There will be a panel on "Beyond Solidarity: Creating Global Labor Unions" Sunday, March 11, at 12:00 pm as part of the annual "Left Forum" March 9-11, at Cooper Union in New York City. Panelists include:
Radhika Lal, Brecht Forum (Chair)
Héctor Figueroa, Secretary-Treasurer, 32B-J, SEIU
Andy Banks, Campaigns Director, Strategic Research and Campaigns Department, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Nicola Nicolosi, Director, European Secretariat, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
Andrea Montagni, Vice-President, National Steering Committee, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
The Left Forum is a three-day event which includes almost one hundred panel discussions, a film festival on Friday afternoon, two Saturday evening cultural performances, and a bookfair. The full conference program, schedule, and speakers bios are available online at:
<http://leftforum.org/leftforum2007/program.html > For other information: (212) 817 2003 - www.leftforum.org
Other panels on the labor movement include:
The Split in Organized Labor: What's the Result?
Audra Makuch, SEIU (Chair)
Steve Early, Communication Workers of America
Alberto Bernárdez, Recording Secretary, District 10, SEIU 32BJ
Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-founder, Center for Labor Renewal
Marsha Niemeijer, Labor Notes
Immigrant Women Workers Organizing
Jeanette Gabriel, Workers Education Center (Chair)
Jeffrey Eichler, Head of Oganizing, RWDSU New York
Sadatu Mamah-Trawill, Organizer, RWDSU
Nieves Padilla, Head of Workplace Organizing, Make the Road by Walking
Nilda Morales, Organizer, Make the Road by Walking
Organizing Low Wage Workers
William DiFazio, St. Johns University, CityWatch-WBAI (Chair)
Kate Bronfenbrenner, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Margaret Gray, Adelphi University
David G. Van Arsdale, SUNY Tompkins Cortland Community College
Working Class Politics, Historic Blocs, and Political Parties: A Dialogue
Radhika Lal, Brecht Forum (Chair)
Bill Fletcher, Jr., Co-founder, Center for Labor Renewal
Andrea Montagni, Vice-President, National Steering Committee, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
Nicola Nicolosi, Director, European Secretariat, Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro
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