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| Type | University of the Philippines College (officially Degree-Granting Unit) |
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| Established | 1954 |
| Dean | Ronahlee A. Asuncion, Ph. D |
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| Website | solair |
The UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR) is a constituent unit in the University of the Philippines Diliman, the national university of the Philippines.
UP SOLAIR traces its origins from the Labor Education Center (LEC) which was established in 1954, to promote social justice and labor empowerment through education, research and labor empowerment. It started as a project of the UP School of Business Administration, through its Dean Jose Valmonte in 1953 in response to the new era of collective bargaining and economic unionism with the passage of the Industrial Peace Act (RA No. 875- Magna Carta of Labor) in 1953 (Sibal, 2008). Training and professional staff including labor lawyers, researchers and trainers conducted studies, training and capacity-building programs to assist labor organizations, particularly the trade unions and cooperatives. [1]
The Center expanded its services in Asia. According to former Dean Ofreneo, this was an offshoot of the Cold War during the 1950s (Ofreneo, 2008 as cited by Sibal, 2008). The center was subsequently renamed the Asian Labor Education Center (ALEC) in 1958 and became the leading regional training institution for Asian trade union leaders. [1]
The Directors and Deans of UP SOLAIR were:
Graduate studies were subsequently offered on April 18, 1975, in addition to the center's extension and research activities. By that time, the institution's name had changed from ALEC to Institute of Industrial Relations (IIR). On March 24, 1988, it was renamed School of Labor and Industrial Relations (SOLAIR) "to adequately reflect the functions and the areas of concern of the unit, and in keeping with nomenclature of the counterpart industrial relations schools in the international academic community." [1] It is the pioneering degree-granting unit in Labor and Industrial Relations, within a major University in the Philippines and Asia (Kaufman, 2004 as cited by Sibal, 2008). The School's research and extension programs expanded into 3 centers on December 20, 1996: Center for Labor and Grassroots Initiatives (CLGI); Center for the Administration of Labor Justice (CaLJ); and Center for Industry Productivity and Competitiveness (CIPC) (Sibal, 2008).
The school offers graduate degree programs in Diploma in Industrial Relations and Master of Industrial Relations. With more than 400 graduate students, SOLAIR is among the biggest graduate schools in UP Diliman.
It regularly conducts seminars, symposia and training programs catering for human resource practitioners, cooperative practitioners and labor unions, among others.
The other officials of SOLAIR are:
Among the university, national and international awards received by the school are:
The students of the college are from diverse backgrounds. Some are human resource practitioners (consultants, trainers, labor and employment relations specialists). There are students working in the public sector, legal profession and academia.
The UP School of Labor and Industrial Relations Student Council (UP SOLAIR SC) was formally established in 2008, and is the official student representative of the School. This was previously held by the UP Industrial Relations Society (UP IRS), when the officials of the organization represented the student body in the School.
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