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Mural
detail: "Pan-American Unity" at the City College of San
Francisco, Diego Rivera
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With
the Fall 2000 series "Development, Labor Standards, and Economic
Integration in the Americas," CLAS seeks to further the ongoing
debate over labor standards, trade, and the global economy. With
a focus on the Americas, participants will examine global forces,
local contexts, and political realities. Funding provided by
the Ford Foundation.
Enrique de la Garza and Nestor de Buen
"Mexican Labor at a Crossroads"
Friday, September 29, 9-12 noon
CLAS Conference Room
2334 Bowditch Street
Enrique de la Garza, professor of Sociology from the Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana (Iztapalapa), will speak on "The
Political Transition and Mexican Labor." He is the author of,
most recently, Cambio en las Relaciones Laborales (1999)
and Tratado Latinamericano de Sociología del Trabajo (2000).
Nestor de Buen, a professor of law at UNAM and a councilmember
of the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City, will speak on "Prospects
for Labor Law Reform in Mexico." De Buen is a key participant
in the labor law reform process in Mexico.
Write-up
for this event
Jeff
Sluyter-Beltrão
"Fasting Alone: The Civic 'Maturation' of the New Unionism and the Dilapidation
of Union Democracy in Brazil, 1978-1995"
Thursday, November 2, 4-6 pm
CLAS Conference Room
2334 Bowditch Street
Jeffrey Sluyter-Beltrão is a Ph.D. candidate in the UC Berkeley
Political Science Department. His dissertation is on the internal politics
of Brazil's leading national labor confederation, the CUT.
Write-up
for this report
Owen
Herrnstadt
"Challenges of Organizing International Labor Solidarity"
Wednesday, November 29, 1- 3 pm
CLAS
Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street
Owen
Herrnstadt is the Director of International Affairs for the
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
(IAM). He develops and implements union strategies to confront
the realities of globalization, and has built relationships
with unions in other countries. He has also been deeply involved
in the debate over the relationship between labor standards
and trade. The Machinists' Union represents 750,000 workers
in more than 200 basic industries in North America, including
major manufacturing and aerospace firms such as Boeing in
Seattle. The Machinists were among the unions participating
at W.T.O. protests in Seattle last year.
Write-up
of this event.
Huberto
Juárez Nuñez
"Mexican Auto Unions, Trade, and Labor Standards: A New Perspective in the
Debate on Labor Standards and Trade"
December 1, 2000 10:00 am - 11:00 a.m.
continental breakfast served
Professor
Juarez is a noted researcher and analyst of collective bargaining
in the Mexican auto industry and he is a Professor at the Autonomous
University of Puebla, Mexico. He serves as the economic advisor
to the Volkswagen Union, and he played a critical role in the
recent strike and negotiations at VW. His talk will analyze
the potential impact of trade-related labor standards on Mexican
automobile industry workers, in the context of Mexico's political
and economic transformations.
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