Thursday, May 8, 2008
8:30am to 10:15am
The Murphy Institute, Cornell ILR and the Metro NY Labor Communications Council
invite you to a
Labor Breakfast Forum
featuring
Steven Greenhouse,
labor and workplace reporter for The New York Times, on his new book,
"The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker"
Through a series of poignant vignettes, Greenhouse illustrates the human and social toll resulting from the demise of job security, living wages and adequate health and pension benefits in the American workplace. In an effort to ameliorate the crisis he describes, Greenhouse offers a number of pragmatic recommendations for government, business and the labor movement to loosen the squeeze on workers.
Respondents:
Héctor Figueroa
Secretary-Treasurer SEIU 32BJ
Jonathan Tasini
Executive Director
Labor Research Association
To RSVP for this event please email eloiza.morales@mail.cuny.edu or call 212-642-2029
Thursday, April 24, 2008
8:30 AM to 10:15 AM
The Murphy Institute invites you to a
Labor Breakfast Forum
“Gauging the Political Impact of the Latino Vote in 2008”
Viewed by both parties as a strategic swing vote, Latinos are being hotly courted in the current election campaign. What are the dominant concerns among Latinos regarding public policy issues such as jobs, immigration reform, the Iraq War, education and housing? This forum will offer a nuanced political profile of the Latino community nationally.
Featuring:
Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus
Executive Director,
Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
Rodolfo O. De la Garza
Eaton Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
To RSVP for this event please email eloiza.morales@mail.cuny.edu or call 212-642-2029
Monday, March 14th at 12:30pm
New Labor Forum 10th Anniversary Luncheon
"Is This a Watershed Moment In Politics?"
Featuring:
Ed Ott
Executive Director,
New York City Central Labor Council
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor and Publisher, The Nation
William Fletcher, Jr.
Author, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
Mae Ngai
Author, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Juan Gonzalez
Columnist, Daily News
Special Posthumous Award presented by
Roger Toussaint,
President, TWU Local 100
to Marvin Franklin,
painter, member TWU Local 100
To RSVP for this event please email eloiza.morales@mail.cuny.edu or call 212-642-2029
Monday, February 25th at 6 p.m. - 18th Floor
Black History Month Forum
"Discordant Racial Politics:
The Changing Face of Black New York"
Featuring:
Christina Greer
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Political Science, Smith College
Friday, February 29, 2008 from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m.
Black History Month Breakfast Forum
"Race and Gender in the Change Election"
Regardless of the final outcome of the 2008 election, it will be remembered as a turning point in U.S. politics-a time when a woman or African-American president seemed equally plausible. What role are race and gender playing in the 2008 Democratic primaries? What impact do race and gender have on the campaigns of Senators Clinton and Obama? To what extent are race and gender influencing groups of voters in various states and regions?
Featuring:
Patricia Williams
Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University
And Nation columnist
Leon Wynter
Author, journalist and
Host of the blog, The American Race
Tuesday, February 19th at 6 p.m. - 19th Floor
Black History Month Forum
"Visions of Struggle:
Representations of Workers in the Art of Romare Bearden"
Featuring:
Diedra Harris-Kelley
Executive Director,
The Romare Bearden Foundation
Friday, January 25, 2008 - 8:30 AM
Labor Breakfast Forum
"Does Labor Have a CLUW?:
Unions and the Feminist Agenda"
Featuring:
Alice Kessler-Harris
Niki T. Dickerson
Heidi Hartmann