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LERA takes pride in our members' accomplishments. Many continue producing books, resources, videos, etc. influencing labor and employment relations.
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International and Comparative Employment Relations
By: by Greg J. Bamber, Fang Lee Cooke, Virginia Doellgast and Chris F Wright
Book Description: Established as the standard reference for a worldwide readership of students, scholars and practitioners in international agencies, governments, companies and unions, this text offers a systematic overview of international employment relations.
Chapters cover the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Japan, South Korea, China, India and South Africa.
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Workplace Then and Now
Longtime LERA member, labor attorney and national regional chapter vice-president Robert Chiaravalli (Strategic Labor & Human Resources) has made a series of short (2 min. to 5 min.) YouTube videos. The series is titled “Workplace Then and Now” and draws upon Chiaravalli’s decades of negotiation experience. And while his is a management-side firm, his insights are equally valuable for the labor side.
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£1.8m project to investigate impact of automation
James Hayton (pictured), Professor of Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship, at the Warwick Business School, is leading involvement in a project that will investigate the drivers of why firms adopt automation technology and the impact it has on workers.
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Eileen Appelbaum and Shawn Fremstad (Center for Economic Policy and Research) put together a chart that can be found at the link below, that covers what’s in the federal COVID-19 stimulus legislation — and what’s not, but should be. Rosemary Batt (Cornell) posted it on the LERA-D listserv on March 26.
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LERA Comments on Proposed NLRB Rule Change for Graduate Students
The National Labor Relations Board is considering a rule change that would strip graduate students at private universities of their right to organize unions. Erin Johansson, Jobs for Justice and LERA board member, proposed that LERA submit comments to the NLRB detailing LERA’s opposition to the proposed rule change, and the board approved it, given LERA’s explicit statement of support for the human right to organize.
Here is NLRB's rule being considered: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do/national-labor-relations-board-rulemaking/student-assistants-rule. Below is LERA's position on the NLRB's proposed rule change. The NLRB is accepting comments from the public through December 16, 2019.
LERA Comments on Proposed NLRB Rule Change (November 2019)
The National Labor Relations Board is considering a rule change that would strip the right of graduate students at private universities to organize unions. The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) opposes this proposed rule change.
LERA was founded in 1947 as an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources. The association supports fundamental worker and human rights in the workplace and supports rights of the employees, employers, and their organizations to organize. As employment relations specialists, we understand the critical role of graduate student employment in supporting teaching, research and administration functions of universities. Graduate students should not be exempted from the fundamental human rights to organize and collectively bargain.
The 1935 National Labor Relations Act states that the policy of the U.S. is encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full freedom of association. We believe that the current ruling, which affirms the right of graduate students at private universities to unionize, should remain in place.
If you have questions, please contact Erin Johannson.
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The U.S. Supreme Court and Arbitration: Their Love Is Here to Stay
Jed Marcus, Bressler Amery Ross
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Updated version of The Zinnia collective bargaining simulation available online
John Budd, UMN
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Professor Harry C. Katz To Start International Presidency
Harry Katz was LERA's 2017-18 President
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Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies
By: Arne Kalleberg
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Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy: Arguments for a Minimum Wage
By: Oren M. Levin-Waldman
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on-line MITx course on Shaping the Future of Work
By: Tom Kochan
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Rescuing Retirement: A Plan to Guarantee Retirement Security for All Americans
By: Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James
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Why Do Long Distance Truck Drivers Work Extremely Long Hours?
By: Michael Belzer
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Remarks from Sir Peter Carr - 2017 LERA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
LERA 69th Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2017
[Sir Peter Carr was not able to be physically present in Anaheim to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award but he sent us his acceptance remarks, which detail his involvement with colleagues in America and the Washington LERA chapter.] |
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Who Will Care For Us? Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce
By: Paul Osterman
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