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Friday | Conference Activities • 6/12/2020 | ||
| 11 - 11:45 am | National Chapter Advisory Council (NCAC) Meeting—Committee Stream 1
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services | ||
| 12 ‑ 12:45 pm | Membership Committee Meeting—Committee Stream 1
Co-Chairs: Cyndi Furseth, Portland General Electric (ret.) and David Lewin, University of California, Los Angeles | ||
| 1 ‑ 1:45 pm | Development Committee Meeting—Committee Stream 1
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| 1:45 ‑ 2:30 pm | |||
| 2:30 ‑ 3:15 pm | 73rd Annual Meeting Program Committee Meeting—Committee Stream 1
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| 3:30 ‑ 4:15 pm | Editorial Committee Meeting—Committee Stream 1
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| 4:30 ‑ 5:15 pm | LERA Diversity and Inclusion Committee Meeting—Committee Stream 2
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| 5:15 ‑ 6 pm | |||
| 6 ‑ 7:30 pm | Executive Board Meeting—Link Distributed Manually
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Saturday | Conference Activities • 6/13/2020 | ||
| 10:30 ‑ 10:45 am | Audio Visual Test Session - Open to All—Plenary Stream
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| 11 ‑ 11:30 am | |||
| 11:45 am ‑ 12:45 pm | |||
1.1 Improving Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains Part I: Buyers and their Behavior (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Felipe Caro, University of California, Los Angeles; Leonard Lane, University of California, Irvine; and Anna Saez de Tejada Cuenca, Georgetown University—Can Brands Claim Ignorance? Unauthorized Subcontracting in Apparel Supply Chains
Chunyun Li, London School of Economics and Political Sciences and Sarosh C. Kuruvilla, Cornell University—The Influence of Brand Market Segment and Product Complexity on Supplier Compliance: The Case of a Global Retailer
Ashley Palmarozzo, Harvard University; Jodi Short, University of California, Hastings; and Michael Toffel, Harvard University—Auditing the Auditors: Independence, Reputational Spillovers, and Quality
Elizabeth A. Bennett, Lewis & Clark College and Janina Grabs, Hybrid Integrated Profit-sharing—Social Enterprise Models: A Novel Approach to Value Sharing in the Coffee Sector and Beyond | |||
1.2 The Care Revolution: The Transformation of Home Health Care in Oregon (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 2
Discussants: Bob Bussel, University of Oregon—A Film Showing of "The Care Revolution" Documentary: Home Care Workers Tell Their Story | |||
1.3 Sustainable Schedules? Working Time and Implications for Workers and Organizations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Co-Chairs: Erin L. Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Peter Berg, Michigan State University Presenters: Sunjin Pak, Slippery Rock University at Pennsylvania; Amit Kramer, Yin Lee and Ki-Jung Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Teasing Out the Impact of Long Working Hours on Work-to-Family Enrichment and Conflict: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Mediating Role of Vigor and Exhaustion
Kristen Harknett, University of California, San Francisco; Daniel Schneider, University of California, Berkeley; and Rebecca Wolfe, University of California, San Francisco—Sleepless in the Service Sector? The Association between Work Schedules and Sleep
Alex M. Kowalski, Erin L. Kelly and Hazhir Rahmandad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—The productivity and turnover costs of unstable schedules and who bears them: An examination of work hours in warehousing
Lina Stepick, Larissa Petrucci, Lola Loustaunau and Ellen Scott, University of Oregon—Assessing the Initial Impacts of the First Statewide Fair Scheduling Law in Oregon | |||
1.4 LERA/AILR Best Papers (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Amanda Chuan, Michigan State University—Workplace Automation and the Gender Gap in Human Capital
Jung Ook Kim, Rutgers University—Democratic Spillover from Workplace into Politics: What are We Measuring and How?
Yao Yao, University of Toronto—Navigating Counter-Institutions: Lawyers’ Professional Identity in the Online Gig Economy | |||
| 11:45 am ‑ 12:45 pm | LERA Dispute Resolution Interest Section Meeting—Committee Stream 1
Co-Chairs: Janet Gillman, Oregon Employment Relations Board; Richard Fincher, Workplace Resolutions LLC; and Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University | ||
| 1 ‑ 2 pm | |||
2.1 Improving Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains Part II: Trade Unions and Labor Transnationalism (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Christopher Raymond, Cornell University—Labor Transnationalism and Horizontal Solidarities in the Bangladeshi Garment Industry
Kelly I. Pike, York University—Screening of "Rethabile's Story" - A 25 Minute Documentary on Day-to-day Life in Lesotho's Clothing Factories, and Challenges for Decent Work Regulation in Africa | |||
2.2 COVID-19 and the World of Work: Global Challenges & Responses (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Mariana Couttolenc, Georgetown Univeristy—COVID-19 and Mexico: Government Response and Impact of a Global Pandemic on Labor & Employment
Harry C. Katz, Cornell University | |||
2.3 Work-Family Policies: Lessons from International Research (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Co-Chairs: Peter Berg, Michigan State University and Erin L. Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presenters: Dasom Jang and Peter Berg, Michigan State University—Gender Role Orientation and Spousal Gap in Work and Family Hours: Moderation Effect of Gender and Age
Duanyi Yang and Erin L. Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Laura Kubzansky and Lisa Berkman, Harvard University—Working from Home and Worker Wellbeing: New Evidence from Germany
Karen Kramer, Teresa Cardador and Eunmi Mun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sunjin Pak, Slippery Rock University at Pennsylvania; and Sanghoon Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Effect of Paternal Leave on Parent's Life Satisfaction and Mother's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Australia, Germany, and Korea | |||
2.5 A Second Look at Sectoral Bargaining: What Can we Learn from New and Old Models of Organizing, Modernizing Institutions and Managing Technological Change? (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Ken Jacobs, University of California, Berkeley and Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project—State and Local Policies and Sectoral Bargaining: From Individual Rights to Collective Power
Lisa Jordan, United Steelworkers—What do Tech Workers Want? A Review of the Experience Organizing Google Contract Workers | |||
2.6 LGBTQ Issues in the Unionized Workforce—Breakout Stream 6
William Dwyer, Rutgers University—The Evolution of LGBTQ Issues in the Modern Workplace: An Academic Perspective | |||
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| 3 ‑ 4 pm | |||
3.1 Improving Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains Part III: Focus on Employers (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Greg Distelhorst, University of Toronto—Wages of Sin? Exporter Economic Performance and Labor Compliance in China
Chunyun Li, London School of Economics and Political Sciences and Sarosh C. Kuruvilla, Cornell University—Supplier Management Quality and Compliance: the Role of Supplier Human Resource and Labor Practices
Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University—Transparency and Compliance: Evidence from Better Work Jordan
Ana Antolin, Laura Babbitt, Drusilla Brown and Howard Wen, Tufts University—Does Better Work Promote Worker Wellbeing and Firm Performance? Evidence from Cambodia | |||
3.2 Labor Unrest in Platform Work: A Global Perspective (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Simon Joyce, Mark Stuart, Vera Trappmann, Charles Riou Umney and Ioulia Bessa, University of Leeds and Denis Neumann, Freie University, Berlin—A Global Struggle: Worker Organising and Protest in Platform Work | |||
3.3 Approaching the Study of Technology and Work through Multiple Lenses (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Adam Seth Litwin, Cornell University—Technological Change in Healthcare Delivery: Its Drivers and Consequences for Work and Workers
Phoebe Strom, Cornell University—"When You Have Less Status than a Computer": Information Technology and Organizational Hierarchy
Lisa Kresge, University of California, Berkeley—A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Data-Driven Algorithmic Technologies in the Workplace, their Consequences, and Collective Responses
Brad Markell, AFL-CIO Working For America Institute | |||
3.4 LERA Competitive Papers I: Labor Economics, Labor Markets, and Organizations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Peter Norlander, Loyola University of Chicago—Does Competition Protect Temporary Guest Workers from Wage Theft?
Alan Benson, University of Minnesota; Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, University of California, Los Angeles—Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from Retail | |||
3.5 Football: Employment-Related Issues Behind the Face Mask (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 6
Presenters: Patrick McHugh, George Washington University; Matthew Hinkel, Michigan State University; and Mark Hyman, University of Maryland—Opening the Ballot Box: Examining the Union Voting Behavior of College Football Players
Mary E. Graham and Bhavneet Walia, Syracuse University and Chris Robinson, Tulane University—Cheerleaders as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Women Executives and NFL Player Arrests
Brittany Kmush, Madeline Hilton, Bhavneet Walia, Shane Sanders and Justin Ehrlich, Syracuse University—A Logistic Regression Analysis of Reported Concussion Risk among NCAA FBS Football Players
Matthew M. Bodah, University of Rhode Island | |||
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4.1 LERA Best Posters (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Courtney Anne Chicvak, Columbia University—Open Channels: The Use of Workplace Dispute Resolution Systems for Sustainable Workforce Downsizing Among Non-Union Employees
Niti Pandey, Eastern Connecticut State University—Labor Market Explanations for the Decline of New England Whaling
Xiaofei Chen, Renmin University of China and Guanfu Fang, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics—Empirical Study on Government Regulation Effect of Ride-hailing Industry in China
Helen LaVan, DePaul University—Where the Green Jobs Are: Do the Best Green Companies Emphasize Green Jobs in CSR?
Lifei Chen, Anoop A. Javalagi, Raees Meghani, Yuan Cai, Daniel A. Newman and Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Union Commitment Facets (Loyalty, Responsibility, and Willingness): A Meta-Analysis
Rob Boyle, Saint Louis University—Craving More: The Influence of a Small Coffee Shop on Social Sustainability
François-Xavier Devetter, CLERSE Université de Lille and Julie Valentin, University of Paris 1, CES—What Policy for More Sustainable Jobs in "Unskilled" Services?
Ali Nawaz Khan, Tongji University and Naseer Abbas Khan, Huaiyin Institute of Technology—Transactional Leadership: A Stimulator of Innovative Behavior of the Employees in Municipal Organizations
Benjamin Glasner, University of Washington—Low Wage Worker Identification in Administrative Data: The Case for Machine Learning
Muhammad Ali, Tongji University—High-Performance Work Systems and Unit Service Performance: A Two-Stage Mediating Model
Huirong Zhang, Shandong Management University; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University; Shengsen Duan, Shandong Management School; and Panpan Gao, Capital University of Economics and Business—Does Hiring Retired Elites as Independent Directors Pay Off in Chinese Companies? | |||
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Sunday | Conference Activities • 6/14/2020 | ||
| 10:30 ‑ 10:45 am | |||
| 11 am ‑ 12 pm | |||
5.1 Reimagining the Governance of Work and Employment - LERA 2020 Research Volume (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara—Sectoral Bargaining: Opportunity and Dilemma for American Labor
Rachel Aleks, University of Windsor; Michael David Maffie, Pennsylvania State University; and Tina Saksida, University of Prince Edward Island—The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Digitized Workplace
Jason Spicer, University of Toronto; Robert Manduca, Harvard University; and Tamara Kay, University of Notre Dame—National Living Wage Movements in a Regional World: The Fight for $15 in the United States | |||
5.2 Beyond ESOP (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 2
Panelists: Natalie Reitman-White, Organically Grown Company/Alternative Ownership Advisors—Emerging New Models of Multi-Stakeholder Stewardship-Ownership: Case Study Organically Grown Company
Shevanthi Daniel, Democracy at Work Institute—Building Municipal Support for Worker-Owned Cooperatives | |||
5.3 Child Care as a Collective Bargaining and Labor Rights Issue (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 3
Panelists: Ariane Hegewisch, Institute for Women's Policy Research—Child Care as A Labor Right: Mapping Stakeholder Experiences Globally
Debby King, National Domestic Workers Alliance (ex 1199SEIU)—Bargaining for Child Care in the United States: 1199SEIU and the New York Child Care Fund
Christina Daniels, IBEW Local 48 Labor Littles Program—Labor Littles: Improving Diversity in the Building Trades through Tackling Child Care
Teófilo Reyes, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United—Child Care Needs of Restaurant Workers: Building Night Care Affinity Circles as an Organizing Tool | |||
5.4 Issues In The Chinese Workplace (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Lin Xiu, University of Minnesota Duluth; Feng Lu, Nankai University; Yufei Ren and Xin Liang, University of Minnesota Duluth—The Effect of Workplace Gender Equality Climate on Employees' Organizational Commitment and Turnover: Does High Performance Work System Play A Role?
Yan Pan and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University and Jian Han, China Europe International Business School—The Effects of Alternative Employment Arrangements on the Sales Performance in China's Retail Industry
Mengjie Lyu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—From "iron rice bowl" to informalization--Heterogeneous effects of state employment in Contemporary China
Qian Zhang, University of Toronto—Giant but young: Managing the evolution of employment system in a new venture strategically | |||
5.5 LERA Best Papers: Topics in Employment Relations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Aibak Hafeez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on Employment Arbitration: Evidence from Securities Industry Discrimination Complaints
Jiaojiao Qu, Taiyuan University of Technology; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University; and Jizu Li, Taiyuan University of Technology—Examining the Relationship Between Team Cognitive Diversity and Individual Creativity
Noah Zatz, Tia Koonse and Lucero Herrera, University of California, Los Angeles—Get To Work or Go To Jail: The Consequences of Court-Ordered Community Service as Forced Labor | |||
5.6 LERA’s K-12 Education Industry Council Presents: Responding to the Challenges of Covid-19 through Union-Management Partnerships and Educator Collaboration—Breakout Stream 6
Kathy McHugh, Delran Education Association | |||
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6.1 Strategies for Attracting and Engaging Millennials and Gen Z in Employment and Labor Relations Courses: Part 1 (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 1
Co-Chairs: David Lewin, University of California, Los Angeles and Eileen Hoffman, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Panelists: Janice Bellace, University of Pennsylvania—What's Happened to the Field? Or to the Students?
John W. Budd, University of Minnesota—Increasing the Relevance of a Labor Relations Course Through Broader Topics: Globalization and Financialization
Peter Norlander, Loyola University of Chicago—Constructing Short Case Studies Using Contemporary Issues Like Uber, Silicon Valley, and Thomas Smith
Richard Jenkins, University of Chicago Booth—Comments on Negotiations as an Attraction and the Need for Change
Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Framing Current Collective Bargaining Examples For Study and Application
Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University
Heather Grob, Saint Martin's University | |||
6.2 The Politics of Outsourcing: Workers' Experience and Union Responses (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Ian Greer, Cornell University and Mathieu Dupuis, TELUQ Montréal—Insourcing and industrial relations: Trade unionists in corporate politics at three North American automakers
David Blatter, Cornell University; Sean O'Brady, McMaster University; and Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University—Outsourcing, Burnout, and Union Responses in U.S. Call Centers
Jeffrey J. Sallaz, University of Arizona—The Union Versus the Feast: A Failure to Organize Outsourced Knowledge Workers in the Philippines
Stan Sorscher, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers | |||
6.3 LERA Best Papers: Work in the Food Industry (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Jessica HF Hammerling, University of California, Berkeley—Drivers of Domestic Outsourcing: A Case Study of Food Services
Sophie Kelmenson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—Spatial and Quality Patterns in Sustainable Food Systems Jobs | |||
| 12:15 ‑ 1:15 pm | NCAC Chapter Representatives Meeting—Breakout Stream 6
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services | ||
| 1:45 ‑ 2:45 pm | |||
7.1 Subnational Labor Federalism: The Emergence of Local Labor Standards Enforcement as a Field—Breakout Stream 1
Panelists: Lorelei Salas, New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA)—New York City Office of Labor Policy and Standards (OLPS)
Patrick Mulligan, San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE)—San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (OLSE)
Betty Duong, County of Santa Clara Office of Labor Standards Enforcement | |||
7.2 The Double Standard at Work: European Corporate Investment and Workers' Right in the American South (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 2
Ryan Kekeris, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT)—U.S. Building Trades and Industrial Relations with Skanska in the Southern U.S. | |||
7.3 Meet the Editors—Breakout Stream 3
John S. Heywood, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | |||
7.4 LERA Competitive Papers II: Labor Unions and Employee Voice (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Jenna E. Myers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Worker Voice 4.0: Direct Versus Indirect Vendor Channels and the Scaling of Worker Voice Around Digital, Networked Technologies
James A. Parrott, The New School—The Road To and From Salary Parity in New York City: Collective Bargaining and Nonprofits in Early Childhood Education
Brandon Carlyle Grant, SUNY - Farmingdale State College—Firms as Targets of Union Pension Shareholder Activism | |||
7.5 LERA Best Papers: Gender Gaps at Work (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Panpan Gao and Xiliang Feng, Capital University of Economics and Business; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University; and Huirong Zhang, Shandong Management University—The Influence of Internet Use on Gender Wage Gap of Migrant Workers
Salil Sapre, Michigan State University—Gender-Blindness and its Discontents: The Curious Case of an Indian Feminist Trade Union
Pooria Assadi, California State University, Sacramento—Are All Social Control Agents Created Equal? Understanding the Disparities in Labor Market Reactions to Professional Norm Violations | |||
7.6 Workplace Challenges: Drugs, Sex and Rock N’Roll (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 6
Catherine E. Walters, Bybel and Rutledge, LLP—The Impact of Marijuana in the Workplace: Accommodations, Policies, Performance and Safety Issues | |||
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| 3 ‑ 4 pm | |||
8.1 Driver Work and Pay in the Gig Economy (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Alejandro Henao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory—An Analysis of the Individual Economics of Ride-Hailing Drivers
Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago and James A. Parrott, The New School—Driver Pay and the Gig Economy: Evidence from New York City Before and After Regulatory Changes
Ken Jacobs and Michael Reich, University of California, Berkeley—Driver Pay in California: The Gig Companies' Proposed Offer | |||
8.2 New Approaches to Examining Bargaining Strategies and the Sources of Worker Power (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: John Kallas, Cornell University—The Resurgent Strike? Nurses and a Militant Union Identity
David Blatter, Cornell University—Power from the Periphery: Inter-Union Power Resources and Solidarity
Dongwoo Park, Cornell University—Two Faces of Union Democracy: The Relationship between Union Democracy and Membership Boundary | |||
8.3 Creating and Sustaining Diverse Organizations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Roman V. Galperin, Johns Hopkins University and John-Paul Ferguson, McGill University—Occupational Licensure, Race and Entrepreneurship
Julian E. Martinez-Moreno, Cornell University—Won't Get Fooled Again: How Prior Work Experiences Affect the Perceived Credibility of Employment Claims
Richard A. Benton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Women in the Inner Circle: Board Gender Diversity After the Fracturing of the Corporate Elite
Vanessa Roga, Phoebe Strom and Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University—Catfight or Contention? Gender Bias, Third-Party Perceptions of Conflict, and Employee Mobility | |||
8.4 LERA Higher Education Industry Council Business Meeting and Panel "The Changing Place of Labor Studies in Higher Education"—Breakout Stream 4
Panelists: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Labor Studies Today, and Developments at the University of Illinois
Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University—Labor Studies Today, and Developments at Penn State University
Marissa Brookes, University of California, Riverside—Labor Studies Today, and Developments at the University of California | |||
8.5 LERA Best Papers: Gig Work in Multiple Contexts (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Eugene Son, Rutgers University and Saehee Kang, Marquette University—Impact of Growth in Nonstandard Workforce on Standard Employees' Attitudes and Firm Performance
Benjamin Glasner, University of Washington—The Affordable Care Act, Self-Employment, and the Gig Economy
Qi Wang, Renmin University of China—The Dynamic Evolution of Platform Work: A Practice-Based Approach
Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Theorizing Market-Driven Occupational Change in the Professions | |||
8.6 The Bystander Challenge: Effecting Real Change in the Post-#MeToo Era—Breakout Stream 6
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| 4:15 ‑ 5:15 pm | LERA General Membership Meeting—Plenary Stream
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| 5:30 ‑ 5:45 pm | |||
Monday | Conference Activities • 6/15/2020 | ||
| 10 ‑ 10:15 am | Audio Visual Test Session - Open to All—Plenary Stream
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| 10:30 ‑ 11 am | |||
| 11:15 am ‑ 12:15 pm | |||
9.1 LERA Award Winners Roundtable (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Co-Chairs: Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University and Janice Bellace, University of Pennsylvania Presenters: Jonathan Booth, London School of Economics and Political Science—John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award Winner - International Significance
John McCarthy, Cornell University—John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholar Award Winner - National Significance
Josh Eidelson, Bloomberg and Juliana Feliciano Reyes, The Philadelphia Inquirer—Kenneth May Media Award Winners
Tymon Sloczynski, Brandeis University and Richard A. Benton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—LERA/ILR Review Best Paper Competition Award Winners | |||
9.2 Institutional Experimentation for Better (or Worse) Work: Part 1 (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Christian Levesque, HEC Montreal; Glenn Morgan, University of Bristol; Gregor Murray and Nicolas Roby, University of Montreal—Disruption and Re-Regulation in Work and Employment: From Organizational to Institutional Experimentation
Ian Greer and Sally Klingel, Cornell University—Living Wage in Tompkins County NY USA. An Action Research Project
Janice Fine, Rutgers University—Divided Legacies: Understanding the Newly Emergent Municipal Labor Standards Enforcement Regime in the US | |||
9.3 The Gig Is Up! (Or Is It?): The Future of the Gig Workplace (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 3
Christopher David Ruiz Cameron, Southwestern Law School | |||
9.4 LERA Dispute Resolution Interest Section Presents: Building a Broader Practice in Workplace ADR -- Joining Panels and Expanding Your Neutral Practice (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 4
Richard Fincher, Workplace Resolutions LLC | |||
9.5 NCAC Chapter Administration Workshop—Breakout Stream 5
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services Panelists: Robert Chiaravalli, Strategic Labor & Human Resources, LLC—Review of Chapter Startup Challenges and Using Online Resources and Opportunities to Address Common Chapter Issues
Ruben Ingram, School Employers Association of California (SEAC)—Sustaining Connections with other Stakeholders, Universities, Arbitrators, Public Employees & Innovative Chapter Meeting Locations
Antone Aboud, Pennsylvania State University and Lu-Ann Glaser, American Water—Innovations in Meeting Frequency, Scheduling and Fees to Market and Build Membership
Cyndi Furseth, Portland General Electric (ret.)—Chapter Mergers and Conference and Dinner Meeting Planning and Options to Build Membership | |||
| 11:15 am ‑ 1:30 pm | LERA 22nd Phd Student Consortium—Committee Stream 1
Co-Chairs: Wendy Chengyi Long, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Yea Hee Ko, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Qian Zhang, University of Toronto; and Jacob Barnes, Rutgers University
Sean O'Brady, McMaster University
Michael David Maffie, Pennsylvania State University
Greg Distelhorst, University of Toronto
Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | ||
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10.1 Sustaining Continuous Improvement by Unit Based Teams in Health Care—Breakout Stream 1
Thomas A. Kochan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
10.2 Institutional Experimentation for Better (or Worse) Work: Part 2 (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Cassandra Bowkett and Christian Levesque, HEC Montreal—Institutional Experimentation in the Aerospace Industry: A Comparative Assessment of the Montreal and Toronto Clusters
Mathieu Dupuis, TELUQ Montréal; Gregor Murray and Meiyun Wu, University of Montreal—Digital Transformations and Institutional Experimentation in the Automotive Services Sector: Actor Strategies and Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Provision of Skills And Training
Mathieu Dupuis, TELUQ Montréal and Ian Greer, Cornell University—Insourcing in the North American Auto Industry: Local Union Experimentation in Corporate Politics | |||
10.3 Labor and the Climate Crisis (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 3
Panelists: Lara Skinner, Cornell University—Lessons Learned from State-Level Union Campaigns to Secure Good Jobs, Strong Climate Action and Effective Just Transition Programs
, University of Oregon—Labor, Climate Change and Environmental Justice: Creating an Effective Framework for State and Local Policy
Ranfis Giannettino Villatoro, BlueGreen Alliance | |||
10.4 Oregon's Collaborative Approach to Promoting the Recruitment and Retention of a Diverse Construction Workforce (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 4
Panelists: Val Hoyle, Bureau of Labor and Industries—Advancing Recruitment and Retention: The Role of the Bureau of Labor and Industries
Tiffany Thompson, METRO—Construction Career Pathways Project (C2P2): The Role of METRO in Coordinating the Regional Approach to Recruitment and Retention
Kelly Kupcak, Oregon Tradeswomen
Maura Kelly, Portland State University—Evaluating Efforts to Improve Recruitment and Retention in the Trades: The Role of Researchers | |||
10.5 LERA Best Papers: Unions and Collective Bargaining, Communications, and Compliance (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Tingting Zhang, Merrimack College—Connected but Still Fragmented: The Development of Inter-Union Communication Network on Social Media
Bradley R. Weinberg, Queen's University—Crisis or Catharsis? The Impact of Work Stoppages on Bargaining Unit Mortality
Assaf Shlomo Bondy, University of California, Los Angeles—New Actors as Motors for Industrial Relations change: Inter-actors Conflict and the Reformation of Central Collective Bargaining | |||
10.6 Strategies for Attracting and Engaging Millennials and Gen Z in Employment and Labor Relations Courses: Part 2 (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 6
Co-Chairs: David Lewin, University of California, Los Angeles and Eileen Hoffman, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
John W. Budd, University of Minnesota
Peter Norlander, Loyola University of Chicago
Richard Jenkins, University of Chicago Booth
Christine Riordan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heather Grob, Saint Martin's University | |||
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| 3 ‑ 4 pm | |||
11.1 Building a Healthy Healthcare Workforce: A Sustainable Future for Healthcare Work (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Jessica Santos and Sarah Soroui, Brandeis University—Segmented Immobility and Intersectionality in Healthcare Labor Markets
Yaminette Diaz Linhart and Christine Bishop, Brandeis University—Designing Work for Complex Care Management Programs: What Works for the Workers?
Wale Olaleye and Lauren Hajjar, Brandeis University—Relational organizations and the well-being of workers at different ends of the pay scale
Ariel C. Avgar, Phoebe Strom and Harry C. Katz, Cornell University—Clinical Integration and Implications for Employee Wellbeing
John August, Cornell University | |||
11.2 Migration Policy and the Nature of Work (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Tristan Ivory, Cornell University—The Shifting Context of Reception for Migrants in Japan: 1970-2010
Kati Griffith and Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University—Immigration Status and the Nature of Low-Wage Work in the U.S.
Ben A. Rissing, Cornell University—To H-1B or Not to H-1B? The Role of Experience and Events in Decision Maker Learning
Laura Carver, Cornell University—Mixed Signals: The Impact of Lawyers on H-1B Employer Strategies in a Shifting Regulatory Environment | |||
11.3 Labor and Journalism in 2020: Putting All Workers Into the National Conversation (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine—Intersectionality, ideology, and the "working class": a critical appreciation of Christoph Martin's No Longer Newsworthy.
Christopher Martin, University of Northern Iowa—The Labor Movement: The Biggest Political Campaign Story Missing from the Media
Hamilton Nolan, Labor Reporter for In These Times—Putting All Workers in the National Conversation: A Labor Reporter's Perspective | |||
11.4 LERA Dispute Resolution Interest Section Presents: Diversity in Dispute Resolution (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 4
Panelists: Homer C. La Rue, Howard University; Jacquelin F. Drucker, Arbitration Offices of Jacquelin F. Drucker, Esq.; Sarah Cudahy, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; and Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University—Diversity in Dispute Resolution | |||
11.5 LERA Best Papers: International and Comparative Industrial Relations (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Matthew Hinkel, Michigan State University—Blue Collars and Loose Ties: A Deeper Dive into Immigration's Effect on Construction Labor Markets
Michael Naretta, Lorin Obler, Alejandro Oliva, Nagla'a El-Hodiri and Cindy Brown Barnes, U.S. Government Accountability Office—H-2B VISAS: More Can Be Done to Meet Businesses' Needs While Better Protecting U.S. Workers
Joseph Marchand and Dana C. Andersen, University of Alberta—Local Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations: Evidence from Canada Wide Standards
Weihao Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Effects of Consultation and Joint Decision-Making on Workplace and Market Performance: Evidence from Longitudinal Korean Panel Data
Charles Jeszeck and Sharon Hermes, U.S. Government Accountability Office—Environmental Sustainability and Worker’s Money: Addressing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risks in Retirement Plan Investments | |||
11.6 The Emergent Field of Labor Standards Enforcement Research (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 6
Panelists: Jacob Barnes, Rutgers University—Informing strategic enforcement practices: Comparing minimum wage complaints and violations in four cities
Greg Distelhorst, University of Toronto—Measuring the impacts of the Fair Food Program on farmworkers in central Florida
Alexandra Gervis, Rutgers University—Portable Benefits: The Bending, Breaking, and Rebuilding of the Social Safety Net
Isaac Jabola-Carolus, City University of New York—Labor Standards and Paid In-Home Care Work: Preliminary Analysis of Survey Data | |||
| 3 ‑ 5:15 pm | LERA 5th Annual Jr. Faculty Consortium—Committee Stream 1
Xiangmin (Helen) Liu, Rutgers University
Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University
Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto | ||
| 4:15 ‑ 5:15 pm | |||
12.1 Building Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Elementary, Secondary and Post-Secondary Education (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Lauren Hajjar and Callie Watkins Liu, Brandeis University; Monica Higgins, Harvard University; and Lainie Loveless, Brandeis University—A Multi Stakeholder Intervention to Adopt Personalized Learning
Liam Honigsberg, Brandeis University—Managing Cross-Organizational Partnerships: A Study of Relational Coordination in the Teacher Residency Model
Elli Meleti, University of Glasgow—A Cycle of Human Sustainability: Human Sustainability, Relational Coordination and Worker Outcomes in Higher Education
Cady Landa, Institute for Community Inclusion—Teacher/Parent Coproduction for Educating Children of Immigrants with Special Needs: Organizational Obstacles and Enablers | |||
12.2 NonCompete Agreements: Regulation, Wage Suppression and Income Inequality—Breakout Stream 2
Panelists: Aron Karabel, Waller, Lansden, Dortsch & Davis, LLC—Noncompetes in the 21st Century: A Guide to the Perplexed
Jane R. Flanagan, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Philip A. LaPorte, Georgia State University (ret.)—An Arbitrator’s perspective on non-compete agreements | |||
12.3 The Critical Role of New Union Member Orientation in the Janus Era (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 3
Panelists: Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University—Results of a National Study of New Union Member Orientation Experiences
John Lepley, United Steelworkers—Efforts to develop more effective new member orientation programs in an industrial union
Michael Wasser, Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO—Efforts to develop more effective new member orientation programs in professional unions
John F. Amman, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Local 600—Efforts to develop more effective new member orientation programs in an entertainment union
Michelle Mihalek, United Steelworkers, Local 11-63 | |||
12.4 LERA Dispute Resolution Interest Section Presents: Empirical Insights for Employment Neutral Practitioners (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 4
Panelists: Alexander J.S. Colvin, Cornell University—Empirical Insights for Dispute Resolution Practitioners From Cornell University
Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Empirical Insights for Dispute Resolution Practitioners from University of Illinois
Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University—Empirical Insights for Dispute Resolution Practitioners from Penn State | |||
12.5 LERA Best Papers: Wages and Skills (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Ting Ren and Xinguo Yu, Peking University—ICT Use, Cognitive and Non-cognitive Abilities, and Wages: Micro Evidence from China
Justin P. Wiegand, San Diego State University; Fritz Drasgow and James Rounds, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Misfit Matters: A Re-Examination of Interest Fit and Job Satisfaction
Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Hye Jin Rho, Center for Economic and Policy Research—How Skill Demands Affect Time-to-Hire: Evidence from the Applicant Tracking Data | |||
12.6 LERA 2021 Research Volume Preview Part 1 of 3: The "Future of Work" and Evolving Forms of Collective Agency (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 6
Presenters: Joseph McCartin, Georgetown University and Marilyn Sneiderman, Rutgers University—Both Broadening and Deepening: Bargaining for the Common Good and the Future of Bargaining
Joel S. Yudken, High Road Strategies, LLC and David Jacobs, Morgan State University—Worker Voice in Technological Change: Challenges and Opportunities | |||
| 5:30 ‑ 5:45 pm | Virtual Happy Hour, Sponsored by Cornell University—See Virtual Program
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Tuesday | Conference Activities • 6/16/2020 | ||
| 10:30 ‑ 10:45 am | Audio Visual Test Session - Open to All—Plenary Stream
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| 11 am ‑ 12 pm | |||
13.1 LERA Best Papers: What Do Unions Do; What Can Unions Do (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Maxim Massenkoff, University of California, Berkeley and Nathan Wilmers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—The Effects of Strikes on Firms and Workers
Xiupeng Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Who Do Unions Protect From Job Losses? A Cross-National Comparison
Gregory Lyon, Tufts University—From Ludlow to Las Vegas: Immigrants, Labor Policy, and Attitudes Toward Unionization | |||
13.2 LERA 2021 Research Volume Preview Part 2 of 3: Reproductive Work as a Crucible for Labor Innovation (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Joseph Van Der Naald, City University of New York and William Herbert, Hunter College—Teachers Teach that Knowledge Waits: Graduate Student Unionization in the Second Gilded Age
Victor Devinatz, Illinois State University and Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Role of U.S. Labor Education and Worker Education in Revaluing Workers: Historical, Current, and Future Perspectives
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers and Elaine Zundl, Rutgers University—The Future of Work, Domestic Workers, and the Gig Economy | |||
13.3 People, Planet, Profit: Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line in Employee-owned Firms (Workshop)—Breakout Stream 4
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14.1 LERA Best Papers: Pay - Minimums, Parity, Performance (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Paul Wolfson, Dartmouth College—The Long and Short of the Highs and Lows of the Minimum Wage Effect
Saehee Kang, Marquette University—What Do You Mean When You Pay for Performance? Conditional Effects of Pay-For-Performance on Job Satisfaction and Performance | |||
14.2 International Influences on Employment Relations Practices and Labor Responses (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Jinyoung Park, Cornell University—The U.S. and International Actors in Cambodian Labor Politics
Scott B. Martin, Columbia University and Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, Universidade de Sao Paulo—The Evolution of Private Governance of Labor Standards Compliance: The Case of Brazil's Garment Supplier Code
Matthew Fischer-Daly, Cornell University—Collective Action Confronting Precarious Employment: Comparative Labor Regimes in Contemporary Agribusiness
Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University—Evolving Systems of Labor Control and Patterns of Worker Resistance in Agricultural Global Supply Chains: A Case Study of the Banana Sector in Guatemala | |||
14.3 Social and Economic Sustainability: The Role of Public Employees and Public Sector Unions in Promoting Citizenship at Work and in the Community—Breakout Stream 3
Presenters: Eunice Han, University of Utah—What Teachers' Unions Do for Teachers When Collective Bargaining is Prohibited
Liz Perlman, AFSCME 3299 and Marilyn Sneiderman, Rutgers University—Lessons from Bargaining for the Common Good | |||
14.4 LERA Best Papers: Worker Safety - Policy, Technology and Opioids (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Abay Asfaw, Brian Quay and Chia-Chia Chang, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Do Injured Workers Receive Opioid Prescriptions Outside the Workers' Compensation System? The Case of Private Group Health Insurance
Maria Figueroa, Cornell University—Impacts of Policy Changes on Worker Safety Outcomes in New York City Construction Sites
Wendy Chengyi Long, Wei Zhao and Andrew McBride, University of North Carolina at Charlotte—Examining the Impact of Occupational Identity on Firefighters' Acceptance of New Technological Change: A Qualitative Analysis | |||
14.5 LERA Competitive Papers III: Inequality, Conflict, and Precarity (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: Ebney Ayaj Rana, Georgia State University—Have Older Workers Lost Employability since the Great Recession?
Nathan Wilmers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Complex Jobs and Unique Jobs: Task Structure as a Source of Organizational Inequality
Edward Patrick McDermott and , Salisbury University—Party Perception Asymmetry at Mediation and its Influence on Settlement
Assaf Shlomo Bondy, University of California, Los Angeles—New Actors in Labor Relations: "Conflictual Complementarity" of Central Class-Representation for Precarious Workers in Israel | |||
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15.1 LERA Best Papers: Workforce Development (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 1
Presenters: Yujeong Yang, State University of New York, Cortland—Labor Automation, Structural Employment and the Development of Vocational Training Systems in China
Amanda Chuan and Christian Ibsen, Michigan State University—Skills for the Future? A Life-Cycle Perspective on Systems of Vocational Education and Training
Kevin Lujan Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Structural Creaming in the Age of Nonprofit Marketization: Considering Workforce Development Nonprofits in Los Angeles
Claire McKenna, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Worker “Upskilling” in an Age of Insecurity: The Introduction of Flexible Work Reforms in a U.S. Automaker | |||
15.2 LERA 2021 Research Volume Preview Part 3 of 3: What the "Future of Work" Debate Means for Labor and the Labor Studies Field (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 2
Presenters: Tod Rutherford, Syracuse University—Labor Unions, Workplace Representation and Different Geographic Paths to Industry 4.0
Michelle Van Noy, Heather McKay and Alysa Hannon, Rutgers University—Challenging Neoliberal Education Policy from within the Paradigm | |||
15.4 Perspectives on Work from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: Work Characteristics, Their Determinants, and Their Association with Worker Well-being (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 4
Presenters: Tim Bushnell, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Determinants of work design and the strength of protection from work hazards
Tapas K. Ray and Regina Pana-Cryan, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Work flexibility and well-being across work arrangements
Anasua Bhattacharya and Brian Quay, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Shift Work in the Wholesale and Retail Trade Sector
Abay Asfaw, Regina Pana-Cryan and Brian Quay, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—Association between Longest-Held Occupation and Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits Receipt | |||
15.5 Union Members in Their Unions: New Research on Challenges for Effectiveness and Solidarity (Symposium)—Breakout Stream 5
Presenters: John W. Budd, University of Minnesota and Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Ideological Distribution of Union Members: A Comparative Exploration
Andrew Keyes, Florida State University; Zachary A. Russell, Xavier University; and Jack Fiorito, Florida State University—The Union Experience: How Workplace Instrumentality and Prosocial Instrumentality Impact Union Satisfaction
Maite Tapia, Christian Ibsen, Phillip DeOrtentiis, Dasom Jang and Carla Lima, Michigan State University—Striking in Solidarity? Evidence from the 2019 GM Strike
William Kimball, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—The Challenges of Representing Professional Workers: Insights from Worker Surveys | |||
| 2:30 pm | Adjournment Adrienne E. Eaton, LERA President-Elect and Program Chair |