Data Bootcamp: Next Steps in R
This session is for people who may have some experience using data, but have never used R or microdata before. Click Here to Register for EARNCon! This session uses R to analyze American Community Survey microdata. The lesson will build on concepts learned in First steps in R, and attendees who don’t join that session should already have […]
Pre-conference Session: EARN Executive Directors’ Strategy Meeting
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThe Executive Directors’ Strategy Meeting is an opportunity for leaders from the network to strengthen relationships; learn about their peers’ work; learn about EPI’s projects and plans for EARN; and strategize together on how we can drive progressive economic and racial justice policymaking at the state and local level.
Pre-conference Session: Data Bootcamp
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesIn this session, participants will use CPS data to perform analyses in statistical software packages Stata and R.
EARNCon 2022
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesDuring 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: Welcome and introductions, Keynote address: Liz Shuler, and Panel discussion: Rebuilding worker power and civic engagement in Ohio
The Westin Cleveland Downtown 777 Saint Clair Avenue Northeast, Cleveland, OH, United StatesDuring this plenary, speakers will welcome EARN groups to the conference and set the stage for what is to come. Panelists will discuss the history of the labor movement in Cleveland and draw parallels between unionization campaigns in Ohio and the rest of the country.
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, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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, Cleveland, OH, United StatesSpeakers 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, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThe 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, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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, Cleveland, OH, United StatesThis 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.
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- 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