2009 Winter Leadership Institute
January 23 & 24, 2009
UM-Dearborn

The 2009 Winter Leadership Institute is open to all workers, union members, and leaders from a variety of workplaces, jobs, and unions, to learn together about new ideas, strategies, and skills to meet the needs and challenges facing workers in our ever-changing workplaces.

Workshops
01   Basic Stewards' & Committeepersons' Training
02   Parliamentary Procedure
03   Collective Bargaining
04   Organizing
05   Health & Safety
06   Union Executive Officer Training
07   Data Empowerment: A Union Activist's Guide to Using Data

Who We Are
Since 1957 the Labor Studies Center (LSC), a component of the University of Michigan's Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy (previously the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations), has developed educational offerings to address the issues arising between management and labor. We offer a number of non-credit conferences that promote the participation of women and minorities in leadership roles, both in the workplace and in their communities; leadership, stewardship, and educational workshops; and programs on workers' culture, both through workshop offerings and skits, readings, etc., by a rank-and-file performing theater troupe. The Labor Studies Center is staffed with experienced labor educators who are dedicated to adult education that empowers workers and allows them to keep pace with today's global economy and the changing roles of unions and their members.