Laws and regulations governing public sector unions vary greatly. This course examines the special issues and challenges faced by public sector workers and their unions. Unions are complex and sophisticated organizations, requiring effective management. The course will examine techniques for successful union administration. Topics include strategic planning and goal setting, communications, budgeting, supervising office employees and problem solving.
Unions are democratic organizations.
Effective union leadership requires many diverse skills. Administering the union, bargaining and enforcing the contract, communicating with members, interacting with the media, political and civic leaders. This course will help students understand what it takes and what's at stake in running a labor organization. This course will combine the study of America s working class and how Hollywood portrays their experience through film. Using classic films such as On the Water Front, The Grapes of Wrath and many other, students will look at how Hollywood depicts such things as class, racial and gender roles and divisions in American working-class life.