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 program. It honors the late Melvin Lurie, a former professor and founder of the MHRLR program.
This year’s winners are the City of Madison Human Resources, AFSCME Council 32 and Madison General Municipal Employee Associations.
The ceremony will be 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, at the Edith Hefter Conference Center, 3271 N. Lake Drive.
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.
