Publications in the Adult Education Field
1982. "Facing the Octupus: The Transnational Corporation". Ties That Bind: Canada and the Third World. Editors Robert Clarke and Richard Swift. Toronto: Between the Lines.
1984. The Economic Order and the Impact of Technology on the World of Work. Coordinator of writing team and editor. Toronto: Discussion Paper, Thinking and Deciding in a Nuclear Age Advisory Committee, Toronto Board of Education.
1985. "Public Policy Debate: A View from the >Union Culture=, Optimum. Ottawa: Bureau of Management Consulting, Department of Supply and Services. Volume 16, No.2.
1991. Educating for a Change. Co - authored with Rick Arnold, Bev Burke, Carl James and Barb Thomas. Toronto: Doris Marshall Institute and Between the Lines.
1992. "Labour and Training in Ontario" in "Training for What?", Our Schools/ Our Selves.
1993. "Community Based Education for Work, Career and Life: A Workplace Perspective". NATCON Papers. National Consultation on Career Development.
1995. Thinking Union: Activism and Education in Canada=s Labour Movement. Toronto: Between the Lines Publishing.
1997. Joint coordinator of report with Gaetan Beaudet, "Survey of Trends in Adult Education in Canada", Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
1998. "Learning from the South", in Convergence. Special tribute issue on Paulo Freire, Volume XXXI, Numbers 1 and 2.
1998. "A Decade on the Training Roller-Coaster", in Learning for Life: Canadian readings in adult education, eds. Sue Scott, Bruce Spencer and Alan Thomas. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.
1998. Labour sections, in The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada, eds. Gordon Selman, Mark Selman, Michael Cooke and Paul Dampier. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.
Labour Education Activity
1978-86. Canadian Education Director, United Steelworkers of America.
1986-97. Education Representative, Ontario Region, Communications and Electrical Workers of Canada, who merged in 1992 into the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
1998-March 2000. Canadian Education Coordinator, Service Employees International Union (job shared with Barbara Thomas).
1998-present. Coordinating Committee, Collège FTQ-Fonds, Québec.
2000-2002. Contract employment with a variety of unions, such as: Labour councils in Timmins, New Westminster, Sarnia, Brampton- Mississauga; Canadian Labour Congress, nationally and in Ontario; Saskatchewan Federation of Labour; Fonds de solidarité de la FTQ; Public Service Alliance of Canada and its Joint Career Transitions Committees; United Food and Commercial Workers.
2000-2002. Coordinator of Labour Educators Working Group, Centre for the Study of Education and Work, OISE/University of Toronto, including running three exchanges amongst North American labour educators, held in Montréal, Toronto and Regina.
This work, as described by his daughter Nyranne, is to Ateach workers how to talk back@. During these years, he has designed, administered and taught union courses in every province of Canada. He has sat on the education committees of the Labour Council of Metro Toronto, the Ontario Federation of Labour, and the Canadian Labour Congress. He has helped develop labour policy and practice in regard to technological change and the arts. He was a founding member of the CLC Technology Committee, the CLC Training Committee, the CLC Arts and Labour Subcommittee, the OFL Training Subcommittee and the OFL Arts and Labour Subcommittee.
1982. "Facing the Octupus: The Transnational Corporation". Ties That Bind: Canada and the Third World. Editors Robert Clarke and Richard Swift. Toronto: Between the Lines.
1984. The Economic Order and the Impact of Technology on the World of Work. Coordinator of writing team and editor. Toronto: Discussion Paper, Thinking and Deciding in a Nuclear Age Advisory Committee, Toronto Board of Education.
1985. "Public Policy Debate: A View from the >Union Culture=, Optimum. Ottawa: Bureau of Management Consulting, Department of Supply and Services. Volume 16, No.2.
1991. Educating for a Change. Co - authored with Rick Arnold, Bev Burke, Carl James and Barb Thomas. Toronto: Doris Marshall Institute and Between the Lines.
1992. "Labour and Training in Ontario" in "Training for What?", Our Schools/ Our Selves.
1993. "Community Based Education for Work, Career and Life: A Workplace Perspective". NATCON Papers. National Consultation on Career Development.
1995. Thinking Union: Activism and Education in Canada=s Labour Movement. Toronto: Between the Lines Publishing.
1997. Joint coordinator of report with Gaetan Beaudet, "Survey of Trends in Adult Education in Canada", Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
1998. "Learning from the South", in Convergence. Special tribute issue on Paulo Freire, Volume XXXI, Numbers 1 and 2.
1998. "A Decade on the Training Roller-Coaster", in Learning for Life: Canadian readings in adult education, eds. Sue Scott, Bruce Spencer and Alan Thomas. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.
1998. Labour sections, in The Foundations of Adult Education in Canada, eds. Gordon Selman, Mark Selman, Michael Cooke and Paul Dampier. Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing.
Labour Education Activity
1978-86. Canadian Education Director, United Steelworkers of America.
1986-97. Education Representative, Ontario Region, Communications and Electrical Workers of Canada, who merged in 1992 into the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada.
1998-March 2000. Canadian Education Coordinator, Service Employees International Union (job shared with Barbara Thomas).
1998-present. Coordinating Committee, Collège FTQ-Fonds, Québec.
2000-2002. Contract employment with a variety of unions, such as: Labour councils in Timmins, New Westminster, Sarnia, Brampton- Mississauga; Canadian Labour Congress, nationally and in Ontario; Saskatchewan Federation of Labour; Fonds de solidarité de la FTQ; Public Service Alliance of Canada and its Joint Career Transitions Committees; United Food and Commercial Workers.
2000-2002. Coordinator of Labour Educators Working Group, Centre for the Study of Education and Work, OISE/University of Toronto, including running three exchanges amongst North American labour educators, held in Montréal, Toronto and Regina.
This work, as described by his daughter Nyranne, is to Ateach workers how to talk back@. During these years, he has designed, administered and taught union courses in every province of Canada. He has sat on the education committees of the Labour Council of Metro Toronto, the Ontario Federation of Labour, and the Canadian Labour Congress. He has helped develop labour policy and practice in regard to technological change and the arts. He was a founding member of the CLC Technology Committee, the CLC Training Committee, the CLC Arts and Labour Subcommittee, the OFL Training Subcommittee and the OFL Arts and Labour Subcommittee.