63rd LERA Annual Meeting"Employment Relations for Economic Recovery and Sustained Growth” Plan now to attend the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in January 7-9, 2011. The meeting will be held in Denver, CO at the Westin Hotel. The recent boom and bust cycle was fueled by flat or declining median wages, rising inequality, a mountain of consumer debt and reckless behavior by financial institutions. Reconnecting economic growth with rising wages and benefits is a necessary catalyst for reestablishing sustained economic growth. With consumer spending a major component of GDP, rising employee earnings are key both to achieving sustainable profits and wealth creation and to avoiding a prolonged period of jobless growth and high unemployment. Employment relations are critical to the creation of good jobs and competitive business models capable of delivering quality outcomes. The theme for the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association in January 2011 is Employment Relations for Economic Recovery and Sustained Growth. The dimensions of the employment relations system encompass the wage setting practices in organizations across an array of industries; the role of unions, employee representation, collective bargaining and industrial relations; the availability and affordability of education, training and workforce development; the organization and management of work for quality performance and cost effectiveness; the access of employees to work and life policies and practices at the workplace; and the sufficiency of pensions and retirement income security. Government policies – health care, unemployment insurance, labor law and enforcement, immigration, minimum wage, paid family and medical leave, and paid sick days – also have direct effects on management practices, employment relations, and household income. The LERA Program Committee welcomes proposals for stimulating, creative, and controversial panels and workshops related to this theme as well as other proposals that deal with topics of current interest and the mission of LERA. We encourage submissions from the perspectives of multiple disciplines – including but not limited to economics, sociology, political science, labor and employment law, industrial relations, and human resource studies – and the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, including investors, managers, workers and unions.Join us at the Westin for exciting workshops, symposiums, section and industry council sessions and meetings, committee meetings, plenaries, breakfasts, luncheons, and receptions. The complete LERA 63rd Annual Meeting Program will be online in the later summer of 2010. Online registration and discounted hotel reservations will begin September 15, 2010. LERA Program Committee:A special thanks to the LERA Program Committee for their work over the past year to develop the Atlanta Annual Meeting program. The Committee includes: Chair: Eileen Appelbaum, Rutgers University, LERA President Co-vice Chairs: Charles Jeszeck, GAO, Practitioner Co-vice Chair and Rose Batt, Cornell University, Academic Co-vice Chair Members: Owen Herrnstadt, IAMAW, Jody Hoffer Gittell, Brandeis University, Nancy Peace, Mediator/Arbitrator, Bonnie Summers, BlueCross BlueShield, Jeffrey Wenger, University of Georgia, Sean Rogers, PhD Student, Rutgers University, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Univ of Illinois, LERA Past President, Adrienne Eaton, Rutgers Univ, LERA Editor-in-Chief, Peter Feuille, Univ of Illinois, LERA Secretary/Treasurer, Bob Hoell, Georgia Southern Univ, Chair, LERA Poster Session, William Canak, Middle Tennessee State Univ, NCAC Chair, Gordon Pavy, AFL-CIO, LERA President Elect |
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