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Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO
“Organizing Professionals in the 21st Century”
March 14-16, 2005

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Speakers and Panelists

Monday, March 14, 2005

9 – 9:15 a.m.
Farragut

Organizing Professionals in the 21^st Century [photos]

Paul E. Almeida [bio]
President, Department for Professional Employees.

9:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Farragut

21^st Century Professionals: Demography and Trends [photos]

Lynn A. Karoly, Senior Economist, The RAND Corporation [bio]
- The Future at Work—Trends and Implications
Richard W. Hurd, Professor of Labor Studies, Cornell University [bio]
- Reaction, Message for Unions

10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Farragut

Tilting the Balance: Enhancing Organizing Among Professionals [photos]

Guy Molyneux, Senior Vice President, Peter D. Hart Research [bio]
To receive by mail a copy of the report and slides, please send your request on the letterhead of your union with your name and title to:
Ms. Marcie Lawrence

Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO
1025 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 1030
Washington, DC, 20005

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.
Farragut

Professionals Organizing To Function As Professionals [photos]

Edward J. McElroy, President, American Federation of Teachers, and Chairman, Department for Professional Employees [bio]

2:30 – 4:15 p.m.

First Workshops

Dewey II	xx	1A.	Bargaining for Unionism: Professional Associations Affiliate [photos] Moderator: Gregory J. Junemann, President, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers [bio] Charles Bofferding, Executive Director, Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA-IFPTE) [bio] http://www.speea.org Dawn Saunders, Field Representative, United Professions of Vermont/AFT; Member, United Academics AAUP/AFT [bio] http://www.upvaft.org/about/index.php
Dewey I		1B.	Where Do We Start? Building a Union Without Collective Bargaining [photos] Moderator: Phil Kugler, Assistant to the President for Organization and Field Services, American Federation of Teachers [bio] Jennifer Kaseman, National Representative, American Federation of Teachers [bio] http://www.tft.org/about/index.cfm Sharon Pinnock, Labor Futurist and Director of Membership and Organization, American Federation of Government Employees [bio] The TSA Model Brenda Scott, President, Mississippi Alliance of State Employees (MASE), CWA, Local 3570 [bio] http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/4017/
Dewey III		1C.	Serious Players: Organizing Tactics in the Entertainment Industry [photos] Moderator: Lois Spier Gray, Professor of Labor Management Relations Emeritus, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations [bio] Matthew D. Loeb, International Vice President – Division Director of Motion Picture and Television Production, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees [bio] Flora Stamatiades, National Director, Organizing and Special Projects, Actors’ Equity Association [bio] AEA Materials Actor "Cost" Comparison Chart Glossary of Terms Summary of Production Contract Negotiations (2004) Sample Settlement Leslie Simon, Director, Legislative and Public Affairs and Spanish Language Media, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists – Los Angeles Local [bio] AFTRA Materials Notice to All AFTRA Franchised Agents Background Info on Spanish Language Programming Open Letter to NBC/Telemundo Management September 22 Rally Flier
Charleston I		1D.	Professionals Abroad: Organizing Successes [photos] Moderator: Pamm Fair, Deputy National Executive Director, Policy & Planning, Screen Actors Guild [bio] John Lloyd, Head of Policy and Strategy, Community [bio] www.community-tu.org John Vines, CEO, Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia (APESMA) [bio] http://www.apesma.asn.au/

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

9 – 9:15 a.m.

Greetings and Comments [photos]

Morton Bahr, President, Communications Workers of
America, and former Chairman, Department for
Professional Employees [bio]

9 :15 – 10 a.m.
Farragut

Learning to Organize: Training and Education as a Means to Organizing [photos]

John Lloyd
Head of Policy and Strategy, Community [bio]
www.community-tu.org
See also Learning Partnerships: Strengthening American Jobs In the Global Economy, http://www.shankerinstitute.org/downloads/TF Report Apr-2004.pdf

10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Second Workshops

Dewey Ix	xx	2A.	Organizing Through Professional Development [photos] Moderator: Ginny duRivage, Director of Education, American Federation of Government Employees [bio] Aimee Bolender, President, Alliance of Dallas Educators/AFT, Dallas, TX [bio] http://www.alliance-aft.org/index.htm Kevin Celata, Technical Training Administrator, Communications Workers of America [bio] CWA/NETT Academy is CWA
Charleston I		2B.	*Voice@Work: How Would You* Bring the Message Home to Professionals? [photos]** Moderator: Paul E. Almeida, President, Department for Professional Employees [bio] Jeff Grabelsky, Director, Construction Industry Programs, Cornell University ILR [bio] http://www.aflcio.org/aboutunions/voiceatwork/
Dewey II		2C.	Putting Organizing on the Curriculum: Reaching Out to Pre-Professionals and Young Professionals [photos] Moderator: Linda Foley, President, The Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America [bio] The X,Y,Z Generations John Connolly, President, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists [bio] Dick Gabriel, Assistant to the President, American Federation of Musicians [bio] Sue Kaufman, President, UPI Local 4100, IFT/AFT/AFL-CIO; Vice President, Illinois Federation of Teachers [bio]
Dewey III		2D.	Unionism as Politicking: Professional Associations Do the Numbers [photos] Moderator: Fred Feinstein, Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow, Office of Executive Programs, University of Maryland School of Public Policy [bio] Julie Akins Clark, General Counsel, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers [bio] Lou Nayman, Director, Organization and Field Services, American Federation of Teachers [bio]

1:15 – 2:15 p.m.
Farragut

Engendering Professionals: Professional Women Organize [photos]

Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Research [bio]
- Union Organizing Among Professional Women Workers
  - (Related PowerPoint Presentation)
Commentator: Dorothy Sue Cobble, Professor of Labor Studies, History, and Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University [bio]

2:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Third Workshops

Charleston I	xx	3A.	Networked and Connected: IT Professionals Organize [photos] Moderator: Ed Sabol, Director of Organizing, Communications Workers of America [bio] Linda Guyer, President, Alliance@IBM, CWA Local 1701 [bio] http://www.allianceibm.org Rick Sloan, Director of Communications, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers [bio] http://www.cyberlodge.org
Dewey III		3B.	Ensemble Effort: Inter-Union Cooperation and Organizing in the Entertainment Industry [photos] Moderator: Jeff Grabelsky, Director, Construction Industry Programs, Cornell University ILR [bio] Susan Borenstein, National Field Representative, AFL-CIO [bio] Carol Waaser, Eastern Regional Director, Actors’ Equity Association [bio] John McGuire, Senior Advisor, Screen Actors Guild [bio]
Dewey I		3C.	Developing Associations: How Thriving Professional Associations Recruit [photos] Presenter: Richard W. Hurd, Professor of Labor Studies, Cornell University [bio] How Thriving Professional Associations Recruit Unionization of Professional and Technical Workers: The Labor Market and Institutional Transformation Commentators: Susanne Connors Bowman, Co-Owner, The Haefer Group, Ltd. [bio] Trends in Membership Recruitment & Retention Pat Miyamoto, Senior Director of Membership and Publishing Services, American Psychological Association [bio] http://www.apa.org/about/
Dewey II		3D.	Planning for Contingencies: A Flexible Workforce Organizes [photos] Moderator: Karen Nussbaum, Assistant to the President, AFL-CIO [bio] http://www.workingamerica.org/home.cfm Charles Heckscher, Professor, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Rutgers University; Board of Directors, Working Today [bio] http://www.workingtoday.org/index.html Jonathan Tasini, President, Economic Future Group [bio] David West, Executive Director, Center for a Changing Workforce [bio] Everyday Low Benefits: The Future of Nonstandard Work in the Age of Wal-Mart

4:30 – 5:15 p.m.
Farragut

Into Cyberspace and Beyond! New Tactics for Organizing [photos]

Moderator: Paul E. Almeida, President, Department for Professional Employees [bio]
Tracey Conaty, Assistant Director of Public Affairs, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees [bio]
- AFSCME e-Activist Network
Christine Kenngott, Online Mobilization and Working Families Network Manager, AFL-CIO [bio]
- Online Mobilization & Legislation
Jimmy Tarlau, Staff Representative, Communications Workers of America [bio]
- Practical Considerations In Using the Internet In Organizing Campaigns

Wednesday, March 16, 2005

8:15 – 9:15 a.m.

But I Still Have a Question: Topics for Further Research

Breakout 1 Dewey I		Facilitator: Sarah S. Etherton, Associate Professor, Institute for Labor Studies & Research, West Virginia University [bio]
Breakout 2 Dewey II		Facilitator: Rick Kuplinski, Deputy Director of Organization and Field Services, American Federation of Teachers [bio]
Breakout 3 Dewey III		Facilitator: Sharon Pinnock, Labor Futurist and Director of Membership and Organization, American Federation of Government Employees [bio]
Breakout 4 Charleston I		Facilitator: Kim Roberts Hedgpeth, Associate National Executive Director, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists [bio]

9:30 – 11:15 a.m.
Farragut

Lots of Unions and Cooperation and Organizing: The Kaiser Permanente Coalition [photos]

Moderator: Gregory Hamblet, International Vice President, Special Assistant to the International Executive Vice President and Director, Collective Bargaining Department, United Food and Commercial Workers [bio]
Peter S. diCicco, Executive Director, Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, AFL-CIO [bio]
Adrienne Eaton, Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations Department, Rutgers University [bio]
Thomas A. Kochan, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Director, MIT Workplace Center [bio]

11:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Farragut

Professionals Organizing – Professionally

Paul E. Almeida, President, Department for Professional
Employees [bio]

DPE thanks Marjorie Wheeler for her photographs of the conference.