Expertise, Interests & Work of
Labor Studies Center staff
Hal Stack
Title:Director
WSU Address: 3178 F/AB, 656 W. Kirby
WSU Phone: 313.577.2191
WSU Fax: 313.577.7726
E-mail: h.stack@wayne.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Constructive labor-management relations, including establishing labor-management committees, participative work redesign, and interest-based bargaining training and facilitation; strategic planning and organizational effectiveness; staff and volunteer management; negotiation and dispute resolution
Additional Interests:
Community visioning, public dispute resolution, work reorganization and workforce skills in the auto industry and the construction industry.
Selected Publications/Presentations:
"Interest-Based Bargaining: Negotiating a New Relationship," presented at Michigan Public Management Association Conference, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, January 31, 2002.
"Unions, Strategic Planning and Organizational Change," Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Madison, WI: IRRA:1994.
"Lessons from the UAW-GM Paid Educational Leave Program," Chapter 4 in Joint Training. Programs: A Union-Management Approach to Preparing Workers for the Future, Louis Ferman, et.al, ed's., ILR Press, Cornell University, l991.
Consulting, Technical Assistance:
Labor-management relations, organizational effectiveness, workplace training.
Dave Reynolds
Title: Labor Program Specialist
WSU Address: 3178 F/AB, 656 W. Kirby
WSU Phone: 313. 577.2197
WSU Fax: 313.577.7726
E-mail: aa2589@wayne.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Labor-community coalitions, economic development, living wage campaigns, political action, regional power building.
Additional Interests:
Grassroots organizing and mobilizing techniques, European and U.S. social and economic policy.
Selected Publications/Presentations:
Partnering for Change: How Labor and Community Groups Build Coalitions for Economic Justice (M.E. Sharpe, 2002);
Taking the High Road: Communities Organize for Economic Change (M.E. Sharpe, 2002);
Living Wage Campaigns: An Activists Guide (ACORN, 2001)
Democracy Unbound: Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System (South End Press, 1997).
Consulting, Technical Assistance:
• Labor & Community groups: Living wage, political action, mobilization strategies.
• Local governments: Impact of living wage laws.
