Tuesday, July 8, 2014

7/9, WED >> Jobs for All: Building the Movement for Full Employment



 
Live Webcast >> July 9 from 10:00 - 12:30 PM 
Jobs for All: Building the Movement for Full Employment

National Jobs For All Coalition
Join us for a strategy briefing to help build a national movement for full employment.
REACHING
FULL
EMPLOYMENT
In Conjunction With:
The Congressional Full Employment Caucus
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
10:00am-12:30pm*
2226 Rayburn HOB
*This meeting will kick off two days of dialogue among national and grassroots jobs creation advocates, for the purpose of developing a coordinated national strategy. An afternoon session, the same day, will address activity moving the coalition forward---participation would be welcomed and appreciated!
The National Jobs for All Coalition is dedicated to the propositions that meaningful employment is a precondition for a fulfilling life and that every person capable of working should have the right to a job. The Coalition not only fights to make these propositions facts of life, but it publishes invaluable research by noted scholars to support them.

Jobs for All Strategy Briefing
Representative John Conyers, Jr. (MI)
Representative Frederica Wilson (FL)
Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH)  
Representative Barbara Lee (CA)
 
Rev. Rodney S. Sadler, Jr., Ph.D.
Moral Monday
Associate Professor of Bible
Union Presbyterian Seminary
Debby Szeredy
Executive Vice President, American Postal Workers Union
 
Kevin Bradshaw
President, Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco, Workers
& Grain Millers Union Local 252G
Kellogg's Workers in Memphis, TN have been off the job since October 2013.
 
George H. Lambert, Jr.
President and CEO of the Greater Washington Urban League,
 
Philip Harvey
Professor of Law & Economics
Rutgers School of Law
Executive Committee, National Jobs for All Coalition
Josh Nassar
Legislative Director, United Auto Workers
Chris Horton
Worcester Unemployment Action Group (MA)
Voices of Unemployed Workers
   
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs
 
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg  
Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition
Professor Emerita of Social Policy, Adelphi University
Jessica Schieder
Policy Associate, Center for Effective Government
 
Lunch with Witness Wednesdays , the critical effort to renew extended unemployment benefits, will be at the Triangle on the Capitol Hill lawn.
 
Witness Wednesdays for July 9 will be hosted by Representative Barbara Lee (CA) and will feature the stories of unemployed African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans.
 
 
Strategy Session A, July 9,  2014
2226 Rayburn House Office Building
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
 
Chuck Bell , Facilitator
National Jobs for All Coalition
Robert Creamer
Democracy Partners
 
Miriam Pemberton
Institute for Policy Studies
Bill Barclay
Chicago Political Economy Group
 
Andrea Miller
Progressive Democrats of America
 
Local Reports
 
Kae Halonen
South East Michigan Jobs with Justice
 
Sheena Foster
Worker's Interfaith Network, Memphis, TN
 
Rev. Glencie Rhedrick 
Mecklenburg Ministries, NC 
Clinton Smith
Gray Panthers, Austin, TX
Joel Segal
Progressive Democrats of America, VA
Former Senior Legislative Assistant, Representative John Conyers, Jr.
 
Leonard Mell
National Jobs for All Coalition, VA
 
Larry Bresler
Organize Ohio
 
More, TBA
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Thursday Morning  Panel, July 10, 2014
10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
2226 Rayburn House Office Building
 
Logan Martinez ,   Facilitator
Miami Valley Full Employment Council and National Jobs for All Coalition
 
Frank Peterson
Unemployed Veteran
Other panelists, TBA 
Thursday afternoon we will be meeting members of the US Congress  regarding  job creation legislation
 
Conference Host
National Jobs for All Coalition
 



Jobs For All Campaign