STOP THE WAR ON WORKERS PROGRAM

The Jobs with Justice national conference will be a unique opportunity for union leaders and rank-and-file activists to come together with community organizers, faith leaders, and student activists to learn from each other and strategize new ways to build worker power in our communities, our country, and our world! From Cairo to the Midwest to what's next… come to this organizing summit to plan the next steps in confronting challenges to the labor movement with innovation and solidarity.

STRATEGIC TRACKS
The conference is organized around several strategic tracks. Throughout the conference, people will convene around these topics during issue forums, plenaries, workshops, and open space time and develop a clear set of action steps to be laid out Sunday during the closing plenary. Tracks include:

• Organizing & Bargaining in Tough Times
• Defending the Public Sector
• Building a New Economy
• Making Change at Walmart
• Caring Across Generations
• Turning the Tide on Immigration Enforcement

PLENARIES
Four exciting plenaries at the JwJ conference will touch on all of the strategic tracks. A few highlights include:

Confronting Challenges to the Labor Movement with Innovation & Solidarity

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.

Speakers include: Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis (confirmed); President Joe Hansen, UFCW and a WalMart Associate; President Bob King, UAW and a transplant worker; President Randi Weingarten, AFT and a Teacher; Saket Soni, National Guestworkers Alliance and a guestworker; and Tom Lewendowski, NE Indiana CLC, AFL-CIO and an unemployed worker.

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? Come help us answer this question.

Organizing & Bargaining in Tough Times Strategic Track

• Issue Forum: Building a New Economy
• Workshops: see descriptions on website
• • Expanding the Right to Organize in the Global Economy
  • Winning Campaigns Against Privatization
  • Local is Global: Organizing the Manufacturing Sector
  • The POWER Act & Why we Need it to Organize- a new approach to organizing immigrant workers.
  • How Jobs with Justice wins Organizing & Collective Bargaining Struggles
  • Challenges & Opportunities for Expanding the Right to Organize for Mis-classified Workers
  • Bargaining to Organize
• Open Space Strategy Session:
• • Organizing the Fight Back

Building a New Economy Strategic Track

• Issue Forum: Building a New Economy
• Workshops
  • Organizing Unemployed Workers through existing, ongoing campaigns
• • Taking on Corporate Power: Make Wall Street Pay!
  • Taking on Corporate Power: Going up Against Multi-National Corporations
  • Building a New Economy (follow-up to Issue Forum)
  • Winning Climate Justice AND Worker Justice
  • Building Worker & Community Power Through Accountable Development Campaigns
• Open Space - TBD

Defending the Public Sector Strategic Track

• Issue Forum: Building a New Economy
• Workshops:
• • Defending the Public Sector
  • Pro-Active State Strategies to Advance Workers' Rights
• Open Space Strategy Session:
• • Organizing the Fight Back Part I
  • Organizing the Fight Back Part II

Making Change at WalMart Strategic Track

• Issue Forum: Change WalMart, Change the Economy
• Workshops:
• • Making Change at WalMart: Holding Walmart Accountable to Raise Standards
  • Taking on Corporate Power: Going up Against Multi-National Corporations

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE JOBS WITH JUSTICE MODEL

• Workshops:
• • Building a Movement to Win Social and Economic Justice for Working Families: The JwJ Values Triangle - How JwJ Builds Relationships and Power Based on Our Values and Self-Interest.
  • Creating, Controlling, & Preventing Change: The Values Triangle - An Organizing Framework for Analyzing, Building and Using Power
  • Building a Coalition for Social Justice the JwJ Way! Building JwJ 101
  • Taking a JwJ Coalition to the Next Level of Strength: Building JwJ 202
  • Building Power & Winning Victories with Workers' Rights Boards
  • SLAP (Student Labor) Power Model

Other Strategic Conversations at the Conference:

• Health Care Crisis: 2 workshops and 2 open space sessions
• Accountable Development Strategies
• Fighting Corporate Power: banks and multi-national corporations
• Inside-Outside the Beltway Strategies - connecting organizing, policy, and electoral strategies
• Gender Justice

READ MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM & REGISTER NOW AT
www.jwj.org/conference