REGISTER NOW for the 2016 Labor Research and Action Network national conference, which will be held Friday, June 24th and Saturday, June 25th at the DePaul University’s Loop Campus located in downtown Chicago, IL. The DePaul University Labor Education Center will host the conference. Scholars and labor practitioners from across the country will convene to share news ideas and lessons learned, and connect around research and campaign work. Featured speakers include AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, UC Berkeley scholar Steven Pitts, and Only One Thing Can Save Us author Thomas Geoghegan. The conference will also include 16 workshops on a range of topics, including temp worker organizing, the growing “gig” economy of higher education, connecting racial and economic justice, and trainings to develop research skills for campaigns. Information on reduced rate rooms at Roosevelt University is also on the registration page.
Friday June 24th | Saturday, June 25th | |||||
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08:30am | Registration and Continental Breakfast | 08:30am | Registration and Continental breakfast | |||
09:30am – 11:00am | Plenary Session 1 | 09:30am – 11:00am | Plenary Session 3 | |||
11:00am – 11:15am | Break | 11:00am – 11:15am | Break | |||
11:15am – 12:45pm | Workshop Series 1 | 11:15am – 12:45pm | Workshop Series 3 | |||
12:45pm – 01:15pm | Lunch | 12:45pm – 02:00pm | Boxed lunch and LRAN Membership Meeting | |||
01:15pm – 02:45pm | Plenary Session 2 | 02:00pm – 03:30pm | Workshop Series 4 | |||
02:45pm – 03:00pm | Break | |||||
03:00pm – 04:30pm | Workshop Series 2 | |||||
05:00pm – 07:00pm | Reception |