MILWAUKEE – Christopher Morris, director of human resources at St. Francis Hospital, will be awarded the annual Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize, and Bucyrus International Inc. and United Steel Workers Local 1343 will be presented the Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize at a ceremony on Monday, Oct. 9.
The Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize is given to an outstanding student or recent graduate of the Masters in Human Resources and Labor Relations (MHRLR) program, and it honors the late Melvin Lurie, a former professor at UWM and founder of the MHRLR program.
The MHRLR program is taught and administered jointly by the College of Letters and Science and the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business at UWM. Currently, it is the only graduate program of its kind offered at a Wisconsin public university.
The awards are made possible by the UWM Foundation, the Lurie family and the MHRLR program.
The Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize honors individuals or organizations for outstanding service in promoting, creating or researching labor-management cooperation. It commemorates Lurie’s efforts to foster cooperative relations in Wisconsin, an effort that culminated in his organization of the first Wisconsin State Conference on Labor Management Cooperation in 1987.
Bucyrus and Local 1343 have recently cooperated in the settling of a contract that paved the way for a substantial expansion in both production and jobs in Southeast Wisconsin.
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(CONTACT: John S. Heywood, 414-229-4310, heywood@uwm.edu.)
