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By Carrie Stetler, Rutgers Today

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It didn’t matter that Rutgers teaching assistant Megan Geerdts belongs to a union set in academia, and the other women she met on Monday were postal workers, transit workers, and plumbers.At the Northeast Regional Summer School for Union Women, held last week at Rutgers Labor Education Center, she felt an immediate sense of solidarity.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Rutgers University’s School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) has awarded the 2011-2012 Robert W. Smiley Jr. Fellowship in economic history to Professor Stephen Adams. Adams is an associate professor of management at the University of Maryland System’s Salisbury University Franklin P. Perdue School of Business. He has a doctorate in history from The Johns Hopkins University. He is conducting an historical study of a major U.S. corporation which has had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP ) throughout its many decades of existence.

Accommodations

The participants visiting for the conference will be able to stay at The Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey at a discounted price of $139 per room, per night. Rooms are limited, book immediately. The Heldrich is conveniently located to the Rutgers University Campus.
A block of rooms will be kept on hold at The Heldrich Hotel, 1-866-609-4700.

Registration for this event has closed. If you have questions regarding this, please contact Elena Orama at eorama@work.rutgers.edu.

Program

• View the preliminary program here.
• View the final version of the program.

Conference Venues

Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901

TRENTON — National NAACP head Ben Jealous weighed in against the pension and health benefit bill moving through the Legislature today, saying black New Jerseyans would be disproportionately hurt by the changes. 

“We see this same pattern in many states and cities across the nation. Public sector jobs are critical in communities of color and attacks on bargaining rights and health care disproportionately affect our communities,” said Jealous in a prepared statement.