IPS21 Higher Education Issues
Total Credits: 1.25
- Categories:
- Labor Law | Labor Relations
- Speakers:
- Nicholas Christen | Melissa Mlynski | Andrew Slobodien
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 14 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Original Program Date:
- Dec 03, 2021
- Product Type:
- On Demand
- License:
- Access for 365 day(s) after purchase.
Description
This panel will discuss legal developments and current events impacting labor relations practitioners in higher education.
Speaker
Nicholas Christen Related Seminars and Products
General Counsel & Director of Field and Organizing
Illinois Federation of Teachers
Nicholas Christen is the General Counsel and Director of Field and Organizing at the Illinois Federation of Teachers. He advises leaders and staff on issues affecting the 100,000+ members of the union, including collective bargaining, organizing, discipline, discrimination, organizing, healthcare, and retirement. Nicholas has successfully advocated before private and public sector labor boards, resolved difficult legislative and administrative roadblocks impacting workers’ rights, led negotiations for units large and small in high-stakes negotiations, and advocated for union members from the shop floor to the Court of Appeals. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois School of Labor and Employment Relations. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Miami University and his J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law.
Melissa Mlynski Related Seminars and Products
Associate Vice Chancellor of Human Resources
University of Illinois Springfield
Melissa Mlynski is the Associate Vice Chancellor of Human Resources at the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS), a position she has held since December of 2016. In this role she oversees all aspects of Human Resources for UIS, including Labor and Employee Relations. She has served as the lead negotiator for the university during bargaining with the union that represents tenured/tenure track faculty as well as negotiating other union contracts on behalf of the university. For ten years, she served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UIS teaching graduate courses in labor and administrative law. Previously, Ms. Mlynski was the Executive Director of the Illinois Labor Relations Board from June of 2012 through December of 2016. She has extensive experience representing public employers in collective bargaining, labor arbitrations and cases before the Illinois Labor Relations Board, including more than 10 years as labor relations counsel for the Department of Central Management Services. Ms. Mlynski also worked in private practice representing public employers in labor and employment law matters. Ms. Mlynski received her B.A. in English from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law.
Andrew Slobodien Related Seminars and Products
Associate Director, Labor and Employee Relations
University of Illinois at Chicago
Andrew Slobodien is currently Associate Director for Labor and Employee Relations at University of Illinois – Chicago. In this role, he is lead negotiator and administrator of contracts with the U of I hospital’s unions (residents, nurses, security, support workers) and UIC police and faculty unions. Previously, Andrew was Managing Attorney for Labor Relations at Chicago Public Schools where he lead a team of lawyers defending the district’s grievance arbitrations and unfair labor practice cases. Before joining the public sector in 2013, Andrew was a partner at the international law firm Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, where he advised and litigated on behalf of management on labor and employment matters. Andrew received a B.A. from Haverford College, an M.A. from the Univesity of Chicago and a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.