Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, August 11, 1987, Page 4, Image 4

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Labor expert stresses education
to relieve industries struggles
Hy M.A. Drummond
Of (hr Kmmld
Kdgar Ball, one of the biggest
names in labor union circles.
Spoke with the media on cam
pus Friday.
Bali, tile international
secretary for the United
Steelworkers of America, was in
Kugene to celebrate the 10th an
niversary of the University’s
lebor Kducation and Research
Center, held Friday evening at
the Kugene Hilton Hotel.
In his media address. Ball
pointed to struggles labor
unions face coping with
tei hnological advances and
problems unions are encounter
ing due to the changing
character of international
economics
Stressing the need for more
education for the nation's in
dustrial lalsirers. Ball said little
is s|M'nt on educating workers
— a situation he termed as a
"tragedy."
"The need for labor educa
tion lias liccn outstripped by
states' willingness to provide
it," Ball said.
Ball explained that without
the aid of higher educational in
stitutions helping to develop
workers’ technical skills and
learning levels the country re
mains at a "disadvantage" com
pared to other industrial
nations.
The labor advocate praised
the I.KRC's contribution to
enlightening workers in the
field of labor-management rela
tions and providing general
market knowledge for Oregon’s
blue-collar work force
Ball called the center "a
vanguard for other univer
sities” working with labor
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Kdftar Hall, the international secretary for the United
Steelworkers of America, commends the University's Labor
Education and Resource Center, which celebrated its I Oth
anniversary last Friday.
where (hey live. Ball said
"Towns as large as Kugeno
have Imhoi wiped out" by the
decline of the metal industry,
he added.
Ten years ago we (unions) didn’t need to
know what was going on in the world
economy; we can 7 do that anymore. ’
— Edgar Ball
unions.
Focusing his remarks on the
now difmamis confronting
organized lalnir. Hall said a
restructuring of the labor move
ment has boon occurring in this
country since the mid-1970s.
Contraction in the industrial
metals market has brought hard
ship to steel and other alloy
This (Us line has changed the
roles of workers, calling on
them lo learn skills laborers did
not netsl lo know ten years ago.
Mall explained.
Workers need courses in
i! c o n o m i ( s a n d labor
management relations
courses programs like the I.KRC
provides, liall said.
"Ten years ago wo (unions)
didn't need to know what was
guinK on in the world economy;
we can't do that anymore," Hall
added.
He also sail! he currently sees
an "explosion” in the growth ot
workers and the communities
“There’s a very large number
of unorganized service workers
finding it hard to live on current
incomes. This has created a de
mand for unions." Hall said.
Hall's career in the lalmr
union field spans four decades,
dating thick to 1048 when he led
the first effort by the A FI, and
(d() to join forces for political
ends.
For 40 years Hall has organiz
ed. bargained and arbitrated on
liehalf of lalmr causes. Hall also
has orchestrated political,
educational and legislative
measures for industrial
workers.
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