Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣🌴🥥 AFT Connecticut John Brady Oregon Nurses Association UUP Alaska Nurses Assoc. Wendy Dean SevenPonds Cleveland Teachers Union, Local 279 LLU School of Behavioral Health How has unionization impacted COVID-19 vaccination rates? The answer may surprise you. In #AFTHealthCare, Todd E. Vachon of Rutgers_LEARN shares how collective voice leads to common good solutions: aft.org/hc/spring2024/…

Real World Labor Book Release Party with Rutgers_LEARN, CUNY SLU - Murphy Institute, Bureau of Labor Education at University of Maine, and Scontras Center for Labor & Community Education at University of Southern Maine. Monday, May 6th at 8:00PM EST / 5:00PM PST via Zoom. #laboreducation

On this #InternationalWorkersDay, Rutgers_LEARN is excited to release our bi-annual NJ State of Labor Report. Between 2021-2023, NJ's union density remained around 16%, about 6% higher than the national average. You can read the whole report here: smlr.rutgers.edu/State_of_Labor…

NJ private sector density up by 1% according to the latest report from Rutgers_LEARN by Joseph van der Naald and Todd E Vachon.

Public Admin, Transport & Utilities, Ed & Health, and Construction remain the most highly unionized industries according to the latest NJ State of Labor Report report from Rutgers_LEARN by Joseph van der Naald and Todd E Vachon. smlr.rutgers.edu/State_of_Labor…

Rutgers_LEARN Director, Todd Vachon's book on #Labor and the #ClimateCrisis - Clean Air and Good Jobs - was reviewed by Brendan Davidson of ColoradoStateUniversty in ILR Review. You can get a discount Temple Univ Press with code CLAIR23: tupress.temple.edu/books/clean-ai…

Winter #AmericanEducator features Jackson Potter and Todd Vachon (Rutgers_LEARN) on confronting economic and environmental inequity, @ThatTeacherSaid on engaging students in social studies, and @dcollier74 and Brittany E. Perez on hunger in college aft.org/ae/winter2023-…

You're cordially invited to the Rutgers_LEARN labor social gathering 6/7 at 5pm at the Labor Ed Center in New Brunswick! All LEARN grads, students, instructors, and supporters are invited. New Jersey AFL-CIO AFT New Jersey CWA New Jersey UAW Region 9 North Atlantic States Carpenters NJEA IUOE Local 825 docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSf9…

RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Rutgers_LEARN spoke with Nonprofit Quarterly -"It's not that the union is some outside entity that you call and then it takes care of all of your problems,” Vachon says. “It requires you and your coworkers deciding that you together want to solve your problems.”

Rutgers_LEARN Director Todd Vachon spoke with The New York Times about President Biden 's efforts to promote union-made, domestically-produced EVs. nytimes.com/2024/05/27/bus…

How can schools confront #climatechange? Push for green buildings and community spaces, teach climate justice, and incorporate #CTE in the curriculum to prep students for jobs of the future. More from Todd Vachon Rutgers_LEARN: #AmericanEducator aft.org/ae/spring2024/…

Congrats to the 80 students who completed certificates with Rutgers_LEARN this year - including the Union Leadership Academy. LEARN more about upcoming online classes enrolling now for Fall 2024 smlr.rutgers.edu/continuing-edu… AFL-CIO ✊ New Jersey AFL-CIO Connecticut AFL-CIO Colorado AFL-CIO Virginia AFL-CIO

Inspiring work! Climate justice as we bargain for the common good!! Bargaining For the Common Good Rutgers CIWO ACRE Rutgers_LEARN Joseph A. McCartin Sandra Lane 🇵🇸✊🏽♥️ Sarah Jaffe

Rutgers_LEARN reached out to the Executive Director of Jobs with Justice, Erica Smiley, last year to share a little history about the origins and importance of Juneteenth ➡️bit.ly/LEARN_Juneteen… This "mini-lecture" is part of the LEARN Lessons series: ➡️smlr.rutgers.edu/LEARN-lessons

Registration is open for this very timely and important online Union Leadership Academy (ULA) class! Sign up now: smlr.rutgers.edu/continuing-edu… AFL-CIO ✊ New Jersey AFL-CIO CWA CWA District 1 Connecticut AFL-CIO

Join us for the PREMIERE of the New Labor Documentary: "No Somos Máquinas" on Friday, Aug 16th at 6:30PM at the Rutgers Labor Education Center (50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, 08901)  REGISTER NOW: bit.ly/NLDoc2024 Trailer here: vimeo.com/986665861

The Labor Education Action Research Network's official summer newsletter, LEARNing TOGETHER, is now available! Click below to see what we've been up to and what's on the menu for the fall! smlr.rutgers.edu/sites/default/…

The The Associated Press traces the 130-year history of #LaborDay with Todd Vachon of Rutgers_LEARN. He says, "Alot of the millennial and Gen Z folks are coming into the labor market in a period that’s not a lot different from [1894] where there was a lot of labor unrest." apnews.com/article/labor-…

We at Rutgers LEARN would like to wish everyone a happy & safe Labor Day. As we fire up grills or head to beaches during the final days of summer, lets not forget the true purpose of the holiday - celebrating workers & all they & their orgs have contributed to our country & world