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Workplace
Professor Robert Reich
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Robert B. Reich is University Professor and Maurice B. Hexter Professor
of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University and at Brandeis's Heller
School of Social Policy and Management. He has served in three national
administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill
Clinton. He has written ten books, including The Work of Nations,
which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future
of Success and Locked in the Cabinet; and his most recent book, Reason. His
articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly,
New York Times, Washington Post, and
Wall Street Journal. Mr. Reich is co-founder and national
editor of The American Prospect magazine. His commentaries can be
heard weekly on public radio's "Marketplace." In 2003, Reich was awarded
the prestigious Vaclav Havel Vision Foundation Prize, by the former Czech
president, for his pioneering work in economic and social thought. In 2002,
Reich ran for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts.
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As the nation's 22nd Secretary of Labor,
Reich presided over the implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act;
led a national fight against sweatshops in the U.S. and illegal child labor
around the world; headed the administration's successful effort to raise
the minimum wage; secured worker's pensions, and launched job-training programs,
one-stop career centers, and school-to-work initiatives. Under his leadership,
the Department of Labor earned more than 30 awards for innovation and government
reinvention. A 1996 poll of cabinet experts conducted by the Hearst newspapers
rated him the most effective cabinet secretary during the Clinton administration.
Before taking office, Reich was a member of the faculty of Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth
College, his M.A. from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar,
and his J.D. from Yale Law School. Since 1981, he has lived in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, with his wife, Clare Dalton. They have two children, Adam
and Sam.
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Greg Combet, Secretary,
ACTU
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Greg Combet became Secretary
of the ACTU in February 2000. Born in 1958, Greg has tertiary qualifications
in engineering, economics and labour relations and the law. He worked as
a miner and in minerals exploration before being employed by the NSW Tenants'
Union as a project officer and then by the Lidcombe Workers' Health Centre.
Greg started work with the Waterside Workers' Federation in 1987, one of
the unions that merged to form the Maritime Union of Australia. He became
a Senior Industrial Officer at the ACTU in 1993 and was elected ACTU Assistant
Secretary in 1996. During this time, Greg worked with unions representing
employees in a wide variety of industries, and has overseen the ACTU's Living
Wage case for low paid workers since 1997. Greg became Secretary of the
ACTU in February 2000, following the resignation of Bill Kelty. Greg has
coordinated numerous union campaigns, including the high profile 1998 waterfront
dispute and the effort to rescue the jobs and entitlements of Ansett workers.
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Professor
Mark Considine, Director,
Centre for Public Policy
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Mark
Considine is a specialist in Australian politics,
comparative social policy, public sector reform, governance
and public administration, and organisational sociology.
In 2000 he won the American
Society for Public Administration's Marshall E. Dimmock
Award for the best lead article published in Public Administration
Review, with his co-author, Jenny M Lewis. In 2001 he won
the American Educational research Association's Book of the Year
for The Enterprise University, written with Simon Marginson.
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