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Tentative Program
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Friday October 13, 2006 |
7:30pm–9:30pm |
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Keynote Address: Kane Hall 130
- “Making the Economy Work for Workers”
- Robert Kuttner, Founding Editor of The American Prospect
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Saturday October 14, 2006 |
9:00am-10:30am |
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Technology and Future Work: Mary Gates Hall Room 389
- Howard Jay Chizeck, UW College of Engineering (Robotics and Bioengineering)
- Marcus Courtney, Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
- Tom Gruver, Microsoft Corporation
- Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, Center for University
Studies and Programs, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences UW Bothell
(Moderator)
- What are the likely technologies of the future?
- What are the contingencies that could affect future work technologies?
- What threats and opportunities do these technologies pose for workers?
- Must knowledge workers become a new elite?
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10:40am-12:10pm |
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The New Global Divisions of Labor: Mary Gates Hall Room 389
- Charles Bofferding, Executive Director of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace
(SPEEA)
- Anjana Susarla, UW College of Business (Outsourcing and Knowledge Work)
- Anthony P. D'Costa, UW Tacoma Comparative International Development,
UW Seattle International and the South Asian Studies Programs, Jackson
School of International Studies
- Owen Herrnstadt, International Association of Machinists
- Mark A. Smith, UW Political Science Department
(Moderator)
- Can we understand the geographies of knowledge work?
- What are the opportunities and threats inherent in globalization of knowledge?
- Is international labor solidarity possible? What would this mean?
- What roles will and can education and social policy play in shaping the global knowledge economy?
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12:20pm–1:50pm |
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Luncheon Address: Husky Union Building Room 108
- "Next Generation Unionism: Politics, Power and
The Informational Labor Process"
- Chris Benner, Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University
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2:00pm-3:30pm |
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Industry Specific Panels
- Waterfront Technology Issues: Mary Gates Hall Room 251
Historical perspective on bargaining over workplace transformation, contemporary opportunities and challenges created by knowledge technology for longshore bargaining and organizing, and the “new” workplace.
- Joe Gasperov, President ILWU Maine Clerks’ Local 63 and member, ILWU Coast Clerks’ Technology Committee
- Gene Vrana, Director of Educational Services, ILWU (Moderator)
- Joe Wenzl, Coast Committeeman, ILWU
- Aeronautics Industry: Mary Gates Hall Room 287
- Owen Herrnstadt, International Association of Machinists
- Deborah Knutson, Economic Development Council of Snohomish County
- John McMasters, The Boeing Company
- Stan Sorscher, SPEEA (Moderator)
- Education: Mary Gates Hall Room 295
- Larry Gold, American Federation of Teachers
- Erika Gubrium, American Association of University Professors
- Valerie Wilk, National Education Association
- Ruth Windhover, Washington Education Association
- Sandra Schroeder, WA American Federation of Teachers (Moderator)
- Service Workers in the Knowledge Economy: Mary Gates Hall Room
254
- Jim Gleb, Retail Director, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 21
- Sarah Laslett, Director, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies (Moderator)
- David Rolf, President Service Employees International Union Local 775
- Rick Sawyer, Secretary Treasurer, UNITE HERE! Local 8
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3:45pm-5:45pm |
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Challenges to Labor and Social Organization & Wrap-up: Mary Gates Hall Room 389
- Joan Fitzgerald, Northeastern University, Professor and Director - Law, Policy and Society Program
- David Kusnet, Economic Policy Institute Fellow (Former Presidential Speechwriter)
- Gina Neff, UW Communications Department (Video Game Industry)
- Dan Jacoby, Harry Bridges Chair (Moderator)
- Can educators prepare workers for the new and rapidly changing technologies?
- Can organized labor influence the directions a knowledge economy takes?
- What policies and forms of organization are likely to ensure that workers benefit from new technologies?
- Will/should the roles played by basic institutions such as the firm, the union, the state and the university be transformed to adapt to future changes?
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