Sisters on the Frontline: Organizing Immigrant Workers
May 15 2008
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 students of politics, gender, labor and economics, policy decision makers, and interested individuals and organizations.
Topic: FreshDirect
- Sandy Pope , President International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 805
- Joann Lo, Enlace
- Amy Sugimori of La Fuente, The New York Civic Participation Project
- Respondent: Angela Cornell, Cornell University
- Moderator: Francine Moccio, Cornell University
Date: May 15, 2008
Time: 5:30pm-8:00pm
Location: Cornell Conference Center, 6th Floor Conference Center - 16 East 34th Street, New York, NY
Sponsored by: ILR's Institute for Women & Work, in collaboration with Cornell Labor Programs, Cornell University Law School & The Murphy Institute for Worker Education & Labor Studies, CUNY
