United University Professions’ Lisi Wins Steinbock Media Award
Michael Lisi is the winner of the 2011 Max Steinbock Award, the highest honor given by the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA). Lisi, who writes for the United University Professions’ (UUP) “The Voice,” won for his story “Speaking Up for SUNY.”
UUP, an affiliate of AFT and the National Education Association (NEA), represents more than 35,000 academic and professional faculty on 29 State University of New York (SUNY) campuses.
The Steinbock award, named after a longtime ILCA president, honors the best labor story written in the previous year.
The ILCA’s annual Labor Media Awards this year include prize categories for social media, print, Web, photo essay, electronic newsletter, blog and multimedia campaigns. The awards will be presented formally Sept. 24 at the ILCA Convention in Seattle. Click here for a full list of this year’s winners.
ILCA Conference Nov. 19 Features Awards, Social Media Panel
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The nation’s labor press will come together in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19 to celebrate the best in their craft and to learn about new and better ways to deliver the union message at the International Labor Communications Association’s (ILCA‘s) annual conference.
The Media Awards luncheon highlights the event, with keynote speaker Ed Ott, former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, set to discuss trends in nontraditional organizing drives and how theses techniques have been used successfully to help service workers win respect on the job.
During the luncheon, Jennifer Berkshire, a writer for the Massachusetts AFT Advocate, will receive the 2010 Max Steinbock Award, the highest honor given by the ILCA. In her story, We Wanted a Voice,” she recounts the successful effort by teachers at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, Mass., to form a union.
Massachusetts AFT’s Jennifer Berkshire Wins Steinbock Media Award
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Jennifer Berkshire is the winner of the 2010 Max Steinbock Award, the highest honor given by the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA). Berkshire, who writes for the Massachusetts AFT Advocate, won for her story, “We Wanted a Voice.”
The award, named after a longtime ILCA president, honors the best labor story written in the previous year.
The ILCA’s annual Labor Media Awards this year includes a new prize category, social media, for those who ran campaigns with social networking tools. Other categories include print, Web, photo essay, electronic newsletter, blog and multimedia campaigns. The awards will be presented formally Nov. 19 at the annual ILCA Awards Luncheon in Washington, D.C. Click here for a list of this year’s winners.
Berkshire tells the story of the successful effort by teachers at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Brighton, Mass., to form a union. Nearly 2,000 teachers are currently employed by charter schools in Massachusetts. Unlike traditional public school teachers, educators at charter schools do not have rights and working conditions spelled out by a negotiated contract.
AFT’s Dania Rajendra Wins Coveted Steinbock Media Award
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Dania Rajendra is the winner of the 2009 Max Steinbock Award, the highest honor given by the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA) Rajendra, an assistant editor for the Clarion, published by the Professional Staff Congress at City University of New York (CUNY)/AFT Local 2334, won for her story “At CUNY, Adjunct Health Care is Broken.”
The award, named after a longtime ILCA president honors the best labor story written in the previous year.
In the article, Rajendra tells the story of six CUNY adjunct workers whose health was jeopardized because of arbitrary decisions by the health care provider and the college based on the bottom line and not the health of the workers. Click here to read the entire article (scroll down to page 6) and here for a list of all this year’s ILCA Media Contest winners.
