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The Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize

This Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize was created in 1998 to honor the memory of Melvin Lurie, a Professor of Economics at the University and founder of what is now MHRLR. The prize is intended to continue and enhance Professor Lurie's legacy of promoting the practice and further the development of cooperation between labor and management. As such the prize recognizes individuals for "outstanding service in the cause of promoting, creating or researching labor-management cooperation." The prize is open to individuals in the private or public sector, and to unionists, managers, neutrals, academics and public officials.

Nominations for the prize are sought from members of the Labor-Management Cooperation Committee at UWM as well as from relevant organizations such as the Industrial Relations Research Association, the Milwaukee Labor Council, the Southeastern Wisconsin Labor-Management Council, and from previous prize winners and the community at large.

The Labor-Management Cooperation Committee will consider all nominations and vote for a prize winner or winners. The winner(s) provide a brief lecture (20-30 minutes) at the annual Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize ceremony, held in early Fall each year at UWM, and receive a total prize of $500 from the Melvin Lurie Memorial Fund.

Recipients to date include:
  • 2006 - Bucyrus International and United Steel Workers Local 1343
  • 2005 - DaimlerChrysler Kenosha Engine Plant and UAW Local 72
  • 2004 - Marshall Gratz, Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission
  • 2003 - The Milwaukee Public Meseum and AFSCME District 48, Local 526
  • 2002 - Dean Smith, Waukesha Engine, and Michael Hornby, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
  • 2001 - Lyle Balistreri and Edward Hayden, Construction Labor Management Council
  • 2000 - Ronald E. Sweet, Commissioner Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
  • 1999 - Milwaukee Area Technical College and American Federation of Teachers Local 212
  • 1998 - Harley-Davidson Motor Corporation, United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) Local 7209 and International Association of Machinists (IAM) Lodge 78

Those wishing to nominate candidates should contact Susan Donohue Davies.
  

 

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