Chair: Rosemary Batt, Cornell University

Panelists: Douglas Ewart, Jamaican musician and educator

Discussant: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Brandeis University

Co-Chairs: Frank Mullins, University of Alabama in Huntsville and John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota

Chair: Andrea Caceres, SHARE/AFSCME

Panelists: Janet Wilder, SHARE/AFSCME—Labor Perspective

Discussant: Kris Rondeau, AFSCME

Chair: David Madland, Center for American Progress

Panelists: Enrique Lopezlira, University of California, Berkeley—California and Massachusetts Laws in Perspective

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Nien-chi Liu, Yu Chen and Ming-Jhe Jeng, National Taiwan University—From Task to Workflow Fit: Generative AI in Clinical Nursing Settings

Chair: Larissa Petrucci, NorCal Construction Industry Compliance

Presenters: Carla Lima Aranzaes, Pennsylvania State University and Destiny Blackwell, Amazon Worker - Organizer with CAUSE (Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Empowerment)—Building Capacity to Challenge the Giant

Discussant: Larissa Petrucci, NorCal Construction Industry Compliance

Chair: Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota

Presenters: Peter Berg, Michigan State University and Matthew Piszczek, Wayne State University—Organizations and Workforce Aging: Stakeholders, Interests, and Human Capital Management

Discussants: Teresa Ghilarducci, The New School for Social Research

Chair: Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Presenters: Kihwan Bae, West Virginia University and Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota—Measuring Licensing Stringency: New Evidence from a Comprehensive Dataset on Cosmetology Regulation

Chair: Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University

Panelists: Dionne Pohler, Cornell University—Mediation: A Scholar's Perspective

Co-Chairs: Jim Pruitt, Kaiser Permanente and Alexander J.S. Colvin, Cornell University

Panelists: Peter Berg, Michigan State University

Co-Chairs: Christine Riordan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Hye Jin Rho, Michigan State University

Chair: Emily Martin, Washington State PERC

Panelists: SaNni Lemonidis, Streepy Lemonidis Consulting and Law Group, PLLC

Chair: Heather Keegan, Arbitrator

Panelists: Peter Hanlon, PJH Resolution Services

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Scott B. Martin, Columbia University—Algorithmic Transparency and Work Intensification at Amazon: U.S. State-Level Warehouse Worker Protection Acts, Worker Organizi

Chair: Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota

Presenters: Erin L. Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Raquel Kessinger, Boston College; and Meg Lovejoy, Harvard University—Emergent Empowerment or Contained Communication? A Process Study of Implementing New Voice Channels in U.S. Fulfillment Centers

Chair: Heidi B. Parker, Arbitrator/Mediator

Panelists: Amy Moor Gaylord, Akerman LLP—Management Perspective

Chair: Matthew Fischer-Daly, Rutgers University

Presenters: Carla Lima Aranzaes, Pennsylvania State University—From Tweets to Ties: Disseminating Collective Action Frames During The BAmazon Union Campaign

Chair: Ani Darbinyan, Labor Management Cooperation Committee, IUOE Local 12

Panelists: Dina Morsi, NorCal Construction and Industry Compliance—What are Labor Management Cooperation Committees (LMCCs) and Joint Management Organizations.

Chair: Hye Jin Rho, Michigan State University

Presenters: Andrew Keyes, California State University, Fresno and Jack Fiorito, Florida State University—Allocating Union Resources for Prosocial Unionism and Workplace Instrumentality

Co-Chairs: Walter Darr, Jr., National Mediation & Conflict Solutions and Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota

Chair: Lionel Sims Jr., Kaiser Permanente

Panelists: Asha Alt, DC Office of Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining

Co-Chairs: Michael H. LeRoy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Susan J. Schurman, Rutgers University

Chair: John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota

Chair: Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Presenters: Deepa Kylasam Iyer, Cornell University—How does Generative AI Impact Creativity at Work?

Discussant: Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Gina M Roccanova, Roccanova ADR

Panelists: Dominique Windberg, Jackson Lewis, PC—Management Perspective on NLRB Developments and Possibilities for the Future

Chair: Benjamin Aaron Kreider, North America's Building Trades Unions

Panelists: Dale Belman, Michigan State University—Worker Misclassification Disadvantages Honest, Law-Abiding Contractors: A Project-Based Analysis

Discussant: Luke Kuhl, National Electrical Contractors Association

Chair: Paul Garrison, Vanderbilt School of Law

Chair: Kassandra Hernandez, University of California Berkeley

Panelists: Karla Elizabeth Walter, Center for American Progress—Low Standards Hurt Security Officers' Ability To Make Ends Meet

Chair: Robert Chiaravalli, Strategic Labor & Human Resources, LLC

Panelists: Pedro N. Ferro, Management-side CEO—Overview of Innovation Processes

Chair: Brian Clauss, University of Arizona Rogers School of Law

Discussants: Amy Moor Gaylord, Akerman LLP

Chair: John A. Logan, San Francisco State University

Panelists: Jody Calemine, AFL-CIO, Director of Advocacy

Discussant: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California Santa Barbara—With the NLRB in Crisis, What's Next for Workers RIght to Organize?

Co-Chair: Antone Aboud, Pennsylvania State University

Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services

Chair: Xiangmin (Helen) Liu, Rutgers University

Panelists: Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Soohyun Roh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—From Wallets to Wages: Consumer Income, Job Design, and Pay Disparities

Chair: Aaron Schmidt, American Arbitration Association

Panelists: Keith D. Greenberg, Esq., Arbitrator and Mediator—AI's Expanding Role in Labor Arbitration

Co-Chairs: Sanjay Joseph Pinto, University of Illinois Chicago and Zoe West, Cornell University

Discussants: Shaywaal Amin, Nursing Division, 1199SEIU-UHWE

Chair: Susan N. Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Presenters: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University and Thomas A. Kochan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Introducing Worker Voice as a Dimension of Job Quality

Discussant: Abigail Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Chair: Zachary Schaller, Colorado State University

Presenters: Zachary Schaller, Colorado State University; Samuel Young, Arizona State University; and Jonne Kamphorst, Stanford University—The NLRB Election Data Project: A Newly Harmonized Record of Union Organizing Since 1962

Chair: Janice Fine, Rutgers University

Panelists: Brian Walsh, Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights—The Minneapolis Labor Standards Enforcement Division (LSED)

Chair: Tom Louis Melancon, Labor Relations Professional

Chair: Sanford M. Jacoby, University of California Los Angeles

Presenters: Lenore Palladino, University of Massachusetts Amherst—The Myth that Shareholders are Investors

Discussant: Wilma B. Liebman, Former Chair NLRB and New York University Law School

Chair: Hal Ruddick, Alliance of Health Care Unions

Panelists: Mark Anner, Rutgers University

Co-Chairs: Benjamin Aaron Kreider, North America's Building Trades Unions and Timothy Watkins, Fair Contracting Foundation of Minnesota

Chair: John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota

Co-Chairs: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Candace Archer, AFL-CIO

Chair: Elisabeth Jacobs, Workrise @ The Urban Institute

Presenters: Abhinav Banthiya, Illinois Climate Jobs Institute and Peter J. Fugiel, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—Fossil Fuel Workers in Transition: Job Quality, Mobility, and Displacement

Chair: Hector Hurtado Pineda, University of Toronto

Presenters: Hector Hurtado Pineda, University of Toronto and Michael David Maffie, Cornell University—Algorithmic Folklore: How Algorithmic Beliefs Impact Platform and Peer Perceptions of Gig Workers

Chair: William P. Jones, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Panelists: Jenna Chernega, Inter-Faculty Organization

Discussant: Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Rutgers University

Chair: Timothy Watkins, Fair Contracting Foundation of Minnesota

Panelists: Mark Erlich, Harvard University—The Origin of Corporate Attacks on Construction Labor Standards & Early Repeal Fights

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Justin Vinton, Rutgers University—Manufacturing Technicians and Innovation

Chair: Rebecca Kolins Givan, Rutgers University

Presenters: Nikita Raheja, Columbia University; Niha Singh, Notre Dame University; Suresh Naidu, Columbia University; and Aaron Sojourner, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research—Union Membership in Voluntary Settings: Evidence from U.S. Health Care

Discussants: Erin L. Kelly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Chair: Zuhur Ahmed, Rutgers University

Presenter: Hana R. Shepherd, Rutgers University—Increasing Labor Standards Compliance Among Under-resourced Small Businesses: The Minneapolis Project

Panelists: Dan Fehrenkamp, Neighborhood Development Center—CDFIs: an untapped resource for promoting employment law compliance

Chair: Gregory Lyon, Georgetown University

Panelists: Jaz Brisack, Organizing Director of the Inside Organizer School and co-founder of Starbucks Workers United—No unorganizable workplace: Strategy, organizing and the IOS

Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services

Panelists: Meeta Bass, Bass Dispute Resolution Services LLC

Co-Chairs: Richard A. Benton, Climate Jobs Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Lara Skinner, Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University

Presenters: Jillian Morely and Avalon Hoek Spaans, Cornell University—Working Conditions in the U.S. Solar Industry: Findings and Learnings from Studies in New York and Texas

Co-Chairs: Mark Anner and Xiangmin (Helen) Liu, Rutgers University and Chunyun Li, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Presenters: Claire Sleigh, United Auto Workers—Strikes and Power in Unlikely Places: Migrant Garment Workers in Jordan

Chair: Wilma B. Liebman, Former Chair NLRB and New York University Law School

Panelists: James Brudney, Fordham University—Tripartism in Crisis: The ILO and the Right to Strike

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Joseph Marchand and Sebastian Fossati, University of Alberta—Women on the Margins: Gendered Effects of Large Minimum Wage Changes in Canada

Chair: Sarah Miller Espinosa, SME Dispute Resolution, LLC

Panelists: David Larson, Mitchell-Hamline School of Law—Part I: National Advocacy and Private Action - from the ABA to the RCI

Chair: Roxanne L Rothschild, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) / Association of Labor Relations Agencies (ALRA)

Panelists: Jennifer Hadsall, National Labor Relations Board, Region 18

Chair: Gloria Perez, Minnesota Women's Foundation

Presenter: Serwaa Omowale, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston—Employment as a Social Determinant: Work-Related Stress, Economic Inequality, and Maternal Health in Black Women

Panelist: Randie Pearson, United Steel Workers—Reproductive Rights and Collective bargaining: The USW Approach

Presenter: Kate Bahn, Institute for Women's Policy Research—Cost of Reproductive Rights Restrictions to Workers, Employers, and the Economy

Chair: Rudy Gonzalez, San Francisco Building Trades Council

Panelist: Jim Pruitt, Kaiser Permanente

Discussant: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California Santa Barbara

Chair: Hye Jin Rho, Michigan State University

Presenters: Kayleigh Edith Truman, Rutgers University—Three Identities in a Trench Coat: a Reflexive Thematic Analysis of how Neurodivergent Entertainment Workers Navigate the Gig Economy

Co-Chairs: David Lewin, University of California Los Angeles and Nereyda Rivera, Union of American Physicians and Dentists

Panelists: Jack Fiorito, Florida State University

Co-Chairs: Saul Rubinstein, Rutgers University and John McCarthy, Cornell University

Co-Chairs: Richard A. Benton, Climate Jobs Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Lara Skinner, Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell University

Chair: Andrew Wolf, Cornell University

Presenter: Jake Barnes, Rutgers University—Meeting the Moment: Challenges and Opportunities for Worker Centers in Today's Political Climate

Panelists: Deqa Essa, The Awood Center—Building East African worker power in the Twin Cities: The Awood Center

Chair: Javier Ramirez, Cornell University, ILR School

Panelists: Lu-Ann Glaser, American Water

Chair: Jeffrey S. Wheeler, Georgetown University

Presenters: Wogene Mena, Vienna University of Economics and Business—The Double-Edged Sword of Labor Agency: Navigating Workers' Resilience, Reworking, and Resistance in Ethiopia's Garment Industries

Discussant: Sarosh C. Kuruvilla, Cornell University

Chair: Homer C. La Rue, Howard University School of Law & Board Chair, RCI, Inc.

Panelists: Jordan Rose Bermudez, Howard University School or Law—TBD

Discussant: Mark Pearce, Workers Rights Institute, Georgetown University

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Nancy Nzom, University of Louisiana at Lafayette—Regulating the Algorithm: Rethinking Labour Rights and Collective Bargaining in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Mario Martinez-Jimenez, Stanford University—How Do Economic Shocks Impact Upon the Mental Health of Retirees?

Chair: Richard A. Benton, Climate Jobs Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Co-Chairs: Danny Lee Dickerson, Faithworks Consulting and Karen Crump-Wilson

Chair: Marc Weinstein, Florida International University

Panelists: Sean E. Rogers, University of Rhode Island

Chair: Tazewell Victor Hurst III, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Co-Chairs: Tobias Schulze-Cleven and Daniel J. Julius, Rutgers University

Co-Chairs: Christine Riordan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Hye Jin Rho, Michigan State University

Discussants: Sanjay Joseph Pinto, University of Illinois Chicago

Chair: Matthew T. Bodie, University of Minnesota, School of Law

Presenters: William A. Herbert, Hunter College and Joseph van der Naald, City University of New York—Collective Bargaining Protections and Benefits for International Students

Panelists: Thomas H. Riley, Jr., Executive Director of Labor and Special Counsel for the University of Illinois System and Andrew Cantrell, Field Services Director, Illinois Federation of Teachers—Exploring the Impact of Turnover on Negotiations

Presenters: Adrienne E. Eaton, Seonghoon Hong and Paula Voos, Rutgers University—Testing NLRB Arguments Against Graduate Student Employee Unions: Results of Before/After Surveys

Chair: Yael Foa, Alliance of Health Care Unions

Panelists: Debra Sung, United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP)—Labor-Management Partnership and Worker Engagement for Use of AI and Technology at Kaiser Permanente

Discussant: Arrow Minster, San Francisco State University

Chair: John Kallas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Discussants: Jaz Brisack, Organizing Director of the Inside Organizer School and co-founder of Starbucks Workers United—Get on the Job and Organize: Standing up for a Better Workplace and a Better World

Chair: Andrew Wolf, Cornell University

Presenters: Lindsey Cameron, University of Pennsylvania—Scalable Subjugation: The Myth of Geographic Scalability in the Gig Economy and How Workers Reconstitute Platforms

Chair: Johnny Villarreal, Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services

Panelists: Katie Pratt, Minnesota Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolution

Chair: Stephanie Fortado, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelists: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—Researching Diversity in the Building Trades

Chair: Lucas A. Franco, LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota

Presenters: Carol Wood, University of Minnesota—Rethinking Pathways and Mobility in Salon Service Occupations

Panelists: Mark Anner, Rutgers University

Chair: Marc Weinstein, Florida International University

Chair: John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota

Chair: John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota

Chair: Hiroyuki Kawahara, American Arbitration Association

Panelists: Experienced Election Arbitrator, Arbitrator/Mediator—Conducting Fair, Efficient, and Cost-Effective Union Elections: Lessons and Best Practices

Chair: Rita Turpin Porterfield, City of Pittsburgh

Co-Chairs: Bob Oberstein, Arbitrator, Mediator, Investigator and Educator and Homer C. La Rue, Howard University School of Law & Board Chair, RCI, Inc.

Panelists: Bob Oberstein, Arbitrator, Mediator, Investigator and Educator—So, You're Thinking About Maybe Becoming a Neutral (Arbitrator, Mediator, Investigator, etc.?

Chair: Lorenzo Frangi, University of Québec at Montréal

Presenters: Peter Norlander, Loyola University of Chicago—Enhancing Skill Extraction: JAAT Applications and LLM-as-Judge Techniques

Chair: John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota

Panelists: Holland Atkinson, Hennepin County—What Were They Thinking? Management side

Chair: Thomas J. Norman, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Panelists: Thomas J. Norman, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Discussant: Daniel J. Julius, Rutgers University

Chair: Roxanne L Rothschild, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) / Association of Labor Relations Agencies (ALRA)

Panelist: Richard Griffin, former NLRB Board Member and General Counsel (of Counsel at Bredhoff & Kaiser)

Co-Chairs: Alexander Busch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stefan Ivanovski, Cornell University; Jianxuan Lei, University of Minnesota; and Sumati Thusoo, Rutgers University

Co-Chairs: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Candace Archer, AFL-CIO

Co-Chairs: Janet Gillman, Oregon Employment Relations Board; Patrice M. Mareschal and Jeffrey H. Keefe, Rutgers University

Co-Chairs: Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University; Sidney Seligman, Rutgers University; and Antonio J. Saguibo, BlueCross BlueShield Association

Chair: Lisa Li, Northern California LERA

Panelists: Jun Payoyo, PERB (SMCS)

Discussants: Jim Pruitt, Kaiser Permanente

Chair: Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine

Presenters: Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University and Chad Pearson, University of North Texas—Outsourcing Employer Opposition

Chair: Frank Binda, American Arbitration Association

Panelists: Lisa W. Timmons, Arbitrator & Mediator, and Executive Director, Mediation Tribunal Association—Creating Space for Dialogue and Inclusion in Mediation

Chair: Matthew Fischer-Daly, Rutgers University

Discussant: Greg Distelhorst, University of Toronto

Presenters: Martin Curley, Katalyst Initiative; Anne Lally, University of Notre Dame; and Henrik Lindholm, Ethical Trading Initiative-Sweden—'Stakeholder Consultation' and Variations in Industry Context: Implications for Human Rights Due Diligence Regulatory Design

Chair: David Rolf, Founder and President Emeritus, SEIU 775

Panelists: Cynthia Estlund, New York University Law School—Tripartism as "Regulation with Representation"

Chair: Javier Ramirez, Cornell University, ILR School

Panelist: Johnny Villarreal, Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services

Chair: Hye Jin Rho, Michigan State University

Presenters: Ricardo Araujo Dib Taxi, Valena Jacob Chaves and Joao Daniel Daibes Resque, Federal University of Para—Modern Slavery, Climate Justice, and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: Pathways for Structural Change

Co-Chairs: Alexander Busch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stefan Ivanovski, Cornell University; Jianxuan Lei, University of Minnesota; and Sumati Thusoo, Rutgers University

Co-Chairs: Nicole L. Bynes, American Arbitration Association; Amena Haynes, NY State Metropolitan Transportation Authority; Leander Galimba, HR Acuity; Tyron Harris, Town of East Hartford; Jocelyn LaBove, Esq., Arbitrator/Mediator; and Gina Maxwell, Nova Southeastern University

Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University (ret.) and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services

Chair: Beverly Harrison, Arbitrator/Mediator

Featured Speaker: John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota

Chair: Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO

Panelists: Ryan Lamare, London School of Economics—Union Political Mobilization Campaigns: A Scholar's Perspective

Chair: Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Presenters: David Lewin, University of California Los Angeles—Emerging Labor Relations in High-Tech Industries: A Conceptual, Empirical and Case Study Analysis

Chair: Joy Ming, Cornell University Information Science

Presenters: Lucy Pei, University of Southern California—Imposed and Chosen Temporariness: Organizing Migrant Gig Workers in Latin America

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Lorenzo Frangi, University of Québec at Montréal and Jordan Cowie, McGill University—Union Officers Teleworking: Individual and Organizational Challenges and Opportunities

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Xiting Zhang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities—The Dynamics Between Hispanic Immigrant Workers and US-born Black/White Workers in the Construction Industry

Chair: Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University

Panelists: Mike Podhorzer, AFL-CIO—National Perspectives on Labor and Democracy in 2026

Chair: Sandra Flores, Alliance of Health Care Unions

Panelists: Hal Ruddick, Alliance of Health Care Unions

Discussant: Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University

Chair: Tamara Lee, Rutgers University

Co-Chair: Greg J. Bamber, Monash University (Melbourne)

Co-Chairs: Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University; Bradley R. Weinberg, Queen's University; and Robert Chiaravalli, Strategic Labor & Human Resources, LLC

Panelist: Amy Moor Gaylord, Akerman LLP—Setting Democratic Standards of Behavior: Why Management Needs Labor

Chair: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Panelists: Fred Jacob, George Washington University Law School—The NLRA and the Foundation of Industrial Democracy

Chair: Mark Anner, Rutgers University

Presenters: Sumati Thusoo and Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Rutgers University—Intersectional Organizing Against Gender-Based Violence: The #JusticeForJeyasre Campaign and Critical Industrial Relations Theory

Discussant: Chunyun Li, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Adam (Chuling) Huang, Renmin University of China—Seeing like the Managers: Explaining the Divergent Strike Outcomes in Agriculture

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Aghairza Mammadov, University of South Florida—The Effect of Remote Job Opportunities on Internal Migration

Chair: Harry C. Katz, Cornell University

Presenters: Evren M. Dincer, Abdullah Gul University, Turkey—Caught in the Low-end ICE Trap: Turkey's Struggle for Direction in the Global EV Transition

Chair: Javier Ramirez, Cornell University, ILR School

Panelist: Merrick Dresnin, Cote Hospitality, Chief People Services Officer

Chair: Hilary Mofsowitz, National Academy of Arbitrators International Studies Group

Panelists: Homer C. La Rue, Howard University School of Law & Board Chair, RCI, Inc.—Reimagining the Path Forward: Preparing and Promoting the Next Generation of Arbitrators

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Yun Taek Oh, University of Nevada Reno and Morris M. Kleiner, University of Minnesota—Do Non-competes Restrict Access to Healthcare? Evidence from Policy Changes in Minnesota

Co-Chairs: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Brandeis University and Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University

Co-Chairs: John Kallas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Arrow Minster, San Francisco State University; and Shannon Potter, Laval University

Co-Chairs: John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota and Beverly Harrison, Arbitrator/Mediator

Chair: Matthew Capece, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

Panelists: John Nesse, Management Guidance, LLP—Impact of employment law violations on construction employers.

Chair: Hana R. Shepherd, Rutgers University

Presenter: Jack Garigliano, Northwestern University—Precarity and Organizing in Low-wage U.S. Service Iindustries: Perspectives from Non-union Fast-food Workers

Panelist: Ben Wilkins, Union of Southern Service Workers—Building Worker Power in the South: the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW)

Presenter: Amytess Girgis, University of Oxford—Any Issue That Brings People In is Our Issue: Starbucks Workers United and Intersectional Organizing as a Strategy for Union Sustainability

Panelists: Sheli Stein, ROC-MN—Restaurant Opportunities Center of Minnesota

Chair: Paul Osterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panelists: Peter Capelli, University of Pennsvylvania

Chair: Tingting Zhang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Presenters: Joy Ming, Cornell University Information Science and Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University—Technological Change in Home Care: Worker Voice in the Age of AI

Discussant: Peter Norlander, Loyola University of Chicago

Chair: Xiangmin (Helen) Liu, Rutgers University

Panelists: Alan Benson, University of Minnesota

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Patrice M. Mareschal, Jeffrey H. Keefe and Daniel Assamah, Rutgers University—Human Resource Management Functions and Police Use of Force

Chair: Daiquiri Steele, The University of Alabama School of Law

Presenters: Jerome Braun, Loyola University of Chicago—Labor Law before the New Deal and its Ramifications for Today

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Giorgos Gouzoulis, Queen Mary, University of London and Panagiota Boukouvala, University of London—The Double Shift of Financialization: Personal Debt & Multiple Jobholding

Chair: Brian Abery, University of Minnesota

Presenters: Fitore Hyseni, Syracuse University—Improving Employer Readiness to Hire People with Disabilities in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Discussant: Valerie Malzer, Cornell ILR School, Yang-Tan Institute

Chair: Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt University

Presenters: Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University; Barbara Langes, Institute for Social Science Research, Germany; and Tobias Kaempf, Labour University, Germany—Building Worker Voice and Power in AI Decisions: Three Cases in the German ICT Industry

Discussant: Adam Seth Litwin, Cornell University

Chair: Thomas A. Lenz, Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo

Panelists: Christopher David Ruiz Cameron, Southwestern Law School—Academic/Neutral Perspective

Chair: Chair Opportunity Available, Interested? Contact LERA

Presenters: Dylan Michael Hatch, Cornell University—Unions, Worker Cooperatives, and the Institutional Design for Economic Democracy

Chair: Christy Yoshitomi, American Water

Panelists: Frank Mullins, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Walter Darr, Jr., National Mediation & Conflict Solutions; Zachary Hylton, Brandeis University; Carla Lima Aranzaes, Pennsylvania State University; and Amy Livingston, University of Minnesota—Teaching, Training, and Field Work across Deep Divides in Society

Discussant: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Brandeis University

Chair: Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University

Presenters: Ryan Lamare, London School of Economics and John W. Budd, LERA President and University of Minnesota—The Role of Political Parties in Shaping Women's Labor Market Policies and Outcomes

Chair: Alexander Busch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Presenters: Barry Eidlin, McGill University; Emily Lemmerman, MIT; and Nathan Wilmers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—What Explains Differences in Wage Premia? New Evidence from U.S. Administrative Data Llinkages

Chair: Maite Tapia, Michigan State University

Presenters: Kati Griffith, Cornell University—Author of Legalized Inequalities

Chair: Santanu Sarkar, Xavier Labour Relations Institute Xavier School of Management

Presenters: Yi Sui, Renmin University of China—ACFUT at an International Table: How a Post-socialist Union Advocates Seafarers' Interests in Transnational Bargaining

Chair: Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University

Presenters: Adam Kaelin Schoenbachler and John McCarthy, Cornell University; Johanna Weststar, Western University; and José Quezada, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)—AI in Telecommunications and Game Development: The Role of Worker Voice in Management Strategy and Job Quality