383 - Plenary Session. The 21st Century U.S. Labor Movement

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This panel will feature prominent labor leaders from traditional unions as well as independent organizers and leaders of labor-oriented community-based organizations. They will be asked to speak on the multiple challenges facing organized labor in the United States and the prospects for the future, with particular attention to campaigns to increase the minimum wage and to organize low-wage workers. Another focus will be the status of recent alliances between mainstream labor unions on the one hand, and worker centers and community-based organizations on the other.

Sub Unit

• Plenary and Presidential Panels

Session Organizer

• Ruth Milkman, CUNY Graduate Center

Presider

• Ruth Milkman, CUNY Graduate Center

Panelists

• Stephen Lerner, Georgetown University

• Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance

• David Rolf, Service Employees International Union

• Erica Smiley, Jobs with Justice