1.     PAPER PRESENTATIONS – Workplace Issues (Rm 9222-23)
Chair: Skip Turner, Labor Studies Center, ILIR, University of Michigan 

• Public Employee Union and Non-Union Coalition Efforts in an Excess Levy Election
  Stephen L. Cook and David R. Cormier, PhD, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, West Virginia University
• A Study of West Virginia Public Sector Grievance Procedures
  David R. Cormier, PhD, and Tony Michael, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, West Virginia University
• The Boss as Big Brother: Electronic Monitoring
  Sarah Etherton and Tony Michael, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, West Virginia University

2.     ROUNDTABLE - The Anti-Union Network and the Employee Free Choice Act (Rm 9224-25)
Chair: Sheldon Friedman, AFL-CIO
Presenters:

• Mary Beth Maxwell, ARAW
• John Logan, LSE
• Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon
• Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO (invited)

3.    WORKSHOP - Identifying Economic Factors Impacting Workers on Both Sides of the Border (Rm 9201-C)

Moderator: Maria Figueroa, ILR School, Cornell University

Peter Cervantes-Gautschi, Enlace

4.    ROUNDTABLE - Legal Rights of Immigrant Workers (Rm 9217/Exec. Brd. Rm.)
Steve Smitson and Kathleen Conlan, Education Department, LIUNA Organizing Department

5.    PANEL - Older Workers: Issues for Workplaces and Organized Labor (Rm 9201-A/B)
David Waugh, Bruce Dunton and Annette Hartenstein, Maryland and District of Columbia Alliance for Retired Americans

6.  PAPER PRESENTATIONS –Workplace Issues (Rm 9222-23)
Chair: Katie Quan, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education

• Organized Labor In Residential Construction
  Mike Raybourn, Labor Relations and Research Center, UMass Amherst
• Coal Mine Safety In West Virginia: Union vs. Non-Union
  Stephen L. Cook and David R. Cormier, PhD, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, West Virginia University/Robert V. Massey, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, West Virginia University, Raleigh County Extension Office
• Immigrant Construction Workers and Safety Issues
  Bruce Nissen and Alejandro Angee, Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy, Center for Labor Research & Studies, Florida International University, College of Education
• Union Strategies to Combat the Misclassification of Construction Workers
  Dan Holub, University of Iowa Labor Center

7.    ROUNDTABLE - Automation and Outsourcing: The Changing Nature of Health Care (Rm 9224-25)
Charley Richardson, Labor Extension Program, UMass Lowell, University of Massachusetts 

8.    PANEL - Regional Power Building Spreads (Rm 9201-A/B)

• David Reynolds, Labor Studies Center, Wayne State University
• Monica Bielski Boris, Labor Education Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• Randy Wright, Labor Education Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• Dawn Addy, Center for Labor Research & Studies, Florida International University, College of Education
• Stephanie Luce, University of Massachusetts
• Louise Simmons, University of Connecticut

9.    WORKSHOP- Experiences in Labor Education and Leadership Programs with Immigrants (Rm 9201-C)
Victor Narro, University of California, Los Angeles

10.    PANEL - Partnering With Worker Centers to Help Educate New Immigrants (Rm 9217/Exec. Brd. Rm.)
Michael Childers, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

11.    PAPER PRESENTATIONS – Inclusion & Empowerment (Rm 9222-23)
Chair: Carolina Bank Muñoz, Brooklyn College, CUNY

• Organizing Immigrants with the Support of Union Members and the Community:  The Experience of Unions and Worker Centers
  Maria Figueroa and Lois Gray, ILR School, Cornell University
• Structuring Accountability for Labor/Community Coalitions:  A Case Study of Community Labor United in Boston, Massachusetts
  Robb Smith, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California
• Chinese Home Care Workers Become Union Activists
  Ken Margolies, ILR Extension, NYC, Cornell University
• Worker Centers Organizing Immigrants in the Sweatshops of Los Angeles
  Richard Sullivan, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University

12.    ROUNDTABLE - Teaching for Equity (Rm 9224-25)
Moderator: Dawn Addy

• M. Thandabantu Iverson, Division of Labor Studies, Indiana University Northwest
• Jerri Casey, City College of New York
• William Mello, Indiana University Kokomo
• Paul Mishler, Indiana University

13.    FILM - Introducing Morristown (Rm 9201-A/B)

• Fran Ansley, University of Tennessee College of Law---Tennessee
• Anne Lewis, director/producer

14.    WORKSHOP - Same Bosses, Same Fight (Rm 9201-C)
Mike Prokosch, UMass Lowell Labor Extension Program, University of Massachusetts

15.    ROUNDTABLE - The AFL-CIO's Economic Education Initiative -Opportunities for Educators: Opposing Deregulation of Economic Life as it Affects U.S. Workers; Confronting Conservative Anti-union Attitudes (Rm 9217/Exec. Brd. Rm.)
Moderator: Katherine Sciacchitano, National Labor College

16.      PAPER PRESENTATIONS – Building Leadership in the Collective Struggle (Rm 9222-23)
Chair: Katie Quan, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education

• LMO: A Proposed Model for Union Leadership
  Katie Quan, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
• Labor, Migration, and Unions
  Kathleen C. Schwartzman, University of Arizona---Tucson
• Reinvigorating Rationality via Collective Struggle: The 2006 Justice for Janitors Campaign at the University of Miami
  Jason Albright, Cornell University ILR-- Industrial and Labor Relation

17.        ROUNDTABLE - Oral Histories and Organizers of District 925 (SEIU):  The Legacy of a Women-Led Union (Rm 9224-25)

• Ann Froines, Oral Historian – Women Studies, UMass Boston
• Ellen Cassedy, Writer; a founder of 9 to 5, National Association of Working Women
• Bonnie Ladin, Professor, National Labor College; District 925 staff

18.    WORKSHOP - Why Do They Keep Coming?  The Political Economy of Immigration (Rm 9201-C)

• Judy Ancel, The Institute for Labor Studies, University of Missouri Kansas City
• Ruth Needleman, Indiana University

19.    WORKSHOP - Talking About the Immigration with White Union Guys (Rm.# 9201-A/B)
John Kretzschmar , William Brennan Institute for Labor Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha 

20.    PRESENTATION - Access to Unemployment Insurance Benefits: Preparing a Manual for Applicants(Rm 9232-33)
Joe Berry, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois

• CultureWorks
  Joe Uehlein, President of the Labor Heritage Foundation
• Participation as Education
  Helena Worthen, Chicago Labor Education Program, University of Illinois
• Recent Neighborhood Organizing in Miami: The Importance of Latinos in the Struggle for the City
  Marcos Feldman, Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy, Center for Labor Research & Studies, Florida International University, College of Education

22.    ROUNDTABLE - Innovations in Leadership Development Programs (Rm 9224-25)

• Sally Alvarez, Cornell University ILR Extension
• Elissa McBride, Education Director, AFSCME
• Sue Schurman, President, National Labor College

23.    WORKSHOP - Workers Centers, Construction Organizing and Beyond (Rm 9201-C)

• Janice Fine, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
• Jeff Grabelsky, Construction Industry Program, Cornell University
• Victor Narro, University of California, Los Angeles

24.    ROUNDTABLE - Building Unity in the Labor Movement on the Question of Immigration (Rm 9217/Exec. Brd. Rm.)
Howard Kling and Deborah Rosenberg, Labor Education Services, University of Minnesota

25.    PANEL - Global Labor Migration (Rm 9201-A/B)
Moderator: Bob Ginsburg, Center on Work and Community Development

• Marc Bayard, Solidarity Center
• Katie Quan, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
• Dennis Serrette, President, UALE and Director of Education and International Affairs, CWA

26.    PAPER PRESENTATIONS – Responding to Worker Needs (Rm 9222-23)
Chair: Dennis Serrette, President, UALE and Director of Education and International Affairs, CWA

• National Crisis or National Issue? Examination of the Current Immigration Question in the United States
  David R. Cormier, PhD, Institute for Labor Studies and Research, West Virginia University/Harry Targ, PhD, Department of Political Science, Purdue University
• Social Justice in Crossing Linguistic Borders
  Lucia Buttaro, Adelphi University
• Labor’s Movement of Faith:  What Union Members Believe about God
  Robert Bruno, University of Illinois

27.     PANEL - Research by the Rank-and File (Rm 9232-33)
Ruth Ruttenberg, National Labor College

 28.    ROUNDTABLE - The Ins and Outs of Organizing Committees (Rm 9224-25)
Stacey Heath, Strategic Change Specialist, L.S. Heath Associates

 29.    WORKSHOP - Road to Legalization (Rm 9201-C)
Victor Narro, University of California, Los Angeles         

30.    WORKSHOP - The Other Immigrants: Women Workers in the U.S. Labor Movement (Rm 9201-A/B)
Beth Meyers, STITCH-Women United for Worker Justice