Framing to help labor Organizing — Rockridge Nation

Framing to help labor Organizing

Created by russellhess on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 01:32 PM

Many of us in the labor community have been advocating for what we call "labor peace agreements" with local governments. The idea is that if a project has funding from a public entity, that public entity has a financial interest in assuring there is "labor peace" on the project. Some of my colleagues have started to think about how we frame working family issues in our community and we think labor peace is not a good description of what we want. We feel "labor peace" makes it sound like the alternative is the opposite and triggers a frame that includes strikes, picketing, violence, etc. We are looking at new ways to frame these agreements and we have so far come up with Community Benefit Agreements, although that is still lacking in my mind.

Thanks for the great work, and I look forward to being a part of the discussions here.

SE Minnesota

MN

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Framing to help labor organizing

collapse Posted by CBarndt at Tuesday, December 12, 2006 01:50 PM

Hi Russell,

What to you think of Cooperative Labor Contracts? Labor Partnerships?

I imagine you want to evoke the collaborative aspect rather than the potential conflict.

Re: Framing to help labor organizing

collapse Posted by ohb0b at Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:55 PM

I like Labor Partnership. Maybe Community Labor Partnership? It brings to mind the concept of working together for the common good. Much better than the present term PLA (Project Labor Agreement)

Labor framing...

collapse Posted by RYancey at Sunday, December 24, 2006 05:23 PM

I would suggest the phrase: "Labor Positive" agreement. It suggests a deal that supports labor without the connotation of attacking management.

Reuben Yancey