The American Psychological Association, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Society for Occupational Health Psychology, held their seventh international conference on occupational stress and health entitled "Work, Stress, and Health 2008: Healthy and Safe Work Through Research, Practice, and Partnerships" in Washington, DC, on March 6-8, 2008. The Work, Stress, and Health conference series is designed to address the constantly changing nature of work, and the implications of these changes for the health, safety, and well-being of workers. This year the conference focused on the translation of research to practice. Two of the panels at the conference dealt with labor unions' perspectives on these issues and opportunities for labor union and academic researcher collaboration on work and health studies. For those of you who could not attend the conference, we are posting slides from some of the presentations.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008: LABOR'S PERSEPECTIVE AND RESPONSE TO WORK ORGANIZATION ISSUES (SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: William Kojola, AFL-CIO, Washington DC

Presentation 1: Stress by design: An overview of work reorganization and technological trends in the workplace and their contribution to work-related stress. Charley Richardson, University of Massachucetts, Lowell, MA, and Nancy Lessin, USW.

Presentation 2: Organization of work research priorities for construction. James Platner, Center for Construction Research & Training, Silver Spring, MD.

Presentation 3: Identifying and translating work organization and physical ergonomics design and health issues: An action research model. Devid LeGrande, Communications Workers of America, Washington DC.

Presentation 4: One labor union's response to stress. Jamie F. Becker, Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America, Washington DC.

Presentation 5: Responses to long work hours and mandatory overtime. William Kojola, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008: UNIONIST AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHER COLLABORATION N WORK AND HEALTH STUDIES (SYMPOSIUM)
Chair: Birgit A. Greiner, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland

Presentation 1: From the house of Babel to common language: Basic necessities for academic/labor collaboration. Deborah R. Gordon, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

Presentation 2: Working with the union: Real benefits of labor/researcher collaboration. Ed Watt, Transport Workers Union Local 100, New York, NY.

Presentation 3: Reducing fatigue and stress in the civil aviation workplace. Ellen Rosskam, University of Massachucetts, Lowell MA, and University of Surry, UK.

Presentation 4: Stress and Fatigue in aviation workers: The use of a modified JCQ in union surveys. Vera McCArthy, BirgitGreiner, Ellen Rosskam, S. Smith, I. Maronski.

Presentation 5: Collaborative work stress research: Undermined by academic research agendas? Marnie Dobson, University of California, Irvine, CA.

Presentation 6: Lessons from union/researcher collaboration on work organization and health. Paul A. Landsbergis, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Discussant: Unionist and academic researcher collaboration in work and health studies. Birgit Greiner, University College Cork, Republic of Ireland.