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FMCS Announces Ninth National Labor-Management ConferenceFederal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) Director John Calhoun Wells today announced that the Ninth National Labor-Management Conference has been scheduled for April 7-9, 1998 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The biennial event has become the largest labor relations conference in the United States. Approximately 1,800 business, labor, government and academic leaders and collective bargaining practitioners attended the 1996 conference. Among the keynote speakers for the 1998 conference are Linda Chavez Thompson, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President and Aaron Feuerstein, President and CEO of Malden Mills Industries, Inc., a $400-million textile manufacturing company in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Ms. Chavez-Thompson is the first woman of color to hold a top leadership position in the AFL-CIO. Mr. Feuerstein became n icon for corporate responsibility in 1995 when the family-owned company founded by his grandfather in 1906 suffered a disastrous fire. Despite the destruction of 30 percent of the facilities, Feuerstein kept more than 1,000 employees on full pay while the mill was rebuilt. Boyd Young, President of the United Paperworkers International Union and A. D. "Pete" Correll, Georgia-Pacific Corporation Chairman and CEO, will also present their joint perspectives on the past struggles, innovative approaches and growing partnership between unions and companies in the American pulp and paper industry. Georgia-Pacific and UPIU have formally agreed to create a labor-management partnership in their collective bargaining relationship. Conference participants can choose from 65 workshop sessions over two and a half days, each offering case studies in cooperative efforts between management and labor in the private, public and federal sectors, and presentations addressing such issues as arbitrator acceptability, reducing violence in schools and a real-world model for labor-management cooperation called "Conflictive Partnership." Registration materials and additional conference information can be obtained by calling (202) 737-2620. The registration fee is $250 per person before March 27, and $300 after that date. |
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