2004 issue of CMR has the special topic of "Integrating
Social Responsibility and Marketing Strategy". Articles
include:
Doing Better at Doing Good: When, Why, and How Consumers Respond
to Corporate Social Initiatives," by C.B. Bhattacharya
and Sankar Sen
"Managing Responsibility: What Can Be Learned from the
Quality Movement?" by Sandra Waddock and Charles Bodwell
"Valuing the Cause Marketing Relationship," by John
T. Gourville and V. Kasturi Rangan
"Social Alliances: Company/Nonprofit Collaboration,"
by Ida E. Berger, Peggy H. Cunningham, and Minette E. Drumwright
"Collaborating with Activists: How Starbucks Works with
NGOs," by Paul A. Argenti
"Socially Responsible Pricing: Lessons from the Pricing
of AIDS Drugs in Developing Countries," by Sushil Vachani
and N. Craig Smith
Check the IIR Library for a copy, or contact cmr@haas.berkeley.edu
for more information.
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