5:00pm WELCOMING REMARKS Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT) 5:15pm KEYNOTE - SETTING GLOBAL LABOR STANDARDS: VIOLENCE AND HARRASMENT AND DOMESTIC WORKERSManuela Tomei – Director, Work Quality Department, ILO 6:00 pm AN IN-DEPTH DISCUSSION Moderator: Judy Gearhart, Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum
Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)
Manuela Tomei – Director, Work Quality Department, ILO
6:45pm OPENING RECEPTION
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11
Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect St.
9:00am WELCOMING REMARKS Professor Jennifer Klein – History Department, Yale University 9:05am ILO CENTENARY AND INTRODUCTION OF REPRESENTATIVE ROSA DELAUROKevin Cassidy – Director and Representative to Bretton Woods and Mutlilateral Organizations, ILO Office for the United States 9:10am OPENING ADDRESS Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT) 9:25am "Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home": Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019”Professor Eileen Boris – Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies and Global Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara 9:45am PANEL 1 - THE CARE ECONOMY, PAID AND UNPAID LABOR, AND THE PURSUIT OF GENDER EQUALITY Moderator: Professor Eileen Boris— University of California-Santa Barbara
Sheila Lirio Marcelo – CEO, care.com
Professor Premilla Nadasen – Barnard College Dept. of History; National Women’s Studies Association, President
Sarita Gupta – Co-Director Caring across Generations; Director Jobs with Justice
Deborah Schwartz – Vice President, SEIU 1199 New England
11:15am COFFEE BREAK
11:30am CONCURRENT BREAK-OUT WORKING GROUPS
Norma Martinez, Make the Road-Bridgeport,CT and JoAnn Lum, Ain’t I a Woman Campaign
Georgia Allen, Founder/Exec Director, Soaring Independent Cooperative (Madison, WI) and Ruth Rohlich, Business Development Specialist, Madison Economic Development Division/Madison Cooperative Development Alliance
Caitlin Connolly, Director of Social Insurance, National Employment Law Project/National Women’s Law Center and (Natalicia Tracy, National Domestic Workers Alliance/Brazilian Workers Center)
12:45pm LUNCH PANEL - TEACHERS, THE PUBLIC SECTOR, AND NEW ALLIANCES FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS (45 min) followed by conversations among participants at tables Moderator: Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang – Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies, Yale University
Stacy Davis Gates – VP, Political and Legislative Director, Chicago Teachers Union
Gloria Martinez – Elementary Vice President, United Teachers of Los Angeles Teachers
Nicole McCormick – West Virginia Education Association; WV Public Employees United
2:15pm PANEL II - JUSTICE AT WORK: STRATEGIES FOR CONFRONTING WAGE INEQUALITY, WAGE THEFT, HARASSMENT, AND COERCION Moderator: Professor Frances Rosenbluth – Dept. of Political Science, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
Manuela Tomei – Director, Work Quality Department, ILO
Cathy Feingold – Director, International Department, AFL-CIO
James Bhandary-Alexander – Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance
David Weil – Dean, The Heller School for Social and Policy Management, Brandeis; Director of Wage and Hour Division of U.S. Department of Labor, Obama Administration
Prof. Vicki Shultz – Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Science, Yale Law School
3:45pm COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm CONCURRENT BREAK-OUT WORKING GROUPS
Fatima Rojas, Unidad Latina en Accion
Jerame Davis, Executive Director, PRIDE at WORK and Dr. Jillian T. Weiss, Attorney, LGBTQ Employment and Trans Civil Rights
Darlene Lombos, Vice President, Boston Labor Council and James Bhandary-Alexander, Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance
5:00pm COFFEE BREAK
5:30pm PLENARY: CONGRESSWOMEN FROM U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Moderator: Lauren Jacobs, Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families 7:00pm RECEPTION
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
Greenberg Conference Center
9:00am BRINGING TOGETHER THE PANEL DISCUSSIONS
9:45am PANEL III - TECHNOLOGY, GENDER, THE FUTURE OF WORK AND LABOR RIGHTS IN THE GIG ECONOMY Moderator: Kevin Cassidy – Director and Representative to Bretton Woods and Multilaterals, ILO Office for the United States
Lis Meyers – Managing Associate, Gender and Social Inclusion, Nathan Associates
Natasha Castro – Community Organizer, LAANE / Fair Workweek Campaign
Karen Worstell – CEO, W Risk Group
11:15am COFFEE BREAK
11:30am WRAP-UP - CONNECTING GLOBAL AND LOCAL: THE IMPERATIVES OF LABOR STANDARDS AND WOMEN’S ACTIVISM Moderator: J.J. Rosenbaum – U.S. Director, Global Labor Justice
Professor Adelle Blackett – Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, McGill University; Director, Labour Law & Development Research Laboratory
Gabriella Rigg Herzog – Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, U.S. Council for International Business
Joanna Nice Coronacion – Director, SENTRO; World March of Women, Philippines Chapter
Ashwini Sukthankar – Director, Global Campaigns Dept., UNITE HERE
1:00pm CLOSING REMARKSKevin Cassidy – Director, ILO Office for the United States Professor Jennifer Klein – History Department, Yale University
