Agenda
The 2013 AFL-CIO Convention will begin with a series of pre-convention committee meetings on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, and will officially begin at 3 p.m. PDT on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013.
- Committee on Growth, Innovation and Political Action (Marriott, 2nd Floor, Platinum C)
- Committee on Shared Prosperity in the Global Economy (Marriott, 2nd Floor, Platinum AB)
- Committee on Community Partnerships and Grassroots Power (Marriott, 2nd Floor, Platinum D)
- Constitution Committee (Marriott, 1st Floor, Gold Ballroom, Salon 1)
- Credentials Committee (Marriott, 3rd Floor, Georgia)
- Rules Committee (Marriott, 1st Floor, Gold Ballroom, Salon 4)
- Resolutions Committee (Marriott, 1st Floor, Gold Ballroom, Salon 2)
- Finance Committee (Marriott, 1st Floor, Gold Ballroom, Salon 3)
- State Federation and Central Labor Council Advisory Committee (Marriott, 2nd Floor, Platinum AB)
Meet up at the main entrance to the South Hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center
- Introductions: Who We Are
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren
- Convention Action on Diversity, Women Workers and Young Workers
- Dreams of Jobs and Freedom Scholarship/Adopt-a-School Awards
- George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award
Sponsored by the California Labor Federation and Partners
- Keynote Address: AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
- Convention Action on Growth and Innovation
- Convention Action on Community Partnerships and Grassroots Power
- Audacity Over Austerity: Ten Years of Raising Wages and Workers' Rights in Brazil
- Don't Be a Stranger: Labor-Management Partnerships in the Global Age
- Expanding the Pie: How Unions Can Partner with Foundations
- Infrastructure, Jobs and Reducing Emissions: Upgrading Natural Gas Distribution Systems
- Pop Ed 101: Using Popular Education for Social Change
- What's Digital Strategies?
- Who Is Trying to Steal Our Democracy and What We Can Do to Stop Them?
- Winning for Texas Workers
- Ask Me About the Future: Young Workers Speak Up!
- Harnessing History: Innovative Responses to a Changing Capitalism
- Privatization: Collaborative Strategies for Fighting Back
- Anyone Can Join, Everyone Should: Models for Alternative Membership
- Power Partnerships: Labor/Community Campaigns That Build Worker Power
- Art and Activism 101: The Creative Power of Arts and Culture as a Catalyst for Action
- Deepening Faith Engagement: Best Practices for Collaboration
- Gearing Up for the Fall Budget Battles
- Lessons from the State Battles
- Convention Action on Political Action
- Convention Action on Constitutional Amendments
Join us in this action, inspired by Los Angeles street artist and activist Ramiro Gomez, to place cardboard cutouts of workers in neighborhoods near the Los Angeles Convention Center, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO affiliates, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, worker center partners and other community allies. The cutouts represent the work we do as union members, highlight crucial industries and bring attention to those whose voices we feel are underrepresented.
Meet with Hassan Juma'a Awad, president of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions. Sponsored by U.S. Labor Against the War.
- Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in economics
- Convention Action on Shared Prosperity and the Global Economy
- Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez
- Convention Action on Immigrant Worker Justice
- Global Approaches to Building Worker Power
- How the Trans-Pacific Partnership (a Supersized NAFTA) Will Impact You as a Worker and What You Can Do About It!
- Link Up with China's Workers Around Common Issues in the Global Economy
- Power Through Diversity: Strategize with Constituency Groups for a More Inclusive Labor Movement!
- Show It, Don't Say It! 10 Ways to Change How People See Unions
- The Labor Movement's Campaign to Raise Wages
- This Is NOT What Democracy Looks Like! The Democracy Initiative
- Mass Incarceration and the Labor Movement Analysis
- Organize the South: Why the South Matters to the Future of Labor
- Organizing Workers and Immigration Reform: A Strategy Session
- Lessons in Women's Leadership: 'Leaning In' the Labor Way
- Bangladesh Fire and Safety Accord: A New Standard in Global Framework Agreements?
- Alt-Labor: Building Union-Worker Center Partnerships
- Fighting for Health Care in the Age of the Affordable Care Act
- Workers' Voice: An Independent Movement to Elect Progressives
- Twitter 101: Getting Started
- Convention Action on Global Organizing, Globalization and Trade
- Nominations of AFL-CIO Officers
- Remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001
- Convention Action on Community Partnerships and Grassroots Power
- Report of the Finance Committee
- Bankrupting Retirement: Retirement Security and Bankruptcy as an Employer Strategy
- Bargain Like an Organizer: Developing and Executing Strategic Contract Campaigns
- Building Labor-Community Partnerships at State Federations and Central/Area Labor Councils
- Common Sense Economics: Mass Education for a Mass Movement
- Facebook 101: Getting Started
- Global Organizing Partnerships: U.S. Unions and International Partners Organizing in the Global Economy
- 'Inequality for All': Sneak Preview Film Screening and Discussion
- Labor Law for the Modern Economy: Past Challenges, Future Strategy
- No Workplace? No Problem! Building the Union Movement in the New Economy
- OUR Walmart: Change Jobs, Change Retail and Change the World!
- Policy Initiatives That Enable Organizing: Living Wage and PLA Campaigns
- Union Veterans, You've Served Your Country: Make Your Voice Heard!
- Winning and Building Over Time: Winning in California and You Can, Too
- Jobs to Move America: National Partnership to Boost U.S. Manufacturing and Create Good Jobs in the Transportation Industry
- Building Coalitions for Job Creation: Public Transit
- Call to Action: Commitment to Immediate Next Steps
