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The Education & Labor Collaborative brings educators and unionists together for a better future.
Education & Labor Collaborative Forum  

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Education & Labor Collaborative Forum
This Forum will provide an opportunity for educators and unionists to explore issues raised by this education and labor collaborative initiative, and to consider ways and means of implementing the products of such collaboration.
The Forum will offer workshops and interactive dialogue sessions that provide examples of the sort of projects that could help us reach our goals of a public educated in its collective self-interest, and a teacher corps better prepared to provide such an education.

Preparing Teachers to Educate and Organize for Social Justice
The Education and Labor Collaborative seeks to develop teacher education programs that prepare teachers to infuse into their classroom teaching a knowledge and understanding of the role of unions in a democratic society, and to encourage active participation in organizing campaigns to increase the power and resources of working families.  
Why Education and Labor must collaborate
We believe that labor would benefit from a better educated public, one that understands and supports the role of trade unionism in a democracy. Imagine how much easier and effective the work of unionists would be if a generation of children of working families graduated from high school with an understanding of their right and duty to be heard, the power of joining together in common cause, and the skill to speak on their own behalf. And, imagine how much easier the work of teachers would be if, through unionization, the lives of working families could be improved and the resources (health care, child care, living wages, etc.) that are needed to support their children’s education were widely available. Educators, in collaboration with unionists, can break the cycle of reproducing the economic structure through schooling, and change the cultural climate that denigrates poor and working families.
 
Members of the Education and Labor Collaborative Forum Planning committee:
Leigh Benin (Adelphi University)
Christopher Church (Adelphi University)
Mary Finn (University at Buffalo)
Patrick Finn (University at Buffalo)
Lauri Johnson (University at Buffalo)
Bob Klein (Ohio University)
Rob Linne (Adelphi University)
Kevin O’Sullivan (Laborer’s International Union of North America)
Andi Sosin (Adelphi University)
Joel Sosinsky (International Brotherhood of Teamsters)