Keith Watts, Ogletree Deakins

Carlos Perez, Reich Adell & Cvitan

William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University

William Spriggs, Howard University

Maite Tapia, Michigan State University—Supra-union and Intersectional Organizing: An Examination of Two Prominent Cases in the Low-wage US Restaurant Industry

Kathy Hoang, Restaurant Opportunities Center - Los Angeles

Marissa Brookes, University of California, Riverside

Chris Tilly, University of California, Los Angeles

Rebecca Kolins Givan, Rutgers University—The Voice of Nursing: Competing Models of Employee Voice in a Healthcare Profession

Phela I. Townsend, Rutgers University and Adam Seth Litwin, Cornell University—Safety Culture and Performance: A Study of Worker Voice in Medical-Surgical Units

Alexander J.S. Colvin, Cornell University—Bargaining for Better Schools

Duanyi Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Why Don't They Complain? The Social Determinants of Chinese Migrant Workers' Grievance Behaviors

Yao Yao, University of Toronto—Does It Pay to Care About the Society? Financial Returns on Corporate Social Responsibility in China

Yanting Zhu, Nanjing University and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University—Antecedents of Class Consciousness of Chinese Peasant Workers: A New Working Class in the Making?

Carol Zabin, University of California, Berkeley—Labor and Climate Change Policy

Patricia Castellanos, Los Angeles Alliance for New Economy—Don't Waste LA

Kazuyo Yamada, Shiga University—Gender Equality in Employment and Japan's Labour Movement

Akira Suzuki, Hosei University—The State of Non-Regular Workers in Japan and Their Relationship with Labor Unions

Toru Shinoda, Waseda University—What Does RENGO Do?: A Long Walk of the Japanese Labor Movement Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth

William Cowen, National Labor Relations Board—Independent Contractors and Misclassification, and What Happens When the Board Loses a Quorum

Catherine L. Fisk, University of California, Irvine—Section 7 Rights in the Non-Union Workplace, the Right-to-Work Debate and its Fate in the Courts, and the First Amendment Implications of NLRA Section 8(b)(4)(ii)

Katherine Stone, University of California, Los Angeles—The Status of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements and the NLRA, and the Future of the Board’s Joint Employer Standard

Jinyoung Park, Cornell University—A Toothless Tiger or a Mighty Hero? The International Labour Organization's Engagement in Myanmar

Yao Yao, University of Toronto—How Much Do Local Union Organizing Strategies Matter in China? The Effect of Provincial Legislations on Pay Premium

Lian Zhou, Guangdong University of Technology and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University—The Multilevel Antecedents and Outcomes of Union Commitment in China: A Psychological Bonds Perspective

Hao Gong and Charles Heckscher, Rutgers University and Paul Adler, University of Southern California—High Performance Through Collaborative Work Relations: Evidence from 16 Primary Care Clinics

Russell D. Lansbury and Chris F. Wright, University of Sydney; Greg J. Bamber, Monash University (Melbourne); and Nick Wailes, University of New South Wales—A Perspective from Australia

Søren Kaj Andersen, University of Copenhagen—A Perspective from Denmark

Patrice Laroche, ESCP Europe Business School (Paris)—A Perspective from France

K.R. Shyam Sundar, Xavier Labour Relations Institute (Jamshedpur)—A Perspective from India

Anil Verma, University of Toronto

Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—The HR Professionalization Project in Canada

Tingting Zhang, University of Toronto—Does Occupational Licensing Restrict Interprovincial Labour Mobility? Evidence from Canadian Longitudinal Data

Beth Redbird, Northwestern University—The Closure Fallacy

Jennifer Erin Brown, American University—SEPs and SIMPLES: How These Forgotten Retirement Plans Could Provide Gig Economy Workers, Independent Contractors and Microbusinesses with Tax-Preferred Retirement Savings

Jed DeVaro, California State University East Bay; Antti Kauhanen and Nelli Valmari, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)—Internal and External Hiring: The Role of Prior Work History

Kaumudi Misra, California State University East Bay—Work-Life Flexibility Practices: The Role of Cultural Context

Qianyun Xie and Yanan Li, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences—The Impact of Internet Use on Wage and Wage Distribution

William M. Boal, Drake University—Work Intensity and Worker Safety in Early Twentieth-Century Coal Mining

Tae-Youn Park, Vanderbilt University; Eun-Suk Lee, KAIST; and John W. Budd, University of Minnesota—What Do Unions Do for Mothers? Paid Maternity Leave Use and The Multifaceted Roles of Labor Unions

Jeffrey H. Keefe, Rutgers University and Eunice Han, University of Utah—Candidates for Free Riding in a Post Agency Shop Public Sector

Craig Becker, General Counsel, AFL-CIO and Former Member NLRB—Administering Federal Labor Law under the Obama Administration

David Weil, Boston University and formerly US DOL—Wage and Hour under the Obama Administration

Lance Compa, Cornell University—Using the OECD Guidelines and NCP Mediation: Potential and Limitations

Carolyn K. Fisher, PepsiCo—Mediation Experience with the NCP

Eileen B. Hoffman, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service—The Role of Mediators with the NCP

Anasua Bhattacharya and Tapas K. Ray, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health—Work Precariousness and Job Stress

Abay Asfaw and Toni Alterman, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health—Non-Standard Employment and Financial Stress in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Workers

Abay Asfaw, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health—Impact of Non-Standard Employment Arrangements on Earnings and Fringe Benefits

David Weinberg, Arbitrator and Mediator—Making Arbitration Work in the Grievance Arbitration Process

Juan Carlos Gonzalez, Attorney, Arbitrator & Mediator—The Benefits of Mediation in Dealing with Difficult Parties

Alfonso Bouzas Ortiz, National Autonomous University of Mexico—Collective Bargaining and Unions in the Mexican Automotive Industry

Arturo Alcalde Justiniani, OXFAM Mexico—Impact of the 2012 Labor Law Changes and Pena Nieto's Reforms

Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University and Patrice Laroche, ESCP Europe Business School (Paris)—The Review Process at BJIR

Ron Bennett, Schools Services of California—Management Perspective

Kevin Cronin, California Federation of Teachers—From Labor's Perspective Representing Certificated and Classified Employees

Joe Boyd, California Federation of Teachers—Labor's Perspective

Christian Ibsen, University of Copenhagen and Maite Tapia, Michigan State University—Trade Union Revitalization: Where Are We Now? Where To Next?

Guy Mundlak, Tel-Aviv University—Organizing in Hybrid Industrial Relations Systems: Local Institutions as a Constraint and a Promise

Ying Chen and Weihao Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Are Foreign MNCs Losing Competitiveness in China's Labor Market? A Comparison of Domestic Firms and Foreign MNC Subsidiaries in China

Ying Chen and Yun-Kyoung (Gail) Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Can HPWS and Unions Work Together to Reduce Employees' Turnover Intention in Foreign MNCs in China?

Ting Zhang, University of Baltimore—Training for Older Workers: Toward a Better Understanding of Older Worker Needs Through Workforce Investment Act Training During the Economic Recovery

Cliff Palefsky, McGuinn, Hillsman & Palefsky—Plaintiff-Side Attorney's View of Arbitration

Henry Lederman, Littler & Mendelson—Management Attorney's View of Arbitration

Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University—Contemporary Employment Arbitration Scholarship

Jenna Stearns, University of California, Santa Barbara—The Long-Run Effects of Wage Replacement and Job Protection: Evidence from Two Maternity Leave Reforms in Great Britain

Alison Dickson, University of Illinois at Chicago—The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Housing Affordability in Illinois

Aiha Nguyen, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy—An Advocate's View of Well-Being and a Balanced Economy

Lola Smallwood Cuevas, LA Black Worker Center—Building the LA Black Worker Center and Campaigns for Entry and Equity in the Construction Trades

Sheheryar Kaohsiung, Warehouse Workers Resource Center—Organizing Warehouse Workers in the Inland Empire

Adam Kader, ARISE Chicago Worker Center—Lessons from ARISE Chicago Worker Center

Patrick P. McHugh, The George Washington University; Eric Bohn, Geico; and Stephen Suozzi, KPMG—Team Leader Background and Team Effectiveness: Examining the Impact of Personal Expertise, Union Experience, and Performance Reputation on Team Success

Jacqueline M. Zalewski, West Chester University of Pennsylvania—It All Revolved Around Numbers: The Increased Commodification of Work and Culture with In-House Outsourcing

Davide Tardivo, University of Padova—Employee Benefits for the Workforce and in the Workplace of the Future

Marsha Katz, Governors State University and Helen LaVan, DePaul University—The Role of Unions in Age Discrimination Litigation: Fair Representation and Retaliation

Tomoyuki Shimanuki, Hitotsubashi University—The Complexity of Change in Employment Practices: The Case of a Spin-Off Firm in Japan

Maisie Aufderhorst-Roberts, University of Leeds—Institutional Change in the Apprenticeship Systems of England and Germany

Tingting Zhang, University of Toronto; Lorenzo Frangi, University of Quebec at Montreal; and Robert Hebdon, McGill University—Tweeting and Retweeting for FF$15: Are Unions Transforming Themselves?

China Layne, Summit Consulting, LLC—Start-Up Cities and Business Deserts: The Role of Regional Industrial Composition in Entrepreneurship

Greg Distelhorst and Richard Locke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Does Compliance Pay? Global Supply Chains and Trade-Based Diffusion of Labor Standards

Mevan Jayasinghe, Michigan State University—Aligning Human Resource Systems with Core Labor Standards: The Influence of the Country Context

Sarosh C. Kuruvilla, Cornell University—What's the Use of Auditing? An Inquiry into the Auditing-Compliance Nexus Amongst Leading Brands and Suppliers

John W. Budd, University of Minnesota—Envisioning an Inclusive Field of Employment Relations

Paula Voos, Rutgers University—Studying Work from an Employment Relations Perspective

Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—The Future of Employment Relations: Studying the Wicked Problems

Harry C. Katz, Cornell University

Tapas K. Ray, Tat'Yana Kenigsberg and Regina Pana-Cryan, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health—Employment Arrangement, Job Stress, and Health Related Quality of Life

Frank Mullins, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University—Cash Profit Sharing in Family Firms with Founder Leadership: The Moderating Role of Capital Intensity

Paul Willman, London School of Economics and Political Science—Gaming the Games; Conflict Management at the Olympics

Françoise Carré, University of Massachusetts-Boston; Pat Horn, StreetNet International; and Chris Bonner, Women in Informal Employment; Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)—Modes and Venues of Bargaining for Informal Worker Organizations in the Global South

Hailong Jia and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University and Yuhua Xie, Hunan University—Protests of Chinese Informal Workers: A Comparative Study of Two Strikes of Sanitation Workers

SaunJuhi Verma, Rutgers University—Trade in Migrant Labor: Multi-Country Recruitment Industries and the Legalization of 'Manageable' Masculinity

Matthew Amengual, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Salo Coslovsky, New York University; and Duanyi Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Who Opposes Labor Regulation? Explaining Variation in Employers' Opinions

Alan Benson, University of Minnesota and Ben A. Rissing, Cornell University—Strength from Within: Individual- and Store-Level Evidence that Transfers Outperform Hires

Justin P. Wiegand and Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Unpacking Job Satisfaction and Union Participation: The Role of Fit

Danat Valizade, Mark Stuart and Ioulia Bessa, University of Leeds—Labour Market Polarisation and Job Preferences in Britain: A Latent Cluster Analysis of Job Quality

David Bensman, Rutgers University—The Grey Zone of Work and Employment: Beyond Binary Categories

Seahee Kang and Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University—Employee Ownership and Job Attitudes: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Occupational Characteristics

Simone Phipps, Middle Georgia State University; Kasey Dawson, Clayton State University; and Babita Mathur-Helm, University of Stellenbosch—An Ethic of Care Approach to Addressing Obesity in the Workplace: The Role of Unions

Jack Fiorito, Florida State University and Zachary A. Russell, Xavier University—Public Approval and Disapproval of U.S. Unions, 1936-2015

Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University—Public Disclosure and Factory Compliance

Kelly I. Pike, York University—Before and After Better Work

Kent Wong, University of California, Los Angeles and Ana Luz Gonzalez, University of California, Irvine—New Opportunities for Alliances and Policy Change

Senator Joe Dunn, University of California, Irvine—Advancing Progressive Public Policy by Bringing Together Labor Leaders, Community Officials, and Students

Gustavo Antonio Leyva, Bank of Mexico—Against All Odds: Job Search During the Great Recession

Sunjin Pak and Amit Kramer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Sex Differences in Weekly Working Hours, Family Demand, and Resources on Health and Salary Growth: Results From the Korean Labor and Income Panel Data

Rupa Banerjee, Ryerson University; Anil Verma and Tingting Zhang, University of Toronto—Brain Gain or Brain Waste? Horizontal, Vertical and Full Job-Education Mismatch and Wage Progression Among Skilled Immigrant Men in Canada

Rachel Micah-Jones, Center for Migrant Rights, Inc.—Recruitment Revealed: Fundamental Flaws in the H-2 Temporary Worker Program and Recommendations for Change

Bruce Goldstein, Farmworker Justice—Current Developments in Immigration Legislation Regarding the H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program

Heather Grob, Saint Martin's University

Paul Whitehead, Pennsylvania State University—MOOCs and the Global Labour University

Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—Methods for Encouraging Critical Thinking in Online Courses and Through the Use of Social Media

Johanna Macneil, University of Newcastle—Incorporating Problem-Based Learning into Online Teaching of Employment and Labor Relations

Alan Benson, University of Minnesota and Ben A. Rissing, Cornell University—2nd Panel: Junior Faculty

Catherine L. Fisk, University of California, Irvine—The Supreme Court and the "Next Friedrichs" Case (on Agency Fee Payers in the Public Sector)

Peter Dreier, Occidental College—"Paycheck Protection" Legislation at the National and Local Levels

Wilma B. Liebman, former Chair, National Labor Relations Board—What to Expect from a Trump NLRB

Craig Becker, General Counsel, AFL-CIO and Former Member NLRB—Right to Work Legislation at the National, State and Local Levels

Elaine McCrate, University of Vermont; Susan Lambert and Julia Henly, University of Chicago—Work Schedule Instability and Underemployment Among Hourly Workers in Canada

Sebastian Schief, University of Fribourg—What Ever Happened to Keynes' Vision of Working Time Reduction? - Working Time Developments in Austria, Germany and Switzerland

Hao Gong, Rutgers University—Patient Centered Care and Student Centered Education: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach

Jody Hoffer Gittell, Brandeis University—High Performance Schools: The Role of Relational Coordination?

Cady Landa, Brandeis University—Public Schools Engaging Immigrant Families

Liam Honigsberg, Brandeis University—Who Decides What Gets Measured and How Do They Decide?

Brandon Carlyle Grant, Richard A. Benton and J. Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Labor Union Pensions and Shareholder Activism

Danielle Lamb, Ryerson University and Rafael Gomez, University of Toronto—The Role of Unions in Mitigating Economic Vulnerability: An Empirical Analysis of Union Wage Premiums in Canada, 1997-2014

Doug Allen, Pennsylvania State University—Professional Unions Face Different Challenges than Other Unions

Michael Wasser, Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO—The Increasingly Important Role of Professional Unions in the American Labor Movement

Kelly Trautner, AFT Nurses and Health Professionals—The Role of Unions in Winning a Greater Voice for the Nursing Profession in the US Healthcare System

Mary Ellen Shea, Mediator/Arbitrator—Strengthening the Labor-Management Relationship While Resolving the Dispute

Shital Shah, American Federation of Teachers—Solutions For Overcoming Poverty on Teaching and Learning

Barbara Deane-Williams, Rochester City School District—Professional Learning Communities and the Relational Capacity to Make Them Work

Adam Urbanski, Rochester Teachers Union—The "Living Contract" Approach to Labor-Management Collaboration

Brandon Carlyle Grant, Teresa Cardador and Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Perceived Union Support and Work Attitudes: How and When Union Support Enhances Worker Job Satisfaction and Work Meaningfulness

Elham Marzi, University of Toronto—On Battlefield of Work: The Impact of Workplace Harassment on Employee Empowerment in the Public Sector

Stephen Silvia, American University—Organizing in the South: What Works (and What Doesn't): The UAW's Experience with Freightliner and Mercedes Benz

Gilda Valdez, SEIU Local 721—A Model Common Good Case Study: A Local Union Perspective of The Fix LA Campaign

Rev. William Smart, Southern Christian Leadership Conference—A Model Common Good Case Study: A Community Perspective of The Fix LA Campaign

Jono Shaffer, Service Employees International Union—Bargaining for the Common Good Spreads

Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services—Chapter Administration and Membership

Stacy A. Hickox, Michigan State University—Bargaining & Arbitration to Address Barriers to Employment

Connie Sung, Michigan State University—Group Based Interventions to Address Barriers to Employment

Cheryl Bodger, ABC Unified School District—Public Education Reform Through Inter-District Networking and Research-Practice Partnerships

John McCarthy, Cornell University—National Survey of Educator Collaboration and Union-Management Partnerships

Julie Cooley, Corona-Norco Teachers Association—Inter-District Learning Networks

Lisa Simon, Corona-Norco Teachers Association—Public Education Reform Through Inter-District Networking and Research-Practice Partnerships

Mary McDonald, Consortium for Educational Change

Todd Dickey and Andi Kao, Cornell University—Graduate Student Unionization at Private Universities

Jonathan Koch, University of California, Los Angeles—Graduate Student Unionization at Public Universities

Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto; Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University; and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University—Junior Faculty Emeritus Q & A

Claudia Preparata, AFSCME Local 3299—Missing the Mark: How Hedge Fund Investments at University of California Shortchange Students, Staff and California Taxpayers

Mathieu Dupuis and Ian MacDonald, Cornell University—A Decent Return?: Quebec's Solidarity Fund at Work

Tianlong You, Arizona State University—Asian Immigrant Nail Salon Industry in New York: A Transnational Low-End Service Industry and the Challenges to Local Governance

Sachiko Kazekami, Chukyo University—Do the Agglomeration Economy and Competition Improve the Productivity and Employment of Local Service Sectors in Japan?

Michael David Maffie, Cornell University—Bargaining Power in the Gig Economy

Hye Jin Rho, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—In the New World of Work: Do Birds of a Feather Reinforce Gender Segregation?

Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Comparative Skill Demands and Hiring Frictions: Evidence Across Three Industries and Occupations

Victor Tan Chen, University of California, Berkeley and Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—2017 John T. Dunlop Outstanding Scholars

Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University; Michael Reich, University of California, Berkeley; and Mary Ellen Shea, Mediator/Arbitrator—2017 LERA Fellows

Erica Groshen, Bureau of Labor Statistics (ret.)—2017 Susan C. Eaton Outstanding Scholar-Practitioner Award Winner

Peter Waldman, Bloomberg—2017 LERA Media Award Winner

Donald Hugh Roberts and Noel Cowell, University of the West Indies—Conflict at Work: The Changing Patterns of Industrial Disputes in Jamaica

Xiaoyu (Crystal) Huang, California State University, San Bernardino; Lihua Zhang, Renmin University of China; Anil Verma, University of Toronto; Wei Huang and Jinqiang Zhu, Renmin University of China—Settling Strikes in China: The Role of Human Resource Management

Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University—Alternative Dispute Resolution

Jimmy Donaghey, University of Warwick—Global Supply Chains and Employment Relations

Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University and Katiuscia Galhera, Campinas State University—Employment Relations in Latin America

Jung Ook Kim, Rutgers University—Does Shared Capitalism Benefit Not Only Workers But Their Families? Insights From the General Social Survey Shared Capitalism Module

Sanjay Joseph Pinto, Rutgers University—Economic Security and Family Well Being: Does Employee Ownership Shift Family Investments and If So, How?

John Cioffi, University of California, Riverside—Perspectives from the Academic Senate

Robert Samuels, University Council-AFT—Perspectives from Outside the Tenure Track

Stephen G. Brint, University of California, Riverside—Perspectives from Inside the Administration

Daniel J.B. Mitchell, University of California, Los Angeles

Pablo Alvarado, National Day Laborer Organization—Labor and Community Engagement: The View From the Front Lines

Nik Theodore, University of Illinois at Chicago—Labor and Community Engagement: Academic Perspective

Qingjun Wu, Qi Wang and Yu Liu, Renmin University of China—Platform Economy and New Work Patterns: A Study of China Uber Drivers

Chenggang Zhang, Capital University of Economics and Business—New Employment Pattern of Online Platform: The Case of Didi

Fu-xi Wang and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University; Yongguo Zhu, Capital University of Economics and Business; and Yanyuan Cheng, Renmin University of China—Differentiated Treatments Between Dispatch Employees and Regular Employees in China

Maite Tapia, Michigan State University

Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University

Matthew Bidwell, University of Pennsylvania