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Unions can help to advance work-family issues.
Working with unions may be the key to advancing work-family issues on campus, according to Netsy Firestein, who presented at the College and University Work Family Association (CUWFA) conference in Santa Barbara in February. She's the founder and director of the Berkeley-based Labor Project for Working Families (LPWF), a national non-profit helping labor unions work for better family policies, including childcare, paid leave and flextime. LPWF recently helped get a paid family leave law passed in California.
A long struggle
Firestein was a social worker in the 1980s when she had her first child. Returning from maternity leave, she said, "Wow, how can I ...
- Rugby: Ruddock 'not driven out' RUGBY UNION Departed Wales coach says family...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) February 16, 2006 700+ words
...over a new contract, the Welsh Rugby Union decided he needed to stand down immediately...That's what I told theWelsh Rugby Union," said Ruddock. Ruddock denied any...reasons. However, Johnson has his own family issues to contend with in Australia. SCOTLAND...
- Bush highlights family issues in address. (1992 State of the Union address)
- Newspaper article from: Nation's Cities Weekly Kyle, John E. February 3, 1992 700+ words
...received significant attention in President Bush's State of the Union address last week. However, the reviews are mixed as to the...President Bush] must not put a hand out in his State of the Union message, and then jerk it back in the fine print of the budget...
- Studies from University of Otago reveal new findings on family issues.
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week July 6, 2009 700+ words
...likely to end their union when partners do...Otago (see also Family Issues). The researchers...the Journal of Family Issues (Father Involvement Ideals and the Union Transitions of...Parents. Journal of Family Issues, 2009;30(7...
- Researchers from Western Washington University provide details of new studies...
- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week October 5, 2009 700+ words
...to the first intimate union," scientists in the...States report (see also Family Issues). "The author argues...choice of first intimate union." Teachman and colleagues...study in the Journal of Family Issues (Military Service...
- Ann McLaughlin, Mary Cunningham Agee to address Bureau of National Affairs'...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 26, 1988 700+ words
...SEMINAR ON WORK AND FAMILY ISSUES WASHINGTON, July 25...Oct. 20-21. Work/family issues are being tackled at...government representatives, union officials and corporate...schedules, EAPs/work and family issues, the federal government...
- Campaign Boosts `Family Issues' Legislation; Prospects Seem Good for Wage,...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Tom Kenworthy; Helen Dewar September 13, 1988 700+ words
...agenda of so-called "family issues," legislation to provide...momentum to the agenda of family issues in the waning days of...American Civil Liberties Union have withdrawn their...lobbyist for the teachers' union. Edwards said the organization...
- Close to home: Family issues present serious legal concerns for employees,...
- Magazine article from: Employee Benefit News Lee, Karen April 1, 2001 700+ words
...benefits, including representation on family issues to its employees and retirees...system, "Our plan doesn't cover family issues because we would probably go broke...000-lawyer network. Unlike union and association plans, a number...
- Finally, the family's turn. (family issues high on the government's agenda)...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Gergen, David R. March 3, 1986 700+ words
...fray. In his recent state-of-the-union address, he called for a study of welfare...determined to broaden the agenda of family issues and become more serious about legislative...national governors. Clinton thinks family issues are capturing center stage among public...
