2012 Policy Briefing: Workers' Rights & Economic Security  

9:30 - 10:00           Networking Breakfast

10:00 - 10:15         Welcome and Introductions

·         Shona Chakravartty, Program Officer, Hill-Snowdon Foundation, and Co-Chair, NFG Working Group on Labor and Community Partnerships

·         J. Robert Shull, Program Office for Workers Rights, Public Welfare Foundation                                          

10:30 - 12:00         How Do Workers’ Rights Figure into the National Election?

                                 Moderated by Molly Schultz Hafid, Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at
                                 Shelter Rock

·         Celinda Lake, President, Lake Research Partners

·         Julie Martinez-Ortega, Principal, Project New American Latino

·         Gihan Perera, Executive Director, Florida New Majority

·         Lara Granich, Director, Jobs with Justice Missouri

12:00 - 12:15          Break

12:15 - 1:45            Lunch and Keynote Speaker

 Moderated by Lisa Guide, Associate Director, Rockefeller Family Fund

·         Keynote Speaker: Sidney Blumenthal, Author of The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: The Conservative Ascent to Political Power, The Clinton Wars, and The Permanent Campaign

·         Respondents

o    Saru Jayaraman, Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers-United

o    Kert Davies, Research Director, Greenpeace 

1:45 - 2:00              Break

2:00 - 3:30              The Obama Administration Regulatory Record: A Review and Appraisal
                                 Moderated by J. Robert Shull, Program Officer for Workers’ Rights, Public Welfare
                                 Foundation

·         Catherine Ruckelshaus, Legal Co-Director, National Employment Law Project

·         Celeste Monforton, Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, and Director, Beyond OSHA Project

·         Rachel Micah Jones, Director, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante/CDM 

3:30 - 5:00              Reclaiming the Right to Organize and the Right to Work:
 The Shifting Policy Context of Collective Bargaining and Immigration Enforcement

 Moderated by Janet Shenk, Program Officer, Panta Rhea Foundation

·         Craig Becker, Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University and former member, National Labor Relations Board

·         Naomi Walker, Director of State Government Relations and Deputy Director of Government Affairs, AFL-CIO

·         Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director, National Day Laborers Organizing Network

New time and location!

 Zaytinya Restaurant, 701 9th Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

6:00 - 7:00              Reception 

                                  Special Guest: Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for

                                  Occupational Safety and Health

7:00 - 9:30              Dinner Program honoring Henry Allen, Executive Director, Discount Foundation

8:30 - 9:00              Networking Breakfast

PART ONE               FUNDER AND PARTNERS DISCUSSION

9:00 - 10:30           Workers’ Rights Policy Campaigns in the States

                                 Alison Hirsh, 32BJ SEIU

                                 Wendy Chun Hoon, Family Value at Work
                                 Chris Owens and Cathy Rucklehaus, National Employment Law Project
                                 Carol Joyner, Labor Project for Working Families

10:30 - 12:30         Capacity and Scale to Win
                                 Ai-jen Poo, Caring Across Generations/National Domestic Workers Alliance
                                 Chris Owens, National Employment Law Project
                                 Richard Kirsch, Roosevelt Institute

PART TWO              FOR FUNDERS AND PHILANTHROPIC ADVISORS ONLY

12:30 - 2:00            Grantmaking Strategies, Reflection, and Working Lunch