Shift Change» jobs https://shiftchange.org True stories about dignified jobs in democratic workplaces. Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:26:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Announcing TWO upcoming screenings in Washington, D.C. https://shiftchange.org/announcing-two-upcoming-screenings-in-washington-d-c/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=announcing-two-upcoming-screenings-in-washington-d-c https://shiftchange.org/announcing-two-upcoming-screenings-in-washington-d-c/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:45:47 +0000 Moving Images https://shiftchange.org/?p=720 Announcing two December 17th screenings of SHIFT CHANGE in Washington, D.C. More information about the film and links to RSVP for the daytime event and to purchase tickets to the evening screening can be found here >

 

Special Daytime Screening of SHIFT CHANGE

Monday, December 17, 2012, 11:00 AM

Gompers Room, AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street, N.W.

FREE and open to the public.

Prescreening panel discussion on worker cooperatives & job creation with:

  • Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
  • Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative
  • Liz Bailey, Cooperative Development Foundation
  • John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies
  • David Madland, Center for American Progress
  • Michael Peck, Mondragon

 

Evening Premiere of SHIFT CHANGE & Fundraiser

Monday, December 17, 2012, 7:30 PM

Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street, N.W.

Introduction by Omar Freilla, Green Worker Cooperatives

Q&A with Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young, filmmakers, to follow the screening

NOTE: $10 suggested donation to benefit cooperatives recovering from Hurricane Sandy

More info can be found here >

 

Co-sponsors for the DC premiere include: American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), Coop DC, Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF), DC Labor FilmFest, Democracy Collaborative, Institute for Policy Studies, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO, Mondragon USA, National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), NCB Financial Group, New Economy Working Group, ONE DC, Taylored Communications and United Steelworkers (USW).

 

 

 

]]> https://shiftchange.org/announcing-two-upcoming-screenings-in-washington-d-c/feed/ 0 Watch a 6-Minute Preview of SHIFT CHANGE https://shiftchange.org/new-a-sneak-peek-at-shift-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-a-sneak-peek-at-shift-change https://shiftchange.org/new-a-sneak-peek-at-shift-change/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 19:08:23 +0000 Moving Images http://shiftchange.natashadworkin.com/?p=201 At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee ownership offers a real solution for workers and communities. SHIFT CHANGE is a new documentary that highlights worker-owned enterprises in North America and in Mondragon, Spain.

Take a look at the preview and please share your comments.

]]> https://shiftchange.org/new-a-sneak-peek-at-shift-change/feed/ 5 Inspired by Mondragon, Chicago works to bring back world class manufacturing https://shiftchange.org/inspired-by-mondragon-chicago-works-to-bring-back-world-class-manufacturing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inspired-by-mondragon-chicago-works-to-bring-back-world-class-manufacturing https://shiftchange.org/inspired-by-mondragon-chicago-works-to-bring-back-world-class-manufacturing/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:34:59 +0000 Moving Images https://shiftchange.org/?p=162 Chicago once had many large and small industries that provided thousands of family wage jobs. But with the decline in US manufacturing, many of those industries and jobs have disappeared. . Now a coalition of business, labor, education, and public officials called the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council [CMRC] is determined to restore Chicago as a world center for advanced manufacturing.

Even in today’s depressed economy, thousands of high tech, highly paid manufacturing jobs in Chicago remain open, because companies cannot find qualified applicants to fill them. So the CMRC is focusing on education, and they’ve begun in the west side neighborhood called Austin.

Erica Swinney

Erica Swinney, of Austin Polytechnical Academy

“Austin Polytechnical Academy was designed to connect young people in Austin to careers in advanced manufacturing,” according to Erica Swinney, director of career and community programs at Austin. “It was inspired by the early technical school in Mondragón that was part of a regional economic development strategy that led to the Mondragón Cooperatives.” This small public high school works closely with the Austin community, where most of its students live, and it has attracted some very dedicated teachers.

Pablo Varela

Pablo Varela

According to machine shop teacher Pablo Varela, here working with student Otis Johnson, “The main goal is that a student gain the skill sets to be successful in both manufacturing and engineering, whatever they choose.”

CMRC companies advise the school about curricula, provide internships, and offer job shadowing opportunities where students learn what it would be like to work in a given job. Just five years after the school was founded, students are planning professional careers that once would have been out of reach. Junior Desiree Wordlaw is interested in biomedical engineering, and senior Torres Hughes plans to study law and engineering.

Marquise Booker

Marquise Booker

Recent graduate Marquise Booker: “Austin set up job shadowing, and I was interested in metal working so I chose Laystrom. I liked working there, and they offered me a summer job.” After Marquise graduated, Laystrom Manufacturing hired him, and now they are helping to pay for him to study mechanical engineering at Triton College.

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