John L. Revitte

“Labor’s status this Labor Day weekend”;

-WJIM-AM (Lansing/1240) live radio interview (w/ Chris Holman) on 9/1/97 on “Labor’s history and future”; and

-FOX-47 TV (Lansing) interview on 9/1/97 on “Labor’s history and future”.

Inclusion in 10/29/96 MSU Notes to Media on GM-Labor Talks led to: “GM Local Strikes and a National Settlement”, 10/30/96 interview aired on TV-10 (Lansing); and “UAW/GM Strikes at Janesville and Indianapolis’ Impact on Michigan”, 10/30/96 interview with Michigan Public Radio aired at least on WKAR-AM radio.

Interviews w/unknown page numbers or publication outcomes since 1996, for which personal JR notes/records exist:

-“Chrysler strike ends after 6 hours,” interview w/ Bill Vlasic, Detroit News, 10/10/08.

-“GM-UAW CB Settlement Implications,” interview w/ Sharon Terlep, Detroit News, 10/1/07.

-“Detroit Three’s 2007 UAW Negotiations,” interview w/ Louis Aguilar, Detroit News, 9/25/07.

-“Trends in union organizing tactics,” interview w/ Keith Alexander, Washington Post, 6/19/07.

- Accurate records of JR interviews for which no publication data exists are apparently missing for 2004-06.

-“UAW auto negotiations ‘03,” interviews w/ John Porretto, AP-Detroit, 9/5, 10, 11, & 12/03.

-“Auto negotiations,” interview w/ Tom Brown, Reuters-Detroit, 9/12/03.

-“Labor union statistics,” interview w/ Lisa Mulcrone for MSU Today web page article, 8/29/03.

-"Labor Day ’03 story on unions and Saginaw area labor relations," interview w/ J. Spenner, Saginaw News, 8/26/03.

-“UAW-auto negotiations ‘03,” interview w/ Marie Bordet, LePoint (Paris, France’s Newsweek magazine), 8/13/03.

-“Michigan auto supplier union trends,” interview w/ Robert Gold, Holland Sentinel, 6/26/03.

-“Trends in virtual employment,” interview w/ Garry Angelbrandt, Detroit News, 5/12/03.

-"Labor Day story on labor and primary and general election endorsements and results," interview w/ J. Spenner, Saginaw

-"Teamsters Endorsing Republicans: New Trend or Old One Revisited?" interview w/ L Bishoff, Dayton News, 4/19/02.

-"Miller Road's 'Battle of the Overpass' Site Redevelopment," interview w/ RJ King, Detroit News, 4/5/02.

-"UAW Michigan Auto Employment Trends," interview w/ K. Schneider, Grist Magazine, 3/21/02.

-"Teamsters Endorse Republican Rogers: Why & What Impact?" interview w/ ?, MSU State News, 3/18/02.

-"Recessions' Impact on Midwest Unions in Auto & Parts," interview w/ J. Lieman, San Francisco Chronicle, 3/8/02.

-"Labor Day: Volunteerism & Community Services by Michigan Unions," interview w/ J Springer, Saginaw News,

8/29/01.

-“Ford/UAW Contract’s New Family Learning Centers” (interview w/ N. Pickler) A.P.-Wash D.C., 11/22/00.

-"Gore's (Stabenow's, Byrum's) Campaign and Union Members," (interviews & off-record background info provided to reporters incl. from New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and Detroit papers) during the last week prior to the Nov. election, because of the intense Michigan and Ingham County focus and my role as GOTV Coordinator, noted elsewhere.

-“US Tire Industry Labor History Relevant to Firestone’s ‘troubles’,” A.P.-Memphis, interview 8/31/00.

-“Labor and the new decade: a Labor Day story” (J. Springer), Saginaw News, 8/29/00.

-“Gore’s Reception by Michigan Labor Leaders v. Rank & File Workers in Election Campaign 2000,” Christian Science Monitor (interview w/ A. McLaughlin), 7/12/00.

-“U.S. Air & United’s Merger—Why Does ALPA Care,” www.thedailydeal Wash. D.C. newsletter, (interview w/ C. Disk), 5/24/00.

-“Industry, Law and Historic Contexts to UAW’s Organizing Drive at Stanley and NLRB Hearings,” Battle Creek

-“Unions and the Media,” interview w/ J. Beasley, MSU Journalism student, 10/11/99.

-“New State Fed. President Gaffney’s Challenges,” interview w/ J. Suhr, Detroit-AP, 9/23/99.

-“Impact of the Daimler UAW Contract on the Auto Industry,” interview w/ J. Hyde, Detroit-AP, 9/16/99.

-“UAW Negotiations: Is there a Growing CB Trend for Wage Increases,” interview w/ J. Hyde, Detroit-AP, 9/15/99.

-“Detroit Teachers Strike,” interview w/ B. Akre, Detroit-AP, 9/7/99.

-“UAW-GM Negotiations Update,” interview w/ J. Hyde, Detroit-AP, 9/7/99.

-“Labor Day Reflections: The State of Labor-Management Bargaining Today,” interview w/ J. Hyde, Detroit- AP, 9/2/99.

-“Women in Unions: A Labor Day Story,” interview w/ J. Springer, Saginaw News, 9/1/99.

-“Labor Day Today & Yesterday,” interview w/ Macomb Daily News, 9/1/99.

-“Ford-UAW Negotiations Update,” interview w/ Detroit AP, 8/23/99.

-“Upcoming Auto Industry Negotiations ’99,” 40-minute background interview w/ B. Akre, Detroit –AP, 6/9/99.

-“Kessel Foods Organizing Drive Continues in Saginaw,” Saginaw News (interview w/ J. Springer), 4/30/99.

-"UAW's '98 GM Strikes: the Impact on LIR in Saginaw and Steering Gear", 7/28/98 interview w/ Amy, Saginaw News.

-"UAW's '98 Flint G.M. Strikes", 7/28 and 6/15/98, MSU News Radio Hotline interviews w/ D. Krolik.

-"UAW's Great Sit-down and Judge Gadola - Some Labor History", 7/19/98 interview w/ K. Bradsher, New York Times.

-"UAW's '98 Flint G.M. Strikes: various angles/JR reactions to developments," 7/17, 15, 14 & 2

and 6/15/98 interviews/chats w/ B. Akre, Associated Press (AP)-Detroit Bureau.

-"UAW v. GM: Current Issues, Bargaining Strategies, & History of 113-day 1946 Strike, 7/17 and 15 and 6/29 and 25

interviews/chats/messages left w/ J. Szczesny, The Oakland (MI) Press.

-"UAW's '98 GM Strikes", 7/17/98 interview w/ J. Gilbert, WWJ-Radio (Detroit).

-"UAW's Flint GM '98 Strike", 7/15 & 6/25 & 15 (& 1-2 more) talks w/ R White, MSU News Bureau/Info Services.

-"UAW's Flint GM '98 Strike", 7/28 and 14/98, interviews w/ T. Martin, Lansing State Journal.

-"UAW's Flint GM '98 Strike", 6/29/98, 20-min. phone interview w/ C. Gillio, WKAR radio.

-"Michigan Migrant Workers", 4/23/98 interview w/ B. Hillman, Port Huron Times-Herald.

-“GM’s Delphi Selling Three Businesses”, 9/18/97 interview with Detroit AP.

-“Labor in ‘97: An Assessment”, 8/27/97 interview used in Flint Journal Labor Day article.

-“UPS Strike: Union Victory?” 8/27/97 interview for The Trucker (nat’l biweekly trade pub).

-“Teamsters’ UPS strike”, 8/13/97 interview w/ St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press.

-“Unions & Organizing in Western Michigan”, 3/14/97 interview with Grand Rapids AP.

-"Johnson Controls v. the UAW and Ford", 2/18/97 interview for Crane’s Plastics News.

-“St. Lawrence & Sparrow Discuss Merger”, 12/19/96 interview with Lansing State Journal.

-“GM Strikes and Negotiations with the UAW”, 10/30/96 interview with AP-Detroit.

-“Auto Industry Negotiations", 9/17/96 interview for TV-10 (Lansing).

-"MSU Faculty & Big Ten Sports", and “Profile on MSU’s President McPherson”, Detroit News, 9/16 and 17/96,

provided info but requested not to be quoted/attributed due to DNA labor dispute/"strike"/union boycott.

-"Farmworkers’ Union Grape Boycott and Universities," 2/19/96, MSU News Bureau.

MSU COMMITTEE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
MSU Faculty Grievance Procedure - Grievant's Counsel,1991-2003, for at least twenty-seven MSU faculty, librarians and academic specialists in cases which involved a formal university grievance hearing, and as Appellant’s Counsel for seven faculty at hearings, which involved department chairs and directors in colleges, schools and departments across campus, as well as the Provost, FOIA, UIIO and UCRIHS offices; and assisted countless unrecorded other faculty grievants in cases which were settled without formal hearings. Also served as a Presiding Officer (1991-2003) for at least four cases involving grievants, appellants, and the Provost; and served as a Panelist, for at least one university hearing and one appeals board case involving the Provost, and perhaps another not recorded, between 1984-1990.
Designed and conducted, with then FGO Rubner, three 2-hour training sessions for seventeen faculty, then newly designated by UCFA as potential presiding officers in 1997; and designed and conducted with the FGO (and also w/ a respondent counsel) two 2-hour training sessions for about a dozen potential grievant and respondent counsels on 2/15 and 24/00; served as an evaluator to UCFA of the FGO 1994-2004; and conducted, later as FGO, training programs for potential new presiding officers and counsels in 2004 and 2007.
MSU Mediation Service Mediator, graduate of 40-hr. Dispute Resolution Center of Central Michigan training program.
MSU Anti-Discrimination Judicial Board - Complainant/Appellant Advisor, including between 1993 and 2003, for a grad student, a student employee, a specialist, and a faculty member in cases involving various departments and the ADJB Coordinator.
MSU Athletic Council member, selected as faculty representative summer 2003, and member of AC’s Academic and Compliance Services Committee and Gender Equity Committee, 2003-2005, and served on MSU’s NCAA Self-Study Committee on Academic Compliance, 2006-2006.

MSU Public Safety Oversight Committee member, elected faculty representative, 1998-1002; and (unofficial first author of) reports to Police Chief Benson: "MSU DPPS Oversight Committee Report Regarding MSU Police Undercover Surveillance of Student Groups," investigated during summer and report issued in fall 2001, and "DPPS Oversight Committee Report Concerning the Munn Field Altercation…" investigated in summer and report issued in fall 1998.

Committee on Faculty Appraisal and Compensation, from 1997 to 2000;

Academic Program Faculty Search Committee, 1997-1998;

Committee on Copy Machines, 1987;

Promotion & Tenure Advisory Committees, 1982+ when promos of those w/ lower rank occur; and

Committee on an Undergraduate Labor Studies Curriculum and author of Minority Report, 1980.

as well as "special service" as

Affirmative Action Advocate for 1997-1998 search; and

for LEP Ad Hoc Strategic Planning Committee, 1993-1994, edited committee notes;

and subsequently drafted a mission statement, created charts/graphs on Michigan SMA union densities,

and helped design credit ISS Lansing and Flint labor studies courses.

American Federation of Teachers, since 1974.

American Association of University Professors, 1991-2004.

Communications Workers of America, associate member, from 1988 to c. 1999.

Historical Society of Michigan, since 1977.

Industrial Relations and Research Association, then Labor and Employment Relations Association, since 1976.

International Industrial Relations Association, and IIRA's Labour Education Study Group, since 1990.

Workers Education Local 189, 1974-1999.

University and College Labor Education Association, 1976-1999.

United Association for Labor Education, since 1999.

Labor and Working Class History Association, since 1999.
Program Associate (i.e., assistant to Hy and Joyce Kornbluh), Labor Studies Center, University of Michigan, 1976-1977.
Teaching Assistant, Labor Relations and Research Center, University of Massachusetts, 1975-1976, and founding chair/president, Graduate Student Employees Organizing Committee/Union, Independent/later became UAW local.
Psychiatric Nursing Assistant, VA Hospital, Northampton, MA, 1973-1976, and member Executive Board, National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), Local 107/later became SEIU local.
University of Michigan undergraduate student employment: Assistant Educational Innovation Advocate, Office of Special Services, 1972-1973; Research Assistant, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, 1972; Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, 1972; Research Assistant, Educational Change Team, School of Education, 1971-1972; Researcher, Committee on the Underclass Experience, Dean's Office, College of LS&A, 1971; and night watch and language lab assistant, Residential College, 1969-1970.
Also once worked: as strawberry nursery seasonal farm worker (3 weeks), Birmingham post office Christmas clerk (3 or 4 weeks), Detroit GM/Fisher Body factory clerk (13 weeks), VA Hospital and college jobs (noted above), and as a Birmingham Country Club caddie (4 years) and was selected and offered, though declined, Evans Scholarship in 1968.

Revised 5.1.08