Strategic Research Training: Getting Ready for Labor Law Reform
The AFL-CIO Organizing Department and its Center for Strategic Research is holding a training course on strategic corporate research Oct. 5-9 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Md.
The training is designed for first-year strategic researchers as well as experienced organizers and communicators who are new to strategic research. It will benefit union staff who are expected to do corporate research as part of their duties and those who want to strengthen their campaign skills.
Says Ken Zinn, the AFL-CIO’s acting organizing director:
Strategic research can play a vital role in successful organizing campaigns. We are pleased to offer this opportunity to help strengthen and expand strategic research and campaign capacity in the labor movement.
The deadline for registration is Sept. 15. For more information, contact Robert Masciola, deputy director of the Center for Strategic Research, at rmasciol@aflcio.org or 202-637-3948.
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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.
