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It’s a good time to sign up for a course in strategic campaign research, writes Charles Taylor, coordinator for the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research recruitment program. Here’s why.
The union movement is poised to launch new waves of campaigns that will require skilled strategic researchers supporting organizing, bargaining and representation. To help meet the demand, the AFL-CIO Center for Strategic Research (CSR) offers technical training for union researchers and campaigners to help prepare for the opportunities ahead.
The CSR co-sponsors a unique training on strategic corporate research for undergraduate and graduate students interested in working as strategic researchers and as campaigners in the union movement. Launched in 2001, the annual, one-week course takes place in Ithaca, N.Y., the site of the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Cornell University (ILR), which also co-sponsors the training.
CSR and ILR conducted a study last year and found that a majority of former students surveyed are employed as union staff, mostly as researchers and campaigners, according to Ken Zinn, organizing director of the AFL-CIO, who add that this class
has served as a great stepping stone for students while providing a steady source of new strategic campaigners for unions.
Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at ILR, says there is a growing need for strategic campaigners.
Despite enormous challenges in a rapidly changing global economy, this is a time of great opportunity and innovation by American unions. There is a critical demand for strategic campaigners who understand both corporate structure and finance and union campaign strategies.
The 2009 summer school is set for June 7-12 in Ithaca. Registration deadline is May 1 and credit scholarships are available. For a registration form and other information, go to http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/courses/on/special/scr.php, or contact Kirstine Armstrong at 607-254-4749 or kaa14@cornell.edu.
Due to changes this year in the Cornell course registration process, applications must be submitted by the May 1 deadline.
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