2019 Annual Conference

46th Annual National Conference

Collective Bargaining after Janus

April 7, 8, 9, 2019, in New York City at the CUNY Graduate Center

Conference Pictures

Welcoming Remarks: Jennifer J. Raab, President of Hunter College, City University of New York.
President Raab (center) greeting plenary speakers Sophia Z. Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School (left) and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago (right).
Plenary speakers on the History of Right to Work from the First Gilded Age to Janus: (left to right), Sophia Z. Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago, Chad Pearson, Collin College, and Cedric de Leon, UMass Amherst abor Center.
Introduction by Janet Gornick, Director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, CUNY of conference keynote speaker Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Economics, City University of New York.
Keynote presentation on Market Power and Wage Stagnation by Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Professor of Economics, City University of New York.
Keynote speaker Paul Krugman and National Center Executive Director William A. Herbert.
Luncheon greetings by Christina R. Cutlip, TIAA Senior Managing Director of Institutional Relationships.
Luncheon greetings by Jeffery Frumkin, National Center Board of Advisors member and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Michigan.
Introduction of conference reception speaker Steven Greenhouse by Debbie Bell, Executive Director, Professional Staff Congress, CUNY, and National Center Board of Advisors member.
Conference reception speaker Steven Greenhouse who presented on Teachers and Other Workers, New Strategies for Progress. Greenhouse is an award-winning journalist and author of the new book Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present and Future of American Labor, scheduled for publication by Knopf.
DeWayne Sheaffer, National Center Board of Advisors member and NEA National Council for Higher Education President (left) and Deborah Payton Jones, United College Employees of FIT (right).
Panel on Bargaining for the Common Good with (left to right) Marilyn Sneiderman, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona, Liz Perlman, AFSCME Local 3299, Barry Miller, Provost Office, York University, Malini Cadambi Daniel, SEIU, and Daniel J. Julius, Provost, New Jersey City University.
Panel on the Economic Impact of Right to Work: What Does the Data Show with (left to right) Frederick Floss, SUNY Buffalo State College and the Fiscal Policy Institute, Jeffery Frumkin, University of Michigan, Cherrie Bucknor, Ph.D Student, Harvard University, and Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute.
Panel on Retirement Security for Precarious Employees with (left to right) Christina R. Cutlip, TIAA Senior Managing Director of Institutional Relatonships , Thomas Anderson and John Vander Weg, Wayne State University, and Benny Goodman, TIAA Vice President.
Speakers from panel on Sexual Harassment in Higher Education and Developing Labor-Management Solutions: (left to right) Frazier Benya, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Eve Weinbaum, UMass Amherst, Ana Avendano, independent scholar and former Assistant to the AFL-CIO President, and Janet Elie Faulkner, Faulkner Legal.
Speakers from the panel discussing the new book The Future of Academic Freedom, published by Johns Hopkins University Press (left to right) Donna Young, Albany Law School, Jennifer Eagan, California Faculty Association, Lili Palacios-Baldwin, Tufts University, Kent Syverud, Syracuse University Chancellor and President, and author Henry Reichman, Chair, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
Workshop by SUNY SAIL Institute on Leading Difficult Conversations on Campus, facilitated by Scott Vinciguerra, Leadership Development Associate, SUNY Strategic and Academic Innovative Leadership Institute.
SUNY SAIL Institute workshop participant Andrea Caviness, Executive Director of Human Resources, Baruch College, City University of New York.
Panelists on Shared Governance and Collective Bargaining following Janus (left to right) Catherine Cleaver, Adelphi University AAUP, Joe Ambash, Fisher & Phillips LLP, Saerom Park, SEIU, and Carl Levine, Levy Ratner, P.C., and Holly Stern, NJIT.
Panelists on Progressive State Responses to Janus (left to right) eNika Moore, NY Attorney General's Office, Labor Bureau, Hon. Linda Greenstein, New Jersey State Senator, Terri Gerstein, American Constitution Society and Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, Nancy Walker, Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office, Fair Labor Section, and Maryann Parker, SEIU.
Panelists on Title IX Revisited (left to right) Donna Young, Albany Law School, Tony Thomas, Brooklyn College, CUNY, and Risa Lieberwitz, Cornell ILR, AAUP General Counsel, and National Center Board of Advisors member.
Speakers from panel Reaching First Graduate Student Contracts at Brandeis and Tufts (left to right) Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University, Lilli Palacios-Baldwin, Tufts University, Desiree Murphy, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP, and Matt Dauphin, SEIU.
Panelists on Racial and Economic Equity in Higher Education with (left to right) Sara Goldrick-Rab, Temple University, Sameer Gadkaree, The Joyce Foundation, Catharine Bond Hill, Ithaka S+R and former President, Vassar College, and Mark Huelsman, Demos.
National Center Conference Staff with (left to right) Greg Johnson, Amy Jeu, Michelle Savarese, Winnie Johnson, and Kim Middleton.