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DHLI December 2009 Newsletter
“GREEN ECONOMY LESSON PLAN” NOW AVAILABLE!
A lesson plan on the green economy is now available as a downloadable pdf at http://www.dhli.org/resources/lesson-plan-environment-jobs-and-change-gr...
The 2nd Biennial Labor Scholars Retreat March 6, 2010 at LAVC
Featuring invited speakers historian Nelson Lichtenstein, urban theorist Mike Davis, labor scholar and activist Bill Fletcher, and icon Dolores Huerta.
An opportunity for LACCD faculty and several of the top labor scholars in the country to meet and discuss ideas around teaching labor in the classroom. Space will be limited to 30 LACCD faculty.
Last retreat led to the creation of our nationally acclaimed “Primer on Teaching Labor Studies.”
Authors of Groundbreaking Study on Workplace Violations Speak!
SPECIAL EVENT AT THE GETTY MUSEUM WITH THE LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT!
Co-Authors of Employment Law Violations in Low-Wage Industries Spoke at Trade-Tech
On Monday, November 9, 2009, Ana Luz González and Ruth Milkman, co-authors of a new study: BROKEN LAWS, UNPROTECTED WORKERS: VIOLATIONS OF EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LAWS IN AMERICA’S CITIES, spoke to students and faculty at LA Trade-Technical College about their study.
This study, released on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 documents the shocking extent to which those employees who work for the lowest wages in the country are also cheated out of their already meager compensation—and a disturbing amount of those abuses are perpetrated right here in L.A. The study, funded by the Ford, Joyce, Haynes and Russell Sage Foundations, documents wage violations, unpaid overtime, intimidation to prevent workers who are injured on the job from filing claims for Worker’s Compensation and retaliation against workers who attempt to assert their legal rights.
The authors gave a compelling presentation and answered questions from the audience. Many students had questions about their own personal experiences with employment law violations in their workplace.


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