3/30-4/1:Sisters On The Frontline: Organizing Women, Mobilizing Power

There is going to be a very important conference of 150 women organizers
from labor organizations and community groups that are engaged in workplace
organizing. We have two big workshops specifically on immigrant issues -
workplace raids, detentions and deportations as well as specific focus on
immigrant women organizing.

The conference will be March 30 through April 1, 2007 in New York City.

Please let us know RIGHT AWAY if you need financial support to attend.
Fill out the application form and mail it back in. If you have any
questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Jeannette Gabriel
Coordinator of Special Projects
Murphy Institute for Labor, Community & Policy Studies, City University of
New York
jeannette.gabriel [at] mail.cuny.edu
212-642-2026

Attached is the Brochure


Sisters on the Frontline: Organizing Women, Building Power

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww/events/sistersFrontline.html

Sponsored by:
Cornell University’s Institute for Women and Work
The Cornell Labor Program
The Joseph S. Murphy Center for Labor, Community & Policy Studies

March 30, 31 and April 1, 2007
25 West 43rd Street, New York City

Generate ideas and methods for overcoming barriers to organizing women in
unions and in the community;

Identify challenges to recruit and retain women organizers and discuss
approaches to meeting those challenges.

Participants will:
Have the opportunity to share their organizing experience and hear from
others’ experiences;
Have the opportunity to network with other women organizers;
Be able to identify new ideas and methods for organizing; and
Provide information and training to enable labor organizations to better
recruit and retain women organizers

SUBMIT AN APPLICATION NOW!!!
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww/events/upload/Sisterhood_RegistrationForm_12-
14-06.pdf


PLENARY TOPICS

The Berger Marks Report: How to Rock The Boat Without Getting Thrown Off
Organizing Women: Labor’s Bottom Line
The New Double Burden: Immigrant Women Organizers
Women Transforming American Labor: Retrospect and Prospect
Mentoring Women Organizers

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Undocumented Organizing: No Match Terminations, Raids and Deportations
Women Organizing with New Strategies and Tactics
Pride At Work: Issues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organizers
Strategic Campaigns: Community, Politics and Research
The First Shift: Immigrant Women’s Workplace Organizing
Setting Up a Women Organizers’ Network
Organizing Women in Nontraditional Jobs

SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Marisol Alcantara, SEIU Building Services Local 32 B-J (invited)
Nahar Alam, ANDOLAN: Organizing South Asian Workers
Rina Ali, ANDOLAN: Organizing South Asian Workers
Susan Borenstein, New York State AFL-CIO
Laurel Brennan, New Jersey State Federation of Labor
Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University
Legna Cabrera, Cornell University
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University
Bhairavi Desai, Taxi Workers’ Alliance
Maria Elena Durazo, UNITE-HERE
Cheryl Farrell, IBEW Local 3
Maria Figueroa, Cornell University
Janice Fine, Rutgers University
Earline Fisher, District Council of Carpenters
Miriam Frank, Pride At Work, AFL-CIO
Jeannette Gabriel, Joseph S. Murphy Center for Labor, community & Policy
Studies – CUNY
Colleen Gardner, New York State AFL-CIO
Lois Gray, Cornell University
Elena Herrada, Centro Obrero de Detroit
Sonia Ivany, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
Carolyn Jacobsen, Coalition for Labor Union Women
Julie Kushner, UAW
Yanira Merino, LIUNA (invited)
Priscilla Murolo, Graduate Program in Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence
College
Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO
Ai-jen Poo, Domestic Workers’ United
Katie Quan, University of California at Berkeley
Monica Russo, SEIU Florida Healthcare Union (invited)
Lorene Scheer, SEIU Public Employees Local 503, Oregon
Sue Shurman, National Labor College
Fran Streitch, CWA-New Jersey
Amy Sugimori, La Fuente, A Tri-State Worker and Community Fund, Inc.
Abbie Swanson, SEIU Local 32B-J
Cathy Thomas, SEIU Local 32 B-J
KC Wagner, Cornell University

FOR MORE INFORMATION and to SUBMIT an APPLICATION:
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww/events/sistersFrontline.html
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww/events/upload/Sisterhood_RegistrationForm_12-
14-06.pdf

Jeannette Gabriel
Coordinator of Special Projects
Center for Labor, Community and Policy Studies
Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY

Email: jeannette.gabriel [at] mail.cuny.edu
Phone: 212-642-2026


Sponsored by:
Cornell University’s Institute for Women and Work
The Cornell Labor Program
The Joseph S. Murphy Center for Labor, Community & Policy Studies

March 30, 31 and April 1, 2007
25 West 43rd Street, New York City

Generate ideas and methods for overcoming barriers to organizing women in
unions and in the community;

Identify challenges to recruit and retain women organizers and discuss
approaches to meeting those challenges.

Participants will:
Have the opportunity to share their organizing experience and hear from
others’ experiences;
Have the opportunity to network with other women organizers;
Be able to identify new ideas and methods for organizing; and
Provide information and training to enable labor organizations to better
recruit and retain women organizers

SUBMIT AN APPLICATION NOW!!!
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww/events/upload/Sisterhood_RegistrationForm_12-
14-06.pdf


PLENARY TOPICS

The Berger Marks Report: How to Rock The Boat Without Getting Thrown Off
Organizing Women: Labor’s Bottom Line
The New Double Burden: Immigrant Women Organizers
Women Transforming American Labor: Retrospect and Prospect
Mentoring Women Organizers

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

Undocumented Organizing: No Match Terminations, Raids and Deportations
Women Organizing with New Strategies and Tactics
Pride At Work: Issues for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Organizers
Strategic Campaigns: Community, Politics and Research
The First Shift: Immigrant Women’s Workplace Organizing
Setting Up a Women Organizers’ Network
Organizing Women in Nontraditional Jobs

SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Marisol Alcantara, SEIU Building Services Local 32 B-J (invited)
Nahar Alam, ANDOLAN: Organizing South Asian Workers
Rina Ali, ANDOLAN: Organizing South Asian Workers
Susan Borenstein, New York State AFL-CIO
Laurel Brennan, New Jersey State Federation of Labor
Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University
Legna Cabrera, Cornell University
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University
Bhairavi Desai, Taxi Workers’ Alliance
Maria Elena Durazo, UNITE-HERE
Cheryl Farrell, IBEW Local 3
Maria Figueroa, Cornell University
Janice Fine, Rutgers University
Earline Fisher, District Council of Carpenters
Miriam Frank, Pride At Work, AFL-CIO
Jeannette Gabriel, Joseph S. Murphy Center for Labor, community & Policy
Studies – CUNY
Colleen Gardner, New York State AFL-CIO
Lois Gray, Cornell University
Elena Herrada, Centro Obrero de Detroit
Sonia Ivany, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
Carolyn Jacobsen, Coalition for Labor Union Women
Julie Kushner, UAW
Yanira Merino, LIUNA (invited)
Priscilla Murolo, Graduate Program in Women’s History, Sarah Lawrence
College
Karen Nussbaum, AFL-CIO
Ai-jen Poo, Domestic Workers’ United
Katie Quan, University of California at Berkeley
Monica Russo, SEIU Florida Healthcare Union (invited)
Lorene Scheer, SEIU Public Employees Local 503, Oregon
Sue Shurman, National Labor College
Fran Streitch, CWA-New Jersey
Amy Sugimori, La Fuente, A Tri-State Worker and Community Fund, Inc.
Abbie Swanson, SEIU Local 32B-J
Cathy Thomas, SEIU Local 32 B-J
KC Wagner, Cornell University

FOR MORE INFORMATION and to SUBMIT an APPLICATION:
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww/events/sistersFrontline.html
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/iww/events/upload/Sisterhood_RegistrationForm_12-
14-06.pdf