April 20, 2000
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, April 28th (King Building, Room 306)

• 7:00-7:15 p.m. Registration, Check-In, Get Housing Assignment
• 7:15-7:30 p.m. Welcoming Remarks and Introductions
• 7:30-9:00 p.m. The Future of the Student- Labor Alliance: Panel Discussion Representative from UNITE Joe Alvarez, Northeast Regional Coordinator, AFL-CIO Pat Coughlin, International Vice President and President of Local 274 of HERE (Hotel Employees, Restau-rant Employees International Union). Jeffery Booth, shop steward in the Harvard Clerical Workers Union and secretary of the Massachusetts State Labor Party
• 9:00-9:30 p.m. Reception
• 9:30 p.m. Movie: "The Global Assembly Line" (on wall of Mudd)

Saturday, April 29th (Wilder Student Union, rooms TBA)

• 9-10:30 a.m.--Set One: Workshops

  a) No-Sweat: Strategies for Success in Grassroots Labor Organizing;
  b) Joining the Labor Movement after Graduation: An Alternative; Vision led by Barry Eidlin (OC '96) staff member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Detroit.

• 10:45-12p.m.--Set Two: Workshops

  a) Understanding Domestic Sweatshops: Migrant Workers and the FLOC campaign led by FLOC.
  b) The Politics of Union Organizing: Alternative to the Democratic Party with Jeffery Booth

• 12:00 Noon Lunch and Discussion: How We Can Support Each Other: Networking and Building Alliances
• 1:15-2:30 p.m.-- Set Three: Workshops

  a) Media Relations/Non-Violence Training, led by Jackie Downing and Laurel Paget-Seekins, Ruckus Society graduates
  b) Building an anti-Mariott campaign, led by a HERE representative

• 2:30 p.m.: Keynote address: King Building, Room 306. Speaker Baldemar Valesquez, President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC): "Sweatshops in the US: the Conditions of Migrant Farm workers and the Role of Student Labor Movement in Supporting Workers' Struggles"
• 4:15 p.m.: ACTION: Protest against Mount Olive Pickles & The Exploitation of Migrant Farm Workers @ Misslers Grocery Store in Oberlin

Media Contact: Betty Gabrielli 4/20/00 #85 bg