2018 Labor Notes Conference has ended

Create Your Own Event

2018 Labor Notes Conference

CL

C L

1:00pm PDT

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy Grand Ballroom CJoe DeManuelle-Hall, Transport Workers 100 • Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee

3:00pm PDT

Race and Labor: Let's Talk About It International Ballroom EWashington State Labor Council • April Sims

4:15pm PDT

Tech Worker Meeting Lindbergh

5:00pm PDT

Organizing Industrially in the Tech Industry GatwickCarmen Miller, Tech Workers Coalition, software developer • JC Francis, Tech Workers Coalition, software developer • Ares Geovanos, Tech Workers Coalition, mechanical engineer • Eric Murphy, security officer at Facebook, SEIU • Marvin Harvey, Tech Workers Coalition, warehouse worker

10:15am PDT

Tackling Amazon and the Logistics Bosses: Reports from around the Globe International Ballroom EAldo Milani, Si COBAS, Italy • Aga Mroz, Workers Initiative, Poland • Magda Malinowska, Workers Initiative, Poland • Facilitator: Louise Tikas • KD, Angry Workers of the World, U.K.

2:00pm PDT

Organizing across Europe O'Hare AMichele Bulgarelli, FIOM Bologna, Italy • Kjetil Larsen, Fellesforbundet, Norway • Facilitator: Chris Maisano, New York State Nurses • Fliss Premru, Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association, U.K. Amazon, UPS, USPS: Workers Fighting Back in the Age of E-Commerce International Ballroom ANick Perry, Teamsters 413 • Facilitator: Melissa Rakestraw, Letter Carriers 825 • Keith Richardson, American Postal Workers Union, Chicago • Marvin Harvey, Amazon warehouse worker Labor Organizing Against Climate Change ParisRick Albis, Steelworkers 675 • Sue Scanlon, Amalgamated Transit Union 85 • Facilitator: Sean Petty, New York State Nurses • Aaron Spires, Canadian Union of Postal Workers

4:15pm PDT

Corbynism and the Resurgence of the British Labor Movement International Ballroom EJeremy Drinkall, Unison, U.K. • Facilitator: Sheila Cohen, National Union of Journalists, U.K. • Charlotte Bence, Unite the Union, U.K. • Phil Clarke, National Education Union, U.K. Transport Workers Union (TWU) Meeting International Ballroom D Meeting: Building International Solidarity DullesHerbert Claros, International Committee of CSP-Conlutas, Brazil • Stéphane Enjalran, Union Syndicale Solidaires, France • Natasha Carlsen, Chicago Teachers, U.S. • Erek Slater, Amalgamated Transit Union, Chicago, U.S.

6:00pm PDT

Students, Workers, and Students as Workers North CentralErik Rivas, Cornell Organization for Labor Action • Sophie May, Cornell Organization for Labor Action • Grace Croley, University of Chicago Students Organizing United with Labor • Facilitator: Meghan Brophy, Barnard Student-Worker Solidarity • Antolina Padua, Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops • Josh Smyser, U of Tennessee United Campus Workers • Quinn Ercolani, Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers

9:00am PDT

The Crisis in Puerto Rico Rosemont BMercedes 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

10:45am PDT

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.