1:30-2:00 PM: Registration

Plenary, Room 1107: 2:00 - 3:30

2:00 -2:10: Introductions and Welcomes
Chicago CEW Coalition - Liesl Orenic
AFT Local 1600, Harold Washington Chapter Chair Mike Ruggeri

2:10 -2:40
Barbara Wolf personally introduce new film, A Simple Matter of Justice, show partial section on contingent organizing and announce full showing with discussion in evening.

2:40-3:30: The State of the Organizing Movement: Local and National
Joe Berry from CEW Chicago CEW Coalition and Binational CEW Committee
Cary Nelson of UIUC and author of Will Teach for Food and Academic Keywords

3:30-3:45: Break

3:45-5:00: Workshops

Room 401: Working with Academic Discipline Organizations
Jocelyn Graff, (TESL) ITBE
David Slavin, (History) AHA/OAH
Luann Swartzlander, Midwest MLA

Room 402: Graduate Employee Organizing
Nicole McLaughlin, IFT
Kat McLellan, UIC-GEO

Room 403: Alliances with Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty
David Sayjak, President Elgin CC Federation of Teachers
Jamie Daniel, University of Illinois, Chicago

Room 404: Starting from Zero: How to Start Organizing on Your Campus
RAFO at Roosevelt, Liesl Orenic
NIU Local 4100/IFT, Sandy Flood

Room 405: Labor Laws: Knowing Your Rights
Tom Suhrbur, Organizer, IEA
Representative from IFT

Room Unconfirmed: Organizing Non-Credit Faculty
Representatives, including founding organizers, from AFSCME 3506, Adult Educators of Chicago City Colleges.

Plenary, Room 1107: 5:15-6:00

Discussion and vote: A Regional Strategy for Chicago: Continuing the Work of CEW

A Proposal for forming a Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (Chicago COCAL)

Social and Refreshments: 6:00- 7:30