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Thursday
, June 11
Conference Center Foyer
9:00pm •
Labor Song Swap and Jam
JFK
5:30pm •
Recovery/Sobriety Meeting
Red Bar
5:00pm •
Pub Quiz, Labor Edition
Rosemont A
6:00pm •
International Guests Reception
Rosemont B
7:00pm •
FILM: Who Moves America
Friday
, June 12
Barajas
3:05pm •
Building Density in the Open Shop
Conference Center Foyer
9:00pm •
Labor Song Swap and Jam: Fri
DaVinci
10:00am •
Trainings That Engage and Inspire
3:05pm •
Tactics to Build Power
5:10pm •
LGBTQ+ Meetup
DFW
10:00am •
Sexual Harassment: What It Is and How to Stop it
1:00pm •
How to Expand Your Reach as a Troublemaker
3:05pm •
Continuous Bargaining
5:10pm •
Grievance Handling: Best and Worst Practices
9:00pm •
FUN Solidarity Social powered by Federal Unionists Network
Florence
3:05pm •
Immigrant Workers Unbossed, Rising Up and Organizing
5:10pm •
Building Rank-and-File Unionism Around the World
Grand Ballroom
7:00pm •
Friday Main Session
Grand Ballroom A
10:00am •
Bargaining Tactics: Using Unfair Labor Practice Charges Strategically
1:00pm •
How to Spot an Unfair Labor Practice and What to Do with It
3:05pm •
Open Bargaining
Grand Ballroom B
10:00am •
Overcoming Divisions
1:00pm •
Can Political Strikes Restore Labor's Power?
3:05pm •
Stewards' Skills: Organizing To Defend Our Rights
5:10pm •
Big Strikes, Big Power
Grand Ballroom C
10:00am •
Assertive Grievance Handling
1:00pm •
Beyond Bread and Butter: Expanding What We Bargain For
3:05pm •
How to Build a High-Participation Contract Campaign
5:10pm •
No Work, No School, No Shopping: Organizing for Mass Disruption
Grand Ballroom F
3:05pm •
Fighting Against War from the Shop Floor
Grand Ballroom G
10:00am •
Labor Notes 101: Conference Orientation
1:00pm •
Taking on Goliath: Tactics to Bring Amazon to Heel
3:05pm •
From Contract Struggle to Shop Floor Power at UPS
Grand Ballroom H
10:00am •
From Israel’s Genocide to U.S.’s Deportation Sweeps: Workers Organize for a Better World
1:00pm •
Running Labor Candidates for Public Office—What it Takes to Win
3:05pm •
Fight ICE, Build the Union
Hartsfield
10:00am •
From Defense to Offense: Developing Power and Strategy for the World We Want
1:00pm •
Decoding Your Contract
3:05pm •
The Hidden Impacts of A.I.: Building Power in the Semiconductor Supply Chain
5:10pm •
Keeping the Momentum in a First Contract Fight
Heathrow
10:00am •
Organizing Worker Cooperatives
1:00pm •
Assertive Grievance Handling
3:05pm •
How to March on the Boss
5:10pm •
Defending Your Co-Workers in Disciplinary Meetings
Int’l Ballroom A
10:00am •
Bring the Union Meeting to the Members
1:00pm •
Before, During, and After Negotiations: Step-by-Step Strategies
3:05pm •
For Elected Leaders: Building Democracy vs. Administering Bureaucracy
5:10pm •
Bargaining Tools: Using Your Caucus Time Powerfully
Int’l Ballroom B
1:00pm •
Democratic Rights of Union Members: Free Speech
3:05pm •
Cross-Border Solidarity
5:10pm •
Best Practices and Tools for Building a Multilingual Union
Int’l Ballroom C
1:00pm •
Secretos de un organizador exitoso 1: Vencer a la apatía
3:05pm •
Secretos de un organizador exitoso 2: Armar el equipo de tus sueños
5:10pm •
Secretos de un organizador exitoso 3: Convertir un problema en una campaña
Int’l Ballroom D
1:00pm •
Untapped Pension Power
3:05pm •
Working with Media to Tell Our Stories
Int’l Ballroom E
1:00pm •
Building Power in Grocery and Meatpacking
3:05pm •
Organizing in the Multiethnic Workplace
5:10pm •
Breaching the Non-Union Citadel: Southern Auto Workers Organize
Int’l Ballroom F
10:00am •
Building a Union Culture at Amazon
1:00pm •
Mexican Workers Fight for Justice/Trabajadores Mexicanos luchan por justicia
3:05pm •
Auto Workers of the World, Unite!
5:10pm •
Getting Unions Involved in New Organizing Campaigns
JFK
8:00am •
Recovery/Sobriety Meeting
6:30pm •
Recovery/Sobriety Meeting
Lambert
10:00am •
App Workers on the Move
3:05pm •
Unions, Climate, and the Fight for Affordability
5:10pm •
Strategies for Reforming International Unions
LAX
10:00am •
When Costs Rise, So Should Our Pay
1:00pm •
Health Care Is Broken But Not Broke
3:05pm •
The Labor Notes Podcast: Live!
5:10pm •
Dismantling the War Machine: Lessons from Pro-Peace Organizing
9:00pm •
Black Rose Anarchist Federation
Lindbergh
1:00pm •
Building a Healthy, Activist Local Union
3:05pm •
Graduate Worker Organizing
London
10:00am •
Whose Railroads? Our Railroads! Public Ownership Around the World
1:00pm •
Chokepoints for Supply Chain Workers
3:05pm •
Using the Railway Labor Act to Our Advantage
Midway
10:00am •
Between the One-on-One and the General Meeting
1:00pm •
Bargaining When the Boss Says They're Broke
3:05pm •
Approaches to Bargaining Over Tech Changes
5:10pm •
Disabled Workers Meetup
Narita
10:00am •
Inoculación
1:00pm •
Race and Labor
3:05pm •
Building a Strong Stewards Network
5:10pm •
Developing the Leaders Your Union Needs
O'Hare Ballroom
10:00am •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
1:00pm •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
O’Hare Ballroom
3:05pm •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Growing Your Leadership Team
5:10pm •
Building Trades: Jobsite Action
Paris
1:00pm •
Asian Unions Resisting Authoritarianism
3:05pm •
Simulated Bargaining: Techniques for New and Experienced Negotiators
Rosemont A
10:00am •
What to Do When the Union Breaks Your Heart
1:00pm •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Growing Your Leadership Team
3:05pm •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign
5:10pm •
Black Workers Meetup
10:00pm •
UAW Member Action, Essential Workers for Democracy (EW4D) & IBEW CREW Reception
Rosemont B
10:00am •
Winning a Strong Contract
1:00pm •
Winning a Strong Contract
3:05pm •
FILM: Partners: The Campaign to Organize Starbucks
5:10pm •
Asian and Asian Diaspora Meetup
9:00pm •
UMass Labor Center Social
Rosemont CD
10:00am •
Tax the Rich! State Campaigns and Success Stories
1:00pm •
Fighting Oligarchy: Unionizing the Biggest Corporations
3:05pm •
The Biggest Union-Busting Effort in U.S. History: Federal Workers Fight Back
8:30pm •
TDU
Sky Harbor
10:00am •
Fundraising for Union Reformers
1:00pm •
Building a Tax the Rich Campaign: The Nuts and Bolts
3:05pm •
Teatro de los oprimidos / Theater of the Oppressed
6:00pm •
Parent + Kids Meetup
Tegel
5:10pm •
Building Unity Across Job Classifications
United A
10:00am •
Rockin' Your Rally and Picket Line
1:00pm •
Singing Resistance and More Songs for Protests and Pickets
3:05pm •
Open Mic: Great Labor Arts Exchange
5:10pm •
Labor Arts Meetup
United B
10:00am •
Continuous Bargaining
1:00pm •
Surveillance, Technology, and Speed-Ups: How to Identify Them and Fight Back
3:05pm •
What Will It Take to Win? A Conversation with Labor Movement Veterans
5:10pm •
Picket Signs that Pack a Powerful Punch
8:30pm •
World Cup Watching Party
Vienna
10:00am •
Lessons from Health Care and Hospital Strikes
3:05pm •
Dealing with Difficult Supervisors
5:10pm •
Winning Back Working-Class Voters
Saturday
, June 13
Barajas
9:00am •
Upping Our Strategy to Build Working-Class Power
2:15pm •
Talking Politics with Your Co-Workers
Capital
9:00am •
State and Local Policy Campaigns: Building Labor's Power
2:15pm •
Industrial Policy: Union Visions for Our Jobs
Conference Center Foyer
9:30pm •
Dance Party
Conference Lobby
6:45am •
Bird Walk
DaVinci
9:00am •
Getting Off the Grievance Treadmill
11:05am •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign
DFW
9:00am •
Solidarity Wins
11:05am •
Unions Defending Democracy Playbook
2:15pm •
Bargaining Fundamentals for a Strong Contract
4:30pm •
Case Study: Minnesota Bargaining and Organizing Coalition
Florence
9:00am •
Teachers Fight Back Around the Globe
11:05am •
Postal Meeting
2:15pm •
Austerity and Authoritarianism in Puerto Rico: Working-Class Resistance and the Fight Ahead
4:30pm •
Don't Wait for Recognition: Pre-Majority Unionism
Gatwick
9:00am •
Utilizando las agencias laborales para fortalecer el poder de los trabajadores
Grand Ballroom A
9:00am •
Thinking Like an Organizer
11:05am •
Amazon Workers Meeting
2:15pm •
Creative Tactics and Strategic Mischief
Grand Ballroom B
9:00am •
How to March on the Boss
11:05am •
UFCW/RWDSU Meeting
2:15pm •
How to Keep Going: A Workshop on Organizing When It's Hard
Grand Ballroom C
9:00am •
Forcing Corporations to Drop ICE
11:05am •
AFSCME Meeting
2:15pm •
Inoculation
4:30pm •
Meet the Authors
Grand Ballroom F
9:00am •
Amazon's Robot Revolution: Lessons from the Shop Floor
11:05am •
Building Trades Meeting
2:15pm •
Melting ICE: Lessons from the Twin Cities
Grand Ballroom G
9:00am •
Labor Solidarity and Strategy on Palestine
11:05am •
Nonprofit Workers Meeting
2:15pm •
Power in the NYC Mayor’s Office: What Can Labor Win?
Grand Ballroom H
9:00am •
How Is Labor Building Political Independence from the Democratic Party?
11:05am •
Palestine Solidarity Meeting
2:15pm •
Amazon Workers of the World
4:30pm •
Forging Ahead in Difficult Times
Hartsfield
9:00am •
Building Democracy in Contract Campaigns
11:05am •
Labor-Community Alliances
2:15pm •
Data Centers and Union Power
4:30pm •
Burnout: What We Can Do About It Together
Heathrow
9:00am •
Using Health and Safety Committees in New Organizing
11:05am •
Airline Workers Meeting
12:35pm •
Essential Workers for Democracy (EW4D) Meeting
2:15pm •
Strategies to Get a Solid First Contract
4:30pm •
Strengthen Your Local with a Fighting Health and Safety Program
HILTON - Grand Ballroom
11:05am •
Higher Education Workers Meeting
HILTON - Lindbergh
9:00am •
Accessing our Power: Faculty and Staff Organizing on Campus
11:05am •
Grad Labor Meeting
Int’l Ballroom A
9:00am •
Overcoming Generational Divides
11:05am •
Manufacturing Workers Meeting
2:15pm •
Engaging New Members
4:30pm •
Blue Collar Women Meetup
Int’l Ballroom B
11:05am •
Tenant Unions
2:15pm •
¡Basta ya! Nos fuimos a huelga
4:30pm •
How to Break Your No-Strike Clause (And Live To Tell About It)
Int’l Ballroom C
9:00am •
Sustaining Ourselves as Organizers
11:05am •
A Collective Response to Divisions in the Workplace and Beyond
2:15pm •
Building a Member-to-Member Network
4:30pm •
Organizing Despite the Churn
Int’l Ballroom D
9:00am •
I've Been Elected, Now What?
2:15pm •
Queers Against Authoritarianism
Int’l Ballroom E
9:00am •
Building Your Contract Action Team
11:05am •
SEIU Meeting
2:15pm •
Fighting Against Abusive Guestworker Programs
4:30pm •
Climate Jobs Organizing Strategies
Int’l Ballroom F
9:00am •
How We're Turning Our Unions Around
11:05am •
Media Workers Meeting
2:15pm •
Burnout: What We Can Do About It Together
4:30pm •
Communications Workers of America (CWA) Meeting
JFK
8:00am •
Recovery/Sobriety Meeting
9:00am •
French Unions in Struggle
2:15pm •
How to Lose Your Next Local Election
6:30pm •
Recovery/Sobriety Meeting
John Wayne
9:00am •
Fighting the Wrongs of Management's Rights
11:05am •
Co-ops meeting
2:15pm •
Climate Change Is a Workplace Safety Fight
Lambert
11:05am •
Labor Educators
2:15pm •
Public Sector Fightback
4:30pm •
The Emergency for Emergency Response Workers
LAX
9:00am •
FILM: The Alabama Solution: Organizing Workers In and After Prison
11:05am •
Workers Centers Meeting
2:15pm •
What the Boss Doesn't Want Us to Know: Building Rank-and-File Corporate Research Teams
4:30pm •
A.I. at Work: From Digital Workplace Tech to Contract Language
Lindbergh
9:00am •
Coordinated Bargaining
11:05am •
Telecom Meeting
2:15pm •
Black Workers and the Public Sector
4:30pm •
Bringing Immigrant Workers into Union Life
London
9:00am •
¡Nos protegemos!
11:05am •
Transit Meeting
2:15pm •
Case Study: Reflections from the UCORE Network of Teachers Union Reformers
4:30pm •
Anticipating the Boss's Playbook: Strategies to Win Your Amazon Union Election
Malpensa
11:05am •
Canadian Workers Meeting
McCarran
9:00am •
How to Have an Effective Organizing Conversation
11:05am •
Labor Lawyers Meeting
12:35pm •
Union Democracy Law Meetup
4:30pm •
AFSCME Convention Delegates Meeting
8:30pm •
Building Relations with Cuban Labor Reception
Midway
9:00am •
Conozca sus derechos como trabajadores inmigrantes
11:05am •
Tech Workers Meeting
12:35pm •
Entertainment Workers Meetup
2:15pm •
You Can't Do It All Yourself: Learn It, Do It, Teach It
4:30pm •
Organizing Across Amazon Subcontractors
Mirabel
9:00am •
The Fight for the VA: Veterans and Union Members Organize
2:15pm •
Caucuses and Contract Campaigns
Narita
9:00am •
For Elected Leaders: Leadership Development and Building the Team You Need
11:05am •
Fight the Boss, Fix the Climate
2:15pm •
Dealing with Difficult Supervisors
4:30pm •
Running for Union Office
O'Hare Ballroom
11:05am •
Federal Workers Meeting
2:15pm •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign
4:30pm •
Latino Workers Meetup
O’Hare Ballroom
9:00am •
Defending Your Co-Workers in Disciplinary Meetings
Paris
9:00am •
Challenging Production Standards and Understaffing
11:05am •
ILWU/IBU Meeting
2:15pm •
How to Have a Good Meeting
Rosemont A
9:00am •
Organizing Across Language Divides
11:05am •
Health Care Workers Meeting
12:35pm •
MAY DAY STRONG
2:15pm •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
5:00pm •
Reformers in Elected Office Reception
9:00pm •
EWOC Reception
Rosemont B
9:00am •
Collectively Fabulous
11:05am •
Art: A Hammer to Shape the World
2:15pm •
Just Cause
4:30pm •
It Can Happen Here: Unions vs. Authoritarian Attacks
8:00pm •
DSA Labor Reception
Rosemont CD
9:00am •
Book Launch! Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard
11:05am •
Pre-K-12 Educators Meeting
2:15pm •
The Soul in the Machine: Resisting A.I. Pressure on the Character and Quality of Our Jobs
4:30pm •
Opening Up Bargaining
Seatac
9:00am •
Find Your Workplace Leverage—and Use It
11:05am •
IATSE Meeting
2:15pm •
For Elected Leaders: Staying Steady Despite the Noise
Sky Harbor
9:00am •
Modelos efectivos: Comités de salud y seguridad
2:15pm •
Pensions: An Organizing Tool
4:30pm •
Moving from Research to Campaign
Tegel
9:00am •
Chinese Workers in China and the World
2:15pm •
Maintaining Unity in a Right-to-Work Shop
4:30pm •
Starting a “Labor Notes” in Your Country
United A
8:00am •
Dance in Labor Movements
2:15pm •
How (and When) to Start a Reform Caucus
4:30pm •
Listening Session: Strike While the Needle Is Hot
United AB
9:00pm •
Great Labor Arts Exchange Concert
United B
9:00am •
How to Build Power: From Acting Tactically to Thinking Strategically
11:05am •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Growing Your Leadership Team
2:15pm •
Investigating Grievances
4:30pm •
Effective Worker-Led Health-and-Safety Committees
Vienna
9:00am •
Get Strike-Ready
11:05am •
Union Staff Meeting
2:15pm •
Doing Politics Differently
4:30pm •
Defending and Expanding Public Sector Collective Bargaining Rights
Sunday
, June 14
DaVinci
9:00am •
Running for Union Office
10:45am •
We Keep Each Other Safe: Protecting All of Us During Street Actions
DFW
9:00am •
Democratic Rights of Union Members: Know Your Rights
10:45am •
Solidarity Wins
Grand Ballroom
1:00pm •
Sunday Main Session
Grand Ballroom A
9:00am •
You Can't Do It All Yourself: Learn It, Do It, Teach It
10:45am •
Steering Green Transitions
Grand Ballroom B
9:00am •
Getting Members Ready to Lead at the Bargaining Table
10:45am •
Organizing the South
Grand Ballroom C
9:00am •
Heartbreak for Union Staffers
10:45am •
Creative Tactics and Strategic Mischief
Grand Ballroom F
10:45am •
Mexico's Independent Union Movement: Challenges and Victories/El movimiento sindical independiente de México: Desafíos y victorias
Grand Ballroom G
10:45am •
Women in Union Leadership
Grand Ballroom H
10:45am •
How We Organized Our Union
Hartsfield
9:00am •
Beyond Rainbow Capitalism
10:45am •
Union Fights on Mergers and Corporate Consolidation
Heathrow
9:00am •
Southern Workers Meeting
Int’l Ballroom A
9:00am •
People Over the Pentagon
10:45am •
Bargaining a Yes-Strike Clause to Preserve Our Right to Strike
Int’l Ballroom C
10:45am •
How to Form an Organizing Committee
Int’l Ballroom D
10:45am •
Tenants and Labor: Unions Teaming Up
Int’l Ballroom E
9:00am •
A Pro-Worker Approach to Trade Policy
10:45am •
Organizing Remote and Scattered Workers
Int’l Ballroom F
9:00am •
Fighting for Good Health Care for Working People
10:45am •
Case Study: NewsGuild's Member-Leader Program
JFK
8:00am •
Recovery/Sobriety Meeting
Lambert
9:00am •
Casing an Employer: On-the-Ground Research for New Organizing Targets
10:45am •
Strikes and the Law
LAX
9:00am •
Drafting Contract Language: 20 Worst Mistakes to Avoid
10:45am •
Salts and Peppers: Get a Job, Organize a Union!
Lindbergh
9:00am •
Your Caucus Won. Now What?
10:45am •
Mieux S'Organiser Pour Gagner
London
9:00am •
Cómo luchar contra la desorganización del jefe
10:45am •
Running for Union Office: How We Did It
McCarran
10:45am •
For (Newly) Elected Leaders: Crash Course for Taking Office
Midway
9:00am •
Veterans and Military Families Meetup
10:45am •
How to Have a Good Meeting
Narita
9:00am •
Know Your Rights for Immigrant Workers
10:45am •
Building Trades: Internal Organizing
O'Hare Ballroom
9:00am •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Growing Your Leadership Team
10:45am •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Beating Apathy
Paris
9:00am •
How to Investigate a Safety and Health Incident
10:45am •
Building the Union Through Strikes
Rosemont A
9:00am •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign
10:45am •
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning an Issue into a Campaign
Rosemont B
9:00am •
FILM: We Build Power: Organizing Coalitions to Fight For Public Education
10:45am •
Take a Closer Look: They’re Privatizing Your School
Rosemont CD
9:00am •
Mass Strikes: Past and Present
10:45am •
From May 2026 to May 2028: Seasons of Class Struggle
United A
9:00am •
Write a Story for Labor Notes!
10:45am •
Songwriting for the Movement
United B
9:00am •
Using Comics in Your Organizing
10:45am •
Secrets of a Successful Social Media Video
Vienna
9:00am •
Hospital Workers Building Solidarity
10:45am •
The Role of Union Staff in a Member-Led Movement
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