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Articles, Activites and Notes on Labour Education
Union Judo
Article Summary
Course objectives
Equip union representatives with a range of tactics in response to current management initiatives to downsize and re-engineer the workplace.
Excerpts from Part III, "Planning a Siege", in The Art of War by Sun Tzu, 500 B.C. with comments by later Chinese military strategists and union notes.
Excerpt from some process notes
From a course at the 1999 Spring School, Saskatchewan Federation of Labour.
Sample activity (politics of furniture)
Objectives:
1. To make people more aware of how physical layout can affect the power dynamics of meetings....
Watch out
The Chinese worker educator Rita Kwok, says union activists need to watch out for the.....
Any System
Leonard Cohen Taken from "Stranger Music:
Selected Poems and Songs", 1993
Other Writing on Labour Education
Article in Unions and Learning in a Global Economy, 2002. See flyer above.
The Case of Labour Education Excerpt from The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada, 2nd edition, 1998.
Published in "Our Times" Magazine, 2002
Education for Changing Unions Book Published 2002 - Table of contents
see cover art above
Thinking Union Book Published in 1995 - Excert from Chapter One
see cover art above
Educating for Change Excerpt from the Introduction