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The Education & Labor Collaborative
      

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.  
Education and Labor Collaborative
Executive Committee:
Leigh Benin, Adelphi University 
Mary Finn, SUNY Buffalo & Antioch Univ. 
Patrick Finn, SUNY Buffalo & Antioch
Rob Linne, Adelphi University
Andi Sosin, Independent Consultant
Joel Sosinsky, International Brotherhood of Teamsters 
Education and Labor Collaborative 
Advisory Board: 

Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York

Paul F. Cole, American Labor Studies Center

John Delloro, Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

Myrna Cherkos Donahoe, CSU Dominguez Hills

Stuart Eimer, Widener University

Fred Glass, California Federation of Teachers

Gary Hansen, Aspen Foundation

Robert Hatfield, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada

Lauri Johnson, University at Buffalo

Mike Mulgrew, United Federation of Teachers

Ed Ott, NYC Central Labor Council

Cesar Rossatto, University of Texas at El Paso

Cindy Rottman, OISE/University of Toronto

Bill Scheuerman, National Labor College

Susan Schurman, Rutgers University

Howard Stevenson, University of Lincoln, UK

Linda Tubach, LAUSD

Daniel Walkowitz, New York University

Lois Weiner, New Jersey City University

 
 
 
        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.
Education & Labor Collaborative Forums
Forums 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 collaboration.
Forums 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.