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Wednesday

Conference Activities  •  6/13/2018
2 - 5:30 pm
Chair: Shawn Gladden, Howard County Historical Society
2:30 ‑ 5:30 pm
Chair: Bill Barry, CCBC (ret.)
6 ‑ 7 pm
Co-Chairs: Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University and Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University

Thursday

Conference Activities  •  6/14/2018
7:30 ‑ 8:15 am
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Brandeis University
8:30 ‑ 10 am
Co-Chairs: Dennis L. Dabney, Kaiser Permanente and Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair
  
8:30 ‑ 10 amConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Brandeis University
Presenters: Janet Wilder, SHARE/AFSCME and Kathleen Korenda, UMass Memorial—Improving Care Through Unit-Based Teams: A Stakeholder Alignment and Relational Coordination Approach to Implementation at UMass Memorial
Lauren Hajjar, Brandeis University—Redesigning Complex Inpatient Care: A Relational Coordination Approach to Implementation at Beth Israel
Hao Gong, Rutgers University and Cheng Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University—Designing Collaborative Ecosystem: A Case of Medical Alliance in China
Tina Wu, University of Pennsylvania—Emotional Economies of Scale: Organizational Structure of Emotional Labor in For-Profit Home Health Care
Discussant: Jody Hoffer Gittell, Brandeis University
 
Chair: Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University
Presenters: Rainer Braun, Columbia University—Lessons from a Successful Organizing and Bargaining Experience in the Honduran Garment Sector
Matthew Fischer-Daly, Cornell University—Current Collective Bargaining in Agriculture Supply Chains
Scott B. Martin, Columbia University; Joao Paulo Candia Veiga, University of Sao Paulo; and Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, State University of Campinas—Contested Labor Norms in Brazil: Wal-Mart Store Employees and Reflections on Monitoring Labor Standards in Own Brand Garment Supply Chains
Discussant: Salo Coslovsky, New York University
 
Co-Chairs: Daniel Julius, New Jersey City University and Nicholas DiGiovanni, Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP
Discussant: William Herbert, National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions
 
1.4  International Comparative Working Time Research (Workshop)—Holiday 3
Chair: Ariane Hegewisch, Institute for Women's Policy Research
Panelists: Lonnie Golden, Penn State Abington—Working Time Mismatches Across Countries
Elaine McCrate, University of Vermont—Gender and Work Schedule Instability in Western Europe
Sebastian Schief, University of Fribourg—Determinants of Length of Working Time in OECD Countries
 
Chair: Janice Bellace, University of Pennsylvania
Presenters: Man Xu and Samuel L. Myers Jr., University of Minnesota Twin Cities—Educational Inequality within Sibling Pairs for Rural China
Yang Cao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte—Market Transition and Work Values in Post-Socialist China
Yufang Yang, Hunan University; Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University; and Yuhua Xie, Hunan University—Labor Non-Governmental Organization-Assisted Collective Bargaining: A New Brand of Labor Activism in China?
Xiaojie Liang, Jilin University and Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University—Job Quality in China: Scale Development and Antecedents
 
Chair: J. Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenters: Michael David Maffie, Cornell University—Logging Out: Conflict & Behavioral Responses in the Rideshare Industry
Paulo Ferreira de Souza Marzionna, Cornell University—Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Brazilian Banking Sector
Phoebe Strom, Cornell University—Debugging Evolving Workplace Relationships: How Technology Influences Interpersonal Conflict & Collaboration in Healthcare
Weihao Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—The Effects of Organizational Shocks on Workplace Conflicts: Evidence from Employment Arbitration Outcomes at Financial Firms
  
10:15 ‑ 11:45 amConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Saul Rubinstein, Rutgers University
Panelists: Nancy Gartenberg, Montgomery Township Public Schools and Scott Mason, Montgomery Township Education Association—Union-Management Partnership and Educator Collaboration in Montgomery Township Public Schools
Vincent Caputo, Metuchen Public Schools—Union-Management Partnership and Educator Collaboration in Metuchen Public Schools
John McCarthy, Cornell University—Research-Practice Partnerships: The Impact of Academic Research on School Level Practices and Employment Relations
Discussants: Steven Swetsky, New Jersey Education Association
Vincent DeLucia, New Jersey School Boards Association
 
Chair: Cathy Feingold, AFL-CIO
Panelists: Jessica Champagne, Worker Rights Consortium—The Bangladesh Accord: WSR in Practice
Catherine Albisa, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative—The Fair Food Program: Worker-Driven Enforcement in U.S. Agriculture
James Brudney, Fordham University—WSR in Global Supply Chains: Thoughts on Innovation and Scalability
 
Chair: Ann S. Lesser, Esq., American Arbitration Association
Discussants: Ira F. Jaffe, Esq., Arbitrator/Mediator
Harriet E. Cooperman, Esq., Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
James R. Rosenberg, Esq., Abato, Rubenstein and Abato, P.A.
 
Chair: Maite Tapia, Michigan State University
Presenters: John W. Budd, University of Minnesota—Power and Interests in Interorganizational Relationships: Implications of a Broadened Conceptual Framework
Rosemary Batt, Cornell University; Tashlin Lakhani, Ohio State University; and Can Ouyang, Cornell University—Does Franchising "Cause" Low Wage Work? Evidence from the Fast Food Industry
Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University; Christian Ibsen, University of Copenhagen; and Lisa Sezer, De Montfort University—Do Fragmented Employers Produce Fragmented Work? A Comparison of Employers' Associations in Denmark and Sweden
Jimmy Donaghey, University of Warwick and Juliane Reinecke, King's College London—Understanding Brands as Employment Relations Actors across Transnational Global Supply Chains: Lessons from the Response to the Rana Plaza Disaster
 
2.5  LERA Best Papers II: Labor Relations (Symposium)—Poe A-B
Chair: Ian Greer, Cornell University
Presenters: Jerome Braun, Loyola University, Chicago—The Relevance of John R. Commons' Legal Foundations of Capitalism for Today
Lorenzo Frangi, University of Québec at Montréal; Muhammad Umar Boodoo, University of Warwick; Rafael Gomez, University of Toronto; and Robert Hebdon, McGill University—Individual and Collective Forms of U.S. Labour Conflict: Testing Three Propositions
Robert Hickey, Queen's University and Richard Chaykowski, Queens University—Impact of Technology Change on Electrical Construction Work and Labour Relations
Frido Wenten, London School of Economics—The Crisis of Social Dialogue: Trade Union Strategies in the Global Automotive Industry
 
2.6  Showcasing New Books in our Fields (Workshop)—Calloway A-B
Chair: Frances G. Benson, ILR Press
Panelists: Lane Windham, Georgetown University—Knocking on Labor's Door
James Chamberlain, Mississippi State University—Undoing Work, Rethinking Community
Jonathan Karmel, The Karmel Law Firm—Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace
10:15 ‑ 11:45 am
Co-Chairs: Marlene K. Heyser, Workplace Law Strategies and Jim Pruitt, Kaiser Permanente
10:15 ‑ 11:45 am
Chair: Jeffrey H. Keefe, Rutgers University
12 ‑ 2 pm
Chair: Ana Avendano, United Way Worldwide
Presenters: Linda A. Seabrook, Futures Without Violence—Strategies to End Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
KC Wagner, Cornell University—Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Discussants: Victoria A. Lipnic, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post
  
2:15 ‑ 3:45 pmConcurrent Sessions
 
3.1  Worker's Compensation, the ADA and FMLA (Workshop)—Holiday 6
Chair: Francis J. Collins, Kahn Smith & Collins PA
Discussants: Dayna L. Kipnis, Kahn Smith & Collins PA
Kraig Long, Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
 
Chair: Jeffrey S. Wheeler, Georgetown University
Presenter: Karen Nussbaum, Working America, AFL-CIO—The Feeble Strength of One: Restoring Belief in Collective Power
Panelists: Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor—Bargaining for the Common Good and the Future of Worker Representation
Diana Ramirez, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United—Dignity & Fair Wages for Restaurant Workers
Lane Windham, Georgetown University—On the Front Line: Women Leading the Labor Movement's Revival
 
Chair: Christy Yoshitomi, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Discussant: Arthur Pearlstein, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
 
3.4  LERA Competitive Papers I (Symposium)—Holiday 3
Chair: Patrick P. McHugh, The George Washington University
Presenters: Adam Seth Litwin, Cornell University and Phela I. Townsend, Rutgers University—Job Classification, Union Status, and Frontline Worker Voice in U.S. Hospitals
Jack Fiorito and Irene Padavic, Florida State University—I, Me, Mine? Prosocial and Self-Interest Motivations for Union Voting
Kaumudi Misra and Jed DeVaro, California State University, East Bay—HR Practices, Organizational Productivity and Employee Well-Being: The Impact of Work Hours
Patrice Laroche, ESCP Europe Business School (Paris) and Marc Salesina, Université de Lorraine—Do Unions Do What They Are Expected to? Unions’ Ideologies and Their Influence on Direct Employee Participation
Discussants: Matthew M. Bodah, University of Rhode Island
Mark Gough, Pennsylvania State University
 
Chair: Jeffrey Waddoups, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presenters: Andrew Weaver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Who Demands High Skills? Variation in Skill Demands Within Technical Occupations
Richard A. Benton and Ki-Jung Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Nathan Wilmers, Harvard University—Market Constraint, Wage Inequality, and Eroding Job Quality
Maarten Keune, University of Amsterdam—Job Quality and Innovation in the European Games Industry: Towards a Virtuous Circle?
 
Chair: Andrée McKissick, Esq., Arbitrator
Panelists: Colin M. Lynch, Esq., Zazzali, Fagella, Nowak, Kleinbaum & Friedman—Union Perspective
Brenda C. Liss, Esq., Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP—Representing Newark Public Schools in New Jersey Management Perspective
2:15 ‑ 3:45 pm
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services
2:15 ‑ 3:45 pm
Chair: Saul Rubinstein, Rutgers University
4 ‑ 5 pm
Co-Chairs: Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair and Joel A. Smith, Kahn, Smith and Collins, P.A.
Panelists: Heather Heilman, Kahn, Smith and Collins, P.A.—Implications of the Janus Decision
Kevin Russell, Goldstein & Russell, P.C.—Understanding the Legal Issues in Janus
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO—How the AFT Prepared for the Janus Decision
5:15 ‑ 6:15 pm
Chair: Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University
7 ‑ 10 pm
Co-Chairs: Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair and Daniel Altchek, Miles and Stockbridge P.C.
Featured Speaker: Catherine E. Pugh, Mayor of the City of Baltimore

Friday

Conference Activities  •  6/15/2018
7 ‑ 8:15 am
Co-Chairs: Brad Markell, AFL-CIO Working For America Institute and Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Featured Speaker: Levi D. Allen, International Secretary-Treasurer, United Mine Workers of America
8 ‑ 10 am
LERA Executive Board Meeting—Ruth (by invitation)
Chair: Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair
  
8:30 ‑ 10 amConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Cindy Brown Barnes, U.S. Government Accountability Office
Presenters: Nisha R. Hazra, Michael Kniss, Cindy Brown Barnes, Nagla'a El-Hodiri, Sandra Baxter and Justin Gordinas, U.S. Government Accountability Office—Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Compensation, and Work Experiences of Adjunct and Other Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Martin Finkelstein, Seton Hall University—Contingent Employment in the Academy: A Cross-National Comparative Perspective
Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona—Adjunct Faculty and Bargaining Quality: Negotiating a New Academy
Discussant: Kevin Eagan, University of California, Los Angeles
 
Chair: Greg Distelhorst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presenters: Sarah Ashwin and Rachel Alexander, London School of Economics; Nora Lohmeyer, Freie Universität Berlin; Chikako Oka, Royal Holloway University of London; and Elke Schüßler, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz—Transnational Industrial Relations in the Global Garment Industry: Pathways Beyond The Accord?
Sarosh C. Kuruvilla and David Blatter, Cornell University—Does Collective Bargaining Improve Compliance in Garment Supply Chains?
Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University; Drusilla Brown, Tufts University; and Rajeev Dehejia, New York University—Working Conditions and Factory Survival: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia
 
4.3  Employment Relations at Religious Employers (Symposium)—Holiday 2
Chair: Phillip Tabbita, American Postal Workers Union
Panelists: Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor—Answering to a Higher Authority: Georgetown's Just Employment Policy
Clayton Sinyai, Catholic Labor Network—Catholic Institutions and Collective Bargaining
Discussant: Saerom Park, Service Employees International Union
 
Chair: Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University
Panelists: Norman F. Provan, Royal College of Nursing, Scotland—Challenges Nurses' Unions Face in the United Kingdom
Candice Owley, AFT Healthcare Division—Challenges Nurses' Unions Face in the United States
Marie Kelly, Ontario Nurses Association—Challenges Nurses' Unions Face in Canada
Discussant: Rebecca Kolins Givan, Rutgers University
 
4.5  LERA Best Papers IV: Union Issues I (Symposium)—Poe A-B
Chair: Jim Pruitt, Kaiser Permanente
Presenters: Lorenzo Frangi, University of Québec at Montréal; Tingting Zhang, Western New England University; and Sinisa Hadziabdic, University of Genèva Department of Sociology—Are We Still Who We Are? Identity Shifts Among Federations and Local Unions Over a Merger
Honore Johnson, National ChengChi University, Taiwan—Vietnamese Labor Relations in Transnational Corporations: 2005 to Present
Brandon Carlyle Grant, Richard A. Benton and J. Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Antecedents and Outcomes of Labor Union Shareholder Activism
 
Chair: Laine Romero-Alston, Ford Foundation
Presenters: Leslie Gates, Binghamton University and Kati Griffith, Cornell University—Sizing Up Worker Center Income (2008-2014): A Study of Revenue Size, Stability, and Streams
Janice Fine and Jacob Barnes, Rutgers University—Analyzing Worker Center Trajectories
Benjamin Aaron Kreider, Brandeis University—Advancing Justice for Vulnerable Workers: Assessing the Collaborative Potential of Immigrant Worker Centers and Unions in the Boston Metro Area
Steven Pitts, University of California, Berkeley—Fighting for Entry to Good Jobs: The Emergence of Black Worker Centers
Victor Narro, University of California, Los Angeles—Union/Worker Center Collaborations
Discussants: Delia Aguilar, CASA de Maryland
Valeria Treves, LIFT Fund
 
4.7  LERA Best Posters Session I—Holiday Foyer
Chair: J. Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenters: Jerome T. Barrett, Friends of FMCS History Association—Presenting History in Small Bites
Yao Yao and Guenther Lomas, University of Toronto—Do Gains From Corporate Social Responsibility Vary by Context? A Comparative Study of the Moderating Effects of Corporate Govern
Tomoyuki Shimanuki, Hitotsubashi University—Organizational Flexibility and Human Resource Management in Japanese Firms
Yi Wu and Mengxi Yang, Tsinghua University—Organizational Culture Under Cross-Border M&A: Authenticity, Integration and Downstream Effect on Employee Turnover
Brian Holland, BLH Technologies—Defining and Measuring Workforce Development in a Post-Bipartisan Era
  
10:15 ‑ 11:45 amConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Tia Schneider Denenberg, Workplace Solutions, Inc.
Panelists: Marcia L. Greenbaum, Arbitrator/Mediator—Effective Policies for Addressing Workplace Sexual Harassment
Nancy E. Peace, Workplace Solutions, Inc.—Not All Policies are Good Policies
 
Chair: Chikako Oka, Royal Holloway University of London
Presenters: Marsha Dickson, University of Delaware—Breaking Barriers to Decent Work in the Global Apparel Industry
Matthew Amengual and Greg Distelhorst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Danny Tobin, Tufts University—Aligning Sourcing with Labor Standards? Incentives and Pressures in Global Purchasing Practices
Laura Babbitt, Drusilla Brown, Nimah Mazaheri and Elyse Voegeli, Tufts University—Workplace Production Systems, Firm Performance and Organization Social Structure: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Myanmar
Greg Distelhorst, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Judith C. Stroehle, Oxford University; and Duanyi Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Certified for Success? Ethical Labor Certifications and Chinese Manufacturers
 
5.3  Professionalization and Non-Degree Credentials (Symposium)—Holiday 2
Chair: Tingting Zhang, Western New England University
Presenters: Morris Kleiner, University of Minnesota and Evan Soltas, University of Oxford—Occupational Licensing, Human Capital, and Labor Supply
Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto and Tingting Zhang, Western New England University—The Path Towards a Licensing Law: Case Studies on Professional Accountants and Human Resources Professionals in Canada
Kyle William Albert, Harvard University and Tingting Zhang, Western New England University—The Value of Non-Degree Credentials: A Lifecourse Perspective
Stephen Crawford, George Washington University—The Credential Registry and Credential Engine: Improving Transparency in the Marketplace for Credentials
Mary Alice McCarthy, New America Foundation—Rethinking Credential Requirements in Early Education
 
5.4  LERA/AILR Best Papers (Symposium)—Holiday 3
Co-Chairs: David Lewin, University of California, Los Angeles and Paul J. Gollan, University of Wollongong
Presenters: Simon Joyce, Leeds University; Christopher J. Forde, Mark Stuart and Danat Valizade, University of Leeds—Work and Social Protection in the Platform Economy in Europe
Hyesook Chung, Cornell University—Do Internal Labor Markets Foster or Hinder Knowledge Creation in Competitive Markets?
Yujie Cai, Swansea University—Occupational Safety in China’s Coal Mining Industry: The Role of Regulations, Human Resources and Labor Relations
Gabila F. Nubong, North West University—Resolving the Unemployment Challenge in South Africa: Unconventional Policy Options and Alternatives Drawing Lessons from Global Experience
 
5.5  LERA Best Papers V: Human Resource Issues I (Symposium)—Poe A-B
Chair: Mary Ellen Benedict, Bowling Green State University
Presenters: Federica De Stefano and Matthew Bidwell, University of Pennsylvania and Arnaldo Camuffo, Bocconi University—How Much is a Manager Worth and to Whom? Managers' Abilities, Unit Performance and Compensation
Jacob Do-Hyung Cha, Seoul National University and Hyejin Cho, Korea University Business School—When Capital Markets Meets Employment Practices: Does Market Feedback from Securities Analysts Trigger Workforces Reduction?
Xiangmin (Helen) Liu, Rutgers University; Zhengtang Zhang, Nanjing University; and Junting Li, Rutgers University—Human Resource Practices, Employee Engagement, and Sales Performance: Evidence from Retail Stores in China
 
Chair: Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University
Presenters: Janet Boguslaw, Brandeis University—Shared Capital and Workforce Development: Revisiting Levers of Opportunity
Sara Chaganti, Brandeis University—Cultural Markers of Employability
Jessica Santos, Brandeis University—Advancement for What? Redefining Career Advancement from the Perspective of Low-wage Healthcare Workers
Discussants: Lisa Schur, Rutgers University
David Weil, Brandeis University
 
5.7  LERA Best Posters Session II—Holiday Foyer
Chair: J. Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenters: Xufan Zhang, Nanjing Normal University; Lulu Zhou, Southeast University; and Zhihong Chen, Nanjing University—Technological Configuration Capability, Strategic Flexibility and Organizational Performance in Chinese High-Tech Organizations
Gustavo Antonio Leyva, Bank of Mexico—A Pleasant Time Use Arithmetic: Accounting for Job Search During Nonemployment
Helen LaVan, DePaul University—Comparison of Professional Codes and Employer Codes of Conduct in the Health Care Sector: An Analysis of Duality
Daniel J. Koys, DePaul University—MBA versus MS-HR Graduates: Career Pathways Entered and the Knowledge and Skills Needed in those Career Pathways
12 ‑ 1:45 pm
Chair: Kris Rondeau, President-Elect and Program Co-Chair
Presenters: Thomas Kochan, Erin L. Kelly, Duanyi Yang and William Kimball, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Worker Voice in America: A Current Assessment and Exploration of Options
Discussants: Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University
Charles Heckscher, Rutgers University
Michelle Miller, coworker.org
  
2 ‑ 3:30 pmConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Paul Osterman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presenters: Dale Belman and Julie Brockman, Michigan State University and Russell Ormiston, Allegheny College—Residential Construction
Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research—Hospitals and Outpatient Care Centers
Françoise Carré, University of Massachusetts-Boston—Retail
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University—Manufacturing
Rosemary Batt, Cornell University—Restaurants
 
Chair: Stephen R. Sleigh, Sleigh Strategy LLC
Presenters: John Kline, Georgetown University—Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry's Sweatshops
Mark Anner, Pennsylvania State University—CSR Participation Committees, Wildcat Strikes, and the Sourcing Squeeze in Global Supply Chains
Melanie Bower, Sumerra—Integrating Social Responsibilty with Enviromental Audits: A Practioner's Perspective
Jeffrey S. Wheeler, Georgetown University—Brave New World: Social Responsibility Standards for the Electronic Supply Chains
Discussant: Scott Nova, Workers' Rights Consortium
 
Chair: Paula Voos, Rutgers University
Presenters: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—It's Just Different in Illinois: The Triatic Use of Power in Public Sector Bargaining
David Lewin, University of California, Los Angeles—California Public Policy Regarding Public Sector Unionism and Collective Bargaining
Martin Malin, IIT Chicago-Kent—The Motive Power in Public Sector Collective Bargaining
Discussant: Thomas A. Kochan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
6.4  LERA Competitive Papers II (Symposium)—Holiday 3
Chair: Alexander J.S. Colvin, Cornell University
Presenters: Chichun Fang, University of Michigan—The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Post-Displacement Labor Supply Among the Near-Elderly
Aboozar Hadavand, Johns Hopkins University; Sarah M. Thomas, New York University; Pooya Almasi, Georgetown University; and Orkideh Gharehgozli, City University of New York, Graduate Center—The Match Between College Coursework and Occupations
David Marsden, London School of Economics and Lisa Sezer, De Montfort University—Effects of Management Style and Quality on the Operation of Incentive Pay: School Teachers' Performance Pay in England and Wales 2014-2015
Mary Ellen Benedict, Bowling Green State University and David McClough, Ohio Northern University—Explaining the Gender Salary Gap for the Educated
 
6.5  LERA Best Papers VI: Union Issues II (Symposium)—Poe A-B
Chair: Marick Masters, Wayne State University
Presenters: John W. Budd, University of Minnesota and J. Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Differences in Union Membership and Influence: Theorizing and Analyzing the Importance of Comparative Electoral Systems
Marissa Brookes, University of California, Riverside—Global Unions and the Push for Private Governance: Institutionalizing Employment Relations on the International Scale
Patrice Mareschal and Charles E. Coursey, Rutgers University—The Assault on Public Sector Unions and Democracy: Examining Patterns Across the States
Joshua Jansa, Oklahoma State University and Michele M. Hoyman, University of North Carolina—Is Punishing Friends Effective?: An Analysis of Labor's Withdrawal of Campaign Funds from Pro-Free Trade Democrats, 1993-2012
 
6.6  "Dealing With Difficult People" and the Remedy (Workshop)—Calloway A-B
Chair: Gary Richard Hattal, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Panelist: Tom Melancon, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service—"Impromptu Networking" drawn from "The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash a Culture of Innovation"
2:45 ‑ 5:15 pm
Chair: Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University
  
3:45 ‑ 5:15 pmConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Lowell Turner, Cornell University
Presenters: Maite Tapia, Michigan State University and Lowell Turner, Cornell University—Strategies of Trade Unions Towards Young Workers in Four Countries: An Overview
J. Mijin Cha, Occidental College—Bridging Generations: A Case Study of the SEIU Millennials
Jane Holgate, University of Leeds—Young Workers in the Bakers Union: A Case Study of the Fast Food Rights Campaign
Discussant: Jermaine Jones, Baltimore Central Labor Council
 
Chair: Jeffrey S. Wheeler, Georgetown University
Panelists: Anja Wehler-Schoeck, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany—Joining Efforts Towards Achieving Economic Strength and Economic Justice: Lessons from the "Social Partnership" Approach in Germany
Céline Jaeggy, Embassy of France—The French Social Model Overhaul
Lucía Ortiz Sanz, Embassy of Spain—Questions and Challenges on Youth Unemployment
Jason Huang, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office—Current Labor Market Trends, Challenges and Policy Responses in Taiwan
Discussants: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Brandeis University
Stephen Silvia, American University
 
Chair: David B. Lipsky, Cornell University
Presenters: John W. Budd, University of Minnesota; Alexander J.S. Colvin, Cornell University; and Dionne Pohler, University of Toronto—Advancing Dispute Resolution by Unpacking the Sources of Conflict: Toward an Integrated Framework
Duanyi Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Why Don't They Complain? The Social Determinants of Chinese Migrant Workers' Grievance Behaviors
Paul Teague, Queen's University Belfast; William Roche, University College Dublin; Denise Currie, Queen's University Belfast; and Tom Gormley, University College Dublin—ADR-based Workplace Conflict Management Systems: A Case of American Exceptionalism
Ariel C. Avgar, Cornell University—Integrating Conflict: A Proposed Framework for the Interdisciplinary Study of Workplace Conflict and its Management
Discussant: Gary Richard Hattal, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
 
7.4  LERA/NAA Session (Workshop)—Holiday 3
Chair: Fredric Dichter, National Academy of Arbitrators
Panelist: Sean J. Rogers, Esq., Sean J. Rogers & Associates, LLC—Making Ethical Decisions
 
Chair: Greg J. Bamber, Monash University (Melbourne)
Presenters: Tom Zaniello, Northern Kentucky University and National Labor College—The Cinema of the Precariat: The Exploited, Underemployed, and Temp Workers of the World
Greg Murray, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers—Examining Organizational Sustainability in a Unionized Environment
Ellen Scully-Russ, The George Washington University and Richard Torraco, University of Nebraska—Human Resources and Human Resource Development in the Platform Economy: Controversies, Challenges and Potential Contributions
 
Co-Chairs: Sumner McRae and Darryl Alexander, American Federation of Teachers
Panelists: Marie-Louise Caravatti, American Federation of Teachers—2017 Educator Quality of Work Life Report Overview
Paul Landsbergis, State University of New York-Downstate School of Public Health—2017 Educator Quality of Work Life Data Comparisons to Other U.S. Workers, and Effective Educator Stress Interventions
Kathy Beery, BATs Association—Grassroots Approaches to Addressing Educator Stress
5:30 ‑ 7 pm
Chair: Heather Heilman, Kahn, Smith and Collins, P.A.
7:05 ‑ after game
Chair: Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair

Saturday

Conference Activities  •  6/16/2018
8 ‑ 11:45 am
Co-Chairs: Yao Yao, University of Toronto; Duanyi Yang and Alex M. Kowalski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Brandon Carlyle Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
8:30 ‑ 10 amConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Kati Griffith, Cornell University
Presenters: Ken Jacobs, University of California, Berkeley—Governing the Market from Below: Setting Labor Standards at the State and Local Levels
Chris Rhomberg, Fordham University—"$15 and a Union" ... Searching for Workers' Power in the Fight for $15 Movement
Janice Fine and Hana R. Shepherd, Rutgers University—Implementing the New Labor Standards Enforcement Policies: Local Agencies and Co-enforcement
Discussant: Pronita Gupta, Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
 
Chair: Mark Stuart, University of Leeds
Presenters: Michelle O'Sullivan, University of Limerick—Zero Hours Work in Ireland
Iain Campbell, University of Melbourne; Sara Charlesworth and Fiona Macdonald, RMIT University—On-Demand Work in Australia
Tony Dundon and Debra Howcroft, University of Manchester—Gig-economy and Precarious Work in UK
Discussant: Peter J. Fugiel, University of Chicago
 
Chair: Cathy Stevens, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
 
Chair: Mary Talley, City of Baltimore Department of Human Resources
Presenter: Jason Perkins-Cohen, Mayor's Office of Employment Development
 
8.5  LERA Best Papers VIII: Health and Healthcare (Symposium)—Poe A-B
Chair: Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University
Presenters: Patrik Nordin, University of Tampere—International Recruitment of Health Care Professionals and Its Policy Implications
Anoop A. Javalagi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ravi S. Gajendran, Florida International University—A Quantitative Review of Telecommuting Intensity and Work-Family Outcomes
Ipshita Pal, St. Johns University—Health Effects of Paid Family Leave: New Evidence From New Jersey
Jie Chen and Chad D. Meyerhoefer, Lehigh University and Edward J. Timmons, Saint Francis University—The Effects of Dental Hygienist Scope of Practice and Autonomy on Access to Dental Care
 
8.6  NCAC Chapter Administration Workshop (Workshop)—Calloway A-B
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services
  
10:15 ‑ 11:45 amConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Janice Fine, Rutgers University
 
Chair: Robert Bruno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presenters: Robert Habans, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Linking the Causes of "Gig Work" to Consequences for Workers: An Analysis of New Survey Data
Lonnie Golden, Penn State Abington and Stuart Glosser, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater—Still Only Part Way Home: Part-time Work and Underemployment in Illinois and its Region
Alison Dickson, University of Illinois at Chicago—Work Scheduling in Chicago: Irregular, Variable and Unpredictable Hours
Amy Anderson and Christopher Morehouse, U.S. Government Accountability Office—DOL Can Better Share Information on Services for On-Demand, or Gig, Workers (GAO-17-561)
Discussants: Julie Vogtman, National Women's Law Center
Ariane Hegewisch, Institute for Women's Policy Research
 
9.3  Saving ADR From Its Success (Workshop)—Holiday 2
Chair: James P. Kinney, Middlesex County College, NJ
Panelists: William Dwyer, Rutgers University—Grievance Mediation: Great Potential But Scant Use
Pat Westerkamp, Esq., Westerkamp ADR Services, LLC—Labor Arbitration: The Same Troubles in Paradise?
Jonathan Cohen, Esq., Plosia Cohen LLC—Is Employment ADR Under Attack for Just Cause?
 
Chair: Omar Vincent Melehy, Melehy & Associates, LLC
Panelists: Charles "Chuck" McCullough III, Tully Rinckey PLLC—Former Inspector General, Intelligence Community, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Kel McClanahan, National Security Counselors—Instructor of National Security Law at the American University, Washington College of Law
Leslie McAdoo-Gordon, McAdoo Gordon & Associates P.C.—Recognized as a Top Lawyer in National Security Law by Washingtonian Magazine in 2015
 
9.5  LERA Best Papers IX: Labor Markets (Symposium)—Poe A-B
Chair: Brian Holland, BLH Technologies
Presenters: Jonathan S. McMurray, Benjamin Bolitzer, Kimberly M. Granger, Michael Naretta and Brittni Milam, US Government Accountability Office—Poverty and Use of Selected Federal Social Safety Net Programs Persist Among Working Families
Doruk Cengiz, University of Massachusetts Amherst—Seeing Beyond the Trees: The Impacts of Minimum Wage on Affected Individuals
Alí Rodolfo Bustamante, Loyola University New Orleans—Dismissal Regulations and Labor Market Performance: A Global Panel
10:15 ‑ 11:45 am
Co-Chairs: William Canak, Middle Tennessee State University and Bonnie Castrey, Dispute Resolution Services
12 ‑ 1:45 pm
Chair: Kris Rondeau, President-Elect and Program Co-Chair
Featured Speaker: Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair
  
2 ‑ 3:30 pmConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Marlene K. Heyser, Workplace Law Strategies
Panelists: Thomas A. Lenz, Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo—Management-side Perspective on Where Changes Will Likely Occur
Michael Four, Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers—Labor-side Perspective on Where Changes Will Likely Occur
 
Chair: Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Rutgers University
Presenters: Adrienne E. Eaton and Susan J. Schurman, Rutgers University and Martha Chen, Harvard University—Editors of "Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective" ILR Press, 2017
Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University; Nathan Lillie, University of Jyväskylä; and Valeria Pulignano, Katholieke University Leuven—Editors of "Reconstructing Solidarity: Labour Unions, Precarious Work, and the Politics of Institutional Change in Europe" Oxford University Press, 2018
Discussants: Aurora Trif, Dublin City University Business School—Trade Unions' Pragmatic Responses to Precarious Work in Eastern Europe
Françoise Carré, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Brian Finnegan, AFL-CIO
 
10.3  Union Form and Structure (Symposium)—Holiday 2
Chair: Jennifer Kelly, United Automobile Workers
Presenters: Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor—Origins of and Continuity in Union Structure
Dorothy Sue Cobble, Rutgers University—The Old Diversity and the New
Nathan Wilmers, Harvard University—Mapping Union Structure
Craig Becker, General Counsel, AFL-CIO and Former Member NLRB—Legal Determinants of Union Structure
 
Chair: Johanna Weststar, Western University
Panelists: Anil Verma, University of Toronto—Protector or Activist? Consistency and Contradiction in Labor's Voice on Pension Boards
Simon Archer, Goldblatt Partners LLP—The Best of All Possible Worlds: Fiduciary Law, ESG, Financialization
Kevin Skerrett, Canadian Union of Public Employees—The Failure of Canada's Financialized Pension System: An Alternative Proposal for Retirement with Dignity
Bernard Mees, University of Tasmania—Financialization and the Stewardship of Workers' Capital in Australia
David Webber, Boston University—The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder
 
10.5  Substance Abuse in the Workplace: A New Paradigm (Workshop)—Calloway A-B
Co-Chairs: Kathryn A. VanDagens and Adele L. Abrams, Law Office of Adele L. Abrams PC
2 ‑ 5:15 pm
Chair: Sean E. Rogers, Cornell University
  
3:45 ‑ 5:15 pmConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Paula Voos, Rutgers University
Presenters: Ian Greer, Cornell University; Geneviève Coderre-Lapalme, University of Greenwich; and Lisa Schulte, Middlesex University—In Defense of Public Services: Coalitions and Campaigns in British Healthcare and Social Security
Todd Dickey, Cornell University—Experiential Learning: Partnership in the Federal Sector under Executive Order 13522, "Creating Labor-Management Forums to Improve Delivery of Government Services"
 
11.2  LERA 2018 Award Winners Roundtable (Workshop)—Holiday 1
Co-Chairs: Tia Schneider Denenberg, Workplace Solutions, Inc. and Douglas Kruse, Rutgers University
 
Chair: DeAndra Roaché, Cynergis Dispute Resolution Services, LLC
Panelists: Joshua Javits, Arbitrator/Mediator—Med-Arb: It's Overview, the Costs, the Benefits
Arthur Luby, Air Line Pilots Association—Med-Arb: From Labor's Perspective
Aparna Joshi, O'Melveny & Myers—Med-Arb: From Management's Perspective
 
Chair: Jody Hoffer Gittell, Brandeis University
Presenters: Ray Giamartino, Rochester City School District—Leading Change in a Major Urban School District: The Role of Relational Coordination and Labor Relations
Lauren Hajjar, Brandeis University—Relational Coordination Interventions for Central Office Redesign: Toward an Equitable Placement Process
Cady Landa, Brandeis University—Immigrant Parents, Public Elementary Schools, and Students with Special Needs: Public Policy and Organizational Structure
Liam Honigsberg, Brandeis University—Improving Teacher Preparation Through Learning Partnerships Among Graduate Schools of Education
Discussant: Shital Shah, American Federation of Teachers
 
Chair: Sam Kim, County of Santa Clara
Presenters: Stacy A. Hickox, Michigan State University—How Arbitrators Address Harassment & Bullying in the Workplace
Laura Ruth Martin, Gustavus Adolphus College and Kristian F. Braekkan, Region 9 Development Commission—Social Exchange Theory and Employment: An Empirical Investigation of Psychological Contract Content and Perceived Violations
Pooria Assadi, California State University, Sacramento and Andrew von Nordenflycht, Simon Fraser University—Explaining Variation in Who Gets Punished in the Aftermath of Misconduct
 
Chair: Kris Rondeau, President-Elect and Program Co-Chair
Presenters: Joseph McCartin, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor—Innovative Union Strategies and the Struggle to Re-Invent Collective Bargaining
Marilyn Sneiderman, Rutgers University—Going on Offense During Challenging Times
Teofilo Reyes, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United—Labor Internationalism for the 21st Century
Xóchitl Bada, University of Illinois at Chicago; Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University; and Els de Graauw, Baruch College CUNY—Union Organizing, Advocacy, and Services at the Nexus of Immigrant and Labor Rights
Catherine Albisa, National Economic & Social Rights Initiative and Greg Asbed, Coalition of Immokalee Workers—"From CSR to WSR": The Failure of Corporate Self-Regulation and the Development of Worker-Driven Social Responsibility
Discussants: Stephen Lerner, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
Neidi Yatsiri Dominguez, International Union of the Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT)
Scott Nova, Workers' Rights Consortium
5:30 ‑ 7 pm
Chair: Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair
7:30 ‑ 10 pm
Chair: Ezio Borchini, Arbitrator/Mediator

Sunday

Conference Activities  •  6/17/2018
  
8 ‑ 9:30 amConcurrent Sessions
 
12.1  LERA Best Papers XI: The Nature of Work (Symposium)—Poe A-B
Chair: Chichun Fang, University of Michigan
Presenters: Sam Kim, County of Santa Clara—Transformation through the IT Guild
Christine Riordan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology—Task Allocation and Stratification: The Distribution of Opportunity Structures in Large Corporate Law Firms
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard Business School; Evan Starr and Rajshree Agarwal, University of Maryland—Experimental Evidence on Machine Learning and Skill Complementarities
Joseph Bazler, Cornell University—Building Communities at School: How Teachers' Care Work Inspires Community Building and Creates New Opportunities for Unions
 
Chair: Eileen Appelbaum, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Presenters: Phillippe James Scrimger, University of Montreal—Do Unions Promote More Equal Societies? A Look at Income Redistribution in Canada's Provinces
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Anthony Rainey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst—Producing Inequalities: An Examination of the Workplace Generation of Earnings Inequalities in Thirteen High Income Countries
Phela I. Townsend, Rutgers University—Why Do Firms Adopt ESOPs? An Industry Perspective
Discussant: J. Adam Cobb, University of Pennsylvania
 
Chair: Rebecca Kolins Givan, Rutgers University
Presenters: Lucas A. Franco, University of Minnesota—Unionizing the Fissured Workplace: A Comparative Analysis of Subcontracted Janitorial Worker Organizing
Stephen Silvia, American University—German Trade Union Attempts to Export Power
Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Rutgers University and Christian Ibsen, University of Copenhagen—In the Interest of Labor? Union Agency in the New Economy
Discussants: Marilyn Sneiderman, Rutgers University
Victor Tan Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Carsten Huebner, Transatlantic Labor Institute
  
9:45 ‑ 11:15 amConcurrent Sessions
 
Chair: Maite Tapia, Michigan State University
Presenters: Tamara Lee, Rutgers University and Maite Tapia, Michigan State University—Cross-movement Solidarity Building: Evidence from the Women's March
Jane Holgate, University of Leeds—Listening to Migrant Voices: A Call for an Intersectional Approach to Union Organising
Discussants: Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Rutgers University
Brea Baker, The Gathering for Justice
 
Chair: Gregory M. Saltzman, Albion College
Presenters: Valentina Paolucci, University College Dublin and Paul Marginson, University of Warwick—Collective Bargaining Towards Mutual Flexibility and Security Goals in Large Internationalized Companies - Why do Institutions (Still) Matter?
Hoyt N. Wheeler, University of South Carolina—A Proposal for Radical Labor Law Reform
Adrienne Edisis, Virginia Tech—Implications of "Injury Tax" Incentives: Workers' Compensation Claims by Temporary Help Services Workers and Traditional Employees
 
Chair: Kitty Grubb, Grubb Law Firm
Presenters: Aibak Hafeez and J. Ryan Lamare, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—Sourcing and Quality of Third-Party Neutrals and ADR Practices: Evidence from a Survey of Fortune 1000 Companies
Lin Xiu, University of Minnesota at Duluth; Kim Nichols Dauner and Christopher McIntosh, University of Minnesota-Duluth—The Impact of Organizational Support for Employees' Health on Organizational Commitment, Intent to Remain, and Job Performance
Ting Zhang and Dan Gerlowski, University of Baltimore—Ownership Stake Diffusion in Entrepreneur Teams


11:15Adjournment Harry C. Katz, President and Program Co-Chair