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INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND THE WORKPLACE
Lecture:
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
Associate Dean for Research and Willard and Margaret Carr
Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Indiana University
School of Law-Bloomington
Commentary:
Allison Beck
General Counsel, International Association of Machinists
and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO
Nicholas W. Clark
Associate General Counsel, United Food & Commercial
Workers International Union
Michael A. Rodriguez
Senior Vice President-Labor Relations, AT&T Services,
Inc.
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 the lecture.
No registration is required.
The Future of Collective Bargaining
The influence of organized labor in the American workplace
continues to decline as the percent organized in the private
sector has fallen from
36% in 1953 to less than 8% at the present time. Although
a variety of demographic and economic factors have contributed
to this decline, a combination of high organizing costs
and high membership attrition due to work restructuring
in the global economy of the information age has left organized
labor in the tenuous position of having to spend an ever
larger share of union dues on organizing, merely to slow
the rate of decline in the percent organized. Professor
Dau-Schmidt will discuss these trends in light of recent
developments in industries of traditional union strength
such as automotive and steel, strategies in organizing,
the legal environment and the recent departure of a number
of unions from the AFL-CIO.
Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
Associate Dean for Research and Willard and Margaret
Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Indiana University
School of Law-Bloomington
Kenneth Dau-Schmidt is a nationally recognized teacher and
scholar on labor and employment law and the economic analysis
of legal problems. He is a recipient of the School of Law’s
top teaching prize, the Leon H. Wallace Award, and Indiana
University’s prestigious Sylvia Bowman Award for teaching
excellence. Professor Dau-Schmidt is the author of three
books and numerous articles on labor and employment law
and the economic analysis of law. He has presented papers
at academic conferences and law schools across the United
States and in Canada and Europe. In 1991, he received the
Scholarly Paper Award from the Association of American Law
Schools for his work on economic analysis of the criminal
law as a preference-shaping policy.
Professor Dau-Schmidt has served on the National Council
of the American Association of University Professors, and
its executive committee and
litigation committee. Professor Dau-Schmidt has served on
the executive committees of the Association of American
Law Schools' section on labor and employment law and the
Industrial Relations Research Association's section on labor
and employment law. He currently serves as president of
The Labor Law Group. He has also served as the chair for
the Association of American Law Schools' section on law
and socio-economics and is a founder of the Midwest Law
and Economics Association. He received his B.A. from the
University of Wisconsin and his J.D. and Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan.
Allison Beck
General Counsel
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
AFL-CIO
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,
AFL-CIO
Allison Beck is the general counsel of the International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO,
a large international labor union representing approximately
700,000 active and retired members in a variety of industries,
including aerospace, transportation, automotive, machine
and manufacturing. She has served as general counsel since
1989, and as associate general counsel from 1980 to 1989.
Prior to joining the legal staff of the IAM, Ms. Beck was
an appellate court attorney in the division of enforcement
litigation of the National Labor Relations Board. She also
served as a legislative assistant on employment issues to
the late Senator Alan Cranston (D.Cal).
Ms. Beck graduated (cum laude) from Goucher College, where
she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her law
degree from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University
of America. Ms. Beck is the author of the article “The
Last Plantation: Will Employment Reform Come to Capitol
Hill?”
Nicholas W. Clark
Associate General Counsel
United Food & Commercial Workers International Union
Nicholas W. Clark is the associate general counsel for
the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union,
Washington, DC, where he has practiced labor and employment
law since 1984.
Before that, he was a trial attorney for the United States
Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, also in Washington,
DC. The UFCW has over one million members working in the
U.S. retail grocery, department store, meat packing, health
care, chemical and other industries. Mr. Clark received
his J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law in 1977
and his B.A. from the University of Missouri, St. Louis
in 1983.
Michael A. Rodriguez
Senior Vice President-Labor Relations
AT&T Services, Inc.
Michael A. Rodriguez is currently senior vice president-labor
relations for AT&T (formerly SBC), responsible for national
labor relations, including enterprise-wide strategy and
bargaining. Mr. Rodriguez started his career with Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph in 1976 as an attorney in the legal
department. In 1991, he was appointed executive director
in the Pacific Bell Human Resources organization in charge
of recruitment, placement, succession planning, EEO, and
labor relations. In 1996, his role was expanded to include
human resources for all of the Pacific Telesis Group.
Following the merger between SBC and Ameritech, Mr. Rodriguez
was named senior vice president and general counsel-human
resources for SBC. Currently, as senior vice president for
labor and human resources for SBC he is
responsible for labor, benefits design and administration,
EEO and workforce diversity. Mr. Rodriguez holds a bachelor
of science degree in economics from Santa Clara University,
a juris doctorate from Santa Clara University School of
Law, and a master of science degree in management from Stanford
University.
The Kenneth M. Piper Endowment
This lecture is funded by the Kenneth M. Piper Endowment,
established by a gift from Mrs. Kenneth M. Piper in memory
of her husband.
Mr. Piper was a distinguished executive with Motorola,
Inc., and Bausch & Lomb, Inc., who made important contributions
in human resources and labor relations for more than two
decades.
The Kenneth M. Piper Endowment Advisory Board
Roberto G. Chavarry
National Labor Relations Board
Patricia A. Collins
Asher, Gittler, Greenfield, & D’Alba, Ltd.
Elaine S. Fox
Seyfarth Shaw
Marisel A. Hernandez
Jacobs, Burns, Orlove, Stanton & Hernandez
Harold A. Katz
Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein & Johnson, Chtd.
Douglas P. Kight
The Boeing Company
Michael McAuley
National Treasury Employees Union
Lisa B. Moss
Carmell, Charone, Widmer, Mathews & Moss
S. Richard Pincus
Holland & Knight, LLP
Patricia Costello Slovak
Schiff Hardin & Waite
K. Bruce Stickler
Gardner Carton & Douglas
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