Policy Briefing: The Future of Work and The Future of Labor  

An Annual Policy Briefing Hosted by
the Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships
of the Neighborhood Funders Group

Why Labor Organizing Should be a Civil Right

The Future of Work: Labor Market Trends and Strategies to Address Them
Moderated by Anna Wadia, Program Officer, Ford Foundation

• Craig Becker, Co-General Counsel, AFL-CIO
  Checks, Balances and American Workers Op-Ed
  David E. Feller Memorial Labor Law Lecture
  Isolating America's Workers
  Michigan's Mistake Op-Ed
• Ellen Bravo, Executive Director, Family Values @ Work: A Multi-State Consortium
  Earned Sick Time Works
  The National Federation of Independent Business
• Kathleen Mulligan-Hansel, Deputy Director, Partnership for Working Families
• Dorian Warren, Assistant Professor, Columbia University, and Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
  Future of Work in America (slideshow)
  Too Little, Too Late: Why?

The Future of Reform: What’s on the Horizon in the States
Moderated by Carol Joyner, Public Policy Director, Labor Project for Working Families

• Lydia Lowe, Executive Director, Chinese Progressive Association
• Ann Pratt, Executive Director, Progressive States Network
  Progressive States Network: The Future of Reform
• Cristina Tzintzun, Executive Director, Workers’ Defense Project
  Workers' Defense Project

The Future of Our Narrative: The Power of Stories
Introduced and moderated by Maria Hinojosa, Latino USA, NPR

• Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
  Behind the Kitchen Door
• Tammy Miser, Executive Director, United Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities
  Combustible Dust Hearing: Tammy Miser
  Our Loved Ones Died at Unsafe Workplaces
  The Danger of Combustible Dust
• Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director, MomsRising.org
  Parades Erupt Throughout Country to Celebrate One Amazing Mother's Achievement  

The Future of Economic Security: Work and Social Insurance
Moderated by Sarita Gupta, Executive Director, Jobs with Justice

• Cathy Albisa, Executive Director, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
  Checklist of Current Problems in the Workers’ Compensation System
  Declaration of Principles to Advance the Human Rights of Injured or Ill Workers in the United States
  Workers' Compensation: The System's Devastating Economic Impact on Workers' Lives
  Workers' Compensation Facts & Stats
• Eileen Appelbaum, Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research
  Business Attitudes to FMLA Are Changing
  The FMLA at 20: A 4 Part Series
• Naomi Walker, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
  The ABCs of SB1234

The Future of Immigration Reform & Worker Protections
Moderated by Sue Chinn, Campaign Manager, Alliance for Citizenship

• Julieta Garibay, United We DREAM
• Rachel Micah-Jones, Executive Director, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
• Ana Avendaño, Assistant to the President and Director of Immigration and Community Action, AFL-CIO
• Chris Newman, Legal Director, National Day Laborers Organizing Network

Reflections and Discussion
Moderated by Molly Schultz Hafid, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock with reactions by Annette Bernhardt, Policy Co-Director, National Employment Law Project

Dinner, with Special Guest MB Maxwell, US Department of Labor
Minimum Wage is a Woman's Issue