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DATE: Thursday, April 28, 2005
TOPIC:
Reception—A Chicago Labor-Management Tribute to Professor Martin Malin
TIME: 5:30 p.m. Reception
PLACE: Chicago Bar Association, 321 S. Plymouth Court, Chicago, Illinois 60604-3997
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DATE: Monday May 9, 2005
TOPIC: U.S. Steel Gary Works Tour

TIME: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m
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DATE: Friday, June 17, 2005
TOPIC: Resolving Collective Bargaining Disputes: A Case Study Approach to Understanding Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration

TIME: 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon
PLACE: Management Association of Illinois, 1400 Opus Pl., Suite 500, Downers Grove, IL 60515

Past Events and Meetings

DATE:       Lunch—Wednesday, October 13, 2004
TOPIC:
     Neutrality Agreements
SPEAKERS: Jeremy Sherman, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP; and Stephen Yokich, Partner, Cornfield & Feldman.

TIME: 12:00-1:30 – Lunch & Presentation
PLACE: Café Italo; 555 W. Madison
COST: $20 members; $30 non-members (Join IRRA at door and get the member rate!)
RESERVATIONS: Please make your reservations NO LATER THAN Wednesday, October 6, 2004. For phone or email reservations contact Cathy at (312) 996-2623 or cathyk@uic.edu.

DATE:       Monday, September 20, 2004
SPEAKER: Jill Foucré, Chief Operating Officer, UnitedHealthcare in Illinois

TIME: 12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch & Presentation
TOPIC: Health Care: the subject is without a doubt the single most important issue facing the parties across the bargaining table at this time.

 

DATE:       Thursday, May 6, 2004

TIME:        12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch & Presentation

SPEAKER: Dennis P. Walsh, Member of the National Labor Relations Board

 

DATE:      Wednesday, March 24, 2004

TIME:       9:45 a.m. Registration

                10:00 a.m. Tour, Followed by Lunch

EVENT:     TOUR-Argonne National Laboratory

                Tour will start at 10:00 a.m. at Visitor center followed by bus to Advanced Photon Source for tour then lunch at Lodge where we will hear from Lynn Miller, Labor and Employment Counsel and union representatives. We expect to wrap up at noon. Anyone wishing to attend will have to register by March 10, 2004 so their names can be given to security and arrive onsite by 9:45 am to pass through security clearance. Registrants will be required to provide a State I.D., and vehicles are subject to search.

 

DATE:       Tuesday, February 24, 2004

TIME:        5:00 p.m. Registration & Cocktails (Cash Bar)

                 6:00 p.m. Dinner & Presentation

SPEAKERS:    Lisa Salkovitz Kohn, Arbitrator and Mediator, and Rich Downs, HR Consultant at Northwestern Memorial Hospitals

TOPIC:      Ethical and Other Dilemmas For Neutrals and Parties in Arbitration

 

DATE:     Monday, November 17, 2003

TOPIC:    Issues in Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

SPEAKERS: Liesl Orenic, Assistant Professor of History, Director of American Studies, Dominican University and Bob Smith, Attorney, Seyfarth Shaw

 

DATE:     September 17,  2003   

SPEAKER: Peter Hurtgen, Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

 

DATE: August 2003
EVENT: Lafe Solomon, Director of the Office of Representative Appeals, NLRB, discussed "New Developments in Representation Case Law at the NLRB".

 

DATE: June 2003
EVENT: Lester Munson, Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated took a look at the different dynamics of the labor negotiations of all four major sports.

 

DATE: April 2003
EVENT: Peter R. Meyers, Arbitrator, and John Samolis, Exelon Corp. discussed "Labor Developments in the Airline Industry".

 

DATE: March 2003
EVENT: The chapter held a joint IRRA-SPIDR Meeting featuring Cynthia Hallberlin, Former Chief Counsel of Alternative Dispute Resolution, US Postal Service. Hallberlin discussed the initiative to bring the innovative REDRESS approach of ADR to the private sector.