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2018 Labor Notes Conference

Erik Forman

CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY

1:00pm PDT

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

Choosing An Organizing Database O'Hare Adatabase consultant • Brendan O’Sullivan

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

Worker Cooperatives (S) MalpensaJesús Torres, Trabajadores Democráticos de Occidente (Democratic Workers of the West cooperative) • Armando Robles, New Era Windows and Doors • Maria Roman, New Era Windows and Doors • Keith Joseph, SEIU1199 Healthcare • Co-facilitator: Monica Atkins, Cooperation Jackson • Kali Akuno, Cooperation Jackson • Co-facilitator: Tim Schermerhorn, Labor Notes and Democracy at Work China: Worker Repression in the Workshop of the World JFKFacilitator: Kevin Lin, International Labor Rights Forum • Global Labor University, Penn State • Xiang Zi, Global Labor University, Penn State • Michelle Wong, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions • Elaine Hui, China labor scholar, Penn State University 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

How Unions Can Support Worker Co-ops DFW ASanjay Pinto, Workers’ Institute at Cornell • Shaywaal Amin, SEIU1199 Healthcare • Abby Scher, ResearchAction • Rebecca Lurie, Murphy Institute of Labor and Urban Studies Bargaining without Collective Bargaining HartsfieldBonita Johnson, United Electrical Workers 150 • Angelina Cruz, Racine Education Association • Anthony Brown, Texas State Employees Union • Nicole McCormick, Mercer County Education Association, West Virginia • Facilitator: Josh Smyser, United Campus Workers Develop the Leaders Your Union Needs LAX BNick Bedell • Transport Workers

4:15pm PDT

Higher Education Workers Meeting North Central Worker Cooperatives Interest Meeting JFK

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

7:30pm PDT

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

9:00am PDT

Using Your Labor-Management Committee JFKAngelo Batista, Transport Workers 100 • Cora Garcellano, New York State Nurses • Lori Wagner, New York State Nurses • Rachel Feldman, New York State Nurses

10:45am PDT

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.

1:00pm PDT

Main Session, Sunday Grand BallroomMercedes Martinez, Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rican Teachers Federation) • Barbara Madeloni, Massachusetts Teachers • John Palmer, Teamsters International Union • Chair: Bianca Cunningham, Communications Workers