2003-04 The Irving Leuchter Memorial Scholarship

2003-2004 Irving Leuchter Memorial Scholarship to the Harvard Trade Union Program

31 Dec 1969

Applications are being accepted for the annual Irving Leuchter Memorial Scholarship for a 6-week residential seminar at Harvard University scheduled for January 12th through February 20, 2004.

Deadline for applications for the $10,500 scholarship is November 1, 2003.

The Harvard Trade Union program provides training related to the executive and administrative responsibilities of union officers as well as their community role as trade unionists. It provides a series of elective courses and special topic seminars in addition to a core curriculum.

The core courses are economic analysis, labor law, union administration, long range planning, industrial relations in transition, labor history, and arbitration and dispute resolution. Collective bargaining is interspersed among core courses and seminars, as are such issues as affirmative action and pay equity.

Among seminar topics are political action, employee ownership as a union strategy, unions and new technology, new tactics for union organizing, public relations and labor and the global economy.

Previous participants in the program have given it high marks for the excellence of instruction and for the opportunity to update their labor activist skills.

Additional details about the scholarship are listed below, including information about eligibility, application procedure and financing. I hope those who are eligible will give it serious consideration and that all locals will contribute to the scholarship fund.

THE SCHOLARSHIP: The Irving Leuchter Memorial Scholarship now amounts to $10,500 plus travel expenses to and from Harvard. Any expenses beyond the amount of the scholarship, including lost time, must be made up by the recipient or his or her local.

Application should be made directly to the Harvard Trade Union Program. There is no application form, but applicants should include a resume of union activity and a brief explanation of what they hope to achieve by attending the program. Preference will be given to full-time union staff of locals or TNG. Others will be considered only if no full-time union staff applies.

There are no academic requirements as such, but scholarship recipients must be adjudged capable of meeting the instructional standards of the program and of benefiting from such a course of study.

Unlike nominees for the Guild Service award, scholarship applicants need not be nominated by their locals. However, applicants must be members in good standing, and recipients may be asked for assurance of necessary financing beyond the amount of the scholarship and of their intention to resume Guild activity upon completion of the program.

Applications should be made by Nov. 1 to: Dr. Elaine Bernard, Executive Director; Harvard University Trade Union Program; 1350 Massachusetts Ave., #731; Cambridge, MA 02138. Fax: 617-496-7359; Phone: (617) 495-9265; e-mail: htup@harvarda.harvard.edu; websites www.htup.harvard.edu/elaine_cv.htm and www.htup.harvard.edu.

THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: The Irving Leuchter Memorial Scholarship is financed by the annual contributions from TNG-CWA and interested locals. TNG-CWA contributes half the cost annually, $5,250, and the Twin Cities Guild, whose idea the scholarship originally was, contributes $500 annually for its own Sam Romer Memorial Fund to the Leuchter Scholarship.

Noting that the Harvard Trade Union program already has proven its value to the Guild and its locals (24 local leaders have participated in the program), TNG-CWA has urged locals to make similar commitments. Checks should be made payable to "The Newspaper Guild-CWA (please indicate Harvard Trade Union Program in the memo line)" and sent to TNG-CWA Headquarters in Washington, DC.