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May session withdrawal deadline

May Session, Based on 150 minutes daily, 15 days of classes

Registration May 8 Tueday

Classes Begin May 9 Wednesday

Drop/Add May 9 – 10 Wednesday - Thursday

Midterm May 18 Friday

Withdrawal Deadline May 18 Friday

Holiday: Memorial Day May 28 Monday

Classes End May 30 Wednesday

Final Exams May 31 Thursday

Grades Due June 4 Monday, 12:00 PM

Organizing the South Today: Stories from UNITE-HERE

Chair: Lane Windham, Georgetown University, author of Knocking on Labor’s Door: Union Organizing in the 1970s and the Roots of a New Economic Divide

  • Scott Cooper, Director of Operations, UNITE-HERE
  • Tracy Walker, Cook at the Atlanta Airport, Chief Shop Steward
  • Isaie Marc, Former Housekeeper at Disney now organizer in Orlando
  • Wanda Brown, Bartender Peachtree Hotel in Atlanta/President of Atlanta Chapter of Local 23
  • Latoya Colvin, Cook at Fort Benning, President of Columbus Chapter of Local 23

 

The Dirtiest Work of All: Manual Scavenging, a Caste-Based Occupation in India

With an introduction by Jay Driskell, author of Hard Work: A History of Sanitation and the Teamsters.

Part of the “Dirty Work” conference (www.southernlaborstudies.org), which is funded by the UGA Department of History, the Provost, the Vice President for Research, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Southern Historical Association, the Southern Labor Archives, and the University of Georgia Press.

Free and open to the public.

 

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