Union Leadership Development as Driver of Equity and Inclusion

Analysis generated for the research project on Young Workers and the Labor Movement highlighted the need for innovative leadership development if young workers are to be integrated into an increasingly diverse workers’ movement, and unleashed to provide leadership in established institutions that face a radically changing economy and workforce. We examine one successful leadership development program: the New York State AFL-CIO/Cornell Union Leadership Institute. We look at the theoretical underpinnings, development, and outcomes of this multi-union, multi-sector program over the past 17 years, note its impact on the New York regional labor movement, and analyze the key factors accounting for the program’s successful development of innovative-minded young labor leaders. Those factors venturing beyond the traditional “skill-building “ approach of most labor leadership training toward a more transformational model of leadership development; an emphasis on experiential learning, using a variety of learning modes; providing a safe space and what Kurt Lewin describes as “a community of practice” where difficult challenges can be tackled collectively; and using leadership development as a tool to build inclusion and solidarity across many dimensions of difference, including age, race, gender, ethnicity, sector, able-ness, education level, industry, and more

Is There A Women’s Way Of Organizing? Genders, Unions, and Effective Organizing

[Excerpt] Between spring of 2008 and summer 2009, Cornell ILR Labor Programs faculty, staff, and students conducted a project to investigate and analyze several recent examples of women-focused union organizing campaigns. Our purpose was to contribute to the ongoing debates among labor and community activists about how to organize more effectively. We wanted to learn from the actual lived experiences of the women who were organizing about what they felt were effective strategies. We used as a starting point the work done by the Berger-Marks Foundation in their important study, “Women Organizing: How Do We Rock the Boat without Getting Thrown Overboard?” (2004), and the subsequent work outlining successful strategies used in women-focused union campaigns, “I Knew I Could Do This Work: Seven Strategies that Promote Women Activism and Leadership In Unions” (Institute for Women’s Policy Research 2007). The intent of the project was to answer the following questions: 1. Is there a successful way of organizing that is unique to women-focused organizing campaigns? 2. Among the seven strategies identified in the Institute for Women’s Policy Research report, which strategies are most often used, and how successful are they in ensuring the success of these organizing efforts? 3. Are there other strategies or ideas here that should be assessed, propagated, and perhaps generalized to organizing in other contexts that might help unions increase their success in organizing? 4. Are these new strategies? Or are they rooted in older models that are reemerging to challenge not only the traditional organizing practices of unions, but also the way unions view organizing and organizers’ roles

Review of the book \u3ci\u3eFramed! Labor and the Corporate Media\u3c/i\u3e

[Excerpt] Observers of the U.S. media have grown accustomed to the perennial debate over whether the news leans left or right. Yet there is scant disagreement that discussion of ordinary work issues is absent in public discourse; that workers and their unions are practically invisible even in economic news; and that most news coverage about unions concerns strikes, corrupt leaders, or, more recently, splits in labor’s ranks. Christopher Martin’s highly readable book, Framed: Labor and the Corporate Media, deepens that observation through the application of media framing theory, originally developed by political media scholar Doris Graber in the 1970s. Quoting Todd Gitlin, Martin defines media frames as “persistent patterns of cognition, interpretation and presentation, of selection, emphasis and exclusion, by which symbol-handlers routinely organize discourse, whether verbal or visual.” Embattled union members encounter framing when every airline walkout becomes a media narrative of stranded travelers versus callous strikers, and every press story employment focuses on stock statistics

Review of the book \u3ci\u3eBuilding Movement Bridges: The Coalition of Labor Union Women\u3c/i\u3e

[Excerpt] When de Tocqueville made that famous remark, he could not have foreseen the role this “mother of all forms of knowledge” would play in the twentieth century. America cannot be understood without understanding her social movements. Silke Roth’s new book, Building Movement Bridges: The Coalition of Labor Union Women, focuses on an association described as a bridge between two of America’s most important social movements: labor and the women’s movement

Women and Union Leadership in the UK and USA: First Findings From a Cross-National Research Project

This is a report prepared for Cornell Conference on Women and Union Leadership held at Cornell University, New York City on May 8th 2010 and for Queen Mary/SERTUC Workshop on Women and Union Leadership held at Congress House, London on 11th September 2010. The project was funded by the Leverhulme Trust. [Excerpt] This report offers the first findings of a unique comparative research project on women in union leadership in the UK and the USA. It is the first study that seeks to systematically investigate the experiences of women in union leadership in two countries using the same research methodologies and carried out by an American/British research team

El sistema tributario y su implicancia en el crecimiento económico de las microempresas de transportes del distrito de Wanchaq de la ciudad del Cusco, periodo 2020

El presente trabajo de investigación titulado “El sistema tributario y su implicancia en el crecimiento económico de las microempresas de transportes del distrito de Wanchaq de la ciudad del Cusco, periodo 2020” tiene como objetivo general determinar cuál es la implicancia del sistema tributario en el crecimiento económico de las microempresas de transporte del distrito de Wánchaq de la ciudad del Cusco, periodo 2020, para ello se propuso la siguiente hipótesis, el sistema tributario se relaciona significativamente con el crecimiento económico de las microempresas de transporte del distrito de Wánchaq de la ciudad del Cusco, periodo 2020. El trabajo de investigación es de tipo descriptivo – explicativo, con un enfoque cuantitativo, diseño no experimental, el método deductivo - analítico y la unidad de análisis está constituida por 74 microempresas del sector transporte de carga del distrito de Wánchaq, donde se aplicó las encuestas a sus respectivos representantes legales a través de un cuestionario. Después de las encuestas realizadas se llegó a la conclusión donde el Sistema Tributario tiene una implicancia significativa en el crecimiento económico de las microempresas de transporte del distrito de Wánchaq, ya que la mayoría de microempresarios no conocen las leyes, normas y reglamentos al cual están condicionados para el desarrollo de sus actividades dentro de ello no saber cuáles son los beneficios que pueden tener para el pago de sus impuesto, con lo que respecta al IGV, o las ventajas que se tienen de acuerdo al régimen afiliado

Actividades gráfico plásticas y la preescritura en niños de 4 años en confinamiento en una institución privada de Lima, 2022

La investigación tuvo como objetivo conocer los resultados sobre el nivel de influencia de las actividades gráfico plásticas para el desarrollo de la pre- escritura en niños de 4 años en confinamiento en una institución privada de Lima. Se empleó como metodología de estudio una investigación cuantitativa básica, no experimental de nivel explicativo. La muestra estuvo conformada por 80 niños de 4 años de instituciones privadas de Lima. La técnica empleada para la recolección de datos fue la observación y el instrumento fue la lista de cotejo de escala dicotómica. Los resultados demostraron la existencia de una influencia significativa de ,000, concluyendo que existe una influencia significativa de las actividades gráfico plásticas en el desarrollo de la preescritura

Using combined biomolecular methods to explore whale exploitation and social aggregation in hunter–gatherer–fisher society in Tierra del Fuego

Cetaceans were an important food and raw material resource for the South American hunter–gatherer–fisher (HGF) communities of Tierra del Fuego. Historic ethnographic evidence suggests that relatively mobile HGF groups came together in large numbers to exploit carcasses from individual cetacean stranding events. Substantial accumulations of whale bones within shell middens in the Lanashuaia locality of the Beagle Channel suggests that these social aggregation events may also have occurred in pre-historic periods. The difficulty in assigning taxonomic identifications to the fragmentary whale remains, however, made it difficult to explicitly test this hypothesis. Here, we applied two different biomolecular techniques, collagen peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS) and ancient mitochondrial DNA analysis to 42 archeological bone fragments from the Lanashuaia locality to provide accurate species identifications. There was a clear correspondence between ZooMS and DNA results, identifying five different cetacean species (Southern bottlenose, blue, humpback, right, and sei whale) as well as human and sea lion remains. The biomolecular results were not conclusively consistent with HGF social aggregation, revealing an unexpectedly diverse range of cetaceans within the Lanashuaia middens. However, the results could not fully refute the hypothesis that cetacean remains can be used as anthropic markers of aggregation events, as the observed species and haplotypes revealed potential shared exploitation of some whale resources between midden sites

Standardised packs and larger health warnings: visual attention and perceptions among Colombian smokers and non-smokers.

Aims To measure how cigarette packaging (standardised packaging and branded packaging) and health warning size affect visual attention and pack preferences among Colombian smokers and non-smokers. Design To explore visual attention, we used an eye-tracking experiment where non-smokers, weekly smokers and daily smokers were shown cigarette packs varying in warning size (30%-pictorial on top of the text, 30%-pictorial and text side-by-side, 50%, 70%) and packaging (standardised packaging, branded packaging). We used a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to examine the impact of warning size, packaging and brand name on preferences to try, taste perceptions and perceptions of harm. Setting Eye-tracking laboratory, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. Participants Participants (n=175) were 18 to 40 years old. Measurements For the eye-tracking experiment, our primary outcome measure was the number of fixations toward the health warning compared with the branding. For the DCE, outcome measures were preferences to try, taste perceptions and harm perceptions. Findings We observed greater visual attention to warning labels on standardised versus branded packages (F[3,167]=22.87, P<0.001) and when warnings were larger (F[9,161]=147.17, P<0.001); as warning size increased, the difference in visual attention to warnings between standardised and branded packaging decreased (F[9,161]=4.44, P<0.001). Non-smokers visually attended toward the warnings more than smokers, but as warning size increased these differences decreased (F[6,334]=2.92, P=0.009). For the DCE, conditional trials showed that increasing the warning size from 30% to 70% reduced preferences to try (odds ratio [OR]=0.48, 95% CI = [0.42,0.54], P<0.001), taste perceptions (OR=0.61, 95% CI = [0.54,0.68], P<0.001); and increased harm perceptions (OR=0.78, 95% CI = [0.76,0.80], P<0.001). Compared with branded packaging, standardised packaging reduced our DCE outcome measures with ORs ranging from OR=0.25 (95% CI = [0.17,0.38], P<0.001) to OR=0.79 (95% CI = [0.67,0.93], P<0.001) across two brands. These effects were more pronounced among non-smokers, males and younger participants. Unconditional trials showed similar results. Conclusions Standardised cigarette packaging and larger health warnings appear to decrease positive pack perceptions and have the potential to reduce the demand for cigarette products in Colombia