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Friday, April 6
 

1:00pm PDT

Labor 101: What’s A Union Anyway? MalpensaJack Metzgar • Roosevelt University Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy Grand Ballroom CJoe DeManuelle-Hall, Transport Workers 100 • Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee Reversing Runaway Inequality, Part 1 International Ballroom BJoe Tarulli, Communications Workers 1102 • Nick Hoh, Communications Workers 1104 • Elijah Zimmerman, Communications Workers 1109 • Ginger Lane, Communications Workers 7019

3:00pm PDT

Race and Labor: Let's Talk About It International Ballroom EWashington State Labor Council • April Sims Reversing Runaway Inequality, Part 2 International Ballroom BJoe Tarulli, Communications Workers 1102 • Nick Hoh, Communications Workers 1104 • Elijah Zimmerman, Communications Workers 1109 • Ginger Lane, Communications Workers 7019

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 Engaging Members on Race, Inequality, and the Big Picture International Ballroom ESonji Ann Roseborough, Communications Workers 1106 • Greg Nammacher, SEIU 26 • Mike Schulte, Communications Workers District 4 • April Sims, Washington State Labor Council • Facilitator: Elise Bryant, Coalition of Labor Union Women

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
 
Sunday, April 8
 

10:45am PDT

Making Your Union or Community a Sanctuary for Immigrant Workers (S) HartsfieldMaricruz Manzanares, AFSCME 3299 • Eduardo Samaniego, Pioneer Valley Worker Center • Orbelina Alvarado, Nashville Community Defense, Workers Dignity • Facilitator: Guillermo Perez, Steelworkers • Linda Perales, Chicago Teachers • Porfirio Quintano, National Union of Healthcare Workers Action Gets Results: Solving Workplace Problems DaVinci BTommy Salvatore, Teamsters 251 • Lynnetta Muehlhauser, Minnesota Nurses • Xenia Green, New York State Nurses • Facilitator: Craig Merilees, Longshore and Warehouse Union Building a Member-to-Member Leader Network North CentralMontgomery County Education Association • Heather Carroll Fisher Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief (s) ViennaDan Moore, SEIU 26 • Ricardo Levins Morales, labor artist 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 Picking a Job for the Long Haul LAX ARyan Haney, Teamsters 745 • Sean Petty, New York State Nurses • Facilitator: Amy Bromsen, Auto Workers, retired • Paul Prescod, WE Caucus, Philadelphia Teachers • Sarah Chambers, CORE, Chicago Teachers Organizing Community-Labor Alliances CapitalNil Sendil, Fight for $15 and Fairness/Workers’ Action Centre • Facilitator: Jonathan Rosenblum, organizer • Kimberly Goldbaum, Chicago Teachers • Consuelo Vargas, National Nurses United