LERA eBulletins Archive

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: September 2017

• Member news: Weil, Kreider, Herbert, Lynch, Mitchell, Ghilarducci
• Calls to action
• More reading, listening and watching for LERA members

Member News:

	David Weil (Brandeis) writes about employee misclassification as contractors in the Harvard Business Review.  Access the article here: https://hbr.org/2017/07/lots-of-employees-get-misclassified-as-contractors-heres-why-it-matters
	Related: LERA-D listserv guru Dan Mitchell (UCLA) submits “Texas judge strikes down Obama overtime rule,” from The Hill. Weil was the Department of Department of Labor Wage and Hour Administrator and led putting the overtime rule into place. It affected 4.3 million U.S. workers. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-judge-strikes-down-obama-overtime-rule/ar-AAr3z71
			Three LERA members — Brandeis public policy doctoral student Benjamin Kreider; William Herbert (Hunter College); and Lisa Lynch (Brandeis) —  were quoted in a Washington Post article, “Graduate students won right to organize as employees, but that victory is in peril under Trump.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/08/24/graduate-students-won-right-to-organize-as-employees-but-that-victory-is-in-peril-under-trump
	“What Older Workers in Rust-Belt States Need from Donald Trump” by Teresa Ghilarducci (New School for Social Research). http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-insecurity-news/1719-june-2017-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55
	Dan Mitchell (UCLA) posted “Macron proposes major reform of French labor laws” on the LERA-D listserv:. http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-france-labor-20170831-story.html

Contact Michael Lillich, LERA managing editor, on member news placements, books, projects, ebulletin corrections and other items of interest to LERA members. (217) 898-1928. [email protected] 311 W. University Ave., No. 202. Champaign, IL 61820.

Calls to Action:

• Become a LERA Chapter member. Visit https://lera.memberclicks.net/chapters to see what chapter is closest to you!
  
  
• Make a contribution to the LERA Annual Fund Drive. You will soon receive the LERA Annual Fund Drive letter in the mail. Please make a contribution and support LERA in providing programs, services and the field of labor and employment relations.
  
  
• Submit a session proposal to the LERA Annual Meeting Program Committee by November 15, 2017. You will find complete information here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-lera-call. The LERA 70th Annual Meeting will take place June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore, MD.
  
  
• Save the Date. [email protected] Meeting, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days.
  
  
• Join the conversation. LERA executive director Emily Smith points out that the LERA-Dialog listserv is a great venue to ask questions about all things related to employment — academic, practical or historical — to their LERA colleagues. Questions receive prompt, smart and thoughtful replies. And the discussions are well worth reading. Subscribe here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/listservs.
  
  
• Submit a nomination today. Do you know someone who would be great a great addition to the LERA Executive Board? We are currently accepting nominations for positions that would take office June 2018: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637

More reading (and listening) for LERA members:

• Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman on the economics of killing DACA and deporting the “Dreamers.”
  https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/the-very-bad-economics-of-killing-daca/?
  
  
• Robots and jobs on the PBS Newshour article and video:
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-robots-wont-steal-jobs-employers-workers-adapt/
  
  
• “Why doesn’t more of the working class move for jobs?” podcast from Harvard Business Review.
  https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/05/why-doesnt-more-of-the-working-class-move-for-jobs
  
  
• Listen to the WNYC “Death, Sex and Money” podcast about the lives of Uber drivers.
  http://www.wnyc.org/story/uber-death-sex-money/

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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: August 2017

• LERA members in the news: Blau, Appelbaum, Milkman, Houseman, Pavy, Kochan, Givan, Avgar, Ghilarducci
  
• Calls to Action
• More reading (and watching and listening) for LERA members

Member News:

	Francine Blau (Cornell) received the 2017 Mincer Prize for Lifetime Achievement in labor economics from the Society of Labor Economists in Raleigh, N.C., on May 5. She said she was “incredibly honored.” Read the society’s description of Blau’s career: http://www.sole-jole.org/Mincer2017.html Read about the Mincer Award: http://www.sole-jole.org/Mincer-Award-Main.html
	This year’s Perspectives on Work (to be mailed: November) presents a feature section with contemporary portraits of (mostly) American industries — (Australian) auto, airlines, energy, manufacturing, higher education and health care. Leading off the issue is an excerpt from N.Y. Times economics writer Louis Uchitelle’s fine new book, Making It: Why Manufacturing Still Matters. He acknowledges/quotes Eileen Appelbaum, Ruth Milkman, Susan Houseman and Gordon Pavy. He commented, “Tom Kochan has been very influential over many years in my thinking about manufacturing. … LERA is an organization that fights above its weight.” Here’s a review of Making It: https://cms.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/louis-uchitelle/making-it/
		Rebecca Kolins Givan (Rutgers) has a new book, The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom. Ariel Avgar (Cornell) will review the book in Perspectives on Work this fall. Here’s the book on the Cornell ILR Press web site: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100299370 Here’s an op-ed Givan wrote on the state of U.S. health care. https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/23/obamacare-repeal-listen-health-care-providers/
	From Teresa Ghilarducci’s Retirement Equity Lab at the New School: “Boomers’ Larger Birth Cohort Lowers Wages.” http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-i, “nsecurity-news/1714-new-research-larger-birth-cohort-lowers-wages And more from Ghilarducci, “Mortality Gap Still High: More Blacks than Whites Die Before Retirement”: http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-insecurity-news/1715-may-2017-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55

Calls to Action:

• Become a LERA Chapter member! Visit https://lera.memberclicks.net/chapters to see what chapter is closest to you!
  
• Save the Date! [email protected] 2018, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days.
  
  
• Submit a nomination today! Do you know someone who would be great a great addition to the LERA Executive Board? We are currently accepting nominations for positions that would take office June 2018: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637

More reading (and watching and listening) for LERA members:

• Listen to David Axelrod’s podcast interview with former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. There’s a great deal of smart discussion about industrial-manufacturing policy and how the U.S. can really build a prosperous future on the foundation of machines-technology and humans working together:
  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-145-jennifer-granholm/id1043593599?i=1000385209150&mt=2
  
  
• PBS News Hour “Making Sense” May 4 segment on former GM town, Janesville, Wis. (hometown of U.S. House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan).
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/inside-janesville-democratic-town-paul-ryan-calls-home/
  
  
• Read and listen to the NPR Marketplace podcast “Robot-Proof Jobs.”
  https://features.marketplace.org/robotproof/
  
  
• Paul Krugman asks why some jobs – think mining and manufacturing – dominate the public discussion of lost jobs in his New York Times column.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/opinion/why-dont-all-jobs-matter.html?
  
  
• Carrier jobs in Indiana — the rest of the story from the New York Times:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/23/business/economy/indiana-united-technology-factory-layoffs.html?
  
  
• Class and income inequality from a comparative Brit-American vantage point NY Times op-ed:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?

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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: July 2017

• LERA members in the news: Brown, Ghilarducci, Batt, Appelbaum, Greenhouse, Krueger
• Calls to Action
• More reading (and listening) for LERA members

Member News:

		Clair Brown (UC Berkeley) discusses how to reduce inequality in a sustainable world based on her book Buddhist Economics at the Commonweath Club. Listen to the podcast. https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/archive/podcast/buddhist-economics Teresa Ghilarducci reviews Brown’s Buddhist Economics in the upcoming LERA Perspectives on Work this fall.
		Rose Batt (Cornell) and Eileen Appelbaum (Center for Economic and Policy Research) write about the Secretary of Commerce’s private equity career in “Who is Wilbur Ross?” in The American Prospect. http://prospect.org/article/who-wilbur-ross-0
	Former Obama political guru David Axelrod interviews longtime N.Y. Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse on the Axe Files podcast. http://podcast.cnn.com/the-axe-files-david-axelrod/episode/all/MPgAel4peMWce0/hgrnzl.html
	Who knew? Princeton economics professor and former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Alan Krueger also does research on … get ready …  the music industry. He’s cited in a March 26 Wall Street Journal article, “Twilight of the Rock Gods,” to wit, that rock and roll concert ticket prices have “skyrocketed in the last three decades — the average ticket is a record $76 and 20 acts charged $100 or more last year.” (WSJ site requires subscription.) https://www.wsj.com/articles/twilight-of-the-rock-gods-1490439609?tesla=y

Calls to Action:

• Save the Date! [email protected] 2018, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Join us for 18 LERA sessions over three days.
  
  
• Submit a nomination today! Do you know someone who would be great a great addition to the LERA Executive Board? We are currently accepting nominations for positions that would take office June 2018: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637

• Publish in the LERA 2017 Proceedings! Did you present a paper this year in a LERA program? The deadline for submitting your paper is tomorrow, July 15! Here is the submission form: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5565808. Need more time? Let us know at [email protected]

Further reading:

• Listen to “Alabama: a new Detroit, or a new Bangladesh?” an On Point podcast on the state’s auto parts suppliers.
  http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/04/11/alabama-manufacturing-detroit-cars
  
  
• Robots in German, Japanese and American manufacturing? No surprise. But China? Read about it in The Economist. (Site requires free registration.)
  http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21720073-factories-are-upgrading-still-lag-far-behind-rich-world-future-lies
  
  
• Where do you look for indicators of good American jobs in the future from the New York Times editorial board. Hint: It’s not in manufacturing.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/opinion/as-retail-goes-so-goes-the-nation.html?
  
  
• “The Jobs Americans Do” feature from the New York Times:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/magazine/the-new-working-class.html?
  
  
• An NPR Planet Money podcast: In 1838, the Maryland Jesuits sold 272 people, slaves, to pay the debts of Georgetown University. What are the descendants owed for the unpaid work of their ancestors?
  http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/04/26/525769269/episode-767-georgetown-louisiana-part-two
  
  
• To the Best of our Knowledge podcast: a personal view of news from a native in The Center of the World, a town in the heart of northeastern Ohio, a former industrial town fallen on hard times.
  http://www.ttbook.org/book/center-world-ohio

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: June 2017

• Member news: George Shultz, Seth Harris, Teresa Ghilarducci-Nancy Folbre, David Jacobs, David Autor
• Calls to action
• Further reading for LERA members

Member News:

	Past LERA president (1968) George P. Shultz (and, later, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State and, now, the oldest living U.S. Cabinet member) on “The Business Case for the Paris Climate Accord” in the New York Times:  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/opinion/the-business-case-for-the-paris-climate-accord.html?
	Seth Harris (Cornell) was quoted in a June 12 Wall Street Journal article (subscription required) on the Trump administration’s boost in support for apprenticeship programs: “Continuing existing investment in apprenticeships is not going to make u for the hundreds of millions of proposed to be cut from larger job-training programs,” said Harris, the deputy labor secretary under Barack Obama. “Those cuts would result tens of thousands of workers not receiving job-placement and training services.”
		Double take by two LERA stars on PBS Newshour’s “Making Sense” segment:  Teresa Ghilarducci  (New School) and Nancy Folbre (U. Mass-Lowell) on “manly men doing girlie jobs”: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/industries-growing-men-staying-away/
	David Jacobs (Morgan State) writes about the post-WWII history on the policies and politics of U.S. health care on the Member Projects section of the LERA website: http://www.leraweb.org/health-care-reform-as-a-prism-through-which-to-view-business-values-in-the-us
	David Autor (MIT) on American jobs and worker despair in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/business/economy/trump-white-working-class-carnage.html?

Calls to Action:

• LERA’s 69^th Annual Meeting wrapped up in Anaheim on June 4. Thanks to all who put the program together, spoke, sponsored, presented papers and otherwise contributed to a grand meeting. Look for complete coverage in Perspectives on Work, mailed to all members in November. In 2018 LERA’s 70^th Annual Meeting is in Baltimore, MD, June 14-17. The 2019 LERA’s 71^st Annual Meeting will be in Cleveland, OH.

• Presented in 2017 on a LERA program and interested in having your paper published in the 2017 LERA Proceedings?  Submit your paper by July 15 at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5565808

Further reading:

• “Do millennial men want stay-at home wives” from The New York Times:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/sunday/do-millennial-men-want-stay-at-home-wives.html?ref=business

• The complicated relationship between U.S. unions and Donald Trump in The Economist. (Site requires free registration.)
  http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21720303-they-may-not-jump-way-he-wants-donald-trump-woos-labour-unions

• Uber’s labor tactics in the New York Times:
  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/uber-drivers-psychological-tricks.html?

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In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: May 2017

• Member news: Weil, Katz, Krueger; Holzer; Reich, Rothstein; Autor; Election Announcement; LERA Award Recipients
  
• Calls to action: LERA 69th Annual Meeting Registration, Anaheim Hotel Update, Industry Councils to meet
  
• Further reading (and listening) for LERA Members

Member News:

			David Weil (Boston University), Lawrence Katz (Harvard) and Alan Krueger (Princeton)on job “fissuring” in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/business/economy/economy-labor-wages-subcontracting.html
	NPR’s 1A podcast, “Who’s looking out for the American Worker?” on May Day discusses the state of workers today and the workforce and the future. One of the discussants is Georgetown economist Harry Holzer. http://the1a.org/shows/2017-05-01/working-title-may-day-whos-looking-out-for-the-american-worker
		Michael Reich and Jesse Rothstein (UC-Berkeley) answer the question “Do Minimum Wages Really Kill Jobs?” http://econofact.org/do-minimum-wages-really-kill-jobs
	David Autor (MIT) on a Freakanomics podcast, “How safe is your job?”  http://freakonomics.com/podcast/safe-job-rebroadcast/

More LERA Member News:

Calls to Action:

• Register for the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, June 1-4, 2017 in Anaheim, CA. Headquartered at the Hilton Anaheim, the LERA 69th Annual Meeting will feature 89 events and sessions, including pre-conference day professional skill building workshops, an all-day port tour hosted by the Longshore Workers, and a night out at the Angel’s game on Friday, June 2.
  Meeting Home: https://lera.memberclicks.net/69th-lera-anl-mtg
  Program: http://leraoffice.org/drupalinclude/program.asp
  
  
• Have you made your hotel reservations at the Hilton Anaheim for the LERA 69th Annual Meeting? If you haven't yet, you may encounter difficulty getting a room on the nights of Saturday, June 3 or Sunday, June 4 as the hotel is selling out rapidly. If you would like a room in at the Sheraton at the Park at the Anaheim Resort adjacent to the Hilton Anaheim, contact them directly for availability. They are the closest to the Hilton Anaheim, are a union property and many LERA participants will be staying there.
  
  
• Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (Brandeis University) is leading a re-invigoration effort of LERA’s Industry Councils and Interest Sections. Contact him at (217) 979-3771; [email protected]. He invites you to attend a meeting for LERA Industry Councils which will be held at the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, in Anaheim from 8:30 to 10 am in the California Ballroom B on Friday, June 2, 2017. A meeting for LERA Interest Sections will take place in the same room, immediately following, from 10:15 to 11:45 am.

Further reading:

• Read the Bloomberg Businessweek cover story “Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs.
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-alabama-s-auto-jobs-boom-cheap-wages-little-training-crushed-limbs
  
  
• The politics of paid leave from the New York Times:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/upshot/americans-agree-on-paid-leave-but-not-on-who-should-pay.html
  
  
• “Here’s the real Rust Belt jobs problem — and it’s not offshoring or automation” from the Washington Post.

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/04/04/heres-the-real-rust-belt-jobs-problem-and-its-not-offshoring-or-automation/

• And now for something completely (and Brit) different, “The Case for an Efficiency Tax,” from The Economist (Site requires registration).
  https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21719799-it-time-recognise-value-bit-hassle-case-efficiency-tax

Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: April 2017

• Member news: Kruse, Blau, Golden, Ghilarducci, Weil
  
• Calls to action: LERA 69th Annual Meeting Registration, Anaheim Hotel Update, Industry Councils to meet, LERA election is open
  
• Further reading (and listening) for LERA Members

Member News:

	Douglas Kruse (Rutgers) on a research study on employment for workers with disabilities on the PBS Newshour segment “Making Sense”: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/job-opportunity-still-lagging-people-disabilities/
	Francine Blau (Cornell) on April 20 will receive the Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award in New York City. Groat (1899-1986) played a pivotal role in founding Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The Groat Award is given to a Cornell alumnus/a for accomplishment in the field of industrial and labor relations.
	Teresa Ghilarducci (New School for Social Research) issues her March jobs report  for older workers. http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-insecurity-news/1712-1750-march-2017-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55?utm_source=March+Unemployment+Report+Press&utm_campaign=March+Employment+Report+press&utm_medium=email
	Lonnie Golden (Penn State and Illinois), Robert Habans and the University of Illinois’ Labor Education Program are presenting a forum “Work, Well-being and the Middle Class in Illinois,” at the U of I April 20 (noon – 2 p.m. for locals). The forum is part of the Labor Education Program’s Project for Middle Class Renewal. More info: goo.gl/rTWQe8
	David Weil (Boston University), former Wage and Hour Administrator, is among Department of Labor veterans who in an American Prospect article look at the “anguished” future of labor policy in the Trump administration. http://prospect.org/article/veterans-obama-labor-department-look-ahead-anguish

Calls to Action:

• Register for the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, June 1-4, 2017 in Anaheim, CA. Headquartered at the Hilton Anaheim, the LERA 69th Annual Meeting will feature 89 events and sessions, including pre-conference day professional skill building workshops, an all-day port tour hosted by the Longshore Workers, and a night out at the Angel’s game on Friday, June 2.
  Meeting Home: https://lera.memberclicks.net/69th-lera-anl-mtg
  Program: http://leraoffice.org/drupalinclude/program.asp
  
  
• Have you made your hotel reservations at the Hilton Anaheim for the LERA 69th Annual Meeting? If you haven’t yet, you may encounter difficulty getting a room on the nights of Saturday, June 3 or Sunday, June 4 as the hotel is selling out rapidly. If you would like a room in at the Sheraton adjacent to the Anaheim Hilton, we are coordinating a room block at the discounted rate of $199/night. Send an email to [email protected] by 5pm Thursday, April 20 if you would like to be included at the Sheraton, and specify the nights you need. We will only lock in this room block if there is enough interest.
  
  
• Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (Brandeis University) is leading a re-invigoration effort of LERA’s Industry Councils and Interest Sections. Contact him at (217) 979-3771; [email protected]. He invites you to attend a meeting for LERA Industry Councils which will be held at the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, in Anaheim from 8:30 to 10 am in the California Ballroom B on Friday, June 2, 2017. A meeting for LERA Interest Sections will take place in the same room, immediately following, from 10:15 to 11:45 am.

• The LERA 2017 Election is open, please search your inbox for an email containing a link to your ballot. Nominations for this year are closed, but we are collecting nominations for next year here: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637 and there is space for nominations on the on the bottom of your election ballot. Please nominate your colleagues who have the expertise and commitment to lead this organization forward. Only LERA members can vote, so if you need to renew, you can do so here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/membership.

• MIT labor economist David Autor on the China effect, American manufacturing and the economic future on this Freakanomics podcast:
  http://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-eat-americas-jobs/   

• A new study, reported in the New York Times, finds impact of robots to be negative when it comes to blue-collar jobs.
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/upshot/evidence-that-robots-are-winning-the-race-for-american-jobs.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

• NPR’s Fresh Air podcast on a new book, Glasshouse by Brian Alexander, about Lancaster, Ohio, formerly a bustling factory town now struggling with low wages, unemployment and drug abuse.
  https://player.fm/series/series-1324361/the-shattering-of-an-all-american-town

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: March 2017

• Member news: Harris, Stern, Weil, Blasi, Kruse, Freeman, Wheeler, Brown, Ghilarducci and Budd
  
• Calls to action: Industry Councils to meet, LERA 69th Annual Meeting deadlines, election to open soon
  
• Further reading (and listening) for LERA Members

Member News:

• Seth Harris (Cornell) and Andy Stern (SEIU) are quoted in the New York Times story, “How Trump Might Be a Workplace Disruptor.”
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/business/how-trump-might-become-a-workplace-disrupter.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

• David Weil (Boston University), former Wage and Hour Administrator, is among Department of Labor veterans who in an American Prospect article, looks at the future of labor policy in the Trump administration.
  http://prospect.org/article/veterans-obama-labor-department-look-ahead-anguish

• Joseph Blasi (Rutgers), Doug Kruse (Rutgers), and Richard Freeman (Harvard) publish a new policy/research report policy report on broad-based employee ownership and profit sharing by the Washington think tank, Third Way.
  http://www.thirdway.org/report/having-a-stake-evidence-and-implications-for-broad-based-employee-stock-ownership-and-profit-sharing
  A related “No Jargon” podcast:  http://bit.ly/2kB2WF7 and  http://bit.ly/2lMksYx 

• Hoyt Wheeler (South Carolina) on American Public Media’s “Marketplace” comments on Boeing union election in South Carolina.
  http://www.marketplace.org/2017/02/16/economy/south-carolina-unions

• Clair Brown (UC-Berkeley) has a new book, Buddhist Economics, published by Bloomsbury.
  Read about it: www.Buddhisteconomics.net. Follow on Facebook.com: Buddhist-Economics-973198039490789/ Book trailer (2 min): https://youtu.be/88RX5A2iezs

• Teresa Ghilarducci (New School for Social Research) will review Buddhist Economics in the 2017 Perspectives on Work.

• Ghilarducci (again) on February Women’s Month report on unemployment for older female workers.
  http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-insecurity-state/1706-1725-february-2017-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55?utm_source=February+Unemployment+Report+Press&utm_campaign=January+Employment+Report+press&utm_medium=email

• John Budd has released a 5^th edition of his textbook “Labor Relations: Striking a Balance” which presents employment relations as a system for balancing employment relationship goals with the rights of labor and management.
  http://www.gettextbooks.com/isbn/9781259412387/

Calls to Action:

• Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (Brandeis University) is leading a re-invigoration effort of LERA’s Industry Councils and Interest Sections. Contact him at (217) 979-3771; [email protected]. He invites you to attend a meeting for LERA Industry Councils which will be held at the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, in Anaheim from 8:30 to 10 am in the California Ballroom B on Friday, June 2, 2017. A meeting for LERA Interest Sections will take place in the same room, immediately following, from 10:15 to 11:45 am.

• Register now for the LERA 69^th Annual Meeting, June 1-3, 2017 in Anaheim, CA. The early-bird registration deadline is March 25, 2017! You will find the complete program and registration details at the LERA website: https://lera.memberclicks.net/69th-lera-anl-mtg.
  
  
• Reserve your hotel room by May 10 at the Hilton Anaheim to receive the discounted rate at the official hotel of the LERA 69th Annual Meeting, June 1-4, 2017 in Anaheim, CA. The hotel is filling up fast, and they will not be increasing our room block, so please take advantage of these discounted rates while they last. https://lera.memberclicks.net/69th-lera-anl-mtg#hotel
  
• The LERA 2017 Election will open shortly, so please be on the lookout for an email containing a link to your ballot. Nominations for this year are closed, but we are collecting nominations for next year here: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4537637. Please nominate your colleagues who have the expertise and commitment to lead this organization forward.

• Read the Associated Press article: “U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown urges worker reforms, wage hike as 2018 looms.”
  http://www.morningjournal.com/general-news/20170304/us-sen-sherrod-brown-urges-worker-reforms-wage-hike-as-2018-looms

• Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman in a New York Times column on how Trump trade tactics will hasten U.S. deindustrialization:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/making-the-rust-belt-rustier.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

• Deregulation in the Trump administration from The New York Times:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/us/politics/trump-deregulation-guns-wall-st-climate.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: February 2017

• Member news: Gittell, Pruitt, Adams, Givan, Avgar, Vogus, Westar
  
• Calls to action: Register for LERA 69th Annual Meeting, publications, paper calls
  
• Further reading (and listening) for LERA Members

Member News:

• Jody Hoffer Gittell (Brandeis) discusses her new book, Transforming Relationships for High Performance, on YouTube:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYu7guUPO40. Jim Pruitt (Kaiser Permanente) will review Gittell’s book in the 2017 Perspectives on Work.
  
  
• Roy Adams (McMaster U.) writes about income inequality in a New York Times letter to the editor:
  https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/opinion/inequality-is-gaining.html?_r=0

• Rebecca Kolins Givan (Rutgers) writes an op-ed about the proposed repeal of the Affordable Care Act based on the research she did for her new book, The Challenge to Change (Cornell ILR Press): https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/23/obamacare-repeal-listen-health-care-providers/
  The Challenge to Change: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100299370

• Ariel Avgar (Cornell) and Timothy Vogus (Vanderbilt) get LERA kudos for wrangling, organizing, recruiting authors, writing and editing the 2016 LERA Research Volume, The Evolving Health Care Landscape: How Employees, Organizations, and Institutions are Adapting and Organizing. Work on the 2017 volume on pensions is underway with Johanna Weststar (Western in Ontario, Can.) at the editorial helm.

• Register now for the LERA 69^th Annual Meeting, June 1-3, 2017 in Anaheim, CA. The early-bird registration deadline is March 25, 2017! You will find the complete program and registration details at the LERA website: https://lera.memberclicks.net/69th-lera-anl-mtg.

• Perspectives on Work is still seeking a few good contributors for the 2017 issue. Willing? Story ideas? Contact editor Michael Lillich, (217) 898-1928, [email protected]

• The Association for Evolutionary Economics has announced a call for papers for their Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the ASSA/AEA meeting, January 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia. The deadline for submission is April 15, 2017. You can find complete details and submission information here: https://listserv.unl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1701&L=AFEEMAIL&F=&S=&P=65

• On Feb. 1, LERA sent out a statement on the LERA dialog listserv over the signature of President Janice Bellace. While LERA takes no partisan political positions, the statement urges the Trump administration to withdraw its executive order banning individuals from seven countries from entering the United States. The grounds for the statement are the value immigrants have added to our country and human rights.
  
  
• “White resentment on the night shift at Walmart” from The New York Times:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/white-resentment-on-the-night-shift-at-walmart.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
  
  
• Teresa Ghilarducci on potential changes in retirement in the Trump administration in a podcast on Marketplace, Jan. 23, 2017 (There’s also a discussion on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and Chinese Apple iPhone manufacturer Foxconn’s possible plans to build a plant in the U.S.):
  http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/01232017

Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: January 2017

• Member News: Trumka, Weil, Ghilarducci
  
• Calls to Action: Upcoming Awards and Paper Deadlines
  
• Further Reading for LERA Members

Member News:

• AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka in a New York Times op-ed "Don't Let Trump Speak for American Workers":
  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/27/opinion/dont-let-trump-speak-for-workers.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

• David Weil (Boston University) on workers' rights in The Guardian via Chris Tilly on LERA Dialogue listserv:
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/03/us-labor-department-andy-puzder-workers-right-wages

• Teresa Ghilarducci (New School for Social Reseach) reports on December unemployment report for older workers.
  http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org/index.php/wealth-insecurity-news/1697-december-2016-unemployment-report-for-workers-over-55#u3?utm_source=December+Unemployment+Report+press&utm_campaign=November+Employment+Report+press&utm_medium=email

Calls to Action:

• Attention book reviewers. We're looking for reviewers of LERA member books for the 2017 Perspectives on Work. Here are some of the books:
  
  
• Andy Stern - Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
  
  
• Jody Hoffer Gittell -Transforming Relationships for High Performance: The Power of Relational Coordination
  
  
• Rebecca Kolins Givan -The Challenge to Change: Reforming Health Care on the Front Line in the United States and the United Kingdom
  
  
• Susan Houseman - Measuring Globalization: Better Trade Statistics for Better Policy

Reviews are 1,000 words. Deadline: June 1, 2017. We'll ship you a review copy and publication guidelines. If you'd like to be a reviewer and cover yourself with LERA glory, and/or you have a new book out/coming out, contact Michael Lillich, LERA writer-editor, (217) 898-1928, [email protected].

We're also still in the market for Perspectives on Work feature stories (2,500 words, June 1 deadline): industry reports; international; management trends; unions; arbitration-mediation; innovation ... Your ideas?  Contact Lillich. Contact info above.

• Nominate a colleague for a LERA Award by January 15, 2017. Find complete details, past awardees, and submission forms at the "LERA Deadlines" webpage. https://lera.memberclicks.net/deadlines. Both LERA scholars and practitioners are are eligible.
  
  
  • Dunlop Scholars Award -
    2 given each year, one for national and one for international research of significance.
    http://www.leraweb.org/john-t-dunlop-scholar-awards
    
  • LERA Fellows Award -
    up to 6 awarded each year, as a capstone achievement in the field, for both scholars and practitioners.
    http://www.leraweb.org/lera-fellows
    
    
  • LERA Outstanding Practitioner Award -
    This award recognizes a practitioner's unique contribution to LER practice.
    http://www.leraweb.org/lera-outstanding-practitioner-award
    
    
  • Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award -
    in honor of Susan C. Eaton, this award is given annually to a LERA member who has achieved distinction as both a practitioner and a scholar in the field.
    http://www.leraweb.org/susan-c-eaton-scholar-practitioner-award
    
  • Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Grant -
    Submit a proposal to win a $3,000 research grant.
    http://www.leraweb.org/susan-c-eaton-scholar-practitioner-grant

• Submit your research to a LERA Paper Competition by January 15, 2017. These include:
  
  
  • Scoville Best International Paper Competition -
    Int'l and comparative employment issues papersthat have been published between June 1, 2016 and May 31, 2017 can be considered for this award. Award carries a cash prize of $500.
    http://www.leraweb.org/james-g-scoville-best-international-paper-award
    
  • AILR/LERA Best Papers -
    David Lewin and Paul Gollan have announced a January 15 deadline for submission of abstract/paper proposals. Winning selections will be asked to present at the LERA 69^th Annual Meeting, and be expeditiously refereed for publication in AILR.
    https://lera.memberclicks.net/ailr-best-papers-submission-form
    
  • 2017 Kochan & Sleigh Best Dissertation Award -
    Those who have completed their dissertation in the year preceding the LERA 69^th Annual Meeting (June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2017) are eligible. The winner receives a cash prize of $1,000 and a one-year complimentary membership in LERA.
    http://www.leraweb.org/thomas-a-kochan-stephen-r-sleigh-best-dissertation-award
    
  • UCIRHRP Best Student Paper Competition -
    The UCIRHRP each year sponsors a Best Student Paper competition. Winners receive a cash award of $300, plus the chance to present your paper at the LERA 69^th Annual Meeting.
    http://www.leraweb.org/call-for-UCIRHRP-student-papers
    
• Submit a session or paper proposal to the LERA Winter Program Committee for the LERA Winter Meeting, Jan. 5-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA by March 9, 2017. This meeting takes place in conjunction with the ASSA/AEA, an exciting program attended by 13,000+ people.
  https://lera.memberclicks.net/2018-call-for-proposals-lera-winter-meeting 

Further reading:

• "Nine new findings about income inequality" from the New York Times:
  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/16/business/economy/nine-new-findings-about-income-inequality-piketty.html?src=me

• The Economist: "Is neo-liberal management theory dead?" (The Economist website requires registration.)
  http://www.economist.com/news/business/21711909-what-martin-luther-did-catholic-church-needs-be-done-business-gurus-management

• Changing demographics of U.S. working class from the Economic Policy Institute:
  http://www.epi.org/publication/the-changing-demographics-of-americas-working-class/

• "Will Trump cave on Social Security" from the New York Times:
  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/will-donald-trump-cave-on-social-security.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

Send new member book notices to Michael Lillich at [email protected].

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: December 2016 

• Member News: Tilly, Batt, et. al, Kochan, Hodges, Allen
• Calls to Action
• Further Reading for LERA Members

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: November 2016 

• Submit session and paper proposals TODAY for LERA 69th Annual Meeting.
• Submit LERA Competitive Papers by December 15, 2016.
• Nominate for LERA Awards by January 15, 2017.
• Register for LERA Winter Meeting Jan. 6-8, 2017, Chicago, IL.
• Jared Bernstein's wide-ranging interview with Susan Houseman.
• Steven Greenhouse on the employment effects of self-driving vehicles.
• NLRB on free speech for Northwestern football players.
• Volunteer for a LERA Committee, Interest Section or Industry Council
• Further reading for LERA members.

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: October 2016 

• Submit session and paper proposals for LERA 69th Annual Meeting by Nov. 14.
• Register for LERA Winter Meeting Jan. 6-8, 2017, Chicago, IL.
• David Autor on trade, politics and polarization.
• Oren Levin-Waldman on the politics of stagnant wages in presidential election year.
• Teresa Ghilarducci’s September unemployment report for older workers.
• Mark Anner leads global conference on workers’ rights.
• ILR Review announces CFP for special issue honoring David Lipsky
• Volunteer for a LERA Committee, Interest Section or Industry Council
• Further reading for LERA members.

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: September 2016 

• Labor Day Edition of Labor and Employment Law News.
• ASSA Opens Registration for LERA Winter Meeting TODAY at 10 am CDT.
• Submit session and paper proposals for LERA 69th Annual Meeting by Nov. 14.
• Tom Kochan's Labor Day Commentary.
• Dan Mitchell's Musings.
  
• Two sad passings.
• Further reading (and listening) for LERA members.

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: August 2016 

• Meet the new Executive Board Members!
• LERA 2015 awards announced
  
• Kaiser Permanente's "Partnership Day" kicks off today
  
• Paul Krugman on "Trump, Trade and Workers"
• Teresa Ghilarducci's unemployment report for workers over 55
• David Autor quoted in The Economist
• Further reading (and listening) for LERA members.

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: July 2016 

• Cast your ballot in LERA Election 2016 by Aug 1
• Publish your paper presented at LERA 68th Annual Meeting
• FMCS' NLMC 2016 hotel room discount end today
• Kaiser Permanente announces Partnership Day
• Further readings of interest

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: June 2016 

• Learn about the LERA Bylaws changes recommended by the LERA Board and accepted at the General Membership Meeting 2016.
• FMCS resumes its National Labor-Management Conference this August.
• Dennis Dabney announces Kaiser Permanente's Partnership Day
• Heather Boushey, Hillary's "economic inequality whisperer," has a new book.
• The latest news on older workers from Teresa Ghilarducci.
• Krueger-Katz on alternative work in the "gig economy."
• Further reading for LERA members.

In this issue of LERA's eBulletin: April 2016 

• LERA Prez Bonnie Castrey's big fact finding
  
• Freeman and Krueger on finding a job that works
  
• Lawrence Katz and Julianna Koch in The New York Times
  
• Oren Levin-Waldman: "What Do We Mean by the Middle Class?"
  
• New books from Jeffrey Rothstein, Jerry Davis and Susan Houseman

• Register for LERA 68th Annual Meeting by March 25
• LER-Law Newsletter is Available Online
• Lisa Lynch's Many Hats
• Tom Kochan's MOOC
• John Komlos on income inequality on PBS' "Making Sens$e"
• The Economist on the "gig economy," references S. Harris-A.Krueger research
• Further reading (and listening) for LERA members

• LERA 68th Annual Meeting Program is Online Now
• LERA 68th Annual Meeting Registration Opens Tomorrow
• Submit proposal for LERA/ASSA Winter Meeting, Chicago 2017
• Further reading for LERA members