8:00 am - 9:00 am

REGISTRATION / CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:00 am - 9:30 am

WELCOMING REMARKS
Remarks by NLRB Chair Mark Gaston Pearce
Introduction by Interim Provost Harry Katz & ILR School Dean Kevin Hallock

9:30 am - 10:00 am

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Larry Cohen, President of Communications Workers of America (CWA)

10:15 am- 11:45 am

PANEL:

From Here to Where?

Moderator:

Lowell Turner
Professor, ILR & Director of The Worker Institute

Panelists:

Stephen Lerner
Fellow, Georgetown University’s Kalamanovitz Initiative

Sarita Gupta
Executive Director, Jobs with Justice

Lynn Rhinehart
General Counsel, AFL-CIO

Rick Hurd
Professor, ILR

Noon - 1:30 pm

LUNCH
Remarks by NLRB Chair Mark Gaston Pearce & General Counsel Richard F. Griffin

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

PANEL:

Do We Still Need the NLRA?
Protecting Individual & Collective Rights of Workers

Moderator:

Risa Lieberwitz
Professor, ILR

Panelists:

Angela Cornell
Clinical Professor at the Cornell Law School

Michael Fischl
Professor of Law, University of Connecticut Law School

Tamara L. Lee
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University Labor Education Center

Jonathan Hiatt
Executive Assistant to the President & Chief of Staff, AFL-CIO

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

PANEL:

Pushing the Boundaries

Moderator:

Ileen DeVault
Professor, ILR

Panelists:

Sara Horowitz
Executive Director, Freelancers’ Union

Kate Griffith
Professor, ILR

Barbara Young
National Organizer, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Saket Soni
Executive Director, National Guest Worker Alliance

Paul Booth
Executive Assistant to the President, AFSCME

5:00 pm

RECEPTION

9:00 am - 9:30 am

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

9:30 am- 11:00 am

PANEL:

The Labor Question? Know Your Rights

Moderator:

Wilma Liebman
Former NLRB Chair & Visiting Lecturer, ILR

Panelists:

Liz Shuler
Secretary/Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Director, AFL-CIO Youth Awareness Initiative

Thomas Kochan
Professor of Management, MIT
Co-Director, MIT Sloan Institute for Work & Employment

Danny Massey
Vice-President, Berlin Rosen

11:15 am - 12:45 pm

PANEL:

Understanding Workers’ Rights as Human Rights

Moderator:

James Gross
Professor, ILR

Panelists:

Dorian Warren
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University School of Public Affairs
Co-Director, Program on Labor Law & Policy

Mary Joyce Carlson
Attorney, Fast Food Forward Campaign

Hetty Rosenstein
CWA Area Director, Trenton, NJ

Arvind Ganesan
Business & Human Rights Director, Human Rights Watch

12:45 pm

LUNCH