EARNCon Session: Striking Back: Reorganizing in Right-to-Work States

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

This 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: A fairer economy: Uniting unions, advocates, policy groups, and local communities to fight for progressive policies

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

In this session, panelists will highlight how to build a successful advocacy plan by forming partnerships that lead to an effective "inside" and "outside" strategy to challenge longstanding austerity approaches, expand working families' power over the state budget by enacting progressive tax reform, and to win dramatic investments in working-class communities.

EARNCon Session: Rebuilding the Public Sector: Understanding the state and local jobs shortfall and what it means for communities, public budgets, and equity

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

In this session, EPI experts will lead a discussion among researchers, public sector union representatives, and EARN groups talking to lawmakers and community leaders, to figure out what is happening beneath the headline numbers; how it’s affecting public services; what lawmakers and advocates can do about it; and what it all means with the threat of recession and austerity looming.

EARNCon Session: Good Jobs, Green Jobs, and Climate Justice

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

This session will focus on three examples of victories that combine good paying jobs, racial equity, and tackling climate change.

EARNCon Session: EARN in the South Barriers to Employment Action Fair

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

This session will bring together our Earn in the South partners to share their efforts and exchange strategies about how to lower barriers to employment and income raised by involvement in the criminal justice system.

Immigrant worker rights, organizing, and excluded workers

The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United States

Join this session to discuss the state-level strategies that have worked and the immigrant-led workplace organizing that is happening in states around the country.

EARNCon 2023

Marriott at the Renaissance Center Renaissance Center, 400 Renaissance Drive, Detroit, MI, United States

EARNCon 2023 will lay the groundwork needed for a state- and local-worker-centered research and policy agenda for 2024 and beyond, highlighting approaches and solutions for racial, economic, and gender justice while also building and strengthening a community of researchers, policy analysts, and grassroots organizers.

The Economic Policy Institute would like to thank the following funders for their ongoing and generous support for the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN): 
  • Anonymous  
  • AFL-CIO
  • AFSCME 
  • American Federation of Teachers 
  • Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust 
  • Ford Foundation  
  • International Association of Machinists  
  • International Brotherhood of Teamsters
  • Kresge Foundation  
  • National Association of Letter Carriers  
  • National Education Association 
  • Marguerite Casey Foundation 
  • Omidyar Network
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • The Rockefeller Foundation
  • Service Employees International Union 
  • Surdna Foundation 
  • UNITE HERE 
  • United Auto Workers  
  • United Brotherhood of Carpenters 
  • United Food and Commercial Workers 
  • United Steelworkers of America 
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation