MILWAUKEE – Daniel Hereth, constituent liaison for U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, was recently awarded the 25th Annual Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM). The Milwaukee Chrysler Distribution Center and UAW Local 75 were awarded the Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize.
Both were given in a ceremony on Oct 8.
The Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize is given to an outstanding student or recent graduate of the university’s Masters in Human Resources and Labor Relations (MHRLR) program. It honors the late Melvin Lurie, a former professor and founder of the MHRLR program.
Hereth a 2012 graduate of the program, was chosen for his outstanding scholarship and commitment to the pursuit of knowledge in the area of human resources and labor relations.
The Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize honors individuals and/or organizations for outstanding service in promoting, creating or researching labor-management cooperation. It commemorates Lurie’s efforts to foster cooperative labor-management relations in Wisconsin, an effort that culminated in his organization of the first Wisconsin State Conference on Labor-Management Cooperation in 1987.
Milwaukee Chrysler Distribution Center and UAW Local 75 were chosen as an example of labor-management cooperation improving both plant operations and the work life of employees.
The MHRLR program is taught and administered jointly by UWM’s College of Letters and Science and the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business. 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.
