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Changing Your Union From Within
Contract Campaigns and Strikes
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Organizing New Members
Organizing New Members Into The Union
Preparing for Janus
Racial Justice and Defending Everyone
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Shop Floor and Steward Skills
The Big Picture
Worker Centers and Immigrant Worker Organizing
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Marc Xuereb
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Campaign Support
Ottawa, Ontario
cupe.ca
changing the culture of big public sector unions to one that sees campaigning and mobilizing as part of the basic responsibilities of members and staff
Friday
, April 6
1:00pm PDT
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
Grand Ballroom C
Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Transport Workers 100 • Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee
3:00pm PDT
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Assembling Your Dream Team
Grand Ballroom C
Memo Durgin, California Teachers Association • Hilda Paulson, National Union of Healthcare Workers
5:00pm PDT
Stories from the West Virginia Teacher Strike (S)
International Ballrooms A & B
Facilitator: 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
Engaging Members on Race, Inequality, and the Big Picture
International Ballroom E
Sonji Ann Roseborough, Communications Workers 1106 • Greg Nammacher, SEIU 26 • Mike Schulte, Communications Workers District 4 • April Sims, Washington State Labor Council • Facilitator: Elise Bryant, Coalition of Labor Union Women
7:30pm PDT
Main Session, Friday
Grand Ballroom
Greetings 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
Saturday
, April 7
9:00am PDT
Main Session, Saturday
Grand Ballroom
Patrick Green, Amalgamated Transit Union 1235 • Amy Mizialko, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association • Chair: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes
10:15am PDT
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
Rosemont A
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes Policy Committee • Jia Lee, MORE, United Federation of Teachers
2:00pm PDT
Contract Campaigns that Win
JFK
Heather Trainor, Communications Workers 1101 • Courtney Meadows, Food and Commercial Workers 400 • Hayman Sung, British Columbia Government Employees, Canada • Facilitator: David Yao, American Postal Workers Union, Seattle
Taking on NAFTA in the Trump Era (S)
International Ballroom E
Derek Blackadder, LabourStart, Canada • Archana Rampure, CUPE • Jesús Torres, Trabajadores Democráticos de Occidente (Democratic Workers of the West cooperative), Mexico • Facilitator: Cynthia Phinney, Maine Fair Trade Campaign, U.S. • Daniel Campos, United Electrical Workers, U.S.
Preparing for Janus and ‘Right to Work’
United B
Sarah Hughes, National Education Association
Militant History of Public Sector Unions
Midway
Priscilla Murolo, labor historian • Bob Peterson, retired Milwaukee Teachers
4:15pm PDT
How to Be an Effective Staffer in a Member-Driven Union
United B
Marsha Niemeijer, New York State Nurses • Leah Lindeman, St. Paul Federation of Teachers
Inoculation: How to Bust the Unionbuster
Vienna
Phoenix 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 B
Terry Day, Center for Working Life • Joe Fahey, former co-chair, Teamsters for a Democratic Union
6:00pm PDT
Canada Meeting
Liberty
Sunday
, April 8
9:00am PDT
The Crisis in Puerto Rico
Rosemont B
Mercedes 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 A
Brian St. Pierre, Port Jefferson Station Teachers • Beth Breslaw, Teamsters for a Democratic Union
Creative Enforcement Tactics (S)
International Ballroom B
Deena Ladd, Workers Action Centre • Diana Lopez, Workers Dignity • Roni Nashed, Workers Dignity • José Olivas, Somos un Pueblo Unido • Marcela Díaz, Somos un Pueblo Unido
10:45am PDT
Fighting Privatization
Paris
Stanley Smalls, Amalgamated Transit Union 732 • Ingrid Walker-Henry, Milwaukee Teachers Education Association • Doris Conley-Brooks, United Campus Workers • Edward McDaniel, United Campus Workers • Facilitator: Aaron Brenner, Food and Commercial Workers
Opening Up Bargaining
O'Hare B
Facilitator: Greg Nammacher, SEIU 26 • Hayman Sung, British Columbia Government Employees • Laarni de los Reyes, British Columbia Government Employees • Karine Raymond, New York State Nurses • Mary Manor, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers
Organizing in Open-Shop America
Rosemont C
Valeria Smith, ATU 1235 • Jay Dennis, Teamsters 89 • Tammy Berlin, Jefferson County Education Association • Facilitator: Peter Hasegawa, M.L. King County Labor Council
Action Gets Results: Solving Workplace Problems
DaVinci B
Tommy Salvatore, Teamsters 251 • Lynnetta Muehlhauser, Minnesota Nurses • Xenia Green, New York State Nurses • Facilitator: Craig Merilees, Longshore and Warehouse Union
Building a Member-to-Member Leader Network
North Central
Montgomery County Education Association • Heather Carroll Fisher
Creative Organizing and Strategic Mischief (s)
Vienna
Dan Moore, SEIU 26 • Ricardo Levins Morales, labor artist
The UAW at Volkswagen and Nissan: What Happened?
Rosemont B
Facilitator: Scott Houldieson, Auto Workers 551 • Robert Hathorn and Shambe Jackson, Nissan • Wendy Thompson, Auto Workers 235, retired • Byron Spencer, Volkswagen
1:00pm PDT
Main Session, Sunday
Grand Ballroom
Mercedes 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
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