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The 22nd annual Kenneth M. Piper Lecture

Labor Relations in the Rapidly Changing  
Workplace of the New Millennium 
 
Friday, April 7, 2000  11:30 a.m.

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Jonathan Hiatt 
AFL-CIO 

William P. Hobgood 
United Airlines 

Katherine Stone 
Cornell University and  
Yale Law School 
 
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2000  
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  
 
Governor Richard B. Ogilvie Auditorium 
Chicago-Kent College of Law 
Illinois Institute of Technology 
565 West Adams
Chicago, IL 60661-3691 
(312) 906-5090 for more information 

THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND! 



Jonathan Hiatt is general counsel of the AFL-CIO.  He was appointed to the position on November 1, 1995, by the FederationÆs elected President, John J. Sweeney.  Prior to his appointment at the AFL-CIO, Mr. Hiatt served for eight years as General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), where he directed the unionÆs legal department.  Before assuming leadership of SEIUÆs legal department, he was a partner at Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle, Wanger & Hiatt, a union-side labor law firm in Boston.  He joined the firm in 1974, after graduating from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley, and Harvard College.  Mr. Hiatt currently serves as the Executive Director of AFL-CIOÆs Lawyers Coordinating Committee, and sits on the Board of Directors of the National Employment Law Project and  New York UniversityÆs Center for Labor and Employment Law. 



William P. Hobgood is senior vice president-people for United Airlines.  As senior vice president of the People Division, he is responsible for directing UnitedÆs human resources functions, such as labor relations, personnel policies and issues, training, benefits and compensations, on a worldwide basis.  Mr. Hobgood joined the company in 1997, leaving his private law practice, where he specialized in mediation and arbitration for more than 20 years.  During his career, he has been Director of Mediation for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Assistant Secretary of Labor in the U.S. Department of Labor during the Carter administration, and an adjunct professor of labor law at the Georgetown University Law Center.  Mr. Hobgood has served as vice president of the Mediation, Research and Education Project at Northwestern University, and he has assisted in grievance mediation programs for organizations in industries such as air transportation, telecommunications and oil and utilities.  Mr. Hobgood is a graduate of the Harvard University Senior Managers in Government program.  He earned his law degree from the University of Louisville, a masterÆs degree from George Washington University and a bachelorÆs degree from Florida State University. 



Katherine Stone is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, where she has been since 1991.  She is currently a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School. She received a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.  Professor Stone practiced labor law in New York City from 1979 to 1984 at the firms of Cohen, Weiss, & Simon, and Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard.  In 1984, Professor Stone began teaching at Cardozo Law School , Yeshiva University in New York City.  She has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Yale Law School.  Professor Stone teaches in the fields of labor and employment law, comparative labor law, the law of dispute resolution, and contracts.  In the summers, Professor Stone teaches comparative labor law in the Cornell Law School - Sorbonne University Joint Program in International and Comparative Law at the Sorbonne University in Paris.  Professor Stone has published widely on topics in labor and employment law and international labor law. She has also written in the field of labor history, and was awarded a Davis Fellowship in the History Department of Princeton University in 1995.  Prior to attending law school, Professor Stone was a legislative assistant for the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union in Washington, D.C.  Her book, PRIVATE JUSTICE: THE LAW OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION, was published by Foundation Press in January, 2000. 



The 22nd annual 
Kenneth M. Piper Lecture 

As we enter a new millennium, the world of work is changing.  Improved technology enables workers to be more dispersed physically.  The globalization of the economy presents new challenges and opportunities.  Increased contingency in employment may by accompanied by a decline in the influence of internal labor markets and an increased reliance by employees on mobility from employer to employer.  The workplace is also becoming more diversified racially and ethnically.  This program will address the implications of these and related developments for unions, management and labor relations in general. 

11:30 a.m.             Welcome 

  Henry H. Perritt, Jr.  
  Vice President, Illinois Institute of Technology, 
  Downtown Campus, Dean and Professor,  
  Chicago-Kent College of Law
  Moderator 
  Martin H. Malin, Professor of Law, Director,  
  Institute for Law and the Workplace,  
  Chicago-Kent College of Law
  Labor Relations in the Rapidly Changing  
  Workplace of the New Millennium 

  Jonathan Hiatt, General Counsel,    AFL-CIO 
  
  William P. Hobgood, Senior Vice  
  President-People Division, United Airlines 

  Katherine Stone, Professor of Law, Cornell Law  
  School and Cornell School of Industrial and Labor  
  Relations, Visiting Professor, Yale Law School


The Kenneth M. Piper Endowment 

This Lecture Series is funded by the Kenneth M. Piper Endowment, established by a gift from Mrs. Kenneth M. Piper in memory of her husband.  Kenneth M. Piper, a distinguished executive with Motorola, Inc., and Bausch & Lomb, Inc., made important contributions in human resources and labor relations for more than two decades.  Major programs in labor law are presented each year at Chicago-Kent College of Law, as part of the Piper Lecture Series. 

The Kenneth M. Piper Endowment Advisory Board 
Patricia A. Collins 
Asher, Gittler, Greenfield, & DÆAlba 

Lawrence M. Cohen 
Fox & Grove Chartered 

Harold A. Katz 
Katz, Friedman,  Eagle, Eisenstein & Johnson, Chartered 

Elizabeth Kinney 
National Labor Relations Board 
 

Richard W. Laner 
Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker 
Levin & Tominberg, Ltd. 

Michael McAuley 
National Treasury Employees Union 

Richard M. Stanton 
Jacobs, Burns, Orlove, Stanton & Hernandez 

K. Bruce Stickler 
Stickler & Nelson 

Nina G. Stillman 
Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz 
 



The Institute for Law and the Workplace 

The Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Workplace serves as 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 schoolÆs specialized J. D. program in labor and employment law, its annual conferences on Federal Sector and Illinois Public Sector Labor Law, the annual Distinguished Labor Leader Lecture, and its publications including the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal and the Illinois Public Employee Relations Report. 

The Institute for Law and the Workplace Members 
Asher, Gittler, Greenfield, & DÆAlba 
Baum, Sigman, Auerbach, Pierson & Neuman, Ltd. 
Carmell, Charone, Widmer, Matthews & Moss,  Ltd. 
Law Office of Lori D. Ecker, P.C. 
Fox and Grove, Chtd. 
Franczek Sullivan P.C. 
Illinois Education Association, NEA 
Illinois Fraternal Order of Police Labor Council, Inc. 
International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 705 
Jackson Lewis  
Jacobs, Burns, Orlove, Stanton & Hernandez 
Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein & Johnson, Chartered 
Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin & Tominberg, Ltd. 
The Marmon Group, Inc. 
Matkov, Salzman, Madoff & Gunn 
Meckler Bulger & Tilson 
Meites, Mulder, Burger & Mollica 
Motorola, Inc. 
National Treasury Employees Union 
Potter & Schaffner, P.C. 
Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson 
Stickler & Nelson 
United Airlines, Inc. 
Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz 

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