Friday, Special Meetings and Workshops 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Railroad Royale 1:00- 5:00 Telecom Workers (S) ...... Bugatti Railroad Workers United was organized in 2008 in response to Telecom workers from CWA, IBEW, and other unions will discuss the lack of solidarity, democracy, and unity in the industry. RWU contract campaigns and bargaining at AT&T and Verizon, strate- is building a cross-craft, inter-union rank-and-file network of all gies to fight the sell-off of landlines, new organizing efforts, and railroad workers in North America. This is our second biennial ways to maintain jobs and bargaining power in the face of all convention. this restructuring. Session continues Saturday at 4:00 pm. 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) LCLAA sessions are open to all. 10:00 Welcome: Tribute to César Chávez (S) Rolls 1:00 - 2:45 Weingarten Rights II (S-E) ...... Pierce Baldemar Velásquez, President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee Continuation of the morning workshop. 10:30 -12:00 Weingarten Rights I: Representing 1:00 - 2:45 AFL-CIO Constituency Groups (S) Members in Disciplinary Interrogations (S-E) ...... Rolls Royce Representatives from the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Union workers are entitled to union representation whenever LCLAA, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and they have reason to believe that discipline may result from an will explain how these groups promote the participation of interview conducted by management. In this bilingual workshop, women and minority groups in the union movement and ensure activists will learn how to represent a co-worker. Under what cir- that unions hear and respond to the concerns of these communi- cumstances can a worker invoke Weingarten rights? What rights ties. does the worker have in an interrogation? Millie Hall, President, CLUW Guillermo Perez, Albany/Capital District LCLAA Gordon Patton, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Maria G. Starr, President, Lansing LCLAA 12:00 FLOC Class-Action Suit (S) ...... Rolls Cheryl Streberger, Cynthia Paul, Pride at Work chapter Learn the history and legal procedures of a class-action suit filed 1:00 - 2:45 Fighting Wage Theft (S-E) ...... Arrow by FLOC against the U.S. Border Patrol and local law enforce- Low-wage workers are being cheated of millions of dollars by ment for profiling Latinos. Attendees will be invited to take up unscrupulous employers. This workshop will showcase campaigns similar actions to combat racial profiling and abuse by ICE. to address wage theft. Mark Heller, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Beatriz Maya, Farm Labor Organizing Committee Martin Unzueta, Chicago Community and Workers’ Rights Barry Waldman, El Centro Obrero, Detroit 1:00 - 2:45 Latinos in Unions: A History (S) Royce Learn how Latinos have contributed to the labor movement from the early 1900s in several industries, such as agriculture, mining, railroad, and garment. This is an interactive workshop that allows participants to reflect on how they can be part of “La Causa.” Ruben Martinez, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University Friday,Workshops A 1:00pm - 2:45pm Arts in Action ...... Regency B This interactive workshop focuses on creative arts as tools to FILMS enhance the impact of actions and campaigns. We will create a 12:00 “Maquilopolis” (68 min) ...... Cord short performance action piece to present during the conference. Filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre follow the Facilitator: Darryl! L.C. Moch, Labor Heritage Foundation aftermath of NAFTA in the everyday lives of women workers in Tijuana, as they work and try to raise families in the toxic Social Media and Labor Campaigns DeSoto Foyer industrial wasteland they call home. Get nuts-and-bolts training on websites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and low-cost video. Hear how rank-and-file activists are 1:30 “Y Se Hizo la Luz” (28 min) using these tools to expand their reach. “Canadian Miners Pushed to the Limits” (13 Andrew Friend, Labor Beat min) ...... Cord Julia Perkins, Coalition of Immokalee Workers On October 10 the Mexican government dissolved the state- Facilitator: Chris Lawson, Public Service Alliance of Canada owned Light and Power Company and fired 43,000 union workers. The SME union has fought the takeover; this video Understanding the Economic Crisis (S) Regency A tells their side of the story. In Spanish, no subtitles. Workers know better than anyone that our economy’s still in On strike for nine months against multinational Vale Inco, freefall. Is the government looking to save Wall Street or save Canadian miners have seen the company replace good jobs? This workshop will discuss what a real recovery Steelworkers with scabs. This short video explains the min- would look like, why our bosses are fighting it tooth and nail, ers’ fight. Courtesy of The Real News Network. and what labor needs to do in response. Mark Brenner, Labor Notes Language Interpretation Key — See page 4 or 16 11 Friday,Workshops B 3:00pm - 4:45pm Creative Tactics (S) ...... Regency C Roots of the Public Sector Budget Crisis .DeSoto B This workshop will generate ideas for making our organizing States are swimming in red ink and there's no end in sight. inspiring, fun, and effective. Whether you are in the midst of a Public services are on the chopping block and unionized teach- contract struggle, trying to awaken a dormant membership, or ers, bus drivers, and librarians are the new public enemy No. 1. seeking to capture community support, there are ways to grab This workshop will explain how state and local budgets got to be attention and advance your goals. We will share stories of cre- such a mess, why politicians are slashing and burning instead of ative organizing and brainstorm tactics tailor-made for partici- reversing a generation of tax cuts, and what public sector unions pants to take back with them. A required course for your need to do to get out of this bind. Troublemakers degree. Mike Prokosch, Massachusetts Community Labor United Facilitator: Ricardo Levins Morales, Newspaper Guild/RLM Art Steve Schnapp, United for a Fair Economy Studio FILM:“The Red Tail” (87 minutes) ...... Cord Democratic Theater: Using Our Stories to Roy Koch and 4,400 airline mechanics, custodians, and clean- Strategize ...... Stanley ers went on strike in 2005 against Northwest Airlines. Looking for new ways to approach problems at your workplace Northwest, known as "The Red Tail" by its employees, want- or union? Tired of scripted role-plays commonly used in union ed to lay off 53 percent of their union and outsource their trainings? Ever wondered about using people's own stories to jobs. What followed was a 444-day strike that would end collectively strategize around workplace and union challenges? with 4,000 union members out of work. Roy and his daugh- This session will use an accessible theater process to explore ter Melissa (co-director with Dawn Mikkelson) set out on a realistic situations experienced by the participants. Based on a journey to meet the worker to whom Roy's job was out- Brazilian popular education theater model adapted for a labor sourced in Hong Kong. The result is an intimate picture of audience. what globalization means. Melissa Koch will present. Deborah Rosenstein, Univ. of Minnesota Labor Education Service Ken Srdjak, Matrix Theatre Company, Southwest Detroit Global Unionism: The Prospects for International 5:00-66:30 pm Grassroots Solidarity I (S,K,J,P) . . . .Regency A The need for coordinated international solidarity is widely recog- Bloggers Alley Drop-In Training ...... Atrium nized but difficult to act on. Several new and established interna- Drop in throughout the weekend to get online. Trainers will tional solidarity networks will be presented, with a discussion of help you post reports to our conference blog and contribute the challenges of maintaining international links. Tie Global's 30- to our Twitter feed. While you're there, learn to use handheld year experience building international rank-and-file projects will Flip video cameras, and take one with you to capture all the help guide the discussion. Part II of this workshop continues at action throughout the weekend. Come back later to upload the conclusion of the conference, to facilitate discussion of inter- your footage to the conference YouTube channel. Trainers national projects among participants. will have their own computers, and a few extra ones will be Amirul Haque Amin, National Garment Worker Federation, available. Bangladesh Ed G. Cubelo, Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers Association Minoru Hasegawa, Chairperson, Central Kanagawa Community Labor and Palestine ...... DeSoto Foyer Union, Japan Join activists from the U.S. and Canada to hear about labor soli- Facilitator: Heiner Koehnen, Tie Global, Germany Note: The last fifteen minutes of this meeting will serve as an darity campaigns to end the U.S.-funded Israeli occupation. orientation for international guests. Discuss recent developments in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, join in a call with South African and Making Reading Fundamental to Union-Building Palestinian union leaders...... Regency B LGBTQ Meeting (5:00-6:00 pm) ...... Regency B Are book clubs and working class study groups a thing of the past? This workshop will showcase efforts by labor educators, Many unions have LGBTQ constituency groups, but how do we labor communicators, and labor writers to encourage more read- make sure these groups are meeting the needs of rank-and-file ing and discussion of books within the labor movement. Panelists workers? What role is labor playing, or what role should it be will share information about connecting labor writers and readers playing, in the recent upswing of LGBTQ activism? LGBTQ work- and discuss what can be done to help revive a culture of working ers from across the labor movement will meet to discuss how our class and union member reading. lives and LGBTQ activism can be brought into the union hall and the workplace. Sheila Cohen, author, Ramparts of Resistance Jane LaTour, author, Sisters in the Brotherhoods Facilitator: Donna Cartwright, Pride at Work Tim Sheard, author, Lenny Moss Mystery Series Chair: Steve Early, author, Embedded with Organized Labor FILM:“Heist” (15 min) ...... Cord Catch the first public screening of this segment of a docu- mentary about how corporations and their political allies in Congress orchestrated the greatest theft in history—the bank bailout. "Heist" shows how free-market extremists dismantled vital regulatory protections. Q&A with producer Donald Goldmacher. 12 Saturday Breakfast Meetings 7:30 - 9:00 am Immigrant Workers Strategy Meeting (S-E) ...... Stanley When management uses workers' immigration status as a tool of intimidation, it affects the entire workplace. Even in sectors deemed out of the reach of immigration agents because of high visibility, such as restaurants, it's become open season. Led by and for immi- grant workers from City, Chicago, and Rhode Island, this workshop will cover strategies to navigate a hostile work environ- ment and fight back against E-Verify and ICE raids. Facilitator: Fekkak Mamdouh, ROC-United 8:00 am Bloggers Alley ...... Atrium Saturday,Workshops C 10:15am - 12:00pm

Advancing Labor’s Political Agenda . . . .Regency A Cutting-Edge Arguments in Discipline Cases Royale After an unprecedented get-out-the-vote effort in 2008, are you Employers are taking advantage of the recession to terminate feeling a little empty-handed? How can unions close the gap and suspend workers without regard to just cause or due between what we put into elections and what comes out the process. This workshop will help you prepare and present griev- other end? What kinds of political action make the labor move- ance and arbitration cases, raising defenses such as disparate ment stronger, and what leaves us in worse shape? treatment, lax enforcement, and double jeopardy. A model Fernando Gapasin, co-author, Solidarity Divided request for information will be distributed. Alex Han, SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana Robert M. Schwartz, labor lawyer, author of The Legal Rights of Joel Jordan, United Teachers-Los Angeles Union Stewards and Strikes, , and Inside Campaigns Greg Miller, California Nurses Associations Facilitator: Stephanie Luce, UMass Labor Center Developing New Leaders (S) ...... Bugatti It’s one thing to get a member out to an action, but how do you Bargaining Table Tactics (S) ...... Knight train and develop members to take the next step in their involve- Learn skills and strategies to help your members and bargaining ment in union or worker center life? Hear different solutions to team win a strong contract. Issues include preparing for bargain- the age-old problem, from member-driven organizing committees ing, finding pressure points, planning timelines, balancing differ- that are training a new generation of workplace leaders, to train- ent interests among the membership, two-way communication ing programs that build skills. This workshop addresses how to during bargaining, and confronting demands for concessions. get members to take charge at any age. Limitations, such as Sandy Pope, Teamsters Local 805 some unions’ lack of drive to build active workplace leadership from the ranks, will be addressed. Bargaining in the New Health Insurance Dylan Daney, UNITE HERE San Antonio Organizing Committee Landscape ...... Pierce Mary Mendez, Enlace International Get educated on what’s being proposed at the negotiating table Christine Miller, UNITE HERE San Antonio Organizing Committee John Ocampo, Restaurant Opportunities Center, Miami these days (high-deductible plans, Health Savings Accounts, Facilitator: Chris Kutalik, UNITE HERE, Texas Health Reimbursement Accounts). Discuss pitfalls and traps in fee-for-service, HMO/PPO, and HSA/HRAs. How can we cut down on members’ health care costs and get payroll deductions to Heat’s On in Health Care Workplaces ...... Rolls resemble a fairer income-based system instead of a premium- In hospitals and other health care workplaces, management is based system? How we can use contract negotiations to educate using the economic climate as an excuse to restructure, attack- and agitate for a better solution like Medicare for All? ing both contract standards and the safety of our patients. What Peter Knowlton, UE Northeast Region are unions doing about it? How might the new health care bill impact our workplaces? Come share your experiences and tie our Building Campus Coalitions ...... Regency B struggles together. John Armelagos, Michigan Nurses Association/NNU Hear how campus workers, students, and faculty are building Martha Harrison, PASNAP coalitions to stem the tide—and even go on offense—in the face Kathy Carder, California Nurses Association/NNU of big-time budget cuts and corporate management at publicly- Representative, National Union of Healthcare Workers funded universities. Facilitator: Donna Kelly-Williams, Massachusetts Nurses Carolan Buckmaster, UPTE-CWA Local 9119, UC San Diego Association/NNU Andy Carhart, AFSCME Local 3800, University of Minnesota Max Page, PHENOM, UMass-Amherst Home-Based Workers ...... Steamer Kerry Pimblott, GEO, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In the past decade hundreds of thousands of personal care Facilitator: Kathryn Lybarger, AFSCME Local 3299, UC Berkeley attendants, childcare providers, and other home-based workers have been drawn into the ranks of labor. This workshop will Contract Campaigns ...... Arrow examine the challenges facing unions and workers centers as Learn how to build a member-focused campaign long before your they try to build durable, effective, member-driven organizations contract expires. Member mobilization, campaign escalation, cre- in such nontraditional workplaces. It will assess the prospects of ative tactics, and other building blocks of a good campaign will current political campaigns for union recognition and program be discussed, including bringing in community allies. Examples funding. Also, hear a short report about home-based worker from campaigns run by local unions and from ‘vote no’ cam- organizing in Pakistan. paigns run by rank and filers will both be presented. Anne Luck-Deak, CWA New Jersey George Godlock, Longshore Workers Coalition, ILA Local 1414 Priscilla Gonzalez, Domestic Workers United Annie MacDonald, UE public sector Local 222 Alberta Walker, SEIU Healthcare Illinois-Indiana Tim Sylvester, Teamsters Local 804, UPS Facilitator: Steve Early, labor journalist Facilitator: Joe Fahey, former TDU co-chair Language Interpretation Key — See page 4 or 16 13 Saturday,Workshops C 10:15am - 12:00pm How to Occupy Your Workplace (S) ...... Stearns Lessons from Labor History ...... Royce All eyes were on Chicago when workers sat down in the Republic Examine the history of the 1930s Depression and other upsurges Windows and Doors factory in December 2008 and refused to of worker action, to draw lessons for our contemporary economic leave. Sit-down strikes, blockades, and factory occupations have crisis. a long and respected history in labor, though they are not now Nelson Lichtenstein, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and part of our daily toolbox. Learn how to prepare for a sit-down Democracy, UC Santa Barbara strike, when to take action, and pitfalls to avoid, in this one-of-a- Facilitator: Daisy Rooks, University of Montana kind workshop—chances are, you won’t hear this from your union leadership! Hear firsthand from leaders of workplace occu- Labor and Politics in Latin America (S-E) pations at Republic Windows, and the workers cooperative ...... Regency D TRADOC (formerly Euzkadi Tire) in Mexico. Winds of change are sweeping through Latin America. How do Mark Meinster, United Electrical Workers, Chicago unions relate to the socialist government in Venezuela and the Jesús Torrez Nuño, Democratic Tire Workers Cooperative, Mexico newly elected FMLN government in El Salvador? What role did Armando Robles, United Electrical Workers Local 1110, Chicago Facilitator: Steven Ashby, University of Chicago-Illinois Labor Honduran unions play in the national resistance to last year's mil- Center itary coup? How are Colombian workers handling the paramilitary death squads targeting union activists? This workshop will pro- How to Represent Immigrant Workers (S) vide insight from across the region. Ricardo Calderon, Electric Industry Union of El Salvador (SIES) ...... DeSoto A Francisco Ramírez Cuéllar, SINTRAMINERCOL, Colombia Unions need to be prepared to aggressively represent immigrant Tony León, SINTRAMENTPET, Venezuela members, whether it’s fighting no-match letters, filing grievances Israel Salinas, United Workers Federation of Honduras (CUTH) in the face of threats to review immigration status, inserting Facilitator: Lupita Aguila, U.S. Labor Education in the Americas appropriate language in contracts to defend immigrant members, Project or navigating conflicts around language or between immigrant and non-immigrant members, or even within immigrant groups. Organizing in Restaurants and Retail (S) . .Stanley This workshop will provide in-depth training on the steps unions Think restaurants and retail shops are impossible to organize? must take to meet the special challenges faced by immigrant Hear from union and worker center organizers who aren’t taking members. ‘no’ for an answer in kitchen, front-of-the-house, and sales floor Anna Karewicz, Arise Chicago jobs. Hear a frank assessment of the challenges faced in retail Julian Posadas, AFSCME Local 3299, California and restaurant organizing, from getting good contract standards Edison Severino, LIUNA Local 78, New York in small shops to the aggressive anti-union tactics of the larger Facilitator: Guillermo Perez, Albany/Capital District LCLAA chains. This workshop will give an assessment of limitations in this sector while sharing tactics (and successes) from current Is Foreign Policy a Union Issue? ...... Cord organizing campaigns in New York, Baltimore, and Chicago. Connect the dots between the economy, jobs, foreign policy, and Veronica Avila and Antonia Kam, ROC—Chicago military spending. How can activists influence the labor move- Carrie Gleason, Retail Action Project ment to treat foreign policy as a vital union issue? How do we Luis Larin, United Workers, Baltimore build labor opposition to the Afghan war while continuing to sup- Facilitator: Audra Makuch, Retail, Wholesale, Dept Store Union port Iraqi workers in their struggle for labor rights and against privatization? How do we expand the discussion to include cut- Transforming K-12 Public Education . . .Regency C ting the military budget and transitioning to a sustainable peace The corporate takeover of public education is ramping up. Join economy? How do we talk about the Israel/Palestine conflict so teacher activists tracing the roots of Obama’s education plan, that we can be heard rather than marginalized? sharing strategies for confronting charter schools and battling Amjad Ali, General Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in contract concessions, and taking teacher-bashing head on. Iraq, and Iraq Freedom Congress Kristine Mayle, Caucus of Rank and File Educators, Chicago John Braxton, AFT Local 2026 Teachers Union Donna DeWitt, South Carolina AFL-CIO Nathan Saunders, Washington Teachers Union Linda Ray, Peace and Solidarity Committee, SEIU Local 1021 Facilitator: David Rapkin, United Teachers Los Angeles Facilitator: Gene Bruskin, U.S. Labor Against the War Innovative Organizing Strategies: Organizing Beyond Collective Bargaining ...... DeSoto B Hear from activists who are building unions from the bottom up without collective bargaining rights or contracts. Using “non- majority union” tactics, workers are finding ways to pressure employers and win gains at work. You’ll hear from organizers in workplaces that are traditionally excluded from collective bargain- ing discuss how this strategy is helping build a union nonethe- less. Organizers from will discuss how a non-majori- ty strategy was key in eventually winning a traditional contract. Dynnita Bryant, Philadelphia Security Officers Union Javaid Tariq, Co-founder, New York Taxi Workers Alliance Representative, AFGE Transportation Security Administration Organizing Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Philadelphia Security Officers Union Facilitator: Judy Atkins, UE District 2, retired 14 Saturday, Lunch Meetings 12:00pm - 1:45pm Black Workers Caucus ...... Bugatti Latino Solidarity Meeting (S-E) ...... Stearns Black workers are bearing the brunt of this recession, with no Meet with Latinos who organize in a variety of arenas: unions, end in sight. Join Black activists to discuss what unions are—and grassroots movements and constituency groups like LCLAA and aren’t—doing to address the crisis, and what Black workers can worker centers, on campuses, and in electoral politics. Latinos in do to build stronger rank-and-file connections across unions. the U.S. have mobilized around immigration policy and legisla- tion, wage theft, social justice, and union organizing. These Put On a Local Troublemakers School (S) . .Knight mobilizations are making the politicos, institutions, and our unions accountable. Join us for an open discussion about where Labor Notes held seven Troublemaker Schools in five cities last we can best spend our energies. year, with the help of on-the-ground local organizing committees. Facilitators: Mary Mendez, Enlace, These half-day or full-day events can be like a mini-version of Guillermo Perez, Albany/Capital District LCLAA the national conference. This is your chance to hear from local folks how it’s done, as a way to bring together the troublemakers in your town. Bloggers Alley ...... Atrium See page 12. FILM:“The Red Tail” ...... Cord See page 12. Saturday,Workshops D 2:00pm - 3:45pm A ‘Continuous Bargaining’ Approach to Workplace Building Labor-Community Power ...... Bugatti Change ...... Arrow Hear from Los Angeles teachers who organized with parents to Is management introducing new technologies, policies, or work fight off privatization and from Texas workers who are tak- restructuring programs on the job that hurt members and weak- ing their organizing battles into the community. Learn strategies en your union? Are your contracts ineffective at protecting for mobilizing with natural allies from labor-community stalwarts against these changes? Is the employer claiming “management in Massachusetts and an interfaith worker center leader in rights” and saying that you have no rights? “Continuous Chicago. Bargaining” is a strategic approach to dealing with management- Jennifer Doe, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice initiated workplace change. It builds on existing legal rights while Chris Kutalik, UNITE HERE Local 251, San Antonio focusing on a strong, active, member-involved union response. Ingrid Villeda, United Teachers Los Angeles Facilitator: Rev. CJ Hawking, Executive Director, Arise Chicago Heather Boehlke, Rail Workers United Nancy Lessin, health and safety activist/educator, -Tony Mazzocchi Center Can Members Really Run Their Unions? (S) Charley Richardson, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Labor ...... Regency B Extension Program The headline-grabbing disputes of the past year have raised some fundamental questions: What is the role of rank-and-file Asia Labor Update: Industrial Justice vs members in running the union’s affairs and controlling their rela- Industrial Peace (K, J) ...... Royce tionship with employers? Is it possible to battle global corpora- Violations of basic rights and violent repression of workers’ strug- tions with members squarely in the driver’s seat? Can democracy gles are on the rise in countries throughout Asia. A wave of really help restore labor’s power—or it just a nice idea? lethal factory fires in Bangladesh, brutal attacks on Ssangyong Keri Evinson, CWA Local 1400 workers in South Korea, vigilantes killing activists in the Angela Glasper, National Union of Healthcare Workers Philippines: unions are responding forcefully with strikes, plant Lisa Kermish, UPTE-CWA occupations, and more. Learn how unions are coordinating their Ringo Mak, UNITE HERE Local 2 response, both throughout the region and in solidarity with work- Sin Yee Poon, SEIU Local 1021 Facilitator: Mike Parker, co-author, Democracy Is Power ers in the U.S. Kalpona Akter, Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity Ed Cubelo, Toyota Motors-Philippines Corp. Workers Association, Fighting for Single-Payer Health Care . .DeSoto B Philippines The long road to single payer will require deep base-building and Minoru Hasegawa, Central Kanagawa Community Union, Japan action at the state level. Hear how some unions are taking the Doris Lee, Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong fight into their locals, one member at a time, and how they are Young-ho Lee, Korean Metal Workers Union, South Korea building for state versions of Medicare for All. Facilitator: David Yao, American Postal Workers Union and Asian Matt Beck, IBEW Local 1837, Maine Pacific American Labor Alliance Sue Eustice, California School Employees Association Traven Leyshon, Vermont Workers’ Center Assertive Handling (S) ...... Stearns Donna Smith, California Nurses Association Fighting grievances isn’t only about how well you argue your Facilitator: Al Cholger, United Steelworkers case. It’s about organizing members to build pressure on man- agement. This workshop for stewards and union reps will focus on how to win creatively without going to arbitration—or some- times without even filing a grievance. We’ll discuss the do’s and don’ts of settling grievances as well. Sandy Pope, Teamsters Local 805

Language Interpretation Key — See page 4 or 16 15 Saturday,Workshops D 2:00pm - 3:45pm Halting Harassment, Stopping Speedup . . .Royale Power in the Logistics Industry ...... DeSoto A Bosses have been eager to use the recession to push trouble- Global corporations can only move goods from far-off factories to makers and veteran workers off the job, and squeeze more work retail shelves only because of an integrated transportation net- out of those who remain. How are unions overcoming members’ work. This gives workers in the “cargo chain” incredible leverage. fears and pushing back? Come hear their strategies. How do we use this power to organize non-union workers and Dan Campbell, Teamsters Local 200, UPS raise standards? What can rank-and-file activists do to coordinate Ryan Comiskey, CWA Local 9404, AT&T across different industries and unions? Nicolas Galepides, SUD PTT Union, postal service, France Beth Gutelius, Center for Urban Economic Development, University Christine Miller, UNITE HERE San Antonio of Illinois-Chicago Barbara Tiller, Massachusetts Nurses Association Abraham Mwaura, Warehouse Workers for Justice Facilitator: Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes Peter Olney, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Tony Perlstein, ILA Local 1588 Inside Strategies (S) ...... Stanley Facilitator: Mark Meinster, United Electrical Workers Did you know you can stay on the job but still cause trouble? If striking’s not the best strategy, or you need leverage during a Public Employees, Public Services, and the Budget contract campaign, using inside strategies and work-to-rule tech- Squeeze (S) ...... Regency C niques can drive your message home. This workshop will high- Hear strategies for resisting the squeeze on public employees light key elements of inside strategies, show how to protect and the services they provide. Hear how fighting unions have yourself and your co-workers, and help you strategize about taken on layoffs, furloughs, and privatization with member what might be possible at your workplace. action. Charles Borchert, CWA Local 1298 Marvin Holland, Transport Workers Union Local 100 Daniel Coffin, CWA Local 1298 Kathryn Lybarger, AFSCME Local 3299 Mike Davenport, ILWU Local 30, Borax Larry Bradshaw, SEIU Local 1021 Alfredo Rodriguez Morales, General Secretary, TORNEL Facilitator: Ken McNamara, CWA Local 1037 Independent Workers Union Facilitator: Jerry Tucker, Center for Labor Renewal Running for Union Office (S) ...... Rolls Labor and Immigration Reform (S) . . . .Regency A Hear from members who’ve run effective rank-and-file cam- paigns—and won! How to build an effective campaign team, How can labor be at the forefront of immigration reform and best increase your visibility, identify voters, deal with negative attacks, support the immigrant rights movement? What should immigra- avoid common mistakes, and get out the votes you need to win. tion reform look like, and who’s taking sides? Join us for a spirit- Karen Jennings Lewis, Caucus of Rank and File Educators, Chicago ed panel on different approaches labor’s taking on the question Teachers Union of immigration reform and immigrant worker organizing. David Rapkin, United Teachers of Los Angeles Nikhol Atkins, Reform Immigration for America, Michigan Tim Sylvester, Teamsters Local 804, New York David Bacon, author/photojournalist on immigration Facilitator: Dan Lutz, Teamsters for a Democratic Union Leone Bicchieri, Chicago Workers Collaborative Beatriz Maya, Farm Labor Organizing Committee Chris Michalakis, UFCW and Metro Detroit AFL-CIO Gillette Stadium workers fighting deportation Facilitator: Yanira Merino, Laborers International Union Labor Going Green ...... Steamer A forum on green jobs, conversion projects, and labor’s role in the climate change debate. Hear from organizers who’ve built partnerships to bring green work to their communities, while pro- viding a pathway to unionization and stable wages. Discuss how labor can join the climate change debate. Tom Adler, IG Metall, Daimler, Germany Ted Green, Advisor to LIUNA President Charles Jenkins, Transport Workers Union Local 100 Jakob Juntunen, IBEW Local 48, Portland Miriam Pemberton, Institute for Policy Studies Facilitator: Mike Prokosch, Community Labor United, Boston Mexico in Crisis (S-E) ...... Regency D The labor movement in Mexico is in crisis. As Reagan did to PATCO, the Mexican government has decided to break the labor Language Key movement to advance its conservative agenda. What are the S: Spanish/English interpretation prospects for Mexican unions, and what does it mean for workers in the U.S.? S-E: Session in Spanish, with English Alejandro Ruven Vega García, CILAS, Mexico interpretation Benedicto Martinez, Frente Auténtico del Trabajo, UNT, Mexico K: Korean/English interpretation Jacinto Martinez Serna, Cananea Miners Union Local 65, Mexico Maria Eugenia Sanchez Zavala, Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas J: Japanese/English interpretation (SME), Mujeres Electricistas en Resistencia, Mexico M: Mandarin/English interpretation Facilitator: Robin Alexander, UE P: Portuguese/English interpretation 16 Saturday,Workshops D 2:00pm - 3:45pm Why Are We in Afghanistan? ...... Cord Women in the Trades: From Apprenticeship to See the 27-minute DVD “Why Are We in Afghanistan?”—created Leadership ...... Knight to educate union members—and learn how to talk about the war More than 30 years after first breaking into the building trades, in Afghanistan in your union. Learn what some unions are doing women still make up only 2 percent of construction workers. in education campaigns that link opposition to the wars in Iraq Join us to hear from tradeswomen from a variety of trades, back- and Afghanistan to labor’s domestic agenda for jobs and eco- grounds, and years in construction as we share experiences nomic justice. about being on the job, organizing with other women in our Kathy Black, AFSCME DC 47 (Philadelphia), CLUW, US Labor unions and across trade lines, and taking on leadership roles. Against the War co-convenor Participate in a conversation about how women’s involvement in Chris Vongsawat, Iraq Veterans Against the War (served in this highly rewarding work changes the dynamics on the job and Afghanistan) in the fight for stronger unions. We encourage male allies to Michael Zweig, author and director of “Why Are We in Afghanistan?”, United University Professions (AFT Local 2190) attend. Joi Beard, electrician, owner, Derby Electric, IBEW Local 3, New York Sue Jantschak, carpenter, UBC Local 687, business rep/organizer, Detroit J.P. Phillips, carpenter, UBC Local 247, Portland, Oregon Amy Sprengelmeyer, pipefitter apprentice, UA Local 290, Portland, Oregon Facilitators: Jane LaTour, author, Sisters in the Brotherhoods; Lisa Serrano, electrician, IBEW Local 48, Portland, Oregon Saturday, Union Meetings 4:00pm - 5:45pm

Building Trades ...... Arrow Postal Workers ...... Model T Compare notes with other activists about responses to the Postal activists will brainstorm a worker-friendly future for the decline in construction, continued jurisdictional difficulties, and Postal Service as we plan to escalate the fight against five-day creative approaches to building strength via cross-trades organiz- delivery and other cuts. How can we strategize to get unions on ing. the offensive, oppose workshare discounts, organize private-sec- tor workers, and reverse legislation that drains postal funds? Campus Workers ...... DeSoto B Facilitator: David Yao, Greater Seattle Area APWU The March 4 Day of Action brought campus activists out in 32 states to fight budget cuts, fee hikes, racism on campus, and Public Employees (S) ...... Regency C dwindling access to college. Hear report-backs, get updates on Get together with city, county, and state workers from around next steps in California and elsewhere, and coordinate action for the continent to discuss how public employees are fighting the long haul. attacks on pensions, organizing for tax reform, and building Facilitators: Lisa Kermish, Vice President, UPTE-CWA Local 9119 coalitions to protect jobs and public services. Joe Iosbaker, Executive Board, SEIU Local 73 Teachers (S) ...... Regency A Longshore ...... Royce Meet teacher reformers from around the country and the globe. Longshore workers from both coasts will meet to discuss the Hear from a Oaxacan teacher from the fabled Section 22, get an impact of the economic crisis on global shippers, how new tech- update on organizing efforts in charter schools, and gear up for nology is affecting jobs on the docks, and what rank-and-file this summer’s AFT convention in Seattle. activists can do to promote solidarity across the industry. Telecom Workers (S) ...... Knight Auto (J, K, P) ...... Regency D Continues the telecom Friday gathering. See page 11. The car industry in the U.S. and Canada has been bailed out, but the UAW has lost a record number of members as locals are Transit (S) ...... Rolls whipsawed, concessions are made mid-contract, and new plants open non-union. Activists will discuss strategies, continue discus- Meet with members of transit and transport union from the U.S. sions from recent rank-and-file auto meetings, and plan for the and Argentina. upcoming UAW convention. United Electrical Workers/Frente Auténtico del Nurses ...... Royale Trabajo (S) ...... Bugatti Creating new organizations, transforming old ones: How can our A joint UE and FAT meeting to discuss how we use the resources unions become vehicles for the country’s 2.9 million nurses to provided by Labor Notes and other rank-and-file labor education- transform their practice, their communities, and the health care al organizations, in our respective countries, for our own educa- system? How do we overcome terrorizing tactics from the bosses tional work. How can the UE and FAT, with other rank-and-file and divisive rhetoric from the right—while establishing space in unions and these organizations, bring a renewed focus to the our unions for broad democratic participation? cause of independent, democratic, rank-and-file unionism within Facilitators: Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, NYSNA/NY Nurses United, the labor movement across the US and Mexico? Sandy Eaton, Massachusetts Nurses Association/NNU Facilitator: Peter Knowlton, UE Northeast 17 Saturday, Meetings 4:00pm - 5:45pm

Worker Centers (S, M) ...... Regency B FILM: “The Coca-Cola Case” (87 min) . .Cord Seven years since the first national conference of worker centers Colombia is the murder capital of the world. was held—at a Labor Notes Conference—our numbers are grow- Since 2002, more than 470 worker leaders have been brutally ing. Worker centers are opening and expanding across the coun- killed, usually by paramilitaries hired by private companies try to organize and agitate among low-wage workers in a variety intent on crushing unions. Among these unscrupulous corpo- of sectors, from slaughterhouses to restaurants to construction. rate brands is the poster child for American business, Coca- Join organizers from the U.S., Canada, and China to discuss Cola. This new documentary is co-produced by filmmakers obstacles and what’s next for our movement’s laboratory for Germán Gutiérrez and Carmen Garcia and the National Film organizing. Board of Canada. The film will be followed by a Q&A with Ray Rogers, director of the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke. Saturday, Meetings 6:00pm - 7:30pm Global Auto Roundtable (J, K, P,S) . . . . .Regency D Ask the Experts ...... Regency A In the global economy, it’s usually only the bosses who get to Your chance to lob hard questions at the ones who know. talk across national borders. Workers from the world’s major auto Grievances and Arbitration: companies will meet to compare strategies for resisting conces- sions, changes to work conditions, and the ups and downs of the Richard de Vries, Teamsters Local 705, can tell you how to industry. Hear reports of the latest management foibles and the anticipate an arbitrator’s reaction. Learn about resources to bright spots of organizing from Asia to Brazil, General Motors to become a persuasive presenter of grievances and arbitra- Nissan. tions, and learn how to research a question. A must for the Tom Adler, IG Metall, Daimler, Germany activist thinking about running for steward or higher office. Vivaldo Moreira Araujo, Metalworkers Union, General Motors, Brazil Union Democracy: Ed G. Cubelo, Toyota Motors-Philippines Workers Association, Philippines Attorneys Barbara Harvey and Michael Goldberg are experts Rikimasa Ichikawa, Isuzu Motor Union, All Japan Shipbuilding and on your legal rights within the union—free speech, voting Engineering Union rights on contracts, union elections and running for office Young-Ho Lee, Korean Metal Workers Union, Ssangyong Motors stewards’ rights and union officers’ fiduciary duty. Shintaro Suzuki, Nissan Motor Branch, Japan Information and Metal Workers Union Trusteeships and Disciplinary Hearings: Facilitator: Wendy Thompson, UAW Local 22, retired Attorney Leon Rosenblatt will discuss anticipating, preventing, and defending against trusteeships and disciplinary hearings. NUHW Solidarity ...... Steamer Hear from leaders of the National Union of Healthcare Workers General Employment and Wage and Hour Complaints: about ongoing efforts to build the new union, and what support- John Philo, Legal Director of the Maurice & Jane Sugar Law ers can do to strengthen solidarity in and outside of California. Center for Economic and Social Justice, will field questions on wage and hour laws, meal and lunch break issues, and other general employment law matters, including discrimination complaints, plant closing and layoff notice, severance pay, final paycheck, and unemployment insurance. Legal Rights of Stewards; Family and Medical Leave Act; and Strikes, Picketing and Inside Campaigns: Attorney Robert Schwartz, the author of handbooks on all these topics (see the Labor Notes literature table), will take your questions.

Bloggers Alley ...... Atrium See page 12 Coca-Cola (S) ...... DeSoto Foyer The global campaign against Coca-Cola continues, with activists in China, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, India, and the U.S. fighting the soft-drink maker’s brazen disregard for workers’ rights. Tom Burke, Colombia Action Network Eli Friedman, US Rep., China Coke Concerned Student Group Ray Rogers, Stop Killer Coke campaign Slobodan Dimitrov/sdimitrovphoto.com Language Interpretation Key — See page 4 or 16 Strike kitchen at the California Borax mine. 18 Saturday, Meetings 6:00pm - 7:30pm Young Workers (S) ...... Regency C Meet the Authors ...... Regency B Young workers are inheriting a “new” economy—including higher Chat with authors of recent books that help us understand built-in unemployment, less job security, and fewer benefits and labor and the world. Buy a book and get it signed. protections. Join other young workers, activists, and hellraisers to grapple with what it means to be an activist on this side of “the David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates lost decade.” Discuss how to build power in our jobs and unions, Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. David is an award- on and off campus. winning photojournalist and immigrant rights activist in California. Wobblies ...... Knight Steve Early, Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Over 100 years ago the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Reflections on the Class War at Home. Steve worked for 27 began blazing the trail of industrial organizing, internationalism, years as a rep and organizer for the CWA, based in Boston. and uncompromising opposition to capitalism. Today Wobblies Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in are still active on the front lines of the labor movement—both in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (with the massive unorganized sector, and among rank-and-file Bill Fletcher, Jr.). Fernando is a former professor of industrial activists in mainstream unions. Hear from IWW worker/organiz- relations and Chicano/a studies and central labor council ers about ongoing campaigns, including at Starbucks, and the president. IWW’s approach to making the labor movement a threat again! C.J. Hawking and Steven Ashby, Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement. C.J. is a Methodist pastor Women Organizing across Unions (J, S) . . .Stanley and executive director of the faith-based workers’ rights Across the globe, women activists have formed cross-union net- group Arise Chicago. In 1994 she moved to Decatur, Illinois, works to combat sexism and discrimination while building a to volunteer full-time with the Staley workers. Steve worked stronger labor movement. Join this global discussion led by at the American Maize corn-processing plant, similar to women who’ve extended gender solidarity across union lines. Staley’s Decatur plant, in Hammond, Indiana. He was a Ban Kiyoko, Women’s Union, Nagoya, Japan founder and co-chair of the Chicago Staley Workers Solidarity Maria Elena Ramirez Avendaño, Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación, Oaxaca, Mexico Committee. Nishiyama Seiko, Aichi Solidarity Union, Japan Jane LaTour, Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Gloria Olvera, Red de Mujeres Sindicalistas, Mexico Organizing for Equality in New York. Jane works for the Facilitator: Doris Lee, Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong Public Employee Press, District Council 37, AFSCME, and man- aged the Women’s Project of the Association for Union Democracy. Nelson Lichtenstein, The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart FILM: “Workers’ Republic” (60 min) . . . .Cord Created a Brave New World of Business. Nelson directs the When the economy fell, they stood up. Or sat down, actually. Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at UC In December 2008, laid-off Chicago factory workers occupied Santa Barbara. Republic Windows and Doors, declaring they would not leave Kari Lydersen, Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory until the owners and creditors paid them the severance they Takeover, and What It Says about the Economic Crisis. Kari is were owed. This new film conveys the courage of ordinary a Chicago-based reporter, author, and journalism teacher who people, members of United Electrical Workers Local 1110, writes on labor, the environment, and immigration. fighting for their rights. Independent filmmaker Andrew Friend will be present to answer questions. Wade Rathke, Citizen Wealth. Wade was a founder of ACORN and is now chief organizer of Community Organizations International. 10:00 pm Special Detroit Focus: Steve Babson, Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Town (with Ron Alpern, Dave Elsila, and Open Mic Talent Show ...... Regency A and B John Revitte). Steve taught labor studies at Wayne State Prepare your music, comedy, and poetry/spoken word for the University and worked with auto workers on how to combat Saturday night open mic/talent show open to all. With cash bar. lean production. Host: Darryl! Moch, Labor Heritage Foundation Jim West/jimwestphoto.com (2) Jim West/jimwestphoto.com 19 Sunday, Meetings 9:00am - 10:30am Building Labor’s Antiwar Movement (S). Regency C Retiree Organizing ...... Stearns Practical steps to move the 2010 antiwar agenda in the labor From the massive attack on pensions to increasing health care movement while building capacity and influence. premiums, retirees have a lot to lose. Join other union activists Facilitator: Michael Eisenscher, US Labor Against the War approaching—or already enjoying—their golden years to compare notes on how retirees can stay active in building a strong labor Graduate Employees ...... Stanley movement while responding to the crisis. Discuss how the new Find out how different grad unions are organizing for more dem- health care bill will impact retirees. ocratic and member-led unions. Hear from leaders of winning Facilitator: Michael Rubin, SEIU Local 1000, California State strikes in the U.S. and Canada, as well as organizers working in Employees Association, retired coalition with other campus unions to fight off budget cuts and attacks on tuition waivers. The Road to the U.S. Social Forum (S) Regency D The USSF is a massive gathering of activists from every kind of Home-Based Workers ...... Steamer social justice movement, happening June 22-26 here in Detroit. Here’s your chance to strategize about strengthening labor’s par- This meeting will provide additional space for networking and ticipation in the 10,000-strong event. How can unionists make discussion of the many experiments in organizing home-based common cause with activists who may know little—or have the workers around the country. It will also tackle the specific impact wrong idea—about unions? What can union people learn from of looming budget cuts and program restructuring, as well as other movements? Hear from labor organizers in Detroit and reviewing new legal challenges to organizing home-based work- around the country who are mobilizing. ers. Reg McGhee, UAW Local 1981, SE Michigan Jobs With Justice Facilitator: Terri Harkin, SEIU Healthcare Illinois-Indiana Staff Unions and Union Democracy ...... Bugatti Labor Campaign for Single Payer . . . . .Regency A For the past three Labor Notes Conferences staff union activists Discuss how to continue the fight for a Medicare for All solution. and their allies have met to discuss ways in which we can sup- We will report on the March national Labor for Single Payer port principles of workplace democracy in our own workplaces as meeting and present model grassroots organizing strategies to well as advance the cause of rank-and-file democracy within the move the issue out and up in the labor movement. Members of larger labor movement. Please join us to discuss ways in which unions that have endorsed single payer and/or the Labor we can promote staff unionism as an important means of build- Campaign are urged to attend, as are those who want to discuss ing a more vibrant and democratic labor movement. how to move their union into taking an active position in support Facilitator: Guillermo Perez, Labor Notes Policy Committee; United of Medicare for All. Union Employees of New York (UUE-NY) Facilitator: Mark Dudzic, LCSP Organizing the South ...... Royce Labor’s Media Strategy ...... DeSoto Foyer Meet with worker activists from Alabama, North Carolina, This panel will look at how to develop a media strategy for the Georgia, Texas and elsewhere. Hear about various organizing rank and file, a local, or an international. Many new communica- campaigns across the South. tion tools, including social networking, video, and audio, are being used to break the corporate information blockade. We will look at how to use all these tools. VidaViva Health and Safety Meeting (S, P) . . .Rolls Marty Conlisk, Laborbeat Chicago, IBEW VidaViva has united hundreds of unions in Brazil, Mozambique, Steve Early, labor journalist Germany, France, and Mexico in an effort to improve working Chris Lawson, PSAC Canada and Labourtech/Canada conditions and gain power through the innovative use of health Julian Peeples, California School Employees Association and safety strategies. VidaViva will present the hands-on Facilitator: Steve Zeltzer, Labor Video Project/LaborTech.net methodologies, including body maps, participatory exhibitions, discussion videos, and skits developed to explore both the rela- Organizing Part-Time Workers ...... Regency B tionship between work and health and strategies for joint solu- Part-time work is the norm in many jobs, even with a union. But tions. This meeting is geared towards ROC members, but all are most unions are ill-equipped to integrate part-time workers—and welcome. some are uninterested. This meeting will examine a wide range Facilitators: Heiner Koehnen, Tie Global, Germany of situations, from restaurant and retail to UPS, tackling the Mara Lira, Sindialimentacao, VidaViva, Brazil question: how should the labor movement approach part-time work and part-time workers? Japanese Delegation Films (J) ...... Cord Facilitator: Audra Makuch, Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Join members of the Japanese delegation for a screening of DVDs from recent labor struggles in their home country. Scenes will include women-led fights, jobless organizing, fights against auto layoffs, and temp-worker organizing. Jim West/jimwestphoto.com (4c) Jim West/jimwestphoto.com 20 Sunday,Workshops E 10:45am - 12:30pm Ain’t Misbehavin’: Confronting Management’s China: New Trends in Labor Advocacy (M) ‘Blame the Worker’ Safety Programs (S) Royce ...... DeSoto Foyer Management blames workers when they get injured—through How are Chinese workers responding to the global financial crisis injury discipline policies, post-injury drug testing, safety incentive and to their country’s changing economy and laws? Hear what programs, and behavior-based safety observation programs. NGOs, students, and others are doing to highlight the plight of These programs discourage reporting of injuries, focus attention contract workers, win compensation for victims of work injuries, away from the real hazards, and undermine union solidarity. and cultivate future labor activists. Different advocacy techniques Learn how to prevent or abolish harmful programs and direct the used in China today will be compared and contrasted. focus back to addressing hazards and holding management Eli Friedman, UAW Local 2865, UC Berkeley accountable. Doris Lee, Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong Nancy Lessin, health and safety activist/educator, United Jing Qiang, Pearl River Workers Service Center, Guangzhou, China Steelworkers-Tony Mazzocchi Center Facilitator: Manfred Elfstrom, International Labor Rights Forum Bargaining during a Recession ...... DeSoto A Flyers and Newsletters (S) ...... Stearns When the boss asks for concessions, how do bargainers This nuts-and-bolts workshop will cover the basics and a few respond? First is a list of counter-concessions required from man- advanced tips for writing flyers and newsletters. We’ll see exam- agement as a condition of granting any givebacks. Participants ples of the best and the worst, and offer practical tips for com- will draft information requests, specific proposals, and fall-back munications that will both get your point across and get your proposals, and will review possible language choices. A must for flyer read. Participants are encouraged to bring examples of their officers and members who sit at the bargaining table. work to share. Richard de Vries, Teamsters Local 705 Craig Merrilees, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Bill Henderson, CWA Local 1298, AT&T Rand Wilson, Center for Strategic Research, AFL-CIO Beating Apathy (S) ...... Royale Internal Organizing ...... DeSoto B Are you beating your head against the wall trying to get other It’s not enough to tell your co-workers to “get involved.” Locals workers involved? This workshop is for you. Hear success stories need to build structures that can draw workers in, starting with a from workers who turned their workplaces around and turned solid presence in the workplace. Learn about building a stewards apathy into action. Learn practical organizing tools for mapping council and on-the-job networks for member-to-member commu- your workplace, talking to members, and taking action. nication. Dynnita Bryant, Philadelphia Security Officers Union Paul Krehbiel, National Union of Healthcare Workers Daniel Duffy, Philadelphia Security Officers Union Nichele Fulmore, Teamsters Local 391, North Carolina Organizing across the Food Chain (S) . .Regency D Facilitator: Dan Lutz, Teamsters for a Democratic Union This workshop will provide an overview of food supply chains and workers’ organizing efforts in the food system, and the ways Big Brother Is Doing More than Watching: Taking workers are collaborating to improve wages and working condi- on Management’s Plans for Technology . .Knight tions in the U.S. and around the world. The Food Chain Workers Using technology as a tool, management is creating workplaces Alliance, a new collaboration of organizers, will be discussed. where we are sped up, monitored, de-skilled, and our jobs elimi- Lucas Benitez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers nated. We don’t see each other, can’t talk to each other, and Mara Lira, CONTAC (National Confederation of Food and don’t have time to build relationships—or the union. From RFID Agricultural Workers), CUT, Brazil monitoring, video surveillance and GPS tracking to computer-con- José Oliva, Restaurant Opportunities Center United trolled workflow systems and other forms of automation, man- Facilitator: Trina Tocco, International Labor Rights Forum agement is stealing our job knowledge and squeezing more work out of us. We’ll talk about how to challenge management’s tech- nological plans and bargain over tech change. Debra Rigiero, Massachusetts Nurses Association/NNU Craig Karnia, Teamsters Local 705, UPS Don Trementozzi, CWA Local 1400, telecom Facilitator: Charley Richardson, UMass-Lowell

Language Interpretation Key — See page 4 or 16 21 Sunday,Workshops E 10:45am - 12:30pm Organizing With or Without EFCA . . . .Regency A Labor law is broken, but organizing non-union workers can’t wait FILM: “Why Are We in Afghanistan?” (27 min) for Congress. Learn how some unions are organizing and what it ...... Cord takes to win in today’s environment. Examples will include the This new DVD looks at domestic pressures and geo-strategic victory at Smithfield Foods’ largest hog plant, in Tar Heel, North interests that keep the U.S. in the region, and at the long his- Carolina (UFCW); Fresh Direct, a New York online grocery deliv- tory of U.S. foreign interventions that form the broader con- ery service (Teamsters); the Boston Hyatt (UNITE HERE); and text for this war. Created to educate union members, it’s for private homecare companies in Illinois and Indiana (SEIU). anyone who wonders why we are in Afghanistan, and what to Gene Bruskin, Justice@Smithfield Campaign do about it. Written by Michael Zweig, who will be present to Katharine Christiani and Corporina Belis, UNITE HERE Local 26 discuss what’s happening in Afghanistan and how unions Matthew Luskin, SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana have used the DVD for education. Enrique Martinez, Teamsters Local 805 Facilitator: Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers The Recession’s Impact on Black Workers Pensions under Attack ...... Stanley ...... Regency C From the Fortune 500 to the public sector, pensions and retiree benefits are under fire. Learn how a recent wave of contract con- Layoffs, mounting foreclosures, and cuts to public services have cessions and changes to the law may affect your retirement ben- dealt their most severe blow to the African American community. efits—and ways that unions are fighting back. Find out how workers are organizing against this avalanche of bad news, and why addressing the crisis in the Black community Jesse Sharkey, Caucus of Rank and File Educators, Chicago Teachers Union is a key step to rebuilding labor’s power. Stefan Ostrach, Teamsters Local 206 Elitha Brown, SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana Facilitator: David Cohen, United Electrical Workers Bunnie Johnson, AFSCME Local 2858 Shafeah M’Balia, Black Workers for Justice Facilitator: Tim Schermerhorn, Transport Workers Union Local 100 2:00 - 3:00 pm 3:00 - 5:00 pm Bloggers Alley ...... Atrium Global Unionism: The Prospects for International See page 12 Grassroots Solidarity, Part II ...... Regency A This session is a continuation from Friday. See page 12. Facilitator: Mara Lira, Sindialimentacao, Brazil Jim West/jimwestphoto.com (2) Jim West/jimwestphoto.com

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