“Organizing Professionals in the 21st Century”

 

Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO

In collaboration with the Albert Shanker Institute

March 14-16, 2005

 

Printable Conference Registration Form

 

 

Please mail this registration form and a check for your registration fee (see below) payable to “DPE AFL-CIO” to:
 

                                DPE AFL-CIO

                                Attn: 21st Century Organizing Conference

                                815 16th Street, NW, 7th Floor

                                Washington, DC 20006
 

Please print or type:

 

Name ____________________________________________________________________________

     If different, preferred form of name for conference badge __________________

Position/Title __________________________________________________________________

Organization ____________________________________________________________________

Address _________________________________________________________________________

City/State/Zip __________________________________________________________________

Phone _________________________________    Fax __________________________________
Email address ___________________________________________________________

Please check all that apply:

National Union officer/staff
Local Union officer/staff
 Researcher/academic

Other (please specify) ________________________________________________________

Number of years in position ___________________________________________
 

For participants with organizing experience:

Year and industry of, and occupations involved in, your most recent organizing campaign

_________________________________________________________________________________

Industries or occupations in which you have organized _________________________________________________________________________________

If you worked as a professional or technician other than in your position now, what was your occupation?
_________________________________________________________________________________


For researchers and academics:

Primary research interests relating to professional and technical employees and organizing

_________________________________________________________________________________

Publications relating to professional and technical employees and organizing

_________________________________________________________________________________

 

Please indicate your workshop preferences by circling a number for three choices in each round of workshops:  1, top choice; 2, second choice; and 3, third choice.  We will do our best to accommodate your preferences within the capacities of the breakout rooms.
 

Monday afternoon, March 14, 2005:

1A. Bargaining for Unionism:  Professional Associations Affiliate       1      2      3
1B. Where Do We Start?:  Building a Union Without Collective Bargaining       1      2      3
1C. Serious Players:  Organizing Tactics in the Entertainment Industry       1      2      3
1D. Professionals Abroad: Organizing Successes       1      2      3

 

Tuesday morning, March 15, 2005:

2A. Organizing Through Professional Development       1      2      3
2B. Voice@Work: How Would You Bring the Message Home to Professionals?       1      2      3
2C. Putting Organizing on the Curriculum:  Reaching Out to Pre-Professionals and Young Professionals       1      2      3
2D. Unionism as Politicking:  Professional Associations Do the Numbers       1      2      3


Tuesday afternoon, March 15, 2005:

3A. Networked and Connected:  IT Professionals Organize       1      2      3
3B. Ensemble Effort:  Inter-Union Cooperation and Organizing in the Entertainment Industry       1      2      3
3C. Developing Associations:  How Thriving Professional Associations Recruit       1      2      3
3D. Planning for Contingencies:  A Flexible Workforce Organizes       1      2      3



Conference registration fees:

The conference registration fee is $300.  There will be no refunds of registration fees for cancellations after January 31, 2005.

Please note:  The conference capacity is limited.  Priority for registration will go to the national unions affiliated with the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (see the list at the bottom of this page) and their local unions.  Registrations that exceed the conference capacity will be returned.

 

Hotel accommodations:

The conference hotel is the Hilton Crystal City, 2399 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, VA, 22202, telephone 1-703-418-6800, fax 1-703-418-3763.  Its rooms are sold out.  For union hotels in the metropolitan District of Columbia area, check the website of the Union Label and Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO, http://www.unionlabel.org/cgi-bin/travel_planner.cfm?state=DC&city=all&service=Hotel/Motel.  If you wish to travel between your hotel and the conference by subway, select a hotel on the Blue Line of the Metro; see www.wmata.com, the website of the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority.

 

Questions about registration or the conference:

For questions about registering for the conference, please contact Marcie Lawrence at DPE, 202-638-0320 extension 16, mlawrence@dpeaflcio.org, or Leandra Roscoe, 202-638-0320 extension 10, lkennedy@dpeaflcio.org.  For questions about the conference agenda, please contact David Cohen, 202-638-0320 extension 13, dcohen@dpeaflcio.org.
 

 

Unions Affiliated with the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA)
Communications Workers of America (CWA)
Federation of Professional Athletes (FPA)
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, Moving Picture
Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts (IATSE)
International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF)
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)

International Plate Printers, Die Stampers and Engravers Union of North America

Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU)

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)

Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG)

Seafarers International Union of North America (SIU)

Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

United American Nurses (UAN)

United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)

United Steel Workers of America (USWA)

Writer’s Guild of America, East (WGAE)