OUR 2011 TRAILBLAZERS IN
LABOR MANAGEMENT RELATIONS
Honoring the pioneer leaders and practitioners in labor relations in California with Lifetime Achievement Awards
2011 CCS and the co-sponsors of our conference (CSMCS, FMCS, PERB, NLRB, ALRB and AAA):
Honoring the pioneer leaders and practitioners in labor relations in California with Lifetime Achievement Awards
Management KENNETH HALL for his groundbreaking work in school management, public finance and labor-management relations. Ken was the founder of School Services of California, a highly respected organization that grew to serve over 1,000 school districts in California. Ken led School Services for 30 years before his retirement in 2005. Well known and prized throughout the state for his expertise in school finance and budget, Ken has written extensively on these subjects. Ken also served as Chief Deputy Director of the State Department of Finance under Governor Ronald Reagan. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Southern California where he directs a school business management training program. |
Labor BARBARA KERR for her distinguished career as an outstanding California labor leader, culminating in her highly successful years as President of the 325,000-member California Teachers Association. Beginning her lifetime of devotion to teaching, teachers and public education as a first grade teacher in Riverside, Barbara went on to head the Riverside Teachers Association and then to serve on the CTA Board of Directors. She became an expert in school finance and was part of the team that created and secured passage of Proposition 98—the law that guarantees state funding for education. Barbara also led labor’s successful fight in 2005 to defeat several ballot measures and win $2 billion in restored public education funding. |
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Neutral JOSEPH GRODIN for his distinguished career and contributions to
the field of labor law and policy. After graduating from Yale Law School and earning a PhD from the London School of Economics on a Fulbright Grant, Joe practiced labor law in San Francisco from 1955 to 1971. He then became a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, and also served as a member of the first Agricultural Labor Relations Board. He was then appointed by Governor Brown to the California Court of Appeals, and in 1982 to the California Supreme Court. Upon leaving the court, he returned to the Hastings faculty. Joe also works as an arbitrator and mediator. Joe is the author of several books, including Collective Bargaining in Public Employment. |
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Public Policy ROBERT REICH for his outstanding contributions to public policy
in economics and labor relations. Reich served as Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, where he implemented the Family and Medical Leave Act, led a national fight against sweatshops in the U.S., headed the administration’s successful effort to raise the minimum wage, secured workers’ pensions, and launched job-training programs and school-to-work initiatives. He is currently serving as Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published eleven books, is a political commentator on many nationally-televised programs, and is a regular contributor to major national publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and New Yorker. |
