2018 Labor Notes Conference

An Organizing Approach to Health & Safety 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Ask an Editor 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Organizing Industrially in the Tech Industry 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Main Session, Friday 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Organizing Never Stops 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Preparing for Janus and 'Right to Work' 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Assertive Grievance Handling 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Assertive Grievance Handling 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Assembling Your Dream Team 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Thinking Big About Ending Sexual Violence in the Workplace (S) 3:00pm - 4:45pm

How to March on the Boss (S) 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Just Cause 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Reversing Runaway Inequality, Part 1 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Reversing Runaway Inequality, Part 2 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Concerted Activity, part 1 (S) 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Concerted Activity, Part 2 (S) 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Asian Unions vs. Militarism 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Dealing with Difficult Supervisors 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Race and Labor: Let's Talk About It 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Engaging Members on Race, Inequality, and the Big Picture 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Bargaining on your Feet 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Stories from the West Virginia Teacher Strike (S) 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Tech Worker Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Labor 101: What’s A Union Anyway? 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Food Workers Organize for May Day and Beyond (S) 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Choosing An Organizing Database 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Defending Your Pension 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Roots of the Public Sector Budget Crisis 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Fighting Overpolicing 3:00pm - 4:45pm

What Is Labor Notes? 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Postal Workers Meeting 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Bargaining: Costing the Contract 1:00pm - 2:45pm

Bargaining: Costing Tutorial 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Film: At the River I Stand 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Grow Your Union inside Your Hospital and Beyond 3:00pm - 4:45pm

Going On Offense to Defend Immigrant Members (s) 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Public and Private Sector Workers Unite 10:15am - 12:00pm

Boosting Your Bargaining through Legislation 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Educators Take on School and Community Violence: A Dialogue 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Reforming Your Union 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Choosing an Organizing Database 10:15am - 12:00pm

How Unions Can Support Worker Co-ops 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Meet the Authors 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Health Care Staffing Fights 10:15am - 12:00pm

Defending Public Health Care 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Listening: Our Sharpest Tool for Organizing 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Ask the Experts 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Workplace Health and Safety in the Trump Era: An Overview 10:15am - 12:00pm

Young Workers Blaze New Trails 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Meeting: Building International Solidarity 4:15pm - 6:00pm

reversing runaway inequality 10:15am - 12:00pm

It’s In Our Hands: Member-Organizers Growing the Labor Movement 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Main Session, Saturday 9:00am - 9:45am

Banquet 7:30pm - 10:00pm

Bargaining without Collective Bargaining 2:00pm - 3:45pm

LGBTQ+ Workers Meeting 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Strike Bargaining 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Telecom Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

How to Build a Rapid Response Network to Defend Immigrant Communities (S) 10:15am - 12:00pm

Mobilizing Members to Take Health Care Off the Bargaining Table 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Amazon, UPS, USPS: Workers Fighting Back in the Age of E-Commerce 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Transit Workers Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Black Workers Meeting 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Overcoming Racism and Sexism in the Workplace 10:15am - 12:00pm

Dealing with Difficult Supervisors 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Unions and Veterans Fight V.A. Privatization 10:15am - 12:00pm

Reformers in Office 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Running for Union Office 10:15am - 12:00pm

Resistance in the Trades 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Transport Workers Union (TWU) Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Tackling Amazon and the Logistics Bosses: Reports from around the Globe 10:15am - 12:00pm

Taking on NAFTA in the Trump Era (S) 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Corbynism and the Resurgence of the British Labor Movement 4:15pm - 6:00pm

How Arbitrators Think 10:15am - 12:00pm

Trans and Queer Politics in Workplace Organizing Drives: Lessons from NYC Sex-Toy Store Organizing 2:00pm - 3:45pm

China: Worker Repression in the Workshop of the World 10:15am - 12:00pm

Contract Campaigns that Win 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Worker Cooperatives Interest Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Beating Back Bullying Principals 10:15am - 12:00pm

Organizing the Whole School 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Audio Editing for Beginners 10:15am - 12:00pm

Mapping with New Eyes: Tools to Integrate Health and Safety into Organizing 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Film: Union Time: Fighting for Workers Rights 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Lessons from Labor History: Triumph, Tragedy, and What’s In Between 10:15am - 12:00pm

A Woman’s Place Is in the Labor Movement: A Participatory History 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Longshore Unions Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Fighting for Public Education around the World (S) 10:15am - 12:00pm

Develop the Leaders Your Union Needs 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Fighting for a Strong Public Postal Service 10:15am - 12:00pm

Agricultural Workers in the Global South (S) 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Canada Meeting 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Black Lives Matter in Schools 10:15am - 12:00pm

Secretos de un organizador exitoso 1 10:15am - 12:00pm

Secretos de un organizador exitoso 2 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Worker Center Meeting (S) 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Graduate Employees Meeting 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Contract Campaign Meeting for UPS Teamsters 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Worker Cooperatives (S) 10:15am - 12:00pm

What Is Socialism? 2:00pm - 3:45pm

How Capitalism Works: An Interactive Training 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Strikes and Contract Campaigns on Campus 10:15am - 12:00pm

Militant History of Public Sector Unions 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Bringing Temps into Our Bargaining Units and Organizing Campaigns 10:15am - 12:00pm

Health Care Goes Lean and Mean 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Democracy Depends on Journalism, Journalism Depends on the Union 10:15am - 12:00pm

Continuous Bargaining 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Pension Fights 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Higher Education Workers Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Students, Workers, and Students as Workers 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Organizing across Europe 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Auto Workers Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Bargaining for Health Care in the Trump Era 10:15am - 12:00pm

Action in the Japanese Labor Movement 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Film: At the River I Stand (Second Showing) 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Manufacturing Workers Meeting 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Using the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) 10:15am - 12:00pm

Unions Team Up for Bold Demands 2:00pm - 3:45pm

building trades meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Latino/a Workers Meeting (S) 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Confronting Right-Wing Strategies beyond Janus and ‘Right to Work’ 10:15am - 12:00pm

Labor Organizing Against Climate Change 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Using Your Rights under the Trump Labor Board 10:15am - 12:00pm

Write for Us 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy 10:15am - 12:00pm

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Assembling Your Dream Team 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Unions Prepare for Janus and ‘Right to Work’ 10:15am - 12:00pm

Organizing the South 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Education Union Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Voices from the Teacher Uprising 10:15am - 12:00pm

Strikes 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Nurses Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Health Care Workers Meeting 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Stopping Workplace Violence 10:15am - 12:00pm

Organizing in the Airline Industry 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Community-Labor Alliances 10:15am - 12:00pm

Workplace Organizing Without a Union (S) 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Journalists Meeting 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Family-Friendly Bargaining 10:15am - 12:00pm

The Art of Parody for a Singing Labor Movement 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Using Social Media in Your Campaigns 10:15am - 12:00pm

Researching Your Employer (S) 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Films: The Japanese Labor Movement in the 21st Century 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Building a Winning Contract Campaign 10:15am - 12:00pm

Preparing for Janus and ‘Right to Work’ 2:00pm - 3:45pm

How to Be an Effective Staffer in a Member-Driven Union 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief 10:15am - 12:00pm

Legal Rights of Union Stewards 2:00pm - 3:45pm

Inoculation: How to Bust the Unionbuster 4:15pm - 6:00pm

Organizing Community-Labor Alliances 10:45am - 12:30pm

Action Gets Results: Solving Workplace Problems 10:45am - 12:30pm

Defending Teachers’ Contracts around the World 9:00am - 10:30am

Main Session, Sunday 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Supercharge your Grievance 9:00am - 10:30am

Making Your Union or Community a Sanctuary for Immigrant Workers (S) 10:45am - 12:30pm

Stop Begging, Start Bargaining 9:00am - 10:30am

Lockouts as Strategic Opportunities 9:00am - 10:30am

Contract Campaigns from the Bottom Up 10:45am - 12:30pm

Women's Meeting 9:00am - 10:30am

Creative Enforcement Tactics (S) 9:00am - 10:30am

Black Workers Fight for Jobs 10:45am - 12:30pm

Coordinated Bargaining 10:45am - 12:30pm

Asia Regional and Asian-American Interest Meeting 9:00am - 10:30am

Beating Divide and Conquer: Organizing Multi-racial Workforces (S) 10:45am - 12:30pm

Bargaining Trans-Inclusive Contract Language 10:45am - 12:30pm

Using Your Labor-Management Committee 9:00am - 10:30am

The Funding Our Schools Deserve 9:00am - 10:30am

Organizing Issue Fights to Build Power in Schools 10:45am - 12:30pm

Researching Your Employer 10:45am - 12:30pm

Bargaining When a Company Might Go Bankrupt 9:00am - 10:30am

Confronting Employers’ Blame-the-Worker Safety Programs 10:45am - 12:30pm

Defending Mental Health Care 9:00am - 10:30am

Picking a Job for the Long Haul 10:45am - 12:30pm

Health and Safety: Winning Campaigns (S) 9:00am - 10:30am

Building a Member-to-Member Leader Network 10:45am - 12:30pm

Responding to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (and Your Union) 10:45am - 12:30pm

Opening Up Bargaining 10:45am - 12:30pm

Can Labor Change the World? An Intergenerational Exchange 10:45am - 12:30pm

Fighting Privatization 10:45am - 12:30pm

Postal Workers Meeting 10:45am - 12:30pm

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign 9:00am - 10:30am

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign 10:45am - 12:30pm

The Crisis in Puerto Rico 9:00am - 10:30am

The UAW at Volkswagen and Nissan: What Happened? 10:45am - 12:30pm

Organizing in Open-Shop America 10:45am - 12:30pm

medicare for all meeting 9:00am - 10:30am

Belabored: Live! 10:45am - 12:30pm

Let Us Teach 9:00am - 10:30am

Taking On Testing and Teacher Evaluations 10:45am - 12:30pm

You Got Elected: Now What? 9:00am - 10:30am

Labor for Our Revolution Meeting 9:00am - 10:30am

Labor’s New Sources of Leverage 10:45am - 12:30pm

Doing Politics Differently 10:45am - 12:30pm

Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief (s) 10:45am - 12:30pm