Labor Notes Conference: Give Us Your Input!

Every two years, Labor Notes conferences bring hundreds of union members and labor activists together to help the labor movement fight another day. Participants learn--and teach--nitty-gritty skills and strategize best practices in more than 100 workshops and meetings.

Planning for the next conference, April 23-25, 2010 starts now with you. Help us shape every aspect of this conference by letting us know what matters most to you. Please fill out this form now and send it around to your contacts. If you'd prefer to do this survey by hand, email conference [at] labornotes [dot] org for the survey.

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Have You Been to a Labor Notes Conference Before?:

If you've Been to a Labor Notes Conference Before, How Many?:

What could be improved from before?:

What did you like best about past conferences?:

Rate Your Interest in the following workshops:

Labor history, lessons for today::

Building international solidarity::

Making sense of conflicts and splits in the labor movement ::

Organizing the unorganized::

Public sector fight-backs::

Understanding the economic crisis::

Using creative tactics on the job::

"Non-majority" unionism (organizing at the workplace without a legal union, or without a majority)::

Beating health care and pension cuts::

Card check and employer-partnerships (with or without EFCA)::

Community-labor partnerships::

Fighting plant closings and layoffs::

Jobs in the green economy::

Labor and immigration::

What are some workshops you'd like to see at the conference?::

Are you more interested in skills-building workshops or "big picture/analysis workshops"?:

Skills Building

Big Picture/Analysis

Other

If Other, What Kind?:

Should Labor Notes offer more or less workshops and meetings?::

Does the distinction between “workshops” and “meetings” help you navigate the conference?

What particular issue, campaign or struggle is your organization or union focusing on?::

Would you prefer longer sessions, more tracks, or repeated workshops? ::

Are there particular issues, campaigns or struggles you'd like to see highlighted? Organizations you'd like to learn more about?:

Do you have any speaker recommendations for the main sessions?::

Would you like to receive flyers and brochures to promote the conference to your contacts?::

Yes

If so, don't forget to fill out the fields below!

Email::

Please list any other suggestions you have for conference content, format, music/culture, Saturday evening party/social below::

Can you help build the conference by organizing a bus or group to the conference or by doing local promotion? If so, how?::

Name::

Phone::

Postal Address::

Union/Organization, if any::

Labor Notes Conference: Give Us Your Input!

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