X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:35:00 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Fw: African Americans, Labor, and Society >From Alan Spector, REVS manager: The following appeared on another e-mail network. It may be of interest to REVS members. ============================================================== Subject: African Americans, Labor, and Society Fellow Netters: This message contains the program and other information related to the May 10-11, 1996 conference on "African Americans, Labor, and Society: Organi- zing for A New Agenda." This conference will be held at Wayne State University and is free, except a modest cost for meals. Please feel free to forward this message to other lists and other interested parties. Thank You, Patrick L. Mason, Conference Convenor. _______________________________________________________________________________ Friday (May 10, 1996) Welcome 8:30 - 9:00 Tilden G. Edelstein WSU, Vice-President for Academic Affairs Patrick L. Mason WSU, Conference Coordinator Panel #1 Is the Law Fair? 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 Clayola Brown -(Vice President, UNITE) Henry Nicholas (NUHHCE/AFSCME) William Lucy (Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME and President, CBTU) Lunch Noon - 2:00 p.m. Plenary/( First Keynote Address -- William Lucy) 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Panel #2 Economics of Race and Labor Organization 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. "Equality in the Steel Industry: An Unfinished Agenda" James Stewart, Department of Economics, Pennsylvannia State University "Ending Racial Discrimination at Work: A Comparison of Civil Rights Law, the National Labor Relations Act, and Collective Bargaining" Michael Yates, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown "Not for Profit Sector and Black Union-Nonunion Employment" Pier Rodgers, Graduate School of Management and Urban Professions, New School for Social Research John Jeffries, Empowerment Zone Monitoring and Assistance Project, Columbia University "Trade, Race, and Employment" William Spriggs, Joint Economic Committee, United States Congress Dinner/(Second Keynote Address -- William Gould) 6:30 p.m. Saturday (May 11, 1996) Panel #3 Discrimination and Arbitration 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. "Arbitrating Anti-Discrimination Claims for Non-Union and Union Employees" Renee L. Bowser, Assistant General Council, United Food and Commercial Workers "Statutory Discrimination Claims: How They are Lost by Waiver and Mandatory Arbitration" Reginald Alleyne, School of Law, University of California at Los Angeles Jerome Culp, School of Law, Duke University "Discrimination Claims Involving Multiple Protected Categories" Carla Diggs, Law Clerk for Chief Judge Of U.S. District Court, District of Columbia Lunch (AFL-CIO Speaker 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Panel #4 Elements of A New Agenda 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. "We Know There's Racism, So What'll We Do?" Warren Whatley, Department of Economics, University of Michigan Juliane Malveaux, "The 104th Congress and Its War on Labor" "Worker Owned Establishments: the New Civil Rights Frontier" Leroy Clark, School of Law, Catholic University Dinner/Closing Plenary 4:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. ------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE SPONSORS At Wayne State University Department of Africana Studies College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs College of Liberal Arts Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Walter Reuther Library Beyond the University Research Department of the AFL-CIO American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees ----------------------------------------------- African Americans, Labor, and Society All presentations are open to the public and are free of charge. However, conference visitors must pay a modest fee for attending conference luncheons and dinners. Please direct all questions about the conference to Professor Patrick L. Mason, Conference Coordinator, Department of Africana Studies, Wayne State University, (313) 577-2321. ---------------------------------------------------- ADVISORY BOARD Derrick Bell School of Law New York University Sheldon Friedman AFL-CIO Economic Research Department Washington, D.C. Ken Johnson Southern Regional Council James Jones School of Law University of Wisconsin Norman Hill, President A. Philip Randolph Institute Washington, D.C. William Lucy, Secretary-Treasurer American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Washington, D.C. Lawrence Mishel Economic Policy Institute Washington, D.C. Henry Nicolas American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Philadelphia, PA Rudy Oswald, Director AFL-CIO Economic Research Department Washington, D.C. William Spriggs Joint Economic Committee U.S. Congress Washington, D.C. Linda Williams Research Director CBCF Institute for Policy Research and Education Washington, D.C. Richard Womack, Director Department of Civil Rights, AFL-CIO Washington, D.C.