Labor & Employment Law

Follow the AFL-CIO Young Workers Summit Live

By Mike Hall

We’re just a day away from the first-ever national AFL-CIO Young Workers Summit. More than 400 young workers?including 40 Union Summer interns?will be in Washington, D.C., for the June 10-13 conference.

The union workers and activists under 35 are the men and women who are “Next Up” to lead the union movement. The conference gives them a chance to share their concerns, skills and visions about young people’s role in the union movement and the movement’s future with AFL-CIO leaders.

Organizing and political and community activism and communications, mapping out a blueprint for the union movement’s future, are top items on the agenda. The conference is booked solid, but you still have several ways to take part and keep up with the summit.

We’ll live webcast and tweet many of the key discussions, forums and speakers. Plus you’ll have a chance to join the discussion with our live interactive tool during the Friday morning opening sessions, where young workers will engage in a question and answer with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker. The webcast and the interactive discussion are at: www.aflcio.org/aboutus/youthsummit/webcast.cfm.

Follow the summit on Twitter with the hashtag #aflcionext up. Also, if you text aflcio to 225568, you can join our texting list as well.

There’s some fun in store, too, with Lee Camp, a contributor to The Onion who describes himself as “Satarista,” and comedian Jeremy Redleaf, a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). Several members of the NFL Players Association are on the schedule, and there will be plenty of time for networking, a cold beverage or two and having fun.

The Next Up Young Workers Summit wraps up Sunday morning as the young workers and union leaders discuss and adopt the essential elements the summit developed for “A Blueprint for Our Future.”

For more information, click here. Don’t forget to go to the Next Up Facebook page to connect with other young union members and activists and join the conversation.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).