New Social Compact: Speakers Tout San Francisco Experience As Progressive Blueprint for Labor Standards

A panel at the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)'s 61st annual meetings: The New Social Compact in San Francisco. Speakers included Ken Jacobs of CLRE, Michael Theriault of San Francisco Building and Trades Council, Michael Casey of HERE Local 2, Steve Kava, chief of staff to Mayor Gavin Newsom, and Jim Wunderland, Director of the Bay Area Council. To read an article on the LERA panel, please click here.

New IRLE Report

NELP and IRLE release report warning of major difficulties with long-term unemployment in 2009 and into 2010, as problem impacts workers from all backgrounds. Read more.

Making Climate Change Policy Work in Difficult Economic Times: A Conference Focusing on the Job and Equity Impacts of Carbon Pricing Policies

Co-sponsored by The Labor Center and the Don Vial Center. Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Conference; 5:30 PM Reception. UC Berkeley International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA
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IRLE Announces a New Center: Donald Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy

On September 18, 2008, the IRLE announced the formation of a new center: the Donald Vial Center on Employment in the Green Economy. For more information on this exciting new center, please visit the website: http://irle.berkeley.edu/vial/

New Issue of Industrial Relations

April 2009 - Vol. 48 Issue 2

IRLE Faculty Research Grants for 2008-09

IRLE Announces the 2008-09 Awardees.

Is There a Shortage of Engineering Talent in the U.S.?

The Center for Work, Technology and Society's most recent working paper is based on research conducted for a forthcoming book, Change Is the Only Constant: How the Chip Industry Deals with Crisis.