The W.J. Usery, Jr. Papers includes a collection of speeches, the bulk of which were written and delivered between 1971 and 1990. Delivered to companies' management staffs, professional organizations in the arbitration, mediation, and industrial relations fields, as well as union gatherings, Usery delivered a consistent message of the mechanisms of labor management cooperation and its changing face.
Speeches, 1971-1979:
| April 16, 1971 | Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia |
| June 2, 1974 | Georgia Military College, Milledgeville, Georgia |
| April 21, 1976 | W.J. Usery, Jr. Day in Milledgeville, Georgia |
| April 30, 1976 | Law Day, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia |
| June 13, 1976 | Macon Junior College Commencement Services, Macon, Georgia |
| February 2, 1977 | Board of Directors, Institute of Collective Bargaining and Group Relations, Inc., New York, New York |
| March 9-11, 1977 | American Management Association's 48th Annual Human Resources Conference, New York, New York |
| May 18, 1977 | National Executive Institute of Police Chief Executives, Quantico, Virginia |
| September 21, 1977 | Unionization of the Military, U. S. Air Force Academy |
| January 11, 1978 | Fact Sheet of WJU, Used before The National Executive Institute-FBI National Academy, Quantico, Virginia |
| April 18, 1978 | Fund Raising Dinner for Richard L. Thornburgh, Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| April 21, 1978 | American Standard, Inc., Industrial Relations and Personnel Meeting, Palm Springs, California |
| May 17, 1978 | Westinghouse Executive Study Conference, Chicago, Illinois |
| May 18, 1978 | Georgia State University, Public Law Sector Labor-Management Relations Forum, Atlanta, Georgia |
| May 25, 1978 | University of Nebraska at Omaha Labor Management Forum |
| June 23, 1978 | Industry Labor Law Committee, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, DC |
| July 19, 1978 | Fund Raising Breakfast for Stan Thomas, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| August 21, 1978 | Division Personnel Managers of INCOM International, Inc., Hudson, Ohio |
| October 3, 1978 | "An Approach to Productivity Bargaining " The American Productivity Center- Business Week Productivity Conference, New York, New York |
| October 16, 1978 | 29th National Convention of Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, Miami Beach, Florida |
| November 2, 1978 | 10th Anniversary Reunion Honoring George Shultz, Washington, DC |
| December 11, 1978 | Lima Management Club, National Management Association, Chapter No. 516, Lima, Ohio |
| January 12, 1979 | Westinghouse Corporation's Construction Group Business Managers, New York, New York |
| March 1, 1979 | Executive Board Meeting, Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United States and Canada (AFL-CIO), Miami Beach, Florida |
| March 12, 1979 | American Paper Institute, Inc., Printing-Writing Paper Division, New York, New York |
| March 16, 1979 | Labor and Management in 1979-Adversaries and Allies for a Stronger America, Atlanta, Georgia Chapter of the IRRA |
| March 30, 1979 | Personnel Relations Managers Meeting, Westinghouse Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia |
| April 25, 1979 | Glass Bottle Blowers Association, Areas I, II, III Educational Conferences |
| June 4, 1979 | Labor Relations Seminar, Sponsored by Earle Shaw, Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| September 19, 1979 | Productivity Bargaining 2nd Annual APC Productivity Conference, Chicago, Illinois |
Speeches, 1980-1990:
| January 29, 1980 | F. W. Dodge Construction Superforum Luncheon, New York, New York |
| February 1, 1980 | Industry Labor Law Committee Outline, National Association of Manufacturers' Building, Washington, DC |
| June 3, 1980 | Productivity and America's Declining Industrial Supremacy, Maryland Chapter, American Society for Performance Improvement, Baltimore, MD |
| June 4, 1980 | Responsible Associations: The Key to America's Growth National Elevator Industry, Inc. Annual Convention, San Francisco, California |
| June 9, 1980 | Labor's Response to the Productivity Movement North American Society for Corporate Planning, Toronto, Canada |
| July 16, 1980 | American Productivity Center-Westinghouse Dinner, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| July 29, 1980 | U. S. House Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization-Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, Washington, DC |
| August 9, 1980 | Statement before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance, House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Washington, DC |
| September 16, 1980 | Labor's Response to the Productivity Movement Washington Area Chapter of North American Society of Corporate Planning, Washington, DC |
| October 7, 1980 | The Collective Bargaining Process in the U. S.-A Seminar Conducted by WJU for Labor Trends Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| October 28, 1980 | The Financial Executive Institute, Baltimore, Maryland |
| October 30, 1980 | Westinghouse Electric Corporation's CAD:CAM III Symposium, Opportunities for the Eighties Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| November 6, 1980 | Athens Area Industrial Management Group, Athens, Georgia |
| November 11, 1980 | Baltimore Maryland Gas and Electric Company Senior Executive Forum |
| November 20, 1980 | Baltimore Maryland Chapter of the IRRA |
| December 10, 1980 | Remarks by WJU, Joint Economic Committee Productivity Seminar, Washington, DC |
| January 29, 1981 | Wingate College, Wingate, North Carolina |
| April 4, 1981 | AMVETS Civil Servant of the Year to Dr. Andrew Victor Schally, Arlington, Virginia |
| April 8, 1981 | San Diego Chapter of the IRRA |
| April 8, 1981 | Lockheed Senior Executives Conference, Santa Barbara, California |
| May 7, 1981 | Ninth Annual Personnel Compliance Conference Sponsored by Executive Enterprises, Inc. |
| June 5, 1981 | Southern Area Conference of the Financial Executives Institute, Williamsburg, Virginia |
| June 10, 1981 | George Ives Testimonial Dinner, Washington, D. C |
| September 15, 1981 | Women's Transportation Industry Seminar, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| September 16, 1981 | Board of Directors Meeting of the National Construction Employers Council, Washington, D. C |
| September 17, 1981 | Outline, Lecture at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| September 25, 1981 | Joint Meeting of AMTRAK and the Association of American Railroads, Chicago, Illinois |
| January 28, 1982 | Joint Meeting of Philadelphia Citizens Crime Committee and the Federal Bar Association, Philadelphia |
| February 16, 1982 | American Legion Women's Auxiliary, Washington, D. C |
| February 24, 1982 | The Changing Role of American Labor Relations in the 1980s Lee-Hecht and Associates Breakfast Meeting, New York, New York |
| April 21, 1982 | Draft Speech, Personnel Association of Greater Baltimore Maryland |
| June 14, 1982 | Outline for a Presentation before Grocery Manufacturers' Association Annual Executive Conference |
| November 18, 1982 | Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity, Villanova University School of Law Chapter, Pennsylvania |
| December 1, 1982 | Nixon, Hargraves Law Firm, Rochester, New York |
| April 12, 1983 | The Mediator's Role in Labor Relations in the 1980s Executive Management Conference, Burlington North, Inc., Monterey, California |
| August 18, 1983 | 27th Convention, Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of the United States and Canada, Kansas City, Missouri |
| August 23, 1983 | Department of Labor-Department of the Air Force Joint Conference, Washington, DC |
| November 5, 1983 | Cooperative Negotiating Strategies Seminar on Collective Bargaining at the John Gray Institute |
| January 16, 1984 | The Challenge of Change in American Labor Relations Pepsico Annual Personnel Conference, Purchase, New York |
| January 27, 1984 | The Changing Nature of Labor Relations in the Airline Industry Merrill Lynch Capital Markets-Conference for Airline Financial Officers, Key Largo, Florida |
| February 8, 1984 | The Challenge of Change in American Labor Relations Chief Financial Officers' Seminar-Institutional Investor, |
| February 29, 1984 | Symposium-Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, New York City, New York |
| March 26, 1984 | New Challenges for American Workers 1984 Ohio Conference on Jobs and Economic Revitalization Don Pease, M. C. |
| June 19, 1984 | The Labor-Management Partnership Conference: AChoosing a Future: Steps to Revitalize the Mid-American Economy Ameritrust Corporation |
| August 7, 1984 | American Bar Association Section of Employment and Labor Law Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois |
| September 5;
November 1, 1984 |
The New Labor-Management Partnership Conference: AChoosing a Future: Steps to Revitalize the Mid-American Economy Ameritrust Corporation and the Economic Club of Chicago, Illinois |
| March 28, 1985 | New United Motors: A Case Study Conference, AJapanese Labor-Management Relations: A Hard Look at a Purported Model sponsored by Columbia University and The Center for Japanese Legal Studies, New York, New York |
| May 10, 1985 | Remy-Delco Labor-Management Committee, Anderson, Indiana |
| September 18, 1985 | Internal Revenue Service, Management Enrichment Program Washington, DC |
| November 7, 1985 | Ameritrust (canceled) |
| February 13, 1986 | Airline Industry Seminar, Joe Leonard Speech, Draft 2 |
| February 23-26, 1986 | First Southeastern Labor-Management Conference [did not attend], |
| February 24, 1986 | First Southeastern Labor-Management Conference, Tampa, Florida |
| March 5, 1986 | Competitiveness and Human Values- "A Challenge for Labor and Management" Conference |
| March 23-25, 1986 | Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Government Affairs [canceled], |
| April 16, 1986 | "Managing to Make Things-Profitably The Conference Board [canceled], |
| April 17, 1986 | IRRA National Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia |
| April 18, 1986 | Georgia Military College Career Day |
| May 9, 1986 | UAW-GM Paid Educational Leave Program, Washington, D. C |
| May 28, 1986 | IRRA, Washington, D. C., Annual Dinner Meeting |
| October 7-8, 1986 | The 1986 Indiana Automotive Industry Conference |
| November 13, 1986 | IRRA Greater Houston Texas Chapter |
| December 12, 1986 | National Institute for Work and Learning |
| February 19-20, 1987 | Society of Federal Labor Relations Professionals |
| April 2, 1987 | Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee |
| April 8, 1987 | Anheuser-Busch Quality of Work Life Conference, ANew Perspectives on Employer-Employee Relations St. Louis, Missouri |
| April 23, 1987 | International Intermodal Expo-Chair Panel Session [canceled] |
| July 16, 1987 | Leadership in Uncertain Times 69th Annual Silver Bay Association Invitational Conference on Human Issues in Management, Silver Bay, New York |
| September 21, 1987 | National Association of Manufacturers 1987 Fall Industrial Relations Conference, Charleston, South Carolina [2 speeches] |
| September 30, 1987 | Visionary Leadership and the Future of Labor-Management Relations Quad City Area Labor-Management Council, Co-sponsored by the Bureau of Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs, Rock Island, Illinois |
| October 7, 1987 | Statement of WJU to the President's Advisory Committee on Mediation and Conciliation |
| October 19, 1987 | Collective Bargaining: Beyond Adversity Toward Joint Leadership Philadelphia Area Labor-Management Committee, "Negotiations 88:...", |
| October 28, 1987 | L. C. "Bud" Hunter Testimonial Dinner |
| November 4-6, 1987 | Department of Labor Bureau of Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs, Annapolis Conference |
| February 4-5, 1988 | National Conference, Federal Sector Labor Relations-Past, Present and Future, presented by Center Labor-Management and Employment Law, University of San Diego School of Law, with FMCS and Department of Labor |
| June 14, 1988 | Into the 21st Century: The Global Economy and U. S. Labor Relations 4th Alabama Governor's Labor-Management Conference |
| July 15, 1988 | National Institute for Work and Learning UAW-GM Paid Educational Leave PEL Program [canceled] |
| September 1, 1988 | Southeastern Diamond Jubilee Department of Labor 75th Anniversary, Atlanta, Georgia |
| March 22; 29, 1989 | The Era of Economics: The Global Economy and U. S. Labor Relations NUMMI Supplier Conference |
| April 20, 1989 | The Era of Economics: The Global Economy and U. S. Labor Relations IBEW 1989 Manufacturing Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| October 10, 1989 | Cumberland, Maryland |
| November 30, 1989 | Industrial Relations Seminar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina |
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March 23,
1990
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Partnership for Change |
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April 18,
1990
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Labor Relations in the 1990s |
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May 7,
1990
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American Mining Congress, Cincinnati, Ohio |
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May 17,
1990
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Atlanta Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section |
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August 13-17, 1990
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Georgia Labor-Management Conference |
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November 8,1990
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WJU Testimonial Dinner |
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