Friday, June 9, 2017 * 1pm to 5pm
Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center
150 West 62nd Street * New York City
**FREE** Register at http://bit.ly/2qczTH3
Directions: http://bit.ly/2rL7zNs
Under fierce attack from the corporate sector, labor unions are exploring worker co-ops as a way to organize new members, save members’ jobs, create new jobs, and build community alliances. Presenters from NYC, Cincinnati and beyond will share their unions’ experiences with these experiments. Through panels, small group discussions and networking opportunities participants will explore how the co-op business model can help to strengthen and expand our unions.
Speakers include:
- Ellen Vera – National Manufacturing Organizing Coordinator, IUE-CWA; cofounder, Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative
- Mary Hoyer – cochair, UnionCo-ops Council of US Federation of Worker Co-ops
- Carmen Huertas-Noble – director, CUNY Law School Community & Economic Development Clinic, legal expert on unionized worker co-ops
- Keith Joseph – 1199SEIU rep for Cooperative Home Care Associates, the US’s largest worker coop
- David Hammer – ICA Group, consultants to unions on business conversions
- Brendan Martin, director, The Working World, which supported the launch of New Era Windows in Chicago
- Arturo Archila – United Steel Workers NYC, helped launch a unionized co-op
- Roger Green, director, Bunche-DuBois Center for Public Policy Research, Medgar Evers College
Sponsors: UnionCo-ops Council of US Federation of Worker Coops, Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies-CUNY, NYC Network of Worker Cooperatives, FPWA, 1Worker1Vote.org
