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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

Grow Your Union inside Your Hospital and Beyond ViennaJackie Vanacore, New York State Nurses • Abid Yehiya, 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

Health Care Staffing Fights DFW BElaine Morley, Communications Workers 1168 • Facilitator: Laurie Bahr, Minnesota Nurses • Pat Kane, New York State Nurses • Mark Land-Ariizumi, National Union of Healthcare Workers

2:00pm PDT

Young Workers Blaze New Trails DullesWill Stone, Communications Workers 1298 • Samantha Mason, Workers United 2833 • Jay Poranski, Health Professionals and Allied Employees • Arrion Brown, American Postal Workers, Nation’s Capital-Southern Maryland • Mary Clinton, Communications Workers Develop the Leaders Your Union Needs LAX BNick Bedell • Transport Workers

4:15pm PDT

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

Health Care Workers Meeting Rosemont C

9:00am PDT

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign Rosemont ABrian St. Pierre, Port Jefferson Station Teachers • Beth Breslaw, Teamsters for a Democratic Union

10:45am PDT

Coordinated Bargaining International Ballroom CFacilitator: 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 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 Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief (s) ViennaDan Moore, SEIU 26 • Ricardo Levins Morales, labor artist

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