Constructing a New Social Compact: Full Schedule and Links
April 28 – May 1
All times are subject to change and additional panels may be added. Please access each session using the hyperlinks provided.
Wednesday, April 28
| Time (in EDT) | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm – 2:15pm Join here. | The Future of Workers & Democracy ◆ Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation ◆ Chris Lu, Senior Fellow, UVA Miller Center ◆ Sarita Gupta, director, Ford Foundation’s Future of Work(ers) Program ◆ Moderated by Joseph McCartin, Executive Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University Spanish Interpretation and Closed Captioning Provided | Plenary |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Immigration Policy for 2021 and Beyond ◆ Marielena Hincapie, Executive Director the National Immigration Law Center ◆ Amaha Kassa, Executive Director, African Communities Together ◆ Saket Soni, Executive Director, Resilience Force ◆ Moderated by Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies at the City University of NY Spanish Interpretation Provided | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Climate Crisis and the New Social Compact ◆ Christina Schlegel, Global Center for Climate Justice ◆ Jesse Strecker, UC Berkeley, Data For Progress ◆ Anthony Rogers-Wright, Environmental Justice Director, NY Lawyers for the Public Interest ◆ Moderated by Carlos Torrealba, Central Florida Climate Action, Central Florida Jobs with Justice | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Workplace Safety and Health ◆ Laura Huizar, Immigration Worker Justice Program Director, NELP ◆ Darcy Tromanhauser, Director, Immigrants & Communities Program, Nebraska Appleseed ◆ Jane Thomason, Lead Industrial Hygienist at National Nurses United ◆ Moderated by Deborah Berkowitz, Worker Health and Safety Program Director, NELP | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Countering Company Town 2.0 ◆ Tarso Luis Ramos, Executive Director, Political Research Associates ◆ Stacy Mitchell, Co-director, Institute for Local Self-Reliance ◆ Ramah Kudiami, Director, Crescendo at ACRE ◆ Michelle Miller, Co-founder and Co-director, coworker.org ◆ Moderated by Dania Rajendra, Director, Athena | Concurrent Session |
| 7:00pm – 8:30pm Join here. | Getting It Right This Time: Discussing the New Social Compact in the PRO Act Moment ◆ Erica Smiley, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice ◆ William P. Jones, historian, president LAWCHA, University of Minnesota ◆ Reyna Lopez Osuna, Executive Director, PCUN ◆ William Spriggs, Chief Economist, AFL-CIO ◆ Moderated by Lane Windham, Associate Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University Spanish Interpretation and Closed Captioning Provided | Plenary |
Thursday, April 29
| Time (in EDT) | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00am – 12:30pm Join here. | Higher Education: Building Civil Societies through Common Good Bargaining Approaches ◆ Merrie Najimy, President, Massachusetts Teachers Association ◆ Richard Levy, Salem State University chapter of the Massachusetts State College Association ◆ Marilyn Sneiderman, Executive Director, Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations ◆ Melissa Case, Associate Director, NEA Center for Organizing ◆ Moderated by Dale Templeton, Director, Collective Bargaining and Member Advocacy, NEA | Panel Session |
| 1:00pm – 2:15pm Join here. | An Economy for People & Planet: What Would it Take? ◆ Sara Nelson, President, AFA-CWA ◆ Catherine Coleman-Flowers, Founder, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice ◆ Samir Sonti, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies ◆ Moderated by Lauren Burke, Organizing Director, Labor Network for Sustainability Spanish Interpretation and Closed Captioning Provided | Plenary |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Bargaining for the Common Good and the Fight for a New Social Compact in K-12 Education ◆ Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers ◆ Marshé Doss, Students Deserve ◆ Terrence Martin, Detroit Federation of Teachers ◆ Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Workers’ Technology Rights as 21st Century Labor Standards ◆ Sheheryar Kaoosji, Executive Director, Warehouse Workers Resource Center ◆ Annette Bernhardt, Director of the Technology and Work Program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center ◆ Ryan Gerety, United For Respect ◆ Stasha Lampert, SEIU Local 2015 ◆ Gabrielle Rejouis, Color of Change | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Racial Discrimination and the Temp Economy ◆ Roberto Clack, Warehouse Workers for Justice, Executive Director ◆ Tim Bell, Chicago Workers’ Collaborative, Executive Director ◆ Brittany Scott, Partners for Dignity & Rights, Senior Research Strategist ◆ Moderator, Margaret Poydock, Policy Analyst, EPI | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | A New Social Compact for Global Supply Chains ◆ Sarah Newell, Workers Rights Consortium ◆ Genevieve LeBaron, Professor, University of Sheffield ◆ Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum, Executive Director, Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum ◆ Scott Nova, Executive Director, Worker Rights Consortium Spanish Interpretation Provided | Concurrent Session |
Friday, April 30
| Time (in EDT) | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm – 2:15pm Join here. | Rebuilding with Care: The Infrastructure of Equity ◆ Fatima Goss Graves, President, National Women’s Law Center ◆ Ai-jen Poo, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance ◆ Rep. Jamaal Bowman, NY-16 ◆ Rebecca Cokley, Disability Rights Program Officer, Office of the President, Ford Foundation ◆ Moderator, Dorian Warren, President, Community Change Spanish Interpretation and Closed Captioning Provided | Plenary |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Social Protection and Global Resilience ◆ Evelyn Astor, Advisor on Economic and Social Policy, International Trade Union Confederation ◆ Isabel Ortiz, Director, Global Social Justice Program, Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University ◆ Adriana Paz-Ramirez, Latin America Regional Coordinator, International Domestic Worker Federation ◆ Eric Manzi, Secretary General, Rwanda Workers Trade Union Confederation (CESTRAR) ◆ Moderated by Cathy Feingold, International Director, AFL-CIO; Deputy President, ITUC Spanish Interpretation Provided | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | Collective Action, the Public Good, and Democracy ◆ Jenny Hunter, Associate General Counsel, SEIU ◆ Richard Wells, SUNY Empire State College ◆ Dieynabou Barry, Partnership for Working Families ◆ Maria Noel Fernandez, Deputy Executive Director at Working Partnerships USA ◆ Moderator: Aimee Loiselle, Postdoctoral Fellow, Smith College | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | A Conversation on New Models of Organizing for Frontline Essential Workers ◆ Andrea Dehlendorf, Executive Director, United For Respect ◆ Shirley Smith, member leader, United for Respect ◆ Minister Cherri Murphy, Lead Organizer, Gig Workers Rising ◆ Katy Habr, Graduate Student, Columbia University ◆ Moderated by Javier Morillo, Creator and Co-Host, “Wrong on Everything” | Concurrent Session |
| 2:30pm – 4:00pm Join here. | The Future for Workers in the Future of Work ◆ Tom Juravich, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ◆ Raoul Gebert, Professor, Universite de Montreal ◆ Uma Rani, International Labour Organization ◆ Alex Quesnel, graduate student, Carleton University | Concurrent Session |
| 6:00pm – 8:00pm Join here. | Arts Night ◆ Christopher Sims, spoken word artist ◆ Screening of Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights: For information on the film go to: uniontimefilm.org Q & A with Matthew Barr, director of the film and Gene Bruskin, former director of the Justice@Smithfield campaign, will follow the screening. | Arts Night |
Saturday, May 1
| Time (in EDT) | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm Join here. | By the Workers, for the Workers: Amplifying Worker Organizing through Policy Feedback Loops ◆ Francisco Diez, Center for Popular Democracy ◆ Guilherme Dray, Professor, University of Lisbon ◆ Stephen Silvia, American University ◆ Stephanie Luce, Professor of Labor Studies, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies | Concurrent Session |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm Join here. | Migration & a Transnational New Social Compact ◆ Ana Padilla, Director, University of California Merced Community and Labor Center ◆ Lucas Zucker, Policy and Communications Director of Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) ◆ Reva Resstack, Center for Global Development ◆ Adriana Marcela Velásquez, Consultant in International Development and Equity at ECLAC and Associate Researcher in Migration and Development at FLACSO El Salvador ◆ Moderated by Juan Belman Guerrero, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor Spanish Interpretation provided | Concurrent Session |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm Join here. | Building the Next Economy: Labor Organizing Beyond Capitalism ◆ Troy Walcott, Co-Founder, People’s Choice Communications; IBEW Local #3 ◆ Martin KenLewis, Co-Founder, The Drivers Cooperative ◆ Alissa Orlando, Co-Founder, The Drivers Cooperative ◆ David Aviles, Executive Director, United Clergy Task Force ◆ Moderated by Erik Forman, Founder, Union Co-op NYC Housing Studio | Concurrent Session |
| 12:00pm – 1:30pm Join here. | The Intersections of Economic, Political, and Religious Democracy ◆ KB Brower, Organizing Director, Bargaining for the Common Good ◆ Francisco Garcia, Graduate Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University ◆ Pamela Lightsey, VP of Academic and Student Affairs and Assoc. Prof, Meadville Lombard Theological School ◆ Chaumtoli Huq, Professor, CUNY School of Law ◆ Moderated by Joerg Rieger, Founding Director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice, Professor, Vanderbilt University | Concurrent Session |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm Join here. | The Future of Work: Lessons from Organizing Rideshare Drivers and the Politics of the Gig Economy in California ◆ Katie Wells, Fellow, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor ◆ Rand Wilson, Organizer and Chief of Staff, SEIU 888 ◆ Nicole Moore, Rideshare Drivers United ◆ Moderated by Peter Olney, Organizing Director ILWU (Retired) | Concurrent Session |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm Join here. | Workshop: Democratizing Budgets to Center Care ◆ Mariah Montgomery, Partnership for Working Families ◆ Kathryn Cai, Partnership for Working Families This workshop will explore how participatory democracy can address the challenges of the moment and reshape our understandings of public goods. | Concurrent Session |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm Join here. | Worker-Driven Social Responsibility and Co-Enforcement: Innovative Models for Enforcing Workplace Standards in a 21st Century Social Compact ◆ Janice Fine, Professor, School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University ◆ Merle Payne, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL) ◆ Gerardo Reyes Chavez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers ◆ Moderated by Joseph McCartin, Executive Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University Spanish Interpretation Provided | Concurrent Session |
| 1:45pm – 3:15pm Join here. | Queering Social Reproduction: Start-Up Capitalism, Family Leave, and Robotic Labor ◆ Eileen Boris, Hull Chair and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies and History, the University of California, Santa Barbara ◆ Carly Thomsen, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College ◆ Hemangini Gupta, Visiting Assistant Professor, Middlebury College ◆ Kelly Sharron, Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach ◆ Moderated by Wilneida Negrón, coworker.org | Concurrent Session |
| 3:30pm – 4:30pm Join here. | Building Toward a New Social Compact ◆ Mary Kay Henry, President, SEIU ◆ Lauren Jacobs, Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families ◆ Thomas Kochan, Professor, Co-Director, MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research ◆ Rev. Alvin Herring, Faith in Action ◆ Moderated by Ruth Milkman, Distinguished Professor Sociology and Chair of Labor Studies at the City University of NY Spanish Interpretation and Closed Captioning Provided | Closing |