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Sunday March 21
7:00 - 8:30 pm Opening Session Conference Overview

Emerging Issues in Occupational Safety and Health for Health Care Employees.

Panel:

Susan Wilburn RN, Health and Safety Specialist, American Nurses Association

James August, Health and Safety Director, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees
8:30 - 10:00 pm Reception
Monday March 22
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 am The Corporate Organization of Health Care and Its Meaning for Employment and Unions

Rachael Rubin, M.D. Director Occupational Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago IL.
10:30 - Noon An Update on Kaiser - Permanente Agreement, How is it Working? Implications for Other Unions

Representative from the Kaiser-Permanente Department, AFL-CIO
Noon - 1:30 pm Luncheon Speaker: Physicians Unions: Their Relationship with other Health Care Employees

Representative from United Food and Commercial Workers Local 56, Philadelphia PA.
1:30 - 4:30 pm Workshops:

1. Non-profit Hospitals Becoming For-profit: What have ?? done to Save Jobs and Benefits.

Gay Hayward, Illinois Nurses Association

2. Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions: How Impact Has Been Lessened through Union and Community Organizing

SEIU, ANA, Ohio Nurses Association.

3. Organizing Techniques that have Worked: Analysis of Two Successful Campaigns.

Richard Sanders, American Nurses Association.

4. Joint Labor Management Programs in Health Care: What Conditions Are Necessary for Unions to be effective?

Michelle Kaminiski, University of Illinois

Representative Kaiser Permanente Portland OR Sparrow Hospital, Lansing MI
4:30 - 6:00 pm Reception
Tuesday March 22
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 am Legal Update on NLRB and Court Decisions Impacting Nurse Exclusions and Other Issues

Joel D'Alba, of Asher, Greenfield, Gittler, Cohen, D'Alba, Chicago.
10:30 - 11:45 am Round Up of Recent Organizing and Bargaining Successes


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