On March 31, April 1 and 4, the Breakout Sessions take place with two rounds of sessions each day - five at a time. The sessions are thematically based on seven tracks. The sessions' programme can be found below. You can decide which sessions you are interested in. No further registration for the sessions is necessary.
1. More Inclusive Social Protection and Sustainable Development (Panels: 1, 6, 15, 16, 22 and 26)
2. Ending Gender-Based Violence and Racism in the Workplace (Panels: 2 and 7)
3. Just Transition and Worker Organizing (Panels: 14, 17 and 30)
4. Organizing Across the Platform: Innovative Strategies for Building Worker Power (Panels: 3, 8, 11 and 21)
5. Migrant Labour (Panels: 9 and 27)
6. Workers' Rights and Organizing under Authoritarianism (Panels: 4, 10, 12, 23 and 29)
7. Global Supply Chains, Industrial Policy and Embedded Research (Panel: 5 - 13 - 19 - 25 and 28).
Special Sessions: Essential Workers (Panel 15), Organizing in the US South (Panel 18), and Organizing in the Informal Economy (Panel 20).
All Zoom links and the corresponding dial-in data/passwords are available in the Programme and Breakout Sessions sections of this website.
For Eastern Standard Summer Time [EST] deduct 6 hours, for Brasília Time [BRT] deduct 5 hours, for India Standard Time [IST] add 3.5 hours. For South Africa Standard Time [SAST], there is no time difference to CEST.
Chair: Chidi King
Presenters:
Luis Mendoza, “The universal social pension as a tool towards a more just and sustainable future in Peru”
Etsri Homevoh, “Trade Union Advocacy for Minimum Social Protection for All”
Aarohi Damle, “Social Security for Women Workers in India's Informal Economy”
Edwin Anisha, "Precarious Employment, Weak Social Protection and the Crisis of Livelihoods in the Context of a Pandemic"
Chair:Robin Runge
Presenters:
Sophie Chitenje, “Ending Gender Based Violence, Harassment and Workplace Violence:Case Study of Tea Estates in Malawi”
Bashiratu Kamal, “Sexual harassment and Gender-based violence in the era of COVID-19 in Ghana: Are Laws Enough?”
Lygia Fares, Ana Luiza Matos de Oliveira, and Lilian Nogueira Rolim, “Who cares? Gender, unpaid domestic and care work in Brazil during the pandemic”
Maureen Kalume, “Towards a Safe Working Environment Free from Sexual Harassment in Kenya”
Chair: Edlira Xhafa
Presenters:
Co-Chairs: Sara Cufre and Anne Engelhardt
Presenters:
Sara Cufre, CEIL-CONICET
Anne Engelhardt, Kassel University
Dina Feller, LATAM ITF Network
Patricia Gilbert, International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers' Associations, IFATCA EVP Americas
Fatima Queiroz, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP)
Fabrizio Barcellona, International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)
Chair:Katherine Maich, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Penn State
Authors:
Critics:
Chair:Sheri Davis, Rutgers University
Presenters:
Jinyoung Park, “’We Need Competition, Not Solidarity’: Experiences of the Korean Women Workers’ Movement
Varsha Ayyar, “No Justice, No Peace: Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste as Global Workers, Feminist, And Anti-Fascist Manifesto”
Chair: Paolo Marinaro
Presenters:
Oscar Javier Maldonado and Derly Yohanna Sanchez Vargas, “Technolegal Expulsions: Platform food delivery workers and Work Regulations in Colombia”
Karol Morales and Alejandra Dinegro, “Self-organization among delivery platforms workers in neoliberal Latin American countries. The cases of Peru and Chile”
Rodolfo Elbert and Sofia Negri, “Delivery platform workers during COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina): deepened precarity and workers’ response in a context of epidemiological crisis”
Paolo Marinaro, “COVID-19 and Food Delivery Worker Transnational Organizing in Latin America”
Chair: Nicolas Pons Vignon
Discussant: Shannon Lederer, AFL-CIO
Presenters:
Marija Mitrevska, “The Eastern European periphery feeding the Western European centres: The horrifying conditions of the seasonal migrant agricultural workers in Germany revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic”
Kathrin Birner and Stefan Dietl, “Pandemic effects on a toxic system: The situation of hyper-mobile migrant workers in Germany”
Adam (Chuling) Huang, “Fractured Governance: A Study of How the Local Government Manage International Migration in China”
Vitor Filgueiras, “Labour movements and migrant workers building solidarity beyond capital”
Chair: Verna Viajar, University of the Philippines
Presenters:
Khaing Zar, the Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)
Ramon Certeza, National Coordinator at IndustriALL Global Union, Philippines
Mung Siu Tat, former Chief Executive, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU)
Elaine Huiand Kaye Liang, Penn State University
Veasna Nuon, APHEDA, Cambodia
Chair: Shane Choshane
Presenters:
Shane Choshane, “Emerging patterns of representation in the platform economy: an African perspective”
Fikile Masikane, “Food Couriers in South Africa”
Agnes Mwongera, “Food Couriers in Kenya”
Nqobile Tshezi, “Organizing across the platform: Innovative strategies for building worker power”
Karim Saagbul, “Organising Platform Workers for Decent Work: The Case of Ride-Hailing and Food Delivery Workers in Ghana”
Chair: Frank Hoffer
Presenters:
Jana Silverman and Laura Moisa, “The Political Economy of Labor Relations Regimes under 21st Century Neo-Authoritarian Governments – A Comparative Study of Brazil and Colombia”
Lizaveta Merliak, Independent Trade Union of Miners and Chemical Workers, Belarus, "Trade Unions, a suppressed protest movement and a desperate dictator”
Kiril Buketov, International Union of Foodworkers (IUF), Geneva, “Putin oppressor at home, aggressor abroad – what options for trade unions?”
Can Kaya, EPSU, Brussels, “Autocratic rule facing multiple crisis and growing opposition”
Thomas Franco, Bank Workers Union, India, “Mass strikes and protest against market liberal Hindu athoritarianism.”
Chair: Steven Toff
Presenters:
Steven Toff – European Organizing Center, former organizing coordinator
Andrea Staples, Director, European Organizing Center
Ben Norman – Unite the Union
Cihan Ugura – FNV, Organizing Coordinator
Aslak Haarahiltunen – Finnish Industrial Union, Organizing Director
John Burant - European Organizing Center [tentative]
Chair: Jeremy Anderson
Presenters:
Manuel Rosaldo, “A Muffed Transition? How São Paulo’s Street Waste Pickers Became Excluded from “Just Transition” Policies”
Benjamin Velasco, “An Action Research on Just Transition for Jeepney Operators and Delivery Riders in the Philippines”
Mark Hagen and Ahmed Kamel, “Just Transition: Organizing for Climate Justice”
Sara Cufre and Alejandra Soifer, “Urban recyclers in the pathway towards ‘green jobs’: the case of Buenos Aires”
Chair:Cindy Berman, Labour Specialist
Panelists:
Chair: Baba Aye
Presenters:
Alberto Riesco-Sanz, “Protecting workers’ rights in the boundaries of wage employment: bogus self-employment and worker cooperatives in the Spanish meat industry”
Thorsten Schulten and Johannes Specht, “Labour Relations in the German Meat Industry - From Erosion to Re-Organisation?”
Chair: Mirko Herberg
Presenters:
Markus Wissen, “Just = less + different Workers and social movements in the transition of (auto)mobility”
Devan Pillay, “Decent Work or Decent Life? In search of an ecosocialist working class politics”
Antonella Angelini, “Participatory Guarantee Systems as a Tool for Worker and Climate Justice: The Experience of Fuorimercato”
Jeremy Anderson, “ITF Maritime Initiative”
Moderator: Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University
Presentation:"Organizing German Corporations in the US South. The IG Metall experience"
Presenters:
Commentaries:
Chair: Praveen Jha, JNU University, New Delhi
Presenters:
Christina Teipen and Fabian Mehl, Berlin School of Economics and Law, “Challenges for Employees and Interest Representation in Reaction to COVID-19 Responses in the German, Indian and Brazilian Automotive and IT Services Sector”
Gifford Hartman, “Supply Chain Inquiries and Chokepoints Workshop”
Mariana Garcia, “Brazil’s strategies to face the new wave of technological advances: potential impact on industry and the labour market”
Daniel Oberko, PSI, “Towards workers perspective to the fight for Tax justice”
Hansjoerg Herr and Petra Duenhaupt, Berlin School of Economics and Law, “Why Global Value Chains are not a Panacea for Development”
Chair:Karin Pape
Presenters:
Chris Bonner, Jane Barrett, and Janhavi Dave, “Launching a global network of HBWs during the pandemic: challenges & opportunities”
Clair Ruppert and Laura Morillo Santa Cruz, “Trade Union Challenges in Organizing and Representing Informal Workers”
Ozge Berber Agtas and Saniye Dedeoglu, “Homeworkers in Turkey: Home Bounded, Global Outreach”
Chair: Alex Wood
Presenters:
Vivek Kumar, “Unionization Strategies for Gig/platform workers' Unions: Case studies from India”
Emily Paulin, “Transport and Delivery Workers’ Organizing Strategies: Case Studies in Ukraine, Nigeria, Thailand and Mexico”
Cheng Li, “Employee recognition by Uber: independent contractor, employee, or worker in between?”
James Lazou, “Harnessing the knowledge of multitudes - a data led approach to building Union power”
Brian Dolber, “Building Solidarity: Start-Up Unionism and Platform Organizing”
Robert Ovetz and Ali Kashani, “Workers’ Inquiry and Credible Strike Threats in the Universities”
Chair: Joel Odigie
Presenters:
Vincent DeLaurentis and Penelope Kyritsis, “Structural Debt, Structuring Labor: Discipline & Despair in Global Supply Chains”
Shaka Bob, “Does South Africa's looting and social unrest demonstrate the need for an inclusive social protection model: Covid-19 and its impact on household social and economic outcomes”
Jafar Iqbal, “Encountering Pandeconomics and Workers Repression: Alternative Pathways to Labour Resistance and Supply Chain Governance”
Muttaqa Abdulra’uf, “Decent Work, Inequality and the Treatment of Labour Market Institutions by the IMF & World Bank”
Chair: Magda Barros Biavaschi, Visiting Lecturer at the Wits Mining Institute
Presenters:
Antonio Aravena, “The labor world, labor reforms, pandemic and measures to address it in Chile”
Marcia de Paula Leite, “The ongoing reforms and its impacts in the labor world, women's lives, and collective bargaining amid the rise in inequality - Brasil”
Andrea Del Bono, “The labor world, labor reforms, pandemic and measures to address it in Argentina”
Carlos Salas, “Capitalism and social inequalities. The pandemic and its further development. Measures to address it and its impacts – Mexico”
Barbara Vallejos Vasquez, tbd
Jo Portilho, “Brazilian domestic workers under Bolsonaro´s time - back to the past”
Chair:Janet Munakamwe
Presenters:
Chair and Discussant: JJ Rosenbaum
Panelists:
Chair: Gbenga Komolafe
Presenters:
Kavita Chohan, “Fair Trial: A Study On Issues And Challenges In Accessing Justice”
Crispen Chinguno, “Work and Covid 19 pandemic regulatory responses in the global south”
Tine Hanrieder, “Reimbursing community health workers: from “return on investment” to community investment”
Mercy Nabwire, “The Power Resources Approach: Organizing Precarious Workers in the Kenyan Health Sector”
Janet Munakamwe, “Unions’ inclusionary and exclusionary organising strategies in a post-covid epoch: Revisiting the social security debate in South Africa.”
Chairs: Nicolas Pons Vignon and Mostafa Henaway
Presenters:
Adrian Durtschi, "Organizing Migrant Workers: Experiences, Challenges and Open Questions in the Long Term Care Sector"
Jason Schneck, "Challenges and Opportunites for Organizing Migrant Care Workers in Switzerland"
Sherif Olanrewaju, “Migrant Nurses Experiences Working in the U.S: Implications for Union Organizing and Patient Outcomes”
Chair and Moderator: Jess Champagne, Worker Rights Consortium
Presenters:
Kalpona Akter, Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity
Penelope Kyritsis, The New School
Mark Anner, Center for Global Workers’ Rights, Penn State University
Scott Nova, Workers Rights Consortium
Theresa Haas, Workers United
Chair: Claire Ceruti
Panelists:
Mark McQuinn, “Labour Organisations and the fight for Economic and Social Justice in Authoritarian Contexts: Contemporary Examples from Africa”
Rwatirinda Mahembe, “The Rise of Authoritarianism in 21st Century Africa and its Imminent Self-Destruction”
Moreblessing Nyambara, “Trade Unionism in an Authoritarian State: Are Trade Unions Relevant under Authoritarian Regimes? The Case of Zimbabwe”
Fundizwi Sikhondze, TBD
Chair: Edlira Xhafa
Panelists: