Return to Table of ContentsApril 1998
Labor Forum Held at Kennedy Library in March The Labor Resource Center, the College of Public and Community Service, and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO held a public policy forum, "Work and Family: Putting People First," at the Kennedy Library on March 4. The purpose of the forum was to highlight labor's public policy agenda. In attendance were gubernatorial candidates Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, Patricia McGovern, and Raymond Flynn.
Policy priorities such as the need for greater economic security, improved public education, curbing privatization, workforce development, and protections for the right to organize unions were highlighted by experts from Boston-area universities and labor leaders. The forum was attended by over 200 union members and policy makers, and was brought to a humorous closing by University President William Bulger.
A compilation of the policy position papers, entitled "Work & Family: Putting People First," is available through the Labor Resource Center at 7-7426.