Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Lawrence Heritage State Park, One Jackson Street
Lawrence, MA
Schedule for the day:
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.: Labor Today – 100 Years After the Strike
• Peter Olney, Organizing Director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) on the West Coast.
• Tom Marvin, "Community/Labor Coalitions: Some Lessons from Indianapolis." Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
• Rand Wilson, strike strategist and Organizing Director at SEIU Local 888.
Participants will also include union members who were recently on strike in the Merrimack Valley.
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.: "The Importance of Strike Activity in Building New Unions"
• Steve Early, author of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
• Joe Burns, staff attorney and negotiator, Association of Flight Attendants / Communications Workers of America and author of Reviving The Strike.
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.: 100 Years After • Robert Ross, “Fire-to-Fire: How American Investors Exported Factory Fires and Sweatshops While Big Box RetailersAllowed Sweatshop Conditions to Reappear in the U.S.,” Clark University.• Virginia M. Noon, “Lessons Learned: A Comparison of the Textile and Apparel Industry of Early 19th CenturyLawrence and Lowell with China Today,” Framingham State University.
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.: “Bread and Roses: Dignity and Respect as a Dimension of Labor and Working Class Struggles”
• Robert Ross, Clark University• Jennifer Doe, Organizer MA Jobs with Justice.• Brian Lang, President, UNITE HERE Local 26.
Participants will also include union members who were recently on strike in the Merrimack Valley.
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