<div>FYI: Conference details</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work presents: Radicalism in Labor: Radical Approaches to the Crisis in the Labor Movement Saturday, October 29 10:00AM – 4:00PM Students: $5 – Public: $10 </div> <div>CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue</div> <div>NYC "Recital Hall" (located on the first floor) Featuring Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY), Barbara Bowen (PSC), Bill Henning (CWA Local 1180), Saru Jayaraman (ROC-NYC), Kim Moody (Labor Notes), Andrew Ross (NYU), and many others The issues: The decline in union membership The rapid deterioration of workers' living standards The large number of contract settlements that do not match inflation The proliferation of temporary and contingent work The questions: Can Change to Win muster the rhetoric and the style that attracts workers? Is the top brass of organized labor prepared to promote labor solidarity? What would constitute an effective politics and strategy to revitalize the labor movement? What is the state of democracy in the unions? What organization or network can be formed to intervene in the labor movement? Who are the key new constituencies of the labor movement? Should contract administration remain the core of union activity? In James P. Hoffa's words, should labor continue to "throw money at the Democrats"? The schedule: 10:00-10:15AM: Welcome and Introductions 10:15-11:45AM: Professional and technical unionism 11:45AM-12:45PM: Break for lunch 12:45-2:15PM: Unions of the working poor 2:30-4:00PM: The politics and strategy of labor radicalism (Plenary) * Phone: 212-817-2001 / Email: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:saronowitz@igc.org">saronowitz@igc.org</a> * -- ________________________________________ `And these words shall then become Like oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again -- again -- again-- `Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number-- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you-- Ye are many -- they are few.' --------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy: Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819]  </div>