5/15 Sisters on the Frontline: Organizing Immigrant Workers

Cornell University, Institute for Women & Work, ILR School
In Collaboration With…
Cornell ILR Labor Programs, New York City
Cornell University Law School
&
The Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies, CUNY

Presents

Sisters on the Frontline: Organizing Immigrant Workers
Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:30 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. Cornell Conference Center, 6th Floor

This series of public forums will highlight the current challenges and opportunities women labor/community leaders and organizers face organizing workers in today’s global economy and culture. The first forum, Sisters On The Frontline: Organizing Immigrant Workers, will convene a distinguished panel of women leaders and experts to present and debate the recent outcomes of the FreshDirect organizing drive, the implications of employer sanctions, and model labor/community organizing efforts. Reading materials will be distributed prior to the forum and upon pre-registration for your interest and to help serve as background information. The forum is geared toward women organizers, union elected officials, activists, scholars and studeecision makers, and interested individuals and organizations.

TOPIC: FreshDirect
Speaker: Sandy Pope , President International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 805
Speaker: Joann Lo, Enlace
Speaker: Amy Sugimori of La Fuente, The New York Civic Participation Project as a speaker
Respondent: Angela Cornell, Cornell University
Moderator: Francine Moccio, Cornell University