Labor & Employment Law

Netroots Nation: Tell Us Your Ideas for the Labor Caucus

By Tula Connell

Netroots Nation, the annual gathering of some 2,000 progressive bloggers and activists, is coming up fast?July 22?25?and we need your input on topics we should focus on at the Labor Caucus we hold there every year.

Labor communicators from the AFL-CIO, Change to Win and independent unions take part in the Labor Caucus, as well as allies from groups such as Jobs with Justice. This year, Matt Browner-Hamlin from SEIU and I are co-hosting it, and we want your input to help frame the agenda.

Participants in the Labor Caucus focus on issues affecting our work as labor communicators?how we can improve what we do and effectively reach union members and the public. Last year, we explored how to build our own online union community, connecting labor to the progressive blog world and utilizing our resources to make changes at the state and local levels, to support union members and campaigns.

So whether you are traveling to Las Vegas for the Netroots Nation conference or will follow along here and at the Netroots Nation site, let us know what you want explored at this year’s Labor Caucus. Leave suggestions here or send an e-mail to blognews@aflcio.org.

We will cover labor events while at Netroots Nation, including the “21st Century Economy” panel with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka; Elizabeth Warren, chairwoman of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP); Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.); and others. If you’re at Netroots Nation, the panel is Saturday, July 24, 11:45 a.m. PDT.

We also will blog the panel, “Young Workers: Taking Charge of Our Future,” moderated by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, which takes place Friday, July 23, at 3 p.m. PDT.

There’s one labor experience at Netroots Nation we won’t be able to do justice to in online coverage?the AFL-CIO and Working America union beer tasting booth in the exhibit hall. 

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on July 13, 2010 (boomark / email).