2026 Labor Notes Conference

2026 Labor Notes Conference

10:00am CDT

Building a Union Culture at Amazon Int’l Ballroom FAlethia Jones • Wajdy Bzezi • Kat Cole • Maricruz Delgadillo • Peyton Richardson Overcoming Divisions Grand Ballroom BPaul Prescod • Angela Bonilla Sexual Harassment: What It Is and How to Stop it DFWEmily E. LB. Twarog

1:00pm CDT

Race and Labor NaritaEthel Everett • Kass Ottley

3:05pm CDT

Immigrant Workers Unbossed, Rising Up and Organizing FlorenceSonia Singh • Pablo Acuna • Yolanda Barron Carmona • Walter Hernandez Organizing in the Multiethnic Workplace Int’l Ballroom EBianca Cunningham • Estifanos Tesfagiorgis • Maricruz Delgadillo • Gustavo Ajche • Greg Gorman • Aboubaca Ki

5:10pm CDT

Best Practices and Tools for Building a Multilingual Union Int’l Ballroom BJessie Cruz Pineda LGBTQ+ Meetup DaVinciKeturah Johnson Black Workers Meetup Rosemont A Building Unity Across Job Classifications TegelVirgilio Goze • Tyler Condo • Marissa Evans • Scarlett Morsmith • Teanna Tillery Disabled Workers Meetup Midway Winning Back Working-Class Voters ViennaMargarita Hernandez • Cynthia Phinney

9:00am CDT

Organizing Across Language Divides Rosemont AMaria Alfaro • Angie Campa • Viviana Costales, • Michelle Perez Overcoming Generational Divides Int’l Ballroom ADiane Stein • Dominic DeNunzio • Stephen Hinojosa • Jamie Partridge FILM: The Alabama Solution: Organizing Workers In and After Prison LAXKatherine Passley • Billy Pearson • Will Suarez • Will Tucker

11:05am CDT

A Collective Response to Divisions in the Workplace and Beyond Int’l Ballroom CJoe Fahey

2:15pm CDT

Black Workers and the Public Sector LindberghAngela Bonilla • Margaret Cook • Jonathan Smith • Latisha Thompson Talking Politics with Your Co-Workers BarajasLorene Scheer • Paco Arago • Eileen Hagerman • JoAnna McClenathan • Phil Rubianes

4:30pm CDT

Bringing Immigrant Workers into Union Life LindberghSarah Lazare • Paco Arago • Scott Durbin • Rafael Espinosa Latino Workers Meetup O'Hare BallroomJorge Mujica • Ligia Gualpa It Can Happen Here: Unions vs. Authoritarian Attacks Rosemont BSofya Aptekar • Cat Farman • Jill LeBrun • Noelle Mapes • Jonathan Smith

9:00am CDT

Hospital Workers Building Solidarity ViennaHeather Bauman • Belinda Carpenter • Blandine Chauvel • Rosa Villarroel Southern Workers Meeting HeathrowJessica Magnani

10:45am CDT

Women in Union Leadership Grand Ballroom GDiamonté Brown • Sultana Hossain • Julie Hedrick • Ashaki Robinson • Sabrina Creque