Privatizers are out to decimate mail services and postal workers alike. Join activists from the NALC, APWU, Mailhandlers, and CUPW for an organizing meeting to build a strong network to defend public postal services in the U.S. and Canada.
Friday April 6, 2018 5:00pm - 6:30pm PDT
Sky Harbor
There are giants astride the earth—Amazon foremost—who are attempting to manage huge swaths of the global economy through highly integrated retail commerce chains. But, as with all distribution networks, they rely on logistics, transport, and storage systems that guarantee speed and accuracy, inevitably creating tremendous stress and speed-up for workers. Hear directly from warehouse workers in Poland, Italy, and the U.K. who are organizing at these critical points of distribution.
How are unions responding to the spread of temp agency work? Can temps be brought into the house of labor? Union and worker center activists will share experiences of bringing temp workers into existing bargaining units and of winning temps to the union side in our organizing campaigns.
The package business is booming, as ordering everything online becomes the norm. Public and private parcel companies influence each other’s standards and sometimes even handle the same packages in a complex supply chain. Panelists will compare their workplace concerns—including workload and staffing, unsafe conditions, supervisory harassment, and growing temporary workforces—and discuss strategies to fight back, in bargaining and through shop floor action.
Manufacturing was once the heart of the U.S. economy, and it’s still where employers test the waters with major structural changes to labor relations. The largest manufacturers are systematically attacking workers’ living standards. How can we defend ourselves? Let’s discuss what we’ve done.
Saturday April 7, 2018 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
O'Hare B
Privatizers are out to decimate mail services and public sector workers alike. Join activists from the Letter Carriers, American Postal Workers Union, Mailhandlers, and Canadian Union of Postal Workers for an organizing meeting.
Sunday April 8, 2018 10:45am - 12:30pm PDT
Ronald Reagan
Where’s our economy headed? What new organizing opportunities are there for labor in the 21st-century economy? What vulnerabilities in globalization can workers exploit to win concessions from companies—and possibly win even more profound changes?
