Labor Notes Conference -Free Live Stream-June 17-19, 2022

 

LABOR NOTES CONFERENCE
Friday, June 17 - Sunday, June 19
LIVESTREAM PROGRAM
All times Central.
RSVP at bit.ly/labornotes2022.

STRIKE! REVIVING LABOR’S MOST POWERFUL WEAPON

Friday, 1pm - 2:45pm CT

At the heart of workers’ power is the ability to shut down business as usual by using the best-known tool in the labor movement’s toolbox: the strike. Hear from workers who’ve done it themselves, from Nabisco to Kellogg’s to Starbucks, and how those fights have transformed their unions, their co-workers, and the world.

Donna Jo Marks, Bakery Workers Local 364, Nabisco
Kevonna Neely, Communications Workers Local 1133
Sarah Pappin, Starbucks Workers United
Braxton Wright, United Mine Workers, Warrior Met Coal
Facilitator: Sara Nelson, Flight Attendants (AFA-CWA)

 

A UNION BREWS AT STARBUCKS

Friday, 3pm - 4:45pm CT

Starbucks workers across the country have been self-organizing an expansive and exciting new organizing campaign that has caught the national imagination. Hear from workers who’ve organized their own stores, gone on strike, built public support, and are changing the labor movement.

Mason Boykin, Jacksonville
Kylah Clay, Boston
Alydia Claypool, Kansas City
Laila Dalton, Phoenix
Will Westlake, Buffalo
Bill Whitmire, Phoenix
Facilitator: Daisy Pitkin, Workers United-SEIU

 

LABOR’S UPSURGE: HOW UNIONS CAN MAKE THE MOST OF THIS MOMENT

Friday, 5pm-6:30pm CT

From Amazon and Starbucks to Google and Apple, we’re in the midst of a wave of union organizing that is challenging longstanding assumptions and redefining the boundaries of what’s possible. Join a discussion with veteran labor strategists and organizers on the frontlines of current organizing efforts about how unions can make the most of this upsurge.

Mark Meinster, United Electrical Workers
Stephanie Luce, Professional Staff Congress
Kylah Clay, Starbucks Workers United
Derrick Palmer, Amazon Labor Union
Facilitator: E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker
 

FRIDAY NIGHT MAIN SESSION

Friday, 7:30pm-9pm CT

Stacy Davis Gates, president-elect, Chicago Teachers Union
Michelle Eisen, Starbucks Workers United
Dilson Hernandez, musician and hip hop artist
Sean O’Brien, president, Teamsters
Marie Ritacco, St. Vincent striker and vice president, Massachusetts Nurses
Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator
Chris Smalls, president, Amazon Labor Union
Nolan Tabb, John Deere striker, Auto Workers/ Unite All Workers for Democracy
Chair: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes
 

SATURDAY AM MAIN SESSION

Saturday, 9-9:45 am CT

Victor “The Mixer” Bouzi, IATSE Local 695
Marcia Howard, Minneapolis Federation of Teachers
Lynn Marie Smith, The Motown Diva
Chair: Steven Pitts, Black Work Talk

 

AMAZON WORKERS IN MOTION

Saturday, 2pm-3:45pm CT

Hear directly from rank-and-file Amazon workers from four different groups across the country about how they’re organizing at the corporate giant—building independent unions and winning elections, organizing direct actions on the job, and launching campaigns to improve working conditions and demand wage increases.

Angelika Maldonado, Amazon Labor Union
Rev. Ryan Brown, Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment
Chris Zamarron, Amazonians United
Jennifer Bates, Retail and Department Store Workers (RWDSU), Amazon Bessemer
Facilitator: Bianca Cunningham, Action Center on Race and the Economy
 

SUNDAY MAIN SESSION

Sunday, 1pm-2pm CT

Israel Cervantes, Casa Obrera del Bajio, General Motors, Mexico
Liliana Herrera, singer-songwriter
Jon Schleuss, president, NewsGuild
Jessica Wender-Shubow, Brookline Educators Union president
Chair: Barbara Madeloni, Labor Notes.