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
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
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Collective
Bargaining and the Ban on Strikes in the Public Sector
-
Theodore W. Kheel,
Mediator and Arbitrator
Question
and Answer Session
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| 3:30 - 3:45 |
Break |
| 3:45 - 5:30
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Role Changes and Structural
Changes for a Cooperative Model
Moderator – Paula B. Voos, Rutgers
University
· “Can Unions
Serve as Transformational Agents
in Workplace Redesign?
· “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”
· “Trust, Distrust
and Making Cooperation Work”
-
Margaret
Levi, University of Washington
|
| 5:30 - 7:00 |
Reception with No-host Bar in 10th
Floor Event Room |
| 7:00 - 8:30
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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
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Break |
| 9:45 - 11:45
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Panel
Discussion:
Assessing the Responsibilities of
Public Employee Relations
Commissions and Boards in the 21st Century
Moderator – John
F. Burton, Jr., Rutgers University
Panelists:
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| 12:00 - 2:00
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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
|
| 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
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|
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
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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
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| 10:45 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 12:15
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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
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| 12:30 - 2:00
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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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