Organizing for Power and Workers’ Rights in the Twenty-first Century
Organizing for Power and Workers’ Rights in the Twenty-first Century
Organizing for Power and Workers’ Rights in the Twenty-first Century
Attacks on the freedom to organize have created new challenges for workers in recent years. This symposium will examine approaches to organizing that have emerged in the fast food, big box merchandizing and domestic care industries, among others, while placing them in the context of a global economy. Panelists will examine effective labor organizing strategies, support for workers and how the economy and outsourcing can be integrated into labor organizing. Participants can also view the new George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive at UMD, which presents a history of the labor struggle within the United States.
For more information: www.newamerica.umd.edu
PROGRAM
9 a.m.
Introductory remarks
Julie Greene, professor, Department of History, University of Maryland
Patricia A. Steele, dean of libraries, University of Maryland
9:30 a.m.
Session One
Building the 21st Century Labor Movement
Chair:
Anna Lane Windham, doctoral candidate, Department of History, University of Maryland
Speakers:
Janice Fine, associate professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
Eileen Boris, Hull professor, Departments of History and Feminist Studies, University of California Santa Barbara
Dan Schlademan, director of Making Change at Walmart, United Food and Commercial Workers Union
11:30 a.m.
Keynote address
Elizabeth Shuler, secretary-treasurer, AFL-CIO
1 p.m.
LUNCH
2 p.m.
Session Two
Global Flows: Immigrants, Globalization and the New Political Economy
Chair:
Nancy Mirabal, associate professor, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Speakers:
Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, Department of History, University of California Santa Barbara
Tefere Gebre, executive vice president, AFL-CIO
Sergio Sosa, executive director, Heartland Workers Center
4 p.m.
Reception and Tour
Tour the George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive and the Gordon W. Prange Collection, Hornbake Library, 4th Floor
Photos from Page One Photography collection, University of Maryland Libraries.
Co-sponsored by University of Maryland Libraries | Southern Labor Studies Association International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers