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Conference Program Sunday March 25, 2001 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Registration 7:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions 7:30 - 8:00 p.m. Welcome and Conference Overview Changing Trends in Health Care Employment: Its Implications for Organizing and Bargaining Gil Preuss, Case Western Reserve University and union panel from UAN, SEIU 8:30 p.m. Reception Monday March 26, 2001 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. A Journalist's View of Patient Care: Discoveries While Writing a Series On "Re-Engineered Hospitals" Mike Berens, Chicago Tribune Investigative Reporter 10:30 - Noon Problem of Health Care Employee Recruitment and Retention Noreen Sugrue - Task Force for Health Care Work Force in a Greying Society. With a union discussion panel. Noon - 1:30 p.m. Served Lunch 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. Workshops Workplace Violence and Other Safety and Health Issues in Health Care Mandatory Overtime Issues: Its Implications for Organizing and Bargaining Adequate Staffing: What Unions Can Do to Assure It Organizing and Bargaining in Non-Acute Care, Nursing Homes and Home Health Services Collective Bargaining and the Privatization of Publicly Provided Services Uses of the Internet in Researching Health Care Organizing and Bargaining Issues 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Reception Tuesday March 27, 2001 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Recent Labor Board and Court Decisions Impacting Health Care Organizing and Bargaining Joel D'Alba, Attorney, Chicago 10:15 - 11:45 Organizing Success Roundtable: Brief Descriptions of Organizing and Bargaining Accomplishments by Unions Over the Past Year 11:45 - Noon Conference Conclusions and Adjournment

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