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3:00pm PDT

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Assembling Your Dream Team Grand Ballroom CMemo Durgin, California Teachers Association • Hilda Paulson, National Union of Healthcare Workers

5:00pm PDT

Stories from the West Virginia Teacher Strike (S) International Ballrooms A & BFacilitator: 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

7:30pm PDT

Main Session, Friday Grand BallroomGreetings from Rev. William Barber, Poor People’s Campaign (video) • Al Russo, Communications Workers 1101 • Michael Avant, AFSCME 3299 • Balbina Ortiz and Teresa Acevedo, ARISE Chicago • Chair: Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes • West Virginia teachers

9:00am PDT

Main Session, Saturday Grand BallroomPatrick Green, Amalgamated Transit Union 1235 • Amy Mizialko, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association • Chair: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes

10:15am PDT

Choosing an Organizing Database DFW Adatabase consultant • Brendan O’Sullivan Building a Winning Contract Campaign United BDenise Rodriquez, St. Paul Federation of Teachers • Leah Lindeman, St. Paul Federation of Teachers Voices from the Teacher Uprising Rosemont CTammy Berlin, Jefferson County Teachers Association, Kentucky • Nema Brewer, KY120 United, Kentucky • Dylan Wegela, Arizona Educators United • Rebecca Garelli, Arizona Educators United • Emily Comer, Kanawha Federation of Teachers, West Virginia • Olivia Morris, Kanawha Federation of Teachers, West Virginia Unions Prepare for Janus and ‘Right to Work’ Rosemont BFacilitator: 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 Family-Friendly Bargaining TegelBrad Sigal, AFSCME 3800 • Maggie Dreon, Minnesota Association of Professional Employees • Representative, SEIU Healthcare Illinois-Indiana • Jessica Way, WE Caucus, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief ViennaDan Moore, SEIU 26 • Ricardo Levins Morales, labor artist Using the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) O’Hare Cretired union attorney • Robert Schwartz

2:00pm PDT

Unions Team Up for Bold Demands O’Hare CGary Jimenez, SEIU 1021 • A. Jaxon Dale, Amalgamated Transit Union 1235 • Joe Richard, AFT • Angelique Johnson, Music City Bus Riders Union/Workers Dignity • Steve Payne, Minnesotans for a Fair Economy • Facilitator: Candi Churchill, United Faculty of Florida Organizing the South Rosemont BRoz Pelles, Poor People’s Campaign • Facilitator: Gene Bruskin, veteran union organizer and campaigner • Monica Atkins, Cooperation Jackson • Willie Hardy, Teamsters for a Democratic Union • Margaret Cook, United Campus Workers

4:15pm PDT

Higher Education Workers Meeting North Central How to Be an Effective Staffer in a Member-Driven Union United BMarsha Niemeijer, New York State Nurses • Leah Lindeman, St. Paul Federation of Teachers Inoculation: How to Bust the Unionbuster ViennaPhoenix Casino, Babeland worker, RWDSU • Eric Dryburgh, Retail, Wholesale, & Department Store Union • Jeff Loehrke, former Guitar Center worker • Mickey Molinari, former Guitar Center worker • Nico Fuentes, Pleasure Chest worker • Stephanie Basile, Communications Workers

6:00pm PDT

Graduate Employees Meeting Logan

7:30pm PDT

Banquet Grand BallroomTroublemaker Awards • Chair: Elise Bryant • Labor Notes Fundraiser

9:00am PDT

Women's Meeting International Ballroom A

10:45am PDT

Opening Up Bargaining O'Hare BFacilitator: 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 Contract Campaigns from the Bottom Up Heathrow BJason Sheckler, Carpenters 1503 • Facilitator: Bill Parker, Auto Workers 1700 • Nick Perry, Teamsters 413 • Jessica Way, WE Caucus, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Organizing in Open-Shop America Rosemont CValeria Smith, ATU 1235 • Jay Dennis, Teamsters 89 • Tammy Berlin, Jefferson County Education Association • Facilitator: Peter Hasegawa, M.L. King County Labor Council Building a Member-to-Member Leader Network North CentralMontgomery County Education Association • Heather Carroll Fisher Doing Politics Differently United BMike Parker, Richmond Progressive Alliance • Jackie Charles, United Working Families Chicago • Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson • Facilitator: Stacy Davis-Gates, Chicago Teachers Labor’s New Sources of Leverage United ALeonard 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.