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Charles McCollester
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Charles McCollester is the director of the Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor Relations and professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, president emeritus of the Pennsylvania Labor History Society and president of the Battle of Homestead Foundation.
With a Ph.D in philosophy from University of Louvain, Belgium, he came to Pittsburgh in 1973 and worked in restaurants (Steward Local 57 Restaurant Union) and a carpenter. As a machinist at Union Switch & Signal, he was elected Chief Steward of UE 610 following bitter six-month strike.
He is the founder of the Tri-State Conference on Steel and the Steel Valley Authority, both active in the Mon Valley plant shutdown struggles of the 1980's and 90's.
Books
"Technological Change and Worker's Control" in The River Ran Red, ed. Dave Demarest, Charles McCollester, et.al. University of Pittsburgh Press 1992.
Fighter With a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest, 242 pages with 47 photos, Edited with Introduction by Charles J. McCollester. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
The Point of Pittsburgh by Charles J. McColleser. Battle of Homestead Foundation, 2008
Magazine and Newspaper Articles
“Less Than Miraculous” (The Quecreek Mine Near-Disaster). The Nation. March 17, 2003.
“Why 9-11: No Excuse, Many Reasons” The New People. October 2002.
“Getting Back on Track”, Op Ed, Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette. Feb. 20, 2002.
“Left of Looney Redux”, The New People. December, 2001.
“Casting a cold eye on Bush’s ‘Catholic strategy’”, Charles McCollester and Jack O’Malley, Op. Ed. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 23, 2001.
“Tragedy and Farce in Florida” Pennsylvania Labor History Journal, 2000. Printed in the York Daily Record as “A stolen election has long-term effects”, Dec. 31,2000
“Democracy and development”, Forum, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Jan. 30, 2000
“The city pools are precious”, Op Ed page, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 24,1999
“The Party’s Over” (Democratic Defeat in Allegheny County), South Pittsburgh Reporter, Nov. 28, 1995
“10 Years of Growing Jobs in the Steel Valley”, Federation for Industrial
“Retention and Renewal Newsletter, Winter 1994
“Let City Pride Bakery give Pittsburgh its daily bread.” The Business Forum, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 15,1994.
“Business should see unions as partners, not adversaries”, The Business Forum, Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
“The Ghosts of Bosnia”, In Pittsburgh, v.9n.42, May 27,1993, p.14.
"Turtle Creek Fights Taylorism: The Westinghouse Strike of 1914" Labor's Heritage, Summer 1992.
"Technological Change and Worker's Control" in The River Ran Red, ed. Dave Demarest,Charles McCollester, et.al. University of Pittsburgh Press 1992.
"Deindustrialization: A Panel Discussion", Pennsylvania History Vol. 68, n.3 July 1991.
"Turtle Creek Fights Taylorism: The Westinghouse Strike of 1914" Labor's Heritage, Summer 1992.
"Technological Change and Worker's Control" in The River Ran Red, ed. Dave Demarest, Charles McCollester, et.al. University of Pittsburgh Press 1992.
"Deindustrialization: A Panel Discussion", Pennsylvania History Vol. 68, n.3 July 1991.
Boards and Committees:
Pennsylvania Labor History Society, (President Emeritus)
Battle of Homestead Foundation (President)
Mon Valley Media
Homestead 1892 Centennial Labor Committee
1919 Steel Strike Commemoration Committee
Governor’s Occupational Safety and Health Conference Committee
Interests
- pittsburgh,
- negotiations,
- labor unions,
- collective bargaining,
- labor history,
- labor relations,
- worker safety,
- labor and community based economic development,
- workplace safety and health.,
- pittsburgh history,
- alternative work organization,
- steel valley,
- comparative and international labor relations,
- pittsburgh books
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