The Labor Institute develops, conducts, tests and evaluates educational programs in the areas described below. We also write funding proposals to support educational work. There can be no effective educational strategy without adequate resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Political Economy.<\/strong>\u00a0 We have developed a national network of lay trainers who conduct workshops on how runaway inequality impacts our economy, our society and our environment.\u00a0 With over 500 volunteer trainers, we seek to provide an educational framework that links together often fragmented and isolated social justice organizations. Our aim is to build a 30,000 strong educational infrastructure for a new economic justice movement, modeled after the American progressive populists of the 1880s and 1890s. Current partners include the Communications Workers of America, NJ Educational Association, United Steelworkers, United Automobile Workers, Citizen Action NY, American Postal Workers Union, Wilmington, North Carolina, AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, and several\u00a0Indivisible<\/a>\u00a0groups around the country. (For more information and curricula in Spanish and English, see our sister site,\u00a0RunawayInequality.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labor and Environment:\u00a0<\/strong>We provide training on the economy and the environment that brings together environmental activists and workers in environmentally sensitive industries.\u00a0 We also run and collaborate on union-only training programs as a necessary precursor to collaborative action. Currently we are working with USW, USW Dystrict 12 in California, and with two large oil worker local unions (Locals 5 and 675) to support Just Transition programs for dislocated and potentially disclocated oil workers. \u00a0We also develop policy and educational programs that bring workers into the process of shaping climate change policies on the West Coast (in California, Washington and Oregon) and on the East Coast (in New Jersey).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Immigrant Worker Health and Safety:\u00a0<\/strong> Through collaboration with immigrant worker centers we have developed and implemented a a model workplace health and safety training program in Spanish. In particular we have built extensive health and safety training capacity by becoming one of the few collaborations in the country that develops OSHA-authorized trainers who can provide 10 and 30-hour OSHA construction and general industry classes in Spanish.\u00a0 We have also initiated education and outreach on a number of emerging issues, including silica exposure to workers cutting and grinding fabricated stone used for kitchen countertops.<\/a>\u00a0 Support for these programs comes primarily from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for our national work as part of the USW Tony Mazzocchi Center for Health, Safety and Environmental Education (TMC) and from and the New York State Department of Labor Hazard Abatement Board for our work within New York State.\u00a0 In addition to The Labor Institute, TMC includes the United Steelworkers, Communications Workers of America, Jobs to Move America, NDLON and Action OSH.\u00a0 In cooperation with the Worker Training Program of the NIEHS and the United Steelworkers, we also train trainers in the wake of natural disasters. These trainers in turn provide health and safety classes in various languages to workers who become engaged in highly hazardous clean-up efforts after hurricanes, floods and fires and other events.\u00a0 Flowing from the most recent climate science, we view many activities within this body of work as directly linked to global climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Independent Politics.<\/strong>\u00a0 This includes work on The Billionaires Have Two Parties: We Need One of Our Own<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Labor Institute develops, conducts, tests and evaluates educational programs in the areas described below. We also write funding proposals to support educational work. There can be no effective educational strategy without adequate resources. 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