Valuing Women’s Work and Building Women’s Economic Empowerment

Join us for a working conference with scholars, grass-roots activists, lawyers, labor and bisiness leaders as well as Members of Congress. For Registration and more information vist ilo.org/washington

THURSDAY, OCT. 10

5:00 pm | WELCOMING REMARKS

• Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)

5:15 pm | KEYNOTE: The ILO’s Conventions on Domestic Labor and on Gender Violence and Harassment at Work

• Manuela Tomei – Director, Work Quality Department, ILO

6:00 pm | AN IN-DEPTH DISCUSSION

• Moderator: Judy Gearhart — Executive Director, International Labor Rights Forum
  • Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)
  • Manuela Tomei – Director, Work Quality Department, ILO                                  

6:45 pm | OPENING RECEPTION

FRIDAY, OCT. 11

9:00 am | WELCOMING REMARKS

• Professor Jennifer Klein – History Department, Yale University

9:05 am | ILO CENTENARY AND INTRODUCTION OF REPRESENTATIVE ROSA DELAURO

• Kevin Cassidy – Director and Representative to Bretton Woods and Mutlilateral Organizations, ILO Office for the United States

9:10 am | OPENING ADDRESS

• Representative Rosa DeLauro – 3rd Congressional District (CT)

9:25 am | “Indispensable to All Working Women and to Mothers in the Home”: Labor Standards and the Quest for Social Justice, 1919-2019

• Professor Eileen Boris – Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies and Global Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara

9:45 am | PANEL 1: THE CARE ECONOMY, PAID AND UNPAID LABOR, AND THE PURSUIT OF GENDER EQUALITY

• Moderator: Professor Eileen Boris – Hull Professor and Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, History, Black Studies and Global Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • Sheila Lirio Marcelo – CEO, care.com
  • Professor Premilla Nadasen – Barnard College Dept. of History; National Women’s Studies Association, President
  • Sarita Gupta – Co-Director Caring across Generations
  • Deborah Schwartz – Vice President, SEIU 1199 New England                               

11:15 am | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am | CONCURRENT BREAK-OUT WORKING GROUPS

• Norma Martinez – Make the Road-Bridgeport,CT and Natalicia Tracy – Brazilian Workers Center/National Domestic Workers Alliance
• Georgia Allen – Founder/Exec Director, Soaring Independent Cooperative (Madison, WI) and Ruth Rohlich – Business Development Specialist, Madison Economic Development Division/Madison Cooperative Development Alliance
• Caitlin Connolly – Director of Social Insurance, National Employment Law Project/National Women’s Law Center and JoAnn Lum – Ain’t I a Woman?! Campaign 

12:45 pm | LUNCH PLENARY: TEACHERS, THE PUBLIC SECTOR, AND NEW ALLIANCES FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS (45 min) followed by conversations among participants at tables

• Moderator: Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang – Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies, Yale University
  • Stacy Davis Gates – VP, Political and Legislative Director, Chicago Teachers Union
  • Gloria Martinez – Elementary Vice President, United Teachers of Los Angeles Teachers
  • Nicole McCormick – West Virginia Education Association; WV United

2:15 pm | PANEL II: JUSTICE AT WORK: STRATEGIES FOR CONFRONTING WAGE INEQUALITY, WAGE THEFT, HARASSMENT, AND COERCION

• Moderator: State Senator Julie Kushner – CT-24, Chair of Labor and Public Employees Committee
  • Cathy Feingold – Director, International Department, AFL-CIO
  • James Bhandary-Alexander – Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance
  • David Weil – Dean, The Heller School for Social and Policy Management, Brandeis; Director of Wage and Hour Division of U.S. Department of Labor, Obama Administration
  • Vicki Shultz – Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Science, Yale Law School

3:45 pm | COFFEE BREAK

4:00 pm | CONCURRENT BREAK-OUT WORKING GROUPS 

• Fatima Rojas – Unidad Latina en Accion and Becky Simonsen – District 1199 New England
• Jerame Davis – Executive Director, PRIDE at WORK and Jillian T. Weiss – Attorney, LGBTQ Employment and Trans Civil Rights
• Darlene Lombos – Vice President, Boston Labor Council and James Bhandary-Alexander – Staff Attorney, New Haven Legal Assistance

5:00 pm | COFFEE BREAK

5:30 pm | PLENARY: CONGRESSWOMEN FROM U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

• Moderator: Lauren Jacobs — Executive Director, Partnership for Working Families

7:00 pm | RECEPTION

SATURDAY, OCT. 12

9:00 am | BRINGING TOGETHER THE PANEL DISCUSSIONS

9:45 am | PANEL III: TECHNOLOGY, GENDER, THE FUTURE OF WORK AND LABOR RIGHTS IN THE GIG ECONOMY

• Moderator: Kevin Cassidy – Director and Representative to Bretton Woods and Multilaterals, ILO Office for the United States
  • Lis Meyers – Managing Associate, Gender and Social Inclusion, Nathan Associates
  • Natasha Castro – Community Organizer, LAANE / Fair Workweek Campaign
  • Karen Worstell – CEO, W Risk Group

11:15 am | COFFEE BREAK

11:30 am | CLOSING PLENARY: CONNECTING GLOBAL AND LOCAL LABOR FEMINISMS: THE IMPERATIVES OF LABOR STANDARDS AND WOMEN’S ACTIVISM

• Moderator: JJ Rosenbaum – U.S. Director, Global Labor Justice
  • Professor Adelle Blackett – Professor of Law and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, McGill University; Director, Labour Law & Development Research Laboratory
  • Gabriella Rigg Herzog – Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, U.S. Council for International Business
  • Joanna Nice Coronacion – Director, SENTRO; World March of Women, Philippines Chapter
  • Ashwini Sukthankar – Director, Global Campaigns Dept., UNITE HERE

1:00 pm | CLOSING REMARKS

• Kevin Cassidy – Director, ILO Office for the United States
• Professor Jennifer Klein – History Department, Yale University