The Bob Bussel Labor History Lecture Series Presents:

 Why Farm Worker Justice Must Come
from the Bottom Up

Matt Garcia
Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of History, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, and Human Relations, Dartmouth CollegeFarm workers

Photo: Tim Mossholder, Unsplash.com

October 3, 2022
4:00-5:30 pm
Knight Law Center, Room 175

1515 Agate St., Eugene, OR

Professor Garcia will speak about the continuing challenges to farm worker organizing, and to explore models of “social responsibility”
and labor rights in the fast food industry over the last fifty years.

Sponsored by the The University of Oregon:
Labor Education and Research Center
Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
Department of History

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A LABOR CRISIS WITHIN THE CHILD CARE CRISIS:

The Growing Need for “Non-Traditional Hours” Met by Underpaid In-Home ProvidersA Labor Crisis within the Child Care Crisis

Larissa Petrucci

Lola Loustaunau

Mary C. King

Lisa Dodson

Ellen Scott

LERC is proud to release a new report, titled A Labor Crises within the Childcare Crisis: The Growing Need for “Non-Traditional Hours” Met by Underpaid In-Home Providers
In this interview-based report, a multi-ethnic group of over thirty home-based child care providers, licensed to care for up to 16 children at a time, describe the long, irregular, badly paid and too often unpaid hours they work to care for the children of Oregon’s working class families.  They and their families pay the price for both poor wages and working conditions in the rest of the economy, and for our stingy public child care programs.  Families can’t afford the true cost of care and our severely underfunded public child care programs are too small and weak to make up the difference.  Labor law has failed to restrain employers, who increasingly demand that parents work without a regular schedule, always “on call” to come in at short notice or to stay late.  The promise of the federal Build Back Better bill to bring U.S. early childhood education and care up to the level of other wealthy countries has faded.  Policy action at the federal, state and local level is urgently needed to make a significant public investment in early childhood education and care, raise labor standards in child care, reverse the steady loss of skilled, experienced and dedicated child care providers and workers and give our children the start in life that they deserve.

Click here to read the report’s Executive Summary, and here for the whole report.

 

Zoom recording of Apprenticeship Briefing

Constructing a Diverse WorkforceIn conjunction with National Apprenticeship Week, the Labor Education and Research Center held a briefing on Tuesday November 16, 2021 to share the findings from our new report  Constructing a Diverse Workforce: Examining Union and Non-Union Construction Apprenticeship Programs and their Outcomes for Women and Workers of Color, authored by LERC research Dr. Larissa Petrucci.

Download the Executive Summary
Download the Full Report

Special thanks to Dr. Larissa Petrucci for all her work on this study, and to all our panelists for sharing their insights and perspectives:

Download Dr. Petrucci’s Powerpoint slides .pdf

Watch the November 16, 2021 Apprenticeship Briefing on LERC’s YouTube Channel


Watch the video produced by the
Metropolitan Alliance for Workforce Equity on the impact of access to apprenticeship opportunities for women and workers of color.

If you would like to receive a hard copy of the report, please email lerc@uoregon.edu, including your mailing address, and we will send one to you.

If you would like to arrange a presentation for your organization, please contact Mark Brenner, mbrenner@uoregon.edu or 503-412-3723.