2011 JOBS WITH JUSTICE CONFERENCE PROGRAM
- NEW! Conference Agenda Available
- Stop the War on Workers Program
- Workers Unite to Turn the Tide on Immigration Enforcement Program
- Caring Across Generations Program
- Highlights of the Agenda
- Plenaries
- Student Labor Pre-Conference
- Issue Forums
- Workshops
Complete agenda here.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4TH
11am-5pm: Student Labor Pre-Conference
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5TH
10:30am-2pm: Issue Forums
3pm: Plenary & Welcome from DC JwJ
4pm: ACTION to support a local campaign
9pm: Entertainment
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6TH
9am-5pm: Plenaries, Workshops, and Open Space time
6:30pm: Banquet Kickoff to the JwJ 25th Anniversary Celebration
9pm: Entertainment
SUNDAY, AUGUST 7TH
9am-2pm: Interfaith Service, Workshops,
Open Space time & Closing Plenary
Luncheon
Opening Session: Expanding the fights for jobs, collective bargaining and the right to organize locally and nationally through the JwJ model in DC.
Welcome to the real DC! Hear from local workers, community leaders, and activists engaged in struggles to expand the right to organize in the country's last mainland colony. Wear comfortable shoes -- this plenary ends with an action!
Confronting Challenges to the Labor Movement with Innovation & Solidarity
With global migration at a historic high, and increases in the informal sector in many parts of the world, it is time to create new laws and structures to protect workers rights to organize and collectively bargain. Come hear how labor unions and worker organizations have already started building new and innovative approaches to build a framework for bargaining rights in the 21st century. Come explore and discuss the challenges we face as the labor movement and share ideas for how we turn the tide for workers.
Jobs with Justice Celebration Banquet
This banquet will kick-off our year-long celebration of 25 years of JwJ. We will share history, celebrate our network and showcase our work through a video compilation, and honor Rev. Calvin Morris. Lots of music and time for folks to enjoy one another's company. We will invite broader labor community in DC to attend.
Closing Plenary: From the Middle East to the Midwest… What's Next?
This general session is the closing call to action for the network. After days of sharing, strategizing, and learning together, this session will pull together a call to action based on the many discussions that will take place in strategy tracks, issue forums, workshops, and open spaces throughout the organizing summit. What does this moment call upon us to do?
STUDENT LABOR PRE-CONFERENCE (AUGUST 4, 2011, 12pm-5pm)
Join students from across the country to share and learn strategies about incredible campaigns being waged on campuses and in communities across the country and learn how to build winning student - labor alliances.
ISSUE FORUMS (AUGUST 5, 2011, 10:30am-2:45pm)
Building a New Economy: Imagine what it would mean if retail and service occupations were careers instead of just jobs. Envision what it would mean if communities had more control over our local economies and job growth. Imagine communities where residents could use and control local banks. In the midst of the many defensive battles that we are taking on, we must also be pushing for proactive initiatives that help us to imagine and build a new economy that supports full & fair employment in our communities. Come learn about some of the innovative strategies that workers and communities are organizing - like the local economies movement, state-run banks, co-operatives, job creation, and transforming specific sectors of our economy.
Caring Across Generations Campaign to Address the Direct Care Crisis: Every 8 seconds, a person in the U.S. turns 65. As our aging population grows, we are facing a serious "care crisis" in our nation. "Caring Across Generations" is a campaign created by the National Domestic Workers Alliance that JwJ and other allies are partnering on to address the pending direct care crisis. The campaign seeks to transform one of the growing sectors of the economy, ensuring that families are able to afford quality direct care and ensuring that workers have fair and safe working conditions and access to appropriate training, career advancement, and citizenship. This training session is for local organizers and organizations that are interested in learning about the overall campaign and the local strategies. Develop new skills in digital story-collection and other online tools that can be used to advance this campaign.
Change WalMart, Change the Economy: (12:30pm-2:45pm) Take part in discussions about how, as the corporate behemoth Walmart seeks to expand its operations into urban areas, community, faith, students and youth are uniting across the country to push them back. Join us as we define and demand accountability for the types of jobs the company creates in our communities as well as a range of other important issues including food access, environmental impact, taxes, and land grants.
Immigration Enforcement and Criminalization, an organized attack to divide workers -- & the grassroots fight back: Enforcement and criminalization programs like Secure Communities and SB 1070 copycat legislation are used to divide workers and squash worker organizing campaigns. Who is behind all of these national and state based attacks on immigrant workers? What are the solutions? Come learn the hidden corporate and right-wing plan to divide workers and the organizing strategies to fight back. Learn tools to talk with co-workers, neighbors, and family about immigrant and worker unity.
REGISTER ONLINE HERE!
