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Framing LV3: Message, Values and Vision for a New Workers Movement

Submitted by Heather Appel on Mon, 04/02/2007 - 10:52pm.

Description

Why can't the traditional messages and structures of organized labor generate sufficient power to reach across the deep divides in our movement and build social solidarity? Given the explosive changes in our country, our pervasively commercialized culture, and the predominance of unorganized workplaces, what are the most critical questions and challenges we need to explore to both tap into and enhance the energy and motion growing among immigrants, women, and youth? Four speakers will help us frame our discussions for the conference:

Presenters

Pablo Alvarado, executive director of NDLON, the national network of day
laborers, will share his perspective on the emergence of—-and organized
labor’s response to—-this recently mobilized sector. Nelson Johnson,
Co-chair of Interfaith Worker Justice, will address how focusing on values
can expand our movement to include people of varied faiths, and to address the
problematic brown-black divide. Rick Johnson, veteran union pollster and communications
expert from Lake Research Partners, will present data about what Americans
think and feel about labor, immigration, and the political struggles shaping our lives. Hetty Rosenstein,
President of CWA Local 1037, one of New Jersey's largest public sector
unions, will show message and vision in action by discussing how her union
organizes an increasingly diverse workforce in increasingly diverse communities.

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