Chapter Profiles

Chapter Profiles Index | Submit Chapter Event Information | Update your Chapter Profile | LERA Home

TENNESSEE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (TERRA)

President: Kim LaFevor, Athens State University
President-elect: Jerry Lee, TN AFL-CIO Labor Council
1st Vice President:
Glenn Farner, LUINA
2nd Vice President: Cathy Christopher, TVA
Treasurer:
William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University
Secretary:
Mark Travis, Wimberly Lawson
Director-Management: Brian Lapps, Waller, Lansden, Dortsch & Davis
Director-Neutral:
Peter Cheng, FMCS
Director-Union: Teresa Stallings, TN AFL-CIO
Past Presidents: Anita Parker, Donna Cotner, Richard Ross, Jack Rudez , Donna Wilson-Renner, Thomas W. Chastain, Robert N. Covington, William Canak

Website: http://www.mtsu.edu/~TERRA

Since TERRA was chartered, it has held eight annual conferences and membership is near 200 with dues paying members in 16 states and six countries (US, Canada, UK, FR, Belgium, Sweden), held regular regional dinner meetings, provided member and conference scholarships to college students interested in the field of labor relations, and maintained a speakers list of Tennessee-based experts who have volunteered to speak to community groups.  The chapter established the Roger Goode Memorial, providing a student with annual membership in the chapter. TERRA implemented its Industrial and Labor Relations News, Data and Resource E-mail Service which notifies members of and provides easy access to relevant federal agency reports, useful web sites, book reviews and labor and employment data base information. This service uses TERRA’s greatest resource, their member’s knowledge, experience and contacts, to network and share information using technology. The chapter publishes a membership directory. For more information on this chapter, see the 2005 TERRA Vision Statement.

TERRA Membership Brochure

Dues are Chapter/National Member $180, Tennessee Chapter Member $50, Student Chapter/National $40, Student Chapter Member $15, Organizational Member $525.

This chapter affiliated with the National IRRA in 1997.

Contact:
William Canak
, Dept. of Sociology
Middle Tennessee State University, Box 10
Murfreesboro TN 37132
Phone and Fax: 615/898-5361

RECENT EVENTS

November 19-21, 2008 Labor Relations Practice in a Time of Rapid Change, 11th Annual Conference, Arnold Airforce Base, Tullahoma, TN. Complete program

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES

Thomas Chastain Scholarship & Roger Goode Scholarship


Labor and Employment Relations Association
Tel: 217-333-0072 | Fax: 217-265-5130 | LERAoffice@uiuc.edu | www.lera.uiuc.edu