3196.0: Monday, November 13, 2000: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
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| This session will highlight union efforts, often with coalition partners, to eliminate health disparities among union members and in communities. Examples include organizing of low-wage workers, collective bargaining, community organizing around health and economic issues (e.g., living wage campaigns), and worker participation in research study design and implementation | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Valerie A. Wilk, MS | ||||
| Research for Action: Worker Health Study Gets Results Pam Tau Lee | ||||
| UAW's Center for Community Health Care Initiatives Robert Alpert | ||||
| Organized labor's role in the Boston living wage campaign Kathleen A. Casavant | ||||
| Community organizing and the Boston living wage campaign Maud Hurd | ||||
| The Boston living wage ordinance: The legal perspective Monica Halas, JD | ||||
| Discussion | ||||
| Sponsor: | Labor Caucus | |||
| Cosponsors: | Environment; Occupational Health and Safety; Social Work; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | |||