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Joe Berry currently teaches as a non-tenure track
instructor at the University of Illinois in the
Chicago Labor
Education Program, teaching trade unionists.
He also teaches history part-time at
Roosevelt
University, and is on the Executive Committee of his union
there, the
Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Association, (RAFO) IEA/NEA.
Berry is the Chair of the
Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic
Labor, a regional advocacy coalition. He is on the Coordinating
Committee of the
North American Alliance For Fair Employment, a
group of organizations concerned with contingent and precarious
employment. Berry lives in Chicago with his spouse,
Helena Worthen,
who is also his colleague in labor education and writing partner.
They met at a union meeting in California when both were staffers
and activists organizing community college part-time faculty in the
1980s.
Berry has worked as a contingent faculty person
for for over 20 years in CA, PA and IL. He also taught at the
Labor
Center of the University of Iowa. As a union staff organizer, Berry
has worked in California for the
California Federation of Teachers,
AFT and in Illinois for the
Illinois Education Association, NEA,
both among contingent faculty. He has been active in organizing the
last three North American Conferences on Contingent Academic Labor,
and led the last one,
COCAL VI, in Chicago in August, 2004. He has
also served on the central Coordinating Committee for
Campus Equity
Week in
2001,
2003, and
2005.
The child of two teachers, Berry first learned
organizing in the civil rights, student, and socialist movements of
the 1960's, and was a regional traveler (organizer) for
Students for
a Democratic Society in Iowa. After spending ten years teaching
social studies, English and special education in the public schools
in San Francisco, he taught history and labor studies in colleges in
the San Francisco area, especially at the
City College of San Francisco.
His main academic work has been in labor history and labor studies,
with an MA in history from
San Francisco State University and a
Ph.D. in labor studies from the
Union Institute and University. This
book is a revised version of his doctoral dissertation there.
- Adjunct Labor Education Specialist and Program Developer: Chicago
Labor Education Program, University of Illinois, 2005 to present.
Teach Current Issues in Labor in National Labor College partnership
program, and other labor education subjects. Develop new programs
and coordinate outreach to labor movement.
- Adjunct Faculty: Roosevelt University, 2000-present
Courses: history of gender and labor, Civil War and Reconstruction,
African-American history, and US history survey. Served as member of
Academic Senate Committee on Faculty Issues.
- Adjunct Instructor: Chicago Labor Education Program, University of
Illinois, 2002-4
Co-teach and help plan “Solidarity 101” series of programs for IBEW
apprentices, including issues of diversity, labor history and
organizing. Taught contract campaign research strategy to Teamsters
local. Assisted in collective bargaining course. Taught
communications in AFSCME summer institute.
- Adjunct Instructor: Indiana University NW, Labor Studies, 2000-2004
Course: labor history in Carpenters (UBCJA) and IBEW apprenticeship
programs. Also mentored colleagues (co-taught) in teaching these
classes.
- Adjunct Faculty: DeVry University, 2003
Course: general humanities/history course which focused upon
twentieth century U.S.
- Lecturer: Malcolm X College, Chicago City Colleges, 2000-2002
Courses: early and recent US history surveys. Served as member of
Chicago City Colleges Adjunct Faculty Professional Development
Committee.
- Lecturer: Harold Washington College, Chicago City Colleges, 2000
Course: early US history survey.
- Instructor: Community College of Philadelphia, 1999
Courses: early and recent US history surveys.
- Labor Educator: University of Iowa, Labor Center, 1994-1998
Developed and presented full range of labor education topics, in
non-credit, customized mode, to locals, local central bodies, State
Federation, state councils and multi-state regions of unions.
Subjects included steward education, collective bargaining, health
and safety, organizing, strategic planning, internal organizing and
member mobilization, effective committees, arbitration, labor
history, nonstandard employment and contingent labor, labor law,
economics, public sector issues (privatization, impasse, interest
arbitration, program based budgeting, etc.), labor research
techniques, labor communications, employer anti-union strategies,
and others. Responded to research and consultation requests from
unionists statewide, supervised grad assistants and support staff,
and promoted program to union bodies throughout Iowa. Coordinated
residential open entry education programs on organizing, community
services, union women, privatization/outsourcing, collective
bargaining, public sector issues, and health care and retiree
issues, among others.
- Lecturer: San Francisco State University, 1994
Course: labor history, cross-listed as labor studies, history and
economics. Member: California Faculty Association (SEIU Local 1983,
AFL-CIO, CSEA, AAUP, CTA/NEA).
- Instructor: City College of San Francisco, 1980 -1994
Courses: introductory labor studies, steward training, leadership
development, and history of the local labor movement. Spoke on labor
topics at senior centers and schools. Did course development and
outreach with local unions for customized training and recruitment.
Previously taught all US history surveys and worked as
teacher/researcher in Educational Opportunities Programs and
Services (EOPS).
- Instructor: George Meany Center for Labor Studies, (now National
Labor College) Western Semester, 1992-3
Course: Teaching techniques for labor education.
- Instructor: Several San Francisco Bay Area Colleges, 1981-7
Courses: labor studies, early and recent U.S. history, and
African-American history. (New College of California, College of
Alameda, Chabot College, Skyline College, Mission College)
- Teacher: San Francisco Unified Schools, 1973 - 1980,
Paraprofessional, 1970-73
Courses: social studies, remedial reading and composition, English,
and special education in various public junior and senior high
schools. Included 4 years as part of a joint project sited at the
University of California/San Francisco Medical Center, Adolescent
Medicine Program.
- Staff Organizer (short term), Illinois
Education Association and Part-Time Faculty Association at
Columbia College, IEA/NEA, 2000. Organized college part-time
faculty, both in support of legislative proposals for bargaining
rights and for unit expansion at Columbia College.
- Researcher, Keystone Research Center,
1999-2000
Co-developed report and presentation on use of contingent
faculty in higher education in Pennsylvania and was
co-researcher on study of Pennsylvania community colleges’ role
in workforce development.
- Staff Organizer, Health Professionals and
Allied Employees/AFT, 1998-1999.
- Internal organizer in newly certified unit of
300 nurses preparing for first contract negotiations. Duties
included corporate research as well as direct member organizing.
- Executive Secretary, San Mateo Community
College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493. 1988- 1994. Sole
professional staff person for local union representing unit of
1100 full and part-time faculty in open shop. Delegate to San
Mateo Central Labor Council.
- Part-time Faculty Coordinator, Community
College Council, California Federation of Teachers, AFT,
1990-1994. Built statewide committee representing 15,000 part-
time faculty in 14 local units. Handled training, advocacy,
government relations, communications, and bargaining and
organizing advice and assistance to locals. Initiated,
developed, and organized annual inter-organizational statewide
part- time faculty conferences.
- Task Force Delegate, AFT--California School
Employees Association Paraprofessional Task Force, 1989-91.
Represented CFT Community College Council and AFT.
- Business Agent, SEIU Local 505, San
Francisco, 1987
Consulting (interim temporary) business agent for private sector
dental industry unit with over twenty different contracts and
employers spread over northern CA.
- Industrial and service worker: Des Moines,
Chicago, and San Francisco. 1960’s-1970’s. Production worker in
printing and ice cream (IBT member) industries. Also worked in
construction, recreation, clerical, postal, taxicab, food
service, and health-care.
2005, Competitve Unionism in Workplace, a Journal for Academic
Labor <http://www.cust.educ.ubc.ca/workplace/issue6p2/>
Forthcoming, with Helena Worthen. “Our Working Conditions are our
Students’ Learning Conditions”: Using CHAT to explain and interpret
the threat of disciplinary action against a contingent instructor in
an adult education program in Chicago, IL”. Forthcoming in Critical
Perspectives on Activity: Explorations across Education, Work and
Everyday Life. Edited by Newton Duarte, Mohamed ElHammoumi and Peter
H. Sawchuck, Cambridge University Press.
2004, “University (Part-time) Faculty”, in Encyclopedia of the
Midwest. Ohio State University, Institute for Collaborative Research
and Public Humanities.
2004, A Labor-force Appropriate Strategy for Contingent Faculty,
North American Alliance for Fair Employment
2004, Video review of Degrees of Shame: Part-time Faculty, Migrant
Workers of the Information Age, and A Simple Matter of Justice:
Contingent Faculty Organize, Barbara Wolf, producer, in Labor
Studies Journal, Vol. 29, Number 2, Summer 2004.
2004, “Contingent Faculty In Chicago and Illinois” in Illinois
Academe, Spring, 2004.
2003, with Helena Worthen. “A contract campaign and an electoral
process: Designing educational support in the context of two
interacting activity systems in a local labor union in Chicago”.
Proceedings, Book II: Work and Lifelong Learning in Different
Contexts.
3rd International Conference on Researching Work and Learning. July
25-27, 2003, Tampere, Finland. P. 264-273.
2003, “The New Majority Faculty: A Class Analysis for Organizing”,
Works & Days 41/42, Spring/Fall 2003.
2003, “Campus Equity Week’s Offspring Takes a Few Steps: Contingent
Faculty Organizing in Metro Chicago”, Working USA, Spring 2003.
2003, with Helena Worthen, combined review of Thinking Union:
Activism and Education in Canada’s Labor Movement by D’Arcy Martin
and Education for Changing Unions by Bev Burke, Jojo Geronimo,
D’Arcy Martin, Barb Thomas, and Carol Wall, in Labor Studies
Journal.
2003, In a Leftover Office in Chicago, chapter in Cogs in the
Classroom Factory. Herman, Deborah and Schmid, Julie, eds. Praeger/Greenwood
Publishing Group, Westport, CT.
2002, Combined review of The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the
Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning by Stanley
Aronowitz, and of The Politics of Faculty Unionism: The Experience
of Three New England Universities by Gordon B. Arnold, in Labor
Studies Journal.
2002, with Helena Worthen, “Bargaining for ‘quality’ in higher
education: A case study from the City Colleges of Chicago”, Labor
Studies Journal, Fall 2002.
2002, “Campus Equity Week: Contingent Faculty Make News” (expanded
version), Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor, 4.1.
2002, “Campus Equity Week: Contingent Higher Ed Faculty Make News”.
In
Sunrise: Journal of the Organizing Resource Group.
2001, “CEW and You: Why Tenure-Stream Faculty Should Support Campus
Equity Week” in NEA Advocate
2001, “Organizing the New Majority Faculty: a report from the
front”, conference session report in Perspectives on Work, Vol. 5,
Number 1.
2000, “American Council on Education Annual Meeting, March 2000:
Visiting the Royal Court of Higher Education or A Faculty Organizer
in the Presidents’ Court”. In Sunrise: Journal of the Organizing
Resource Group. November, 2000.
2000, “Chicago ’68 & Seattle ’99”, article in Voices from the WTO:
an anthology of writings by the people who shut down the World Trade
Organization in Seattle 1999. Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.
1999, with Herzenberg, Steve; Worthen, Helena, and Wial, Howard.
“Forward from Chaos: the Role of Pennsylvania Community Colleges in
Workforce Development” in Report from the Keystone Research Center
for the Heinz Foundation
1999, with Helena Worthen, Contingent Faculty in Public Higher
Education in Pennsylvania, Spring 1999: Focus on the Community
Colleges, Keystone Research Center, Harrisburg, PA.
1999, Review of Why Doctors Join Unions by Grace Budrys, in Labor
Studies Journal, Vol. 23, No. 4.
1994-1998, Wrote, revised, edited and compiled various teaching
materials and manuals for labor education. Subjects included Iowa
public employee labor law, organizing, collective bargaining,
women’s labor issues, labor history, health insurance, and others.
Pre-1995, many articles in the labor press, including especially
publications of California Federation of Teachers and locals 1493
and 2121.
1988-1994, wrote a semi-monthly column, Part-timers Progress, for
the California Federation of Teachers Community College Council
newspaper, Perspective.
Annually compiled and annotated California statewide survey of
community college faculty collective bargaining agreements’
provisions affecting part- time faculty.
PhD: Labor Studies. Dissertation: Contingent Faculty in Higher
Education: An Organizing Strategy and Chicago Area Proposal, Union
Institute and University, 2002.
Common Sense Economics, Train the Trainer, AFL-CIO Dept. of
Education, 1998
Labor Law (Audit), University of Iowa Law School, 1998
New Staff School, Union Leadership Institute, AFT, George Meany
Center, 1988
Summer Institute, Labor in the Schools, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, School for Workers. Co-sponsored by International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, 1987
City College of San Francisco, various courses, 1981-8
MA: History, Recent U.S.; Concentration in history of labor,
immigrants, minority groups, and women. San Francisco State
University, 1979
BA: History major, English minor, University of Iowa, 1971
University of San Francisco, attended 1970
Grinnell College, attended 1966-8
- Labor Archives and Research Center of San Francisco State
University, Associate citation, 1994
- Alpha Gamma Sigma, honor society of City College of San
Francisco, Teacher Appreciation Day "Favorite Teacher", 1988
- AFT Local 2121 Solidarity Award, 1987
- California Federation of Teachers Golden Apple Award, 1987
- Grinnell College Honor Scholarship, 1966
- United Association for Labor Education,
(Member: Organizing Task Force)
- San Francisco Bay Area Labor History Workshop
- Debs Foundation
- National Organizers Alliance
- John L. Lewis Commission
- Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Organization, IEA/NEA
- Illinois Labor History Society
- Industrial Relations Research Association and
Chicago Chapter
- Labor and Working Class History Association
- Jobs with Justice
- American Association of University Professors
- Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor,
Chicago Chapter (Chair)
- Chicago Area Committee on Occupational Safety
and Health
- Historic Pullman Foundation
- National Council for Higher Education, NEA
- North American Alliance for Popular and Adult
Education
- Women and Labor History Project, Chicago
- History Project Task Force, Illinois
Education Association, NEA
- Chicago Working Class Studies Center
- North American Alliance For Fair Employment
(Coordinating Committee member)
- National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981
(Chicago chapter trustee)
- Campaign for Better Health Care (Illinois)
- Labor Research Study Group (Chicago)
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