The immediate focus will be on employee benefit plans and pension capital the different problems and opportunities faced by multi-employer vs. single employer plans. A 15-week training program in Spanish for immigrant women workers to learn about workplace rights and how to defend them. Topics include workplace health and safety, self-esteem, public speaking, ergonomics and much more. Childcare is provided. Fighting Racial and Sexual Discrimination in the Workplace is this year s theme.
Scholarships are available and childcare reimbursement is available with pre-registration.
Take advantage of this opportunity to network with women legislators and members of women s organizations. A pilot project of the Mass AFL-CIO Communications Committee, these workshops are designe d to give labor activists the practical tools and skills to get labor's message out in print, radio and television. The ultimate goal of these workshops is to increase labor's presence at the community media level by developing and training media specialists in key unions and labor councils around the Commonwealth. This training is for legal service advocates, lawyers in private practice taking pro bono cases, social services workers and community activists who want to learn or get a refresher course on the nuts and bolts of unemployment compensation. Keynote speaker is Jim Hightower.