You are cordially invited to the N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change‘s 2016 symposium, “Dishwashers, Domestic Workers, and Day Laborers: Can Alternative Labor Organizing Revive the Labor Movement?” on March 24 and 25 at NYU School of Law. The event is free and open to the public. 

We hope you will join us on the evening of Thursday, March 24 for our opening reception and the screening of The Hand That Feeds, a documentary about the worker organizers of the Hot & Crusty bakery and their fight to create their own independent union. A question and answer session with the filmmakers and leaders portrayed in the film will follow.

Click here to register (1.5 CLE credits are offered) and please visit our Facebook event page to share. We hope to see you there!

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

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6:00pm Opening Reception (Golding Lounge / Vanderbilt Hall)

7:00pm Screening of The Hand That Feeds (Room 205 / Vanderbilt Hall)

Friday, March 25, 2016

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9:00am Registration opens (Greenberg Lounge)

10:00am Opening remarks

10:15am Panel #1: Perspectives on Organizing Workers

11:45am Panel #2: Friend or Foe? Labor Law and Non-Union Workers (CLE*)

1:00pm Lunch break

2:15pm Keynote: Are Worker Centers the Future of Labor? (Cristina Tzintzún, SEIU and iAmerica)

3:30pm Panel #3 Organizing the Gig Economy and Beyond

4:45pm Closing Remarks

For more information, please visit: http://socialchangenyu.com/symposium/2016-symposium-dishwashers-domestic-workers-day-laborers-can-alternative-labor-organizing-revive-the-labor-movement/

Co-sponsed by NYU LaLSA, Cornell’s Worker Institute, the Peggy Browning Fund. and NYU School of Law.