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The Cascade Center for Public Service and the Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington, the Cornell/PERC Institute on Conflict Resolution, the Ford Foundation and
the Chicago-Kent College of Law present:

The Future of Public Sector
Labor-Management Relations:
Working Together to Achieve Excellence for the 21st Century

April 13-15, 2000
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago, Illinois

Video Archives - Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Thursday, April 13, 2000

1:30 - 2:00 Registration outside Room 210
2:00 - 2:30

Welcome    Henry H. Perritt, Chicago-Kent College of Law
                   Martin H. Malin, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Introduction  
David B. Lipsky
, Cornell/PERC Institute on Conflict Resolution
Jonathan Brock, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, 
University of Washington

2:30 - 3:30

 

Collective Bargaining and the Ban on Strikes in the Public Sector
- Theodore W. Kheel, Mediator and Arbitrator

Question and Answer Session

3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 5:30


 

 Role Changes and Structural Changes for a Cooperative Model
  Moderator – Paula B. Voos, Rutgers University

·    “Can Unions Serve as Transformational Agents 
in Workplace Redesign?

-         Jeffrey H. Keefe, Rutgers University

·    “Public Management: Too Often Ignored”

-         Paul R. Soglin, University of Wisconsin, Madison

·    “The Behavioral Dimension of Labor-Management Cooperation:      Toward a Competency Model”

-   Sonia Ospina, New York University
(paper co-authored with Allon Yaroni, New York University)

·    “The Eye of the Storm: Public Sector Unions 
     Adapt to Labor's Decline”

-         Richard W. Hurd, Cornell University

·    “Trust, Distrust and Making Cooperation Work”

-         Margaret Levi, University of Washington

Question and Answer Session

5:30 - 7:00 Reception with No-host Bar in 10th Floor Event Room
7:00 - 8:30

 

Dinner in 10th Floor Event Room

The Future of Public Sector Labor – Management Relations

  - John T. Dunlop, former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Friday, April 14, 2000

8:00 - 9:30 Breakfast in 10th Floor Event Room
8:30 - 9:30


A Just Alternative or Just an Alternative:
Mediating Employment Discrimination Disputes in the Public Sector
-         Paul   Steven Miller
Commissioner, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
9:30 - 9:45  Break
9:45 - 11:45


 

Panel Discussion: Assessing the Responsibilities of 
Public Employee Relations Commissions and Boards in the 21st Century

Moderator – John F. Burton, Jr., Rutgers University

Panelists:

-         Pauline Kinsella, New York State United Teachers

-         Parker Denaco, New Hampshire PELRB

-         Linda Hanson, State of Iowa

12:00 - 2:00


Lunch in 10th Floor Event Room

                        Rekindling Interest in Public Sector Research: 
What Have We Learned and What's to be Done?

-         Thomas A. Kochan, Industrial Relations Research Association

2:15 - 3:45


Improving Conflict Resolution Practices
Moderator  - David B. Lipsky, Cornell/PERC Institute on Conflict Resolution

-         Walter J. Gershenfeld, Arbitrator

·    The Promise of ADR in the Public Sector: 
A Workable Response to Sovereign Immunity

-         Arnold M. Zack, Arbitrator

Question and Answer Session

3:45 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 6:00


Legal Issues and the Quality of Labor-Management Relations
Moderator – Henry H. Perritt, Chicago-Kent College of Law

-         Martin H.  Malin, Chicago-Kent College of Law

·    Legal Challenges to Federal Labor-Management Cooperation: Lessons for the Future in the Public Sector

-         Jay S. Siegel, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government

·    Panelists:

-         R. Theodore Clark, Seyfarth Shaw Fairweather & Geraldson

Question and Answer Session

6:00

End for the Day

Saturday, April 15, 2000 

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast in Room 210
Introduction and Agenda for the Day
9:00 - 10:45

 

Managers, Professional Employees and Union Organizing Opportunities

·    Wearing Two Hats
The Unionization Of Public Sector Supervisors

-   Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University
   Paula B. Voos, Rutgers University

·    The Politics of Reinvention: 
Congressional, Executive and Union Perspectives

-   Marick F. Masters, University of Pittsburgh

·    Unionization in the Public Sector, 1983-98

-   Terry Thomason, University of Rhode Island
   John F. Burton. Jr. , Rutgers University

·    Schools: Teacher Characteristics, 
Unions, School Quality, Salaries (tentative title)

-   Craig Olson, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Question and Answer Session

10:45 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:15

 

Service Improvement Strategies:
Contracting-Out vs. Labor-Management Cooperation

·    Incentive Compensation in the Public Sector

-   David Lewin, Anderson School at UCLA

·    Confronting the Wicked Witch and Exposing the Wizard: 
Labor and the Threat of Privatization

-   Roland Zullo, University of Wisconsin, Madison

·    Panelist:

-   Nancy Mills, AFL-CIO

Question and Answer Session

12:30 - 2:00


Lunch in Room 210

Key Themes and Integration

-   David Lewin, Anderson School at UCLA

Comments and Wrap-up

-   Jonathan Brock, Cascade Center for Public Service, University of Washington

-   David B. Lipsky, Cornell/PERC Institute on Conflict Resolution

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For more information about the conference, please contact Alice Ostdiek at the University of Washington.
ph.: 206-221-3263  fax : 206-616-1748 email: ostdiek@u.washington.edu.  


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