EARNCon 2022
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandDuring EARNCon, attendees will discuss the most pressing issues confronting workers leading into 2023, ranging from wages and labor standards to climate. The conference will provide a launch point for research and policy development that centers workers, communities of color, and women and serves to advance legislation that improves labor standards and strengthens worker power.
EARNCon Plenary: Voices from the frontlines of new union organizing: Worker power, state policy, and racial, gender, and economic justice
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandThis session will feature workers sharing their motivations and strategies for organizing new unions in public services, health care, and other frontline occupations, while illustrating opportunities to expand state and local policies that advance worker power.
Tracking the demands of the civil rights movement from the 1960s till today
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandThis session will inform conference attendees of the policies, strategies, and actions advocated for during the March on Washington and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and then to use these social policy requests as a metric to determine which policies were implemented, which have yet to be realized, and what this means for racial economic justice.
EARNCon Session: Worker rights in the gig economy: State policy battles and organizing breakthroughs
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandThis session will provide an overview of how app-based companies’ well-funded attempts to erode state and local employment and labor laws pose threats to basic worker rights across the country.
EARNCon Session: The role of local government in advancing and protecting workers’ rights
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandSpeakers Danielle Alvarado, Fair Work Center Teri Castillo, San Antonio City Council District 5 Terri Gerstein, Harvard Labor and Worklife Program and Economic Policy Institute LiJia Gong, Local Progress Mazahir […]
EARNCon Plenary: In Pursuit of Racial and Economic Justice: The Complex History of Race and Unions
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandThe plenary will educate conference attendees about the history of Black, Latinx and AAPI workers’ involvement in labor unions and labor organizing and the important role labor unions can play in proactively advancing racial and gender equity in the labor market.
EARNCon Session: Joining the fight for economic justice, racial justice, and abortion access
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandThis session, led in coordination with the National Women's Law Center, will address the ways in which work toward income security, worker justice, and economic justice is deeply intertwined with the fight for abortion access, particularly for Black and Brown women.
EARNCon Session: Striking Back: Reorganizing in Right-to-Work States
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandThis session aims to inform EARNCON attendees about strategies that policymakers and advocates are using to advance pro-worker policymaking and supporting the labor movement at the state and local level, with an emphasis on states with anti-labor policies in place, such as “Right-to-Work” laws.
EARNCon Session: Stratification Economics: Policy Framework for a Post-COVID America
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, ClevelandOur discussion will highlight ways to view the intersection of economic and public health outcomes, and how these perspectives can be brought together to design better policy in a post-COVID America.
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