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Arts-Media-Tech
Bargaining
Changing Your Union From Within
Contract Campaigns and Strikes
Educators
Global Justice
Health Care
Logistics
Main Sessions
Organizing New Members
Organizing New Members Into The Union
Preparing for Janus
Racial Justice and Defending Everyone
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Shop Floor and Steward Skills
The Big Picture
Worker Centers and Immigrant Worker Organizing
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Akua Ofori
Akua Ofori is a socialist activist and public health researcher. She has been organizing for years against police brutality, women's and LGBTQ oppression, deportations, and around other social justice issues.
Friday
, April 6
1:00pm PDT
Labor 101: What’s A Union Anyway?
Malpensa
Jack Metzgar • Roosevelt University
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
Grand Ballroom C
Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Transport Workers 100 • Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee
Assertive Grievance Handling
Grand Ballroom B
Pennsylvania Association of Nurses and Allied Professionals • Bill Zoda
Dealing with Difficult Supervisors
International Ballroom E
Sandy Pope
Organizing Never Stops
Grand Ballroom A
former co-chair • Joe Fahey • Teamsters for a Democratic Union
3:00pm PDT
Preparing for Janus and 'Right to Work'
Grand Ballroom A
Labor Notes • Samantha Winslow
5:00pm PDT
Stories from the West Virginia Teacher Strike (S)
International Ballrooms A & B
Facilitator: Ellen David Friedman, Labor Notes Policy Committee • Brandon Wolford, Mingo County • Brendan Muckian Bates, Monongalia County • Emily Comer, Kanawha County • Jay O’Neal, Kanawha County • Nicole McCormick, Mercer County • Olivia Morris, Kanawha County
Saturday
, April 7
10:15am PDT
Strikes and Contract Campaigns on Campus
Midway
Cherrene Horazuk, AFSCME 3800 • Sherry Wolf, Rutgers AAUP-AFT • Tony Johnston, Cook County Community College • Facilitator: Michelle Chen, Belabored podcast • Jane Elliott, King’s College University and College Union, U.K.
Unions Prepare for Janus and ‘Right to Work’
Rosemont B
Facilitator: Larry Bradshaw, SEIU 1021 • Maricruz Manzanares, AFSCME 3299 • Gillian Russom, Union Power, United Teachers Los Angeles • Anh Tran, Professional Staff Congress-CUNY • Barbara Madeloni, Massachusetts Teachers
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
Rosemont A
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee • Jia Lee, MORE, United Federation of Teachers
2:00pm PDT
Boosting Your Bargaining through Legislation
Charles De Gaulle
Darius Smith, Food and Commercial Workers 400 • Mary Gellatly, Fight for $15 and Fairness/Workers’ Action Centre • Facilitator: Dave Kamper, Minnesota Association of Professional Employees • Nora Watts, Massachusetts Nurses
Contract Campaigns that Win
JFK
Heather Trainor, Communications Workers 1101 • Courtney Meadows, Food and Commercial Workers 400 • Hayman Sung, British Columbia Government Employees, Canada • Facilitator: David Yao, American Postal Workers Union, Seattle
Reforming Your Union
DaVinci B
Frank Halstead, Teamsters 572 • Remzi Jaos, SEIU 73 • Mary Cowhey, Northampton Association of School Employees • Facilitator: Ken Paff, Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Preparing for Janus and ‘Right to Work’
United B
Sarah Hughes, National Education Association
Legal Rights of Union Stewards
Vienna
Health Professionals and Allied Employees • Danielle Newsome
What Is Socialism?
Malpensa
Bianca Cunningham, Communications Workers District 1 • Mary Virginia Watson, AFSCME 3299 • Elaine Bernard, National Writers Union • Clancy Harris, Communications Workers
4:15pm PDT
Higher Education Workers Meeting
North Central
6:00pm PDT
Black Workers Meeting
International Ballroom A
Sunday
, April 8
9:00am PDT
medicare for all meeting
Rosemont D
The Crisis in Puerto Rico
Rosemont B
Mercedes Martinez, Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Teachers Federation) • Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, New York State Nurses • Facilitator: Rosa Ponce, Painters • Jia Lee, MORE, United Federation of Teachers
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign
Rosemont A
Brian St. Pierre, Port Jefferson Station Teachers • Beth Breslaw, Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Supercharge your Grievance
Hartsfield
Facilitator: Carl Biers, New York State Nurses • Jodi Barschow, Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals • Andrea Parker, Chicago Teachers • Jason Frantz, Transport Workers
10:45am PDT
Coordinated Bargaining
International Ballroom C
Facilitator: Alan Hanson, Food and Commercial Workers 400 • Arlene Inouye, Union Power, United Teachers Los Angeles • Francine Rico, SEIU Healthcare Illinois-Indiana • Beth Piknick, Massachusetts Nurses
Opening Up Bargaining
O'Hare B
Facilitator: Greg Nammacher, SEIU 26 • Hayman Sung, British Columbia Government Employees • Laarni de los Reyes, British Columbia Government Employees • Karine Raymond, New York State Nurses • Mary Manor, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers
Labor’s New Sources of Leverage
United A
Leonard Riley, International Longshoremen’s Association 1422 • Facilitator: Ella Mahony, Jacobin/NewsGuild • Mark Meinster, Warehouse Workers for Justice • Kim Moody, National Union of Journalists, U.K.
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