Legal rights of workers focus of April 20 conferenceBy Lyn Mettler | |
 Schwartz | A nationally recognized labor attorney and author of several books on the legal rights of workers will speak at the inaugural Labor Law Conference at IUPUI on Saturday, April 20. Robert Schwartz will discuss “Making Labor Law Work” at the conference, hosted by the Indiana University Division of Labor Studies and the Central Indiana Labor Council, AFL-CIO. The conference will be held at the IUPUI Union Building, 620 Union Dr., and reservations are due by April 12. Schwartz will speak about the most recent legal techniques for dealing with the National Labor Relations Act, which governs relations between unions and employers in the private sector. Specific elements of the act that he will address include unilateral changes by employers, information requests by unions and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) deferral policy.
“Such issues are vitally important to workers and unions today,” said David Williams, non-credit program coordinator and labor studies lecturer. “Labor law under the National Labor Relations Act is rapidly changing. Workers and unions need reliable, up-to-date information on how this will affect them and their day-to-day working conditions.” Schwartz, who teaches at the Labor Guild of the Boston School of Industrial Relations, has represented unions and employees for more than 20 years. He was previously a partner in a labor law firm for unions and has served as counsel for the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission. Prior to attending law school, he organized fellow warehouse workers into the Teamsters Union and led campaigns for rent control in Cambridge, Mass. Schwartz is the author of The Legal Rights of Union Stewards and the FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act) Handbook and How to Win Past Practice Grievances. The Legal Rights of Union Stewards has sold more than 125,000 copies and continues to be the most popular manual in use by unions today. Roberto Chavarry, director of NLRB Region 25, will provide an overview of NLRB procedures at the conference and Robert Brookins, a professor at the IU School of Law–Indianapolis, will moderate a panel of local labor-side practitioners on the current and future state of U.S. labor law. To register for the conference, contact the Division of Labor Studies at 1-800-822-4743 or contact Williams at 317-274-2518 by April 12. Registration is $60 per person and includes materials, lunch and parking. http://www.indiana.edu/~labor00/lshistory.html
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