Program

10-12 OCTOBER 2019 • YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CT
All conference events will be held at the Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect St.

 

 

THURSDAY, OCT. 10

5:00 pm | WELCOMING REMARKS

  • Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)

5:15 pm | KEYNOTE: “Realizing the Transformational and Empowering Potential of International Labor Standards: Winning the ILO’s Convention 89 on Domestic Work and Convention 190 on Gender Violence and Harassment at Work”

  • Manuela Tomei – Director, Work Quality Department, ILO

6:00 pm | AN IN-DEPTH DISCUSSION

  • Moderator: Judy Gearhart — Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum
    • Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)
    • Manuela Tomei – Director, Work Quality Department, ILO                                  

6:45 pm | OPENING RECEPTION

 

FRIDAY, OCT. 11

8:30 am | WELCOMING REMARKS

  • Professor Jennifer Klein – History Department, Yale University

8:40 am | ILO CENTENARY AND INTRODUCTION OF REPRESENTATIVE ROSA DELAURO

  • Kevin Cassidy – Director and Representative to Bretton Woods and Mutlilateral Organizations, ILO Office for the United States

8:45 am | OPENING ADDRESS

  • Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)

9:00 am | “Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019

  • Professor Eileen Boris – Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies and Global Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara

9:30 am | PANEL 1: THE CARE ECONOMY, PAID AND UNPAID LABOR, AND THE PURSUIT OF GENDER EQUALITY

  • Moderator: Professor Eileen Boris – Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies and Global Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
    • Sheila Lirio Marcelo – CEO, care.com
    • Professor Premilla Nadasen – Barnard College Dept. of History; National Women’s Studies Association, President
    • Sarita Gupta – Co-Director Caring across Generations
    • Deborah Schwartz – Vice President, SEIU 1199 New England                               

11:00 am | COFFEE BREAK

11:15 am | CONCURRENT BREAK-OUT WORKING GROUPS

  1. Invisible No More: Organizing Workers to Claim Respect, Dignity, and Fair Pay: Norma Martinez – Make the Road-Bridgeport,CT and Natalicia Tracy – Brazilian Workers Center/National Domestic Workers Alliance
  2. The Promise of Worker Cooperatives for Women’s Economic Security: Georgia Allen – Founder/Exec Director, Soaring Independent Cooperative (Madison, WI) and Ruth Rohlich – Business Development Specialist, Madison Economic Development Division/Madison Cooperative Development Alliance
  3. Caregivers Advancing Rights and Winning Justice: Caitlin Connolly – Director of Social Insurance, National Employment Law Project and JoAnn Lum – Ain’t I a Woman?! Campaign 

12:30 pm | LUNCH PLENARY: TEACHERS, THE PUBLIC SECTOR, AND NEW ALLIANCES FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS (45 min) followed by conversations among participants at tables

  • Moderator: Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang – Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies, Yale University
    • Stacy Davis Gates – VP, Political and Legislative Director, Chicago Teachers Union
    • Gloria Martinez – Elementary Vice President, United Teachers Los Angeles
    • Nicole McCormick – West Virginia Education Association; WV United

2:00 pm | PANEL II: JUSTICE AT WORK: STRATEGIES FOR CONFRONTING WAGE INEQUALITY, WAGE THEFT, HARASSMENT, AND COERCION

  • Moderator: State Senator Julie Kushner – CT-24, Chair of Labor and Public Employees Committee
    • Cathy Feingold – Director, International Department, AFL-CIO
    • James Bhandary-Alexander – Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance
    • David Weil – Dean, The Heller School for Social and Policy Management, Brandeis; Director of Wage and Hour Division of U.S. Department of Labor, Obama Administration
    • Vicki Shultz – Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Science, Yale Law School

3:30 pm | COFFEE BREAK

3:45 pm | CONCURRENT BREAK-OUT WORKING GROUPS 

  1. The Future of Labor-Community Alliances: Darlene Lombos – Vice President, Boston Labor Council, and Becky Simonsen – District 1199 New England
  2. LGBTQ Working People Fight Back: Jerame Davis – Executive Director, PRIDE at WORK
  3. Strategies for Combatting Wage Theft and Workplace Coercion: James Bhandary-Alexander – Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance and Fatima Rojas – Unidad Latina en Accion

4:45 pm | COFFEE BREAK

5:15 pm | PLENARY: CONGRESSWOMEN FROM U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  • Moderator: Lauren Jacobs — Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families

6:45 pm | RECEPTION

 

SATURDAY, OCT. 12

9:00 am | BRINGING TOGETHER THE PANEL DISCUSSIONS

9:45 am | PANEL III: TECHNOLOGY, GENDER, THE FUTURE OF WORK AND LABOR RIGHTS IN THE GIG ECONOMY

  • Moderator: Kevin Cassidy – Director and Representative to Bretton Woods and Multilaterals, ILO Office for the United States
    • Lis Meyers – Managing Associate, Gender and Social Inclusion, Nathan Associates
    • Salewa Ogunmefun – Political Director, One Pennsylvania
    • Karen Worstell – CEO, W Risk Group

11:15 am | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am | CLOSING PLENARY: CONNECTING GLOBAL AND LOCAL LABOR FEMINISMS: THE IMPERATIVES OF LABOR STANDARDS AND WOMEN’S ACTIVISM

  • Moderator: JJ Rosenbaum – U.S. Director, Global Labor Justice
    • Professor Adelle Blackett – Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, McGill University; Director, Labour Law & Development Research Laboratory
    • Gabriella Rigg Herzog – Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, U.S. Council for International Business
    • Joanna Nice Coronacion – Director, SENTRO; World March of Women, Philippines Chapter
    • Sussie Lozada – Political Director, UNITE HERE Local 100

1:00 pm | CLOSING REMARKS

  • Kevin Cassidy – Director, ILO Office for the United States
  • Professor Jennifer Klein – History Department, Yale University