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1:00pm PDT

Bargaining: Costing the Contract TegelTeamsters 705 • Richard De Vries Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy Grand Ballroom CJoe DeManuelle-Hall, Transport Workers 100 • Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee

3:00pm PDT

Choosing An Organizing Database O'Hare Adatabase consultant • Brendan O’Sullivan Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Assembling Your Dream Team Grand Ballroom CMemo Durgin, California Teachers Association • Hilda Paulson, National Union of Healthcare Workers

5:00pm PDT

Film: At the River I Stand Tegel

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

Using Social Media in Your Campaigns United AJoe Brusky, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association • Melissa Zombor, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association Running for Union Office International Ballroom DMatt Maini, Teamsters 251 • Angelina Cruz, Racine Education Association • Facilitator: David Levin, Teamsters for a Democratic Union Building a Winning Contract Campaign United BDenise Rodriquez, St. Paul Federation of Teachers • Leah Lindeman, St. Paul Federation of Teachers Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy Rosemont AJane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee • Jia Lee, MORE, United Federation of Teachers Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief ViennaDan Moore, SEIU 26 • Ricardo Levins Morales, labor artist

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 The Art of Parody for a Singing Labor Movement TegelBen Grosscup, People’s Music Network • John Paul Wright, Railroad Workers United • Anne Feeney, activist cultural worker Strikes Rosemont CAkbar Bibb, SEIU 1021 • Facilitator: Pam Galpern, Communications Workers 1101 • Josey Allgor, Communications Workers 1101 • James Hogan, Steelworkers 5114 • Rick Norman, Steelworkers 5114 • Brandon Wolford, Mingo County Education Association, West Virginia Organizing the Whole School John WayneAdaline Lining, Cambridge Education Association • Facilitator: Debby Pope, Chicago Teachers • Marilyn Piggee, Chicago Teachers • Representative, St. Paul Federation of Teachers Reforming Your Union DaVinci BFrank Halstead, Teamsters 572 • Remzi Jaos, SEIU 73 • Mary Cowhey, Northampton Association of School Employees • Facilitator: Ken Paff, Teamsters for a Democratic Union Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Assembling Your Dream Team Rosemont AMarsha Niemeijer, New York State Nurses • Jayanni Webster, United Campus Workers Develop the Leaders Your Union Needs LAX BNick Bedell • Transport Workers

4:15pm PDT

Education Union Meeting Rosemont B Film: Union Time: Fighting for Workers Rights LaGuardiaGene Bruskin • Justice@Smithfield organizer

6:00pm PDT

Black Workers Meeting International Ballroom A

7:30pm PDT

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

9:00am PDT

Stop Begging, Start Bargaining Heathrow AJason Ide, Teamsters 814 • Julian Tysh, Teamsters 814 You Got Elected: Now What? TegelJohn Pearson, SEIU 1021 • Robin Krinsky, New York State Nurses • Facilitator: Mike Parker, author, Democracy is Power • Dan Campbell, Teamsters for a Democratic Union Let Us Teach Sea TacRachel Schluter, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association • Shari Redel, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association • Facilitator: Amy Roat, WE Caucus, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers • Gynette Baker, Chicago Teachers The Funding Our Schools Deserve John WayneGillian Russom, Union Power, United Teachers Los Angeles • Beth Swanberg, St. Paul Federation of Teachers • Facilitator: Dan Clawson, EDU, Massachusetts Teachers • Representative, Chicago 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

Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign Rosemont APam Galpern, Communications Workers 1101 • Angelina Cruz, Racine Education Association Building a Member-to-Member Leader Network North CentralMontgomery County Education Association • Heather Carroll Fisher 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