Organizing With ‘Heart’: New Ways of Building Worker Movements - 2020 Sefton-Williams Memorial Lecture *NEW DATE*

When and Where

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Online

Speakers

Kris Rondeau, Director of AFSCME New England Organizing Project

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We are pleased to share that our annual Sefton-Williams lecture with Kris Rondeau, originally scheduled for April 15, now has a new date! This year's lecture will be held in an online format on September 30 from 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm.

Hosted by Woodsworth College and the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources, this annual lecture is now named in honour of Larry Sefton and Lynn Williams. The Sefton-Williams Memorial Lecture series presents topics of interest to scholars and practitioners of labour-management relations. For more information on this lecture series, please visit the CIRHR Library website.

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Speaker Bio:

Kris Rondeau is the director of AFSCME New England Organizing Project. She has been a union organizer and contract negotiator for over four decades. Kris and her colleagues navigated The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) to victory on May 17, 1988. Members of her team went on to organize UMASS Memorial Medical Center and UMASS Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. This was the largest successful union drive in central Massachusetts over the last 60 years. Kris continues to guide the UMASS Worcester union (State Healthcare and Research Employees aka SHARE) as well as the Union of Social Workers (USW) at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, MA. Over the years, Kris and her team have organized 30,000 workers, mostly women in the service sector industries of healthcare and higher education.

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