Please save the Indiana University Labor Studies program. This program is very valuable for the study in labor history. I am signing this petition to promote total funding for the IU Labor Studies Program.
I'm appalled that the I.U. administration would consider destroying the university's Department of Labor Studies, the largest and one of the most respected programs of its type in the country. As an I.U. alumnus (B.A. '71; M.S. '72) I urge the administration to keep and strengthen this productive department.
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The years of greed, calous treatment of workers, and non-compete bids for Hailburten are over. Its time to have good programs about workers thrive - not to abolish them. Keep this program
The division of Labor Studies is not only a valuable resource for IU, but to the community. Having taken a course in this dept. I understand more about the Labor Laws in Indiana, and how Federal laws are applied to workers. Knowledge is power.
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In a democratic society, Universites have the duty to make available educational resources to all sectors of society, especially those who have not had traditionnally access to knowledge and education. In this context, closing the Division of Labor Studies is a flagrant denial by the University of Indiana of the right to education for all, including workers.
It's appalling that this Labour Studies programme has to fight for its very existence in the land of "free speech" and opportunity. The DLS is doing good and necessary work.
Clearly this innovative program, that provides workers with education to empower themselves and strengthen their communities, is a vital asset. It must be dismantled to serve no reason other than an ideological backlash against working people.
I am coordinator of a university labour studies program at Laurentian university in Ontario Canada. Our program services students in north eastern ontario. All Labour studies programs offer students a balenced perspective on workplace issues that need to be addressed from a standpoint other than the one provided in management studies. Surely a university's role is to provide a balenced view of workplace issues how is that possible if labour studies is not taught?
I am currently a graduate student at the UMASS Labor Studies department. It is important to keep these areas of study, especially now, since the gap between the rich and poor is growing exponentially and will continue to grow at a faster rate if these areas of study do not remain to educate a new labor movement.
Labor studies provides a necessary counterpart to the study of management as well as useful tools and professionalism to students and workers interested gaining a voice in the workplace
a strong labor movement is the key to a free America that can serve all its people and labor education is one of the keys to a strong labor movement. Indiana University has a proud heritage and a stellar record of service to its constituents and the broader field. I am happy to add my name to their support list.
In 1945, the Indiana University Post-War Committee on Industrial Relations recommended that the University "broaden its offerings, . . . particularly with the view of meeting the demands for workers' education, foremanship training, and the education of trade union officials." The following year, with the strong support of then IU President Herman Wells, what is now the Division of Labor Studies (DLS) was established as part of the Bureau of Adult Education and Public Service (now the IU School of Continuing Studies). I suggest that the conditions which prompted the creation of the IU labor education program sixty years ago are just as real today. And, from a state-supported university, Indiana workers and unions are still entitled to “educational access,” the same as other citizens. The Kelley School of Business is certainly taking care of the "foremanship." It is not asking too much, to allow the DLS to do the same for the other side of the labor-relations equation.
As an IU alum, former member of CWA Local 4730, and a student of several courses provided by IU's DLS, I want to express my admiration of this program. I fully support DLS's mission and urge the university to retain this vital program.
In today's global, knowledge-driven economy, life-long learning is more important than ever. The Indiana University Labor Studies program is part of a network of such programs that provide essential life-long learning opportunities to working people and their representatives. In this particular case, the program has been innovative in its programming and successful in funding itself. I fully support its continuation.
Dr. Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Director and Professor,
Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820
