Power, Politics, Participation:
Giving Health Care Workers A Voice
26th Annual Union Representatives in Health Care Conference


   


Past Conferences
 
 
 
Conference Schedule
Sunday March 14, 2004
5:00 p.m. Registration
7:00 p.m. Opening Session
A Critique of Employers, Unions, and the NLRA
  • Richard Bensinger, Former Organizing Director AFL-CIO and Institute for Employee Choice Co-chair
Reception Immediately Following
Monday March 15, 2004
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Plenary Session
The Union Perspective on Health Care Insurance in the Current Political Environment
  • John Sweeney, President AFL-CIO (invited)
Health Care in Crisis, in America and on Capitol Hill
  • Jan Schakowski, Illinois Representative
10:30 a.m. Panel
Organizing For Density
SEIU, AFT, UAW
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Workshops
  • Safety and Health Issues in Health Care
    UFCW and AFCSCME
  • Strategic Research
    Gene Bruskin - Food & Allied Service Trades Council, AFL-CIO
  • Media Campaign
    Greg Denier - United Food & Commercial Workers
3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Workshops
  • Whole Market Approach to organizing
    UAW and AFT
  • Political Action
    AFSCME and UFCW
  • Staffing Ratio Legislation
    RN Coordinating Committee
Tuesday March 16, 2004
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Plenary
Labor Law Update
  • Jon Hiatt, General Counsel, AFL-CIO
10:00 a.m. Panel
The Right To Organize
  • Cheryl Johnson, President UAN
  • Henry Nicholas, AFSCME
  • Denis Rivera, President 1199 SEIU
12:00 p.m. Adjournment



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