[olympiaworkers] Labor Center News: Job Opening & Mother Jones
LABOR CENTER RISING AND ON THE MOVE!
WASHINGTON STATE LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER
SOUTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
December, 2010
These monthly email bulletins announce Labor Center news and activities. IF YOU WISH TO BE REMOVED FROM OR ADDED TO THIS LIST, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE TO slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu.
What’s New
JOB OPENING - The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center at the South Seattle Community College is looking for a new Labor Educator! The Labor Educator will work with Center staff to plan and implement trainings and workshops with unions and community organizations throughout the State of Washington and with regional partners. These trainings and workshops will provide education and skills development for and about workers and their organizations. Some examples of workshops the Labor Educator may be asked to facilitate include labor history classes, trainings for union stewards, collective bargaining, leadership and communication skills, community-labor alliances, and organizing. The Labor Educator will do strategic outreach to the labor community to develop programs and be a resource to faculty and staff at the Seattle Community Colleges. Candidates are encouraged to emphasize specializations they may have in particular skill areas such as collective bargaining, contract enforcement, union management, labor law, or strategic research, and/or particular content areas such as working women, immigrant workers, young workers, workers of color, the building and construction trades, or global labor.
The job is open until December 29th, 2010. Please circulate this announcement to any individuals you think may be interested or appropriate lists.
The application process for this position is entirely on-line. Please go to
http://hr.seattlecolleges.edu/jobs.aspx?id=392&type=3&int=External for more information and to complete an application.
MOTHER JONES IS COMING TO SEATTLE! Don’t miss this great event on Saturday, December 11th, at 7:30 p.m., in Hall 1 of the Labor Temple (2800 1st Ave, Seattle). The evening’s entertainment will include Therese Diekhans performing David Christie’s one-woman play The Most Dangerous Woman in America: Machine Guns, Coal Dust, Mother Jones and the Making of the American Dream and the Seattle Labor Chorus. To reserve tickets email pcls@u.washington.edu. Co-sponsors include the Washington State Labor Education and Research Center, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, the MLK County Labor Council Education Committee, and the Puget Sound Labor Agency. If you have questions, call Sarah Laslett at 206-764-5382.
The next meeting of the MLK County Labor Council book group is tonight - Wednesday Dec. 1st from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in Room 226 of the Labor Temple at 28001st Ave in Seattle. We will be having our first discussion of A Troublemaker’s Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work and Win! Want more info? Email slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu.
NEED A TRAINING FOR YOUR UNION? We design and implement trainings on a wide variety of topics. Our standard fee schedule is $65 per hour or $500 per day for preparation and training. Some of the topics we can train on include:
Rank & File Leadership
Collective Bargaining
Recruiting the Next Generation of Leaders
Basic Workers' Rights – Union or Not
Immigration and Labor
Strategic Planning & Campaign Design
Salting
Meeting Facilitation
Organizing: Internal and External
Shop Stewarding
FREE LABOR HISTORY PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE!! These presentations include great stories from the history of labor organizing, a Power Point slide show, and music! We will bring this educational, entertaining, and dynamic presentation to your meetings or events. To schedule a presentation, email slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu.
WORKERS’ RIGHTS MANUAL: This is an invaluable resource that offers easy access to lots of vital information about workers’ rights in Washington State. It can be downloaded for free at our website in both English & Spanish - http://laborcenter.evergreen.edu/. We will be moving our website to the South Seattle Community College soon. Until then, our Evergreen site will continue to function.
MEETING FACILITATION
Having a critical meeting to help your union figure out its goals and strategies? Would you benefit from having an outside facilitator who can help to make your meeting as productive as possible? The Labor Center can provide this service for a fee as well as combine facilitation with education about how to have effective meetings in the future. Contact us.
Staff & Contact Information:
Sarah Laslett, Director
206-764-5382
The Labor Center has a Facebook page! Go to www.facebook.com and log in or join, then search for “solidarity works” and you will find the link to our page. Enjoy!
Want to know more? Current information about our programs comes primarily through this e-bulletin. Our website at http://laborcenter.evergreen.edu is still functioning if you wish to look at past newsletters, etc. We will soon have a website at S Seattle Community College with a more complete listing of the resources and programs we offer. Feel free to call or email at any time with questions or ideas.
WASHINGTON STATE LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CENTER
SOUTH SEATTLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
December, 2010
These monthly email bulletins announce Labor Center news and activities.
IF YOU WISH TO BE REMOVED FROM OR ADDED TO THIS LIST, PLEASE SEND A
MESSAGE TO slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu<mailto:slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu>.
What's New
JOB OPENING - The Washington State Labor Education and Research Center at
the South Seattle Community College is looking for a new Labor Educator!
The Labor Educator will work with Center staff to plan and implement
trainings and workshops with unions and community organizations throughout
the State of Washington and with regional partners. These trainings and
workshops will provide education and skills development for and about
workers and their organizations. Some examples of workshops the Labor
Educator may be asked to facilitate include labor history classes,
trainings for union stewards, collective bargaining, leadership and
communication skills, community-labor alliances, and organizing. The Labor
Educator will do strategic outreach to the labor community to develop
programs and be a resource to faculty and staff at the Seattle Community
Colleges. Candidates are encouraged to emphasize specializations they may
have in particular skill areas such as collective bargaining, contract
enforcement, union management, labor law, or strategic research, and/or
particular content areas such as working women, immigrant workers, young
workers, workers of color, the building and construction trades, or global
labor.
The job is open until December 29th, 2010. Please circulate this
announcement to any individuals you think may be interested or appropriate
lists.
The application process for this position is entirely on-line. Please go to
http://hr.seattlecolleges.edu/jobs.aspx?id=392&type=3&int=External for
more information and to complete an application.
MOTHER JONES IS COMING TO SEATTLE! Don't miss this great event on
Saturday, December 11th, at 7:30 p.m., in Hall 1 of the Labor Temple (2800
1st Ave, Seattle). The evening's entertainment will include Therese
Diekhans performing David Christie's one-woman play The Most Dangerous
Woman in America: Machine Guns, Coal Dust, Mother Jones and the Making of
the American Dream and the Seattle Labor Chorus. To reserve tickets email
pcls@u.washington.edu. Co-sponsors include the Washington State Labor
Education and Research Center, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies,
the MLK County Labor Council Education Committee, and the Puget Sound
Labor Agency. If you have questions, call Sarah Laslett at 206-764-5382.
The next meeting of the MLK County Labor Council book group is tonight -
Wednesday Dec. 1st from 5:30-7:00 p.m. in Room 226 of the Labor Temple at
28001st Ave in Seattle. We will be having our first discussion of A
Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work and Win! Want
more info? Email slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu<mailto:slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu>.
NEED A TRAINING FOR YOUR UNION? We design and implement trainings on a
wide variety of topics. Our standard fee schedule is $65 per hour or $500
per day for preparation and training. Some of the topics we can train on
include:
Rank & File Leadership
Collective Bargaining
Recruiting the Next Generation of Leaders
Basic Workers' Rights - Union or Not
Immigration and Labor
Strategic Planning & Campaign Design
Salting
Meeting Facilitation
Organizing: Internal and External
Shop Stewarding
FREE LABOR HISTORY PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE!! These presentations include
great stories from the history of labor organizing, a Power Point slide
show, and music! We will bring this educational, entertaining, and
dynamic presentation to your meetings or events. To schedule a
presentation, email slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu<mailto:slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu>.
WORKERS' RIGHTS MANUAL: This is an invaluable resource that offers easy
access to lots of vital information about workers' rights in Washington
State. It can be downloaded for free at our website in both English &
Spanish - http://laborcenter.evergreen.edu/. We will be moving our
website to the South Seattle Community College soon. Until then, our
Evergreen site will continue to function.
MEETING FACILITATION
Having a critical meeting to help your union figure out its goals and
strategies? Would you benefit from having an outside facilitator who can
help to make your meeting as productive as possible? The Labor Center can
provide this service for a fee as well as combine facilitation with
education about how to have effective meetings in the future. Contact us.
Staff & Contact Information:
Sarah Laslett, Director
206-764-5382
slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu<mailto:slaslett@sccd.ctc.edu>
The Labor Center has a Facebook page! Go to
www.facebook.com<http://www.facebook.com> and log in or join, then search
for "solidarity works" and you will find the link to our page. Enjoy!
Want to know more? Current information about our programs comes primarily
through this e-bulletin. Our website at http://laborcenter.evergreen.edu
is still functioning if you wish to look at past newsletters, etc. We will
soon have a website at S Seattle Community College with a more complete
listing of the resources and programs we offer. Feel free to call or email
at any time with questions or ideas.
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