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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 Dealing with Difficult Supervisors International Ballroom ESandy Pope How to March on the Boss (S) International Ballroom ACalifornia Nurses • Ryan Olds

3:00pm PDT

Fighting Overpolicing O’Hare CAlyxandra Goodwin, Black Youth Project 100 • Keith Snodgrass, Bay Area Black Worker Center • Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Teachers Race and Labor: Let's Talk About It International Ballroom EWashington State Labor Council • April Sims

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

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

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 Trans and Queer Politics in Workplace Organizing Drives: Lessons from NYC Sex-Toy Store Organizing International Ballroom FLena Solow, Communications Workers 1180 • Michelle Esther O’Brien, Graduate Student Organizing Committee, Auto Workers 2110 • Phoenix Casino, Babeland worker, RWDSU • Nico Fuentes, Pleasure Chest worker • Stephanie Basile, Communications Workers

4:15pm PDT

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. 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 Listening: Our Sharpest Tool for Organizing DFW BTerry Day, Center for Working Life • Joe Fahey, former co-chair, Teamsters for a Democratic Union How Capitalism Works: An Interactive Training MalpensaCynthia Gomez

7:30pm PDT

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

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 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

Bargaining Trans-Inclusive Contract Language International Ballroom EAmanda Armstrong-Price, Auto Workers 2865 • Munira Lokhandwala, Auto Workers 2865 • Phoenix Casino, Babeland worker, RWDSU • Stephanie Basile, Communications Workers Beating Divide and Conquer: Organizing Multi-racial Workforces (S) International Ballroom DInes Orjuela, UNITE HERE 217 • Chair: Jose Oliva, Food Chain Workers Alliance • Karen Chen, Chinese Progressive Association • Basma Eid, ENLACE • Elsa López, Somos un Pueblo Unido 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 Picking a Job for the Long Haul LAX ARyan Haney, Teamsters 745 • Sean Petty, New York State Nurses • Facilitator: Amy Bromsen, Auto Workers, retired • Paul Prescod, WE Caucus, Philadelphia Teachers • Sarah Chambers, CORE, 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