Valuing Women's Work

Celebrating the Centenary of the International Labor Organization and The Future of Women’s Labor Rights

 

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

(Location TBD)
SALON DISCUSSION

5:00pm    WELCOMING REMARKS
Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)
 
5:15pm    KEYNOTE - SETTING GLOBAL LABOR STANDARDS: VIOLENCE AND HARRASMENT AND DOMESTIC WORKERS
Manuela 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 DELAURO
Kevin 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
  1. Norma Martinez, Make the Road-Bridgeport,CT and JoAnn Lum, Ain’t I a Woman Campaign
  2. Georgia Allen, Founder/Exec Director, Soaring Independent Cooperative (Madison, WI) and Ruth Rohlich, Business Development Specialist, Madison Economic Development Division/Madison Cooperative Development Alliance
  3. 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
 
  1. Fatima Rojas, Unidad Latina en Accion
  2. Jerame Davis, Executive Director, PRIDE at WORK and Dr. Jillian T. Weiss, Attorney, LGBTQ Employment and Trans Civil Rights
  3. 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 REMARKS
Kevin Cassidy – Director, ILO Office for the United States
Professor Jennifer Klein – History Department, Yale University