¨ "From Middle Income to Poor: Downward Mobility among Displaced Steelworkers". By Allison Zippay in Relations Industrielles.

¨ “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.

Labor History

a) Projects

¨ Pennsylvania Historical Markers. Lead applicant for: The Arrest of Mother Jones (Homestead 2003); Francis Perkins (Homestead 2003); The McKees Rocks Indian Mound (McKees Rocks 2000); Mammoth Mine Explosion (Mt. Pleasant 2000); NLRB vs. Jones & Laughlin (Aliquippa 1999) Founding of the Ironworkers Union (Pittsburgh 1998): The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 (Pittsburgh 1997); Founding Convention of the AFL (Pittsburgh 1997). Assisted with: Windber Strike 1922-23 (Windber 2003); Bryn Mawr School for Women Industrial Workers (2001); Morewood Massacre (2000).

¨ “Enduring Issues of Pennsylvania Labor History”, Lecture & slide show presented to Pennsylvania Social Services Union, 2002; Communications Workers of America Statewide Leadership Conference, Fall 2002; Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Social Services Conference, Aug. 2001.

¨ “The Cold War and American Labor”. Edited manuscript with papers presented at the 1998 conference of the Pennsylvania Labor History Society.

¨ “Significance of the 1892 Battle of Homestead”, Interpreting the Pumphouse, The Battle of Homestead Foundation. 1999

¨ A Certificate of Character: IBEW Local 5, A History.  Manuscript marking the One Hundredth Anniversary of the electrician's local (1997).

¨ "Turtle Creek Wars: Catholics, Communists and Rank-and-Filers in the struggle for control of the United Electrical Workers unions inside the Westinghouse plants." Ongoing project.

¨ "Homestead 1892", Twelve Panel Mobile Display for high schools and colleges. Designed and wrote text with Russell Gibbons.

¨ "Teaching Homestead 1892: Interactive Reconstruction of the Battle of Homestead from Three Viewpoints". With Grants from IUP Faculty Senate and Steel Heritage Task Force for classroom use.

¨ Consultant to BBC Television production "The UnAmericans" on McCarthyism in Pittsburgh. Aired Spring 1993.

b.) Boards and Committees:

   -Pennsylvania Labor History Society, 

       (President)

   -Battle of Homestead Foundation 

       (Secretary)

   -Mon Valley Media

   -Homestead 1892 Centennial Labor 

       Committee

   -1919 Steel Strike Commemoration 

       Committee      

   -Governor’s Occupational Safety and 

       Health Conference Committee

   -Southwestern Pennsylvania Industrial 

       Relations Research Association

c.) History and Labor Relations Video Projects:

¨ Produced and scripted "Building Pittsburgh" (42 min.) Video history of Pittsburgh's building trades unions. Funded by Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Building Trades Unions and Contractors Associations.

¨ Produced and Scripted: "Recharge South Side Steel." A 15 minute video funded by the United Steelworkers of America and the Steel Valley Authority. (1989).

¨ Co-Scripted: "Win-Win Bargaining" (10 min.), Community College of Allegheny County (l990).

Worker Safety and Health

     ¨ Committee: Member Pennsylvania 

          Governor’s Health and Safety 

          Conference Committee, appointed 

          Spring 2000.

¨ Videos:

Co-produced and scripted:

¨ "Working Safely - Joint Labor/Management Safety Committees".15 min. For Penn State University. Department of Labor Studies and Labor Relations. Producer and Scriptwriter

¨ Three Chemical Right-to-Know training videos for the Dept. of

-"Community Right to Know" - 15 min.

-"Public Employee Right to Know" - 22 min.

-"Public Employer Training Guide" - 10 min.

¨ Produced three Community Right-to-Know videos with labor education grants obtained through the Pennsylvania AFL/CIO.

-"Emergency Response and Community Right to Know"" 20 min. (1988)

-"What Kind of World?: Educating About Chemical Hazards"2 min. (1987)

-"Your Right to Know in Pennsylvania" - 28.5 min.(1987)

¨ Brochures: 7 separate items--Written and Produced for Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry on:

(1) Pennsylvania Right to 

     Know Law

(2) Janitorial Chemicals

(3) Office Health Hazards

(4) Health Care Chemicals

(5) Emergency Response and 

     Community Right to Know

(6) Construction Chemical 

     Hazards 

¨ Posters:

-Designed three separate posters on chemical hazard laws for mining, public and private sector employees (1988).

-Poster on Community Right to Know (1989).

¨ Conferences and Seminars:

Presented Chemical Hazard Training 

Sessions for public employees, 

hospital workers, agricultural and 

food workers, union health and 

safety personnel, bus drivers, and 

¨ Training Manuals:

-Supervised translation and adaptation of Swedish group study manual,

Chemical Health Risks.

Grant Management: 

¨ Project Manager for the City of Duquesne, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilot Project, Environmental Assessment and

Community Participation in the Lower Monongahela Valley. January 1, 2000

commencement.

¨ Director, National Environmental Education and Training Center of Excellence at IUP.

Oversight of subcontract for NEETC U.S. Department of Defense grant. 1997-1999.

Labor/Management Participation Case Studies

Case Studies for PA Department of Labor and Industry (l990-2)

¨ "J & L Structural" (USWA 1211)

¨ "LTV Pittsburgh Coke Works" (USWA 1843)

¨ "USX Irvin Works" (USWA 2227)

¨ "Pittsburgh Public Schools" (Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers)

¨ "Midfield Terminal Project" (Pittsburgh Building Trades Council)

¨ "H.J. Heinz - Pittsburgh" (UFCW Local 325)

  Grant and Research Projects

¨ Author: Environmental Restoration Opportunities at Military Facilities: Community Participation and Workforce Development. Manual written for the National Environmental Education and Training Center.1998

¨ Author with Dr. Kathy Miezio, Worker Health and Safety and New Technology Implementation: Three Preliminary Case Studies. Produced under a cooperative agreement with NIOSH for NEETC. !998

¨ Survey conducted with Dr. John Engler: Health and Safety Issues Survey: Selected Technology Transfer Centers. Study conducted for the National Environmental Education and Training Center. 1998

¨ Researcher: “Workers’ Compensation Medical Access”, a study for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Department of Labor and Industry, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, June 14, 1996.

¨ Principal investigator: “Impact of Workplace Safety Committees On Accident & Illness Rates: A Report on Certified Workplace Safety Committees in Pennsylvania”, a study for the Pennsylvania MILRITE Council, Co-authored by Richard Glass, Sept. 30, 1995.

¨ A Coal Communities Resources Rehabilitation Board: Implications of a Comprehensive Pennsylvania Policy for Economic Development and Taxation. Research Paper produced for the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. 1993.

¨ The Future of Pennsylvania Coal, Research paper produced for the Pennsylvania Legislature (Rep. Bill DeWeese).June, 1992.

Papers, Testimony, and Presentations

Presentations:

¨ “Global Inequality and Labor”, presentation at St. Vincent College, Latrobe PA, April 10, 2003.

¨ “Native American Struggle for Western Pennsylvania”, Homestead-West Mifflin Historical Society, April 9, 2003. Pennsylvania Humanities Speaker program 2000-2001; 2002-3. Given at Somerset County Historical Society (10/17/02), Washington County Historical Society (9/11/02), Ohio Pyle State Park (7/27/02), Fort Pitt Museum (5/18/02), Warrior Trail Association (Greene County)(5/16/02), Blue Spruce Park (Indiana County) (3/16/02), Lawrence County Historical Society (3/3/02), Greensburg Hempfield Area Library (9/23/00), Westmoreland Archeological Society (10/14/01), Drake Well Museum, Titusville (3/11/01), Bradford County Library (5/21/01), McKean County Historical Society (7/19/01), Erie County Historical Society (7/21/01), Conrad Weiser Homestead (9/16/01). Bushy Run Battlefield (2/17/00); Warren Public Library (4/13/00); Raccoon Creek State Park (4/14/00); Venango Historical Society (4/26/00); Fort Pitt Museum (9/13/00); Greensburg Library (9/23/00); Ryerson Station (9/24/00); Westmoreland Archeological Society (10/14/00); Bradford Public Library.

¨ “Steelworkers and Pinkertons: The 1892 Battle of Homestead”, Pennsylvania Humanities Speaker program 2000-2001. Sertoma Club, Lancaster (2/25/00); Vereesville Historical Society. (4/25/01), Ohio Pyle State Park.(8/31/01)

¨ “The Point of Pittsburgh” Pennsylvania Humanities Speaker Program 2002-3. Donora Historical Society. October, 2002.

¨ “No Excuse, Many Reasons: Reflections on September 11”, Ethics Class. Carlow College. (10/01/01); Revised version repeated 9/12, 2002.

¨ “Globalization and Labor”, University of Pittsburgh Continuing Education program. (10/10/01).

¨ “Suffering and Hope: The Vision of Maxo Vanka”. John Heinz Regional History Center and St. Nicholas Church in Millvale PA. (9/29/01)

¨ “The Murder of Fannie Sellins” Address at dedication of memorial marker. Natrona Heights PA. (9/02/01)

¨ “Toward a Blue-Green Alliance”. Presentation at the Rachel Carson Homestead.(8/19/01)

¨ “From Mill to Mall: The Denial of Labor and Industrial History”. Working Class History Conference. Youngstown State University. (5/19/01)

¨ “Enduring Issues from Pennsylvania Labor History”. Presented at Pennsylvania Social Services Union Convention. Hershey PA, 4/04/01) and Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Social Services Conference, Penn State University. (7/23/01)

¨ “Workplace Safety and Worker Organization”, Opening address to the 27^th Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania Labor History Society, Sept. 30, 2000.

¨ “The Cold War and American Labor” Opening address to the 25^th annual conference of the Pennsylvania Labor History Society, September 19, 1998 .

¨ “Coming to Terms with Charles Owen Rice”. Presentation to PLHS Conference. 1998 .

¨ “The Global Economy and the American Worker” Unitarian/Universalist Church, Shadyside, November,1998 .

¨ “Is Capitalism Broke?” Religious Task Force on the Economy. Rodef Shalom Synagogue. November, 1998 .

¨ “Labor Rights as Human Rights”, University of Pittsburgh Continuing Education, Fall Program, October 1998.

¨ “The Significance of the 1892 Battle of Homestead”, Presented to visiting groups of the Pennsylvania AFL/CIO Leadership Council, the union representatives of the U.S. Department of Labor, the delegates of the U.S. Labor Party and other visitors to the Homestead Battle site.

¨ “Human Rights and Employment: the Global Links” Community of Reconciliation, May 9, 1998.

¨ "UE, The Little Union That Would: Defining a Left Union Agenda in the 1990's”, Paper presented to North American Working Class History Association, Detroit, October, 1997.

¨ ”The Decline of Pittsburgh Industry”, Presentation at the John Heinz Regional History Center. September, 1997.

¨ "Overview of the SPERT/SVA Pittsburgh Labor Market Study, Presentation to community leadership, South Side Hospital, Jan. 17, 1995.

¨ "Renegotiating the Labor/Management Relation", presentation to Colloquium, La Roche College, Nov.8, 1995.

¨ "Toward a Positive Union Ethics", Presentation to New Orleans Labor  Council leaders, Forum on Ethics sponsored by Loyola University, October 26, 1995.

¨ "Democracy in the Workplace", First Unitarian Roundtable, April 10,1995.

¨ "Employee Involvement in Safety and Health". Presentation to the National           Safety Council. San Diego, CA, October 25, 1994.

¨ "Joint Safety Committees and Workers Compensation". Testimony to the House Labor Committee, Pennsylvania Legislature, September 12,1994.

¨ "Labor and the Future of Pittsburgh", Address to the Pittsburgh Founders Conference, April 21, 1994.

¨ "Toward a Native American Land Ethic" Commemorating the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage.  Seton Hill College.  October, 1992.

¨ "Economic Revitalization and Pittsburgh Labor" Conference sponsored by Thomas Merton Center.  November, 1992.

¨ "Shifting Battleground:  Technological Change and Workers Control, Homestead 1892". Paper delivered to the Homestead 1892 Centennial Symposium, July 6, 1992.

¨ "Worker and Union Evaluation of Safety Training". Address to a Workshop of American Industrial Hygiene Association, Boston, Massachusetts, June 4, 1992.

¨ "Theology in the Factory". Speech to a Workshop of the Catholic Theological Society annual meeting, Duquesne University, June 13, 1992.

¨ "Labor Relations Lessons of Homestead 1892". Speech to the annual meeting of the University and College Labor Education Association, March 19, 1992.

¨ Presentation on American Labor History to French-speaking African Trade Unionists. George Meany Center, Washington, D.C. (Sept. l990, April1991)

¨ "Rerum Novarum and American Labor" Presentation to Catholic Conference
of Men and Women Religious. June l990)

¨ "Deindustrialization in Allegheny County in the l980's" Paper presented to Pennsylvania Historical Society. (l990)

International Seminars/Consultation

¨ Organized tour of five Pennsylvania union leaders with roundtable discussions and meetings with unions and workers in Poland (Krakow-Katowice) and Germany (Ruhr region). June-July 2003.

¨ Developed and taught seminar Poland and the Global Economy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan Poland. Summer 1999 and 2000.

¨ Consultant to the Commission Tripartite de Consultation et d'Arbitrage named by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Wrote Commission By-Laws and one year work plan. Nathan Associates (AID), August-September 1995.

¨ "Economic Restructuring in Poland" - Representative of the City of Pittsburgh to Conference in Lodz, Poland (June 1991). Presented paper "Worker Solidarity in Pittsburgh and Poland".

¨ Centennial Celebration of the Higher Institute of Philosophy - Louvain, Belgium (May, 1991) Invited guest at philosophy symposium.

¨ New Sweden Labor/Management Seminar. Aug. 15-25, l989.Invited guest of Swedish Institute with delegation of U.S. Labor Educators.

Economic Development Projects

¨ Steel Valley Authority. Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Board member (Pittsburgh) 1986-2001.

¨ Tri-State Conference on Manufacturing (formerly: on Steel). Board member and founder 1979-1995.