The PNLHA's 41st Annual Labour History Conference
The 2009 PNLHA Conference:
A Year in Labor Heritage—When Workers Rise
June 12-13, Seattle, Washington
The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association’s 41st annual conference, is presented in collaboration with the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, the Pacific Coast Maritime History Committee, SPEEA/IFPTE Local 2001, and 199NW, SEIU.
Date
Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th.
Location
Seattle Labor Temple
2800 First Avenue
Seattle, Washington
Conference program (Subject to change)
Click here for a printable PDF of the conference program
Friday, June 12
4.00 – 6.00 Conference Registration
Foyer SLT West
5.30 – 9.30 PNLHA 2009 Awards Reception/Banquet
Hall One, SLT
Presiding: Ross K. Rieder, PNLHA President
Greetings: Verlene Jones, Union Cities/Community Organizer
Award: 2009 Labor History Person of the Year (posthumous)
Recipient: R. Emmett Murray, author, journalist
Award: 2009 Labor History Maker
Recipient: (tbd)
Keynote: David Kusnet, author
Love the Work, Hate the Job
Comments:
Stan Sorcher, SPEEA
Verlene Jones, MLKCLC
Emily Von Bronkhorst, 1199NW SEIU
9:00 - 10:00 Conference Registration - Foyer SLT West
Saturday, June 13
8:00 – 10:00 3rd & final Registration
Foyer SLT West
9:00 – 10:30 90 min Welcoming Plenary
Hall One, SLT
Greetings
Ross K. Rieder, President, PNLHA
Jim Gregory, HBCLS Chair
Past and Future Directions: Labor Studies, Labor Education
Marcus Widenor (Labor Education & Research Center, University of Oregon, Eugene)
Barbara Cochrane (San Francisco State University)
James Gregory (Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, UW-Seattle)
Sarah Laslett (Labor Education & Research Center, The Evergreen State University, Olympia)
10:30 – 10:50 20 min Refreshment Break
10:50 – 12:20 90 min Concurrent Roundtables (pick 1 of 3)
Roundtable 1: Remembering WTO/Seattle
James Gregory, HBCLS/UW-Seattle
Jonathan Rosenblum, 1199NW SEIU
Brian Charlton, CUPW Pacific Region former Education Director
Tom McCarthy, Organizer, AFT Washington
Roundtable 2: Organizing
Moderator: William Johnston, UFCW Retired
Ligaya Domingo and Tracy Lai: Asian-American Connections to Labor
Stephen Bida: The Company Town Archipelago
Roundtable 3: Personalities from our Past
Greg Hall (University of Western Illinois): Jay Fox and PNW Anarchism, 1890-1920
Lucy Ostrander and Sidney Rittenberg: Anna Louise Strong, video and discussion
12:20 – 1:30 70 min Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 90 min Plenary - The Right to Organize
Take Back Your Time
Labor and the Shorter Work Day and Work Week (John DeGraaf, Director, Take Back Your Time Foundation, documentary film maker)
Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of ILWU (Harvey Schwartz, Author, Reading)
3:00 – 3:20 20 min Refreshment Break
3:20 – 4.45 85 min Concurrent Roundtables (pick 1 of 2)
Roundtable 1: The Future of Women in the Labour Union Movement
Jennifer McKenna, BCGEU, NDP Activist
Gail Murphy, BCGEU, RHN
Roundtable 2: Saving the Records of our Past (Hall 6)
Moderator: Professor James Gregory, HBCLS Chair UW-Seattle
Nicole Bouché, Pacific NW Curator, Special Collections UW-Seattle
Ross Rieder, President, PNLHA
Roundtable 3: Unions and Democracy
John Agnone, UW, Sociology, ILWU Local 19 and Local 23 and Democracy Project
Benjamin J. Peterson, University of Illinois at Chicago, It’s Not Easy Being Clean: Corruption and the Roots of the SEIU, 1934-1942
Roundtable 4: Other Anniversaries of Note
Randy and Peder Nelson: Swedish Immigrants and the Labor Movement in the Western US
Laura Elia, Local 17, IFPTE 90th Anniversary Video
4.45 – 5.15 30 min Plenary Wrap-up
5:30 PNLHA Annual General Meeting
7:30 pm The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition of 1909
A Look at What Else Was Going On In Narrative & Song
Seattle Labor Chorus (Director, Janet Stecher)
Registration information
Click here for a printable registration form.
Early Discounted fee on or before June 1:
Regular: $60US/$72CN
2009 PNLHA Members: $50US/$60CN
Low Income: $30US/$36CN
Full Fee: From June 2:
Regular: $70US/$84CN
Low Income: $35US/$42CN
After June 8, please register on-site, space permitting.
Optional Tickets for Meals:
Friday, June 12: Conference Banquet
Regular: $40US/$48CN
Low Income: $30US/$36CN
Saturday, June 13: buffet luncheon:
Regular:$20US/$26CN
Low Income $12US/14CN
How to Register
Print and complete the online form and mail with your payment made payable to PNLHA to the address listed on the form. If you are paying the early fee, please make sure that your cheque is mailed before the June 1 deadline.
Accommodation
Click here for information about accommodations.
Conference sponsors
Coming soon.
Call for presentations
Click here for the Call for Presentations.
Contact pnlha@shaw.ca or 604-540-0245 for further information.
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