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US Department of Labor - Office of Labor- Management Standards
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) of the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration administers and enforces most provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). The LMRDA was enacted primarily to ensure basic standards of democracy and fiscal responsibility in labor organizations representing employees in private industry.
Grace Carroll Rocky Mountain School of Labor
The Grace Carroll Rocky Mountain Labor School is operated by a Board of Control consisting of the Executive Officer of each of the eight Rocky Mountain State Central Bodies affiliated with the AFL-CIO. It has been officially endorsed by these state organizations.
The purposes of the school are:
- To provide information and training for officers of State Central Bodies, and Local Union members so that they may make their organizations more effective instruments for the promotion of the cause of organized labor.
- To work out plans for establishment of programs of workers' education in the various states and cities so that the members of our unions will understand the functions of organized labor and be able to contribute more to the building of a sound and strong trade union movement in the Rocky Mountain and surrounding areas.
Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
The Harry Bridges Endowed Chair and Center for Labor Studies were created to be jointly housed in the departments of Political Science and History at the University of Washington. The Chair and Center honor the legacy of one of the preeminent labor leaders in the U.S., the late Harry Bridges, outstanding founder and leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for over 40 years. As a tribute to Harry Bridges' memory, over one thousand contributors, spearheaded by current and retired members of the ILWU, raised the funds necessary to endow a faculty chair in his name in 1992.
Harry Bridges' unique combination of pragmatic organizing ability, democratic unionism, commitment to racial desegregation, and outspoken engagement with issues of social justice continues to serve as the touchstone of the Center's mission.
Supporting research, teaching, and community outreach, The Center focuses on labor's contribution to society. The Center promotes the study of labor in all of its facets - locally, nationally, and worldwide. Our mission is to develop labor studies, broadly conceived to include working men and women everywhere, as a central concern in higher education.
The Center coordinates the efforts of faculty members throughout the University of Washington to develop and expand labor-related components of the University's curriculum. We also provide encouragement and assistance to young scholars studying work and workers.
The Center also provides a meeting place where people from the academic world, the labor movement, and the community can exchange ideas and insights. We sponsor activities in the community in order to bring issues of concern to the widest possible audience.
In September 2001, in honor of Harry Bridges' 100th birthday, the Center for Labor Studies was formally rededicated as the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. We continue to build upon Harry Bridges' legacy in our work.
(LERC) University of Oregon Labor Education and Research Center
Since its inception in 1977, the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon has made the resources and expertise of the higher education system available to workers, unions, policy makers, and community organizations throughout Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Through teaching, research, technical assistance, and consultation, we fulfill the outreach and public service mission of the University by assisting people and communities throughout Oregon. LERC is also integrally involved in the life of the UO campus and participates in the academic mission of the University through teaching and service activities.