It will take persistence: the dynamics of a university-community partnership to sustain the New England worker health and safety movement.
The New England Consortium (TNEC) is a university-community partnership that since 1987 has delivered health and safety training for hazardous waste operations and emergency response (HAZWOPER) workers. Through two decades of the relative loss of power by the labor and environmental movements and subsequent reductions in state support for worker health and safety, this selective history of TNEC demonstrates its ability to sustain a worker health and safety movement in New England. The evolution of TNEC's partnership process and the principles and policies by which it operates have helped to resolve several critical conflicts and strengthen its working relationships. Partnership dynamics are explored within their political and economic contexts and the need of member organizations to balance fiscal solvency with political objectives.
University of Massachusetts Lowell, School of Health and Environment, Department of Community and Sustainability, Lowell, MA 01854, USA. Craig_Slatin@uml.edu
Craig
C
Slatin
Jane
J
Fleishman
Paul
P
Morse
Charles
C
Levenstein
D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006256:Hazardous Waste; D006801:Humans; D007750:Labor Unions / Q000458:organization & administration; D009511:New England; D016272:Occupational Health; D014495:Universities
D006256:Hazardous Waste