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Chicago Federation of Labor AFL-CIO and
Institute for Law and the Workplace
8th annual
Distinguished Labor Leader Lecture
Joseph T. Hansen
International President
United Food and Commercial Workers
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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Chicago-Kent College of Law
Illinois Institute of Technology
565 West Adams Street
Chicago, IL 60661-3691
JOSEPH T. HANSEN
International President
United Food and Commercial Workers
Joseph (Joe) T. Hansen is one of today's most preeminent union
leaders. His efforts are helping revitalize the labor movement
to meet the challenges of the global economy. Mr. Hansen's union
activism began shortly after he entered an apprenticeship program
in 1962 and became a meat cutter at National Food in Milwaukee.
Early in his 12-year career as a cutter, Mr. Hansen became a volunteer
organizer for Local 73 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America - a predecessor union of the UFCW - helping
organize workers during his lunch hours. He was elected to serve
on the Local 73 executive board in the mid-60s, and in 1973, he
put down the tools of his trade, and became an organizer for the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters International Union. With the founding
of the UFCW in 1979, Mr. Hansen took advantage of expanded opportunities
to organize workers both in the retail and food processing industries.
By 1985 he was appointed UFCW Northcentral Region Director in
Minnesota. The following year, he was elected a UFCW International
Vice President. In 1990, he became UFCW Pacific Region Director
in California, then went on to head the union's Food Processing,
Packing and Manufacturing Division in 1994. Mr. Hansen was elected
UFCW International Secretary-Treasurer in 1997 and International
President in 2004. Mr. Hansen has been a leading advocate to confront
the challenges of transnational corporations with global unionism.
He was elected to serve as
president of Union Network International (UNI) representing 15
million workers at its first World Congress in Berlin in 2001.
He was reelected president at its second World Congress in Chicago
in 2005. In March 2005, Mr. Hansen was named to a 14-member Citizens'
Health Care Working Group. He is the only union leader serving
on the panel that includes esteemed health care providers and
advocates, economists, and other leaders. Mr. Hansen is one of
the founding architects of the new Change to Win federation that
has set a new course for the labor movement.
The Program
Reception: 12 noon-1:00 p.m.
Lecture: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
The program is free and no registration is required. For
further information, email clestaff@kentlaw.edu or call (312)
906-5090.
The Distinguished Labor Leader Lecture is presented as a public
service by the Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO and Chicago-Kent
College of Law.
The Chicago Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO is the central
labor body for the Chicago area unions associated with the American
Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations. The
CFL was formed in the late 1800’s to strengthen the efforts
of individual unions by creating a unified voice for the city’s
labor movement. The main objective of the CFL is to support organizing
efforts, help local unions resolve contract disputes, create opportunities
for unions to work together and to serve as labor’s ambassador
to the larger Chicago community. President Dennis Gannon and Secretary-
Treasurer Jorge Ramirez currently lead the CFL, representing more
than 300 unions and over 500,000 unionized workers in Cook County.
The Institute for Law and the Workplace at Chicago-Kent
is an
intellectual home for the labor and employment law communities
and addresses cutting edge issues involving the workplace through
conferences,
symposia and publications. The Institute houses the law school’s
specialized J.D. program in labor and employment law, its annual
conferences on Federal Sector and Illinois Public Sector Labor
Law, the annual Kenneth M. Piper Memorial Lecture in Labor Law,
and its publications, Employee Rights and Employment Policy
Journal and Illinois Public Employee Relations Report.
Membership in the Institute is by invitation and includes leading
law firms, unions and employers.
The Organized Labor Scholarship Fund
The Organized Labor Scholarship Fund at Chicago-Kent College
of Law was established by the unions and union law firms who are
members of the Institute for Law and the Workplace, including:
» Asher, Gittler, Greenfield
& D’Alba, Ltd.
» Baum, Sigman, Auerbach
& Neuman, Ltd.
» Carmell, Charone,
Widmer, Moss & Barr
» Illinois Education
Association
» International Brotherhood
of Teamsters Local 705
» Jacobs, Burns, Orlove,
Stanton & Hernandez
» Katz, Friedman, Eagle,
Eisenstein, Johnson & Bareck, P.C.
» National Treasury
Employees Union
» Whitfield, McGann
& Ketterman
The fund provides scholarship support to Chicago-Kent students
specializing in labor and employment law who have significant
ties to organized labor and to Chicago-Kent students serving as
student externs to unions and union law firms. A complete list
of scholarship recipients is available from the Institute for
Law and the Workplace.
Contributions to the Organized Labor Scholarship Fund are welcome
and are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Enclosed is my contribution to the Organized Labor Scholarship
Fund at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
r $50.00
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r $500.00
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Name (please print)
Title
Affiliation
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City, State, Zip
Telephone, Fax
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(Please make checks payable to Chicago-Kent College of Law
and write Organized Labor Scholarship Fund on the check.)
Please charge my contribution to my:
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