Register now for the 2021 PNLHA Labor History Conference!

A Pacific Northwest Tradition for Over 50 Years

Register here: Registration Form for 2021 PNLHA Conference - Google Forms
 
You will receive links to the conference, descriptions of all the events, and biographies of the presenters.

SCHEDULE

Friday, June 25

5:00 PM (Pacific Time)                    
Welcome and Introduction: Tom Lux, PNLHA President; Jo Blake, King County C.L.U.W. President

5:15 – 6:00 PM  (PT)                       
Keynote: Elise Bryant, We Did Not Come This Far To Turn Back Now

6:00 – 7:00 PM  (PT)                       
Video and Songs: Solidarity Notes Labour Choir
 
7:00 PM and on (PT)
Zoom Social

Saturday, June 26

9:30 AM (PT)
Welcome and Introduction: Tom Lux, PNLHA President; April Sims, Secretary-Treasurer, WSLC   

9:40 – 10:30 AM (PT)                       
Keynote: Bill Fletcher Jr., The Rattle from the Rightwing Populist Snake: Trump, Jan. 6, and the Implications for Organized Labor
 
10:30 – 11:15 AM (PT)                    
Panel Discussion: Essential Voices of Frontline Workers
Jane Hopkins, SEIU 1199NW; Martha Elana Sonato, PCUN; UFCW Local 555; UNITE-HERE Local 8; Hospital Employees Union, BC; Conor Casey (mod.)

11:15 – 11:30 AM (PT)                    
PNLHA Annual Awards: Labor History Person of the Year & Labor History Maker of the Year

11:30 – Noon (PT) - BREAK

Noon – 1:00 PM (PT)                     
Workshops/Panels/Videos:

1) Working in the Woods: Archives, Labour, and Forestry in British Columbia
Henry John, Dave Lang, Claire Williams

2) Love & Solidarity: James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights
Michael Honey

3) Educating Young Workers to Build Activism
Ephraim Weisstein

4) A Century of Radical Labor History in the Pacific Northwest
Kim England, Aaron Goings, James Gregory

1:00 – 1:15 PM (PT) - BREAK

1:15 – 2:15 PM (PT)                         
Workshops/Panels/Production

1) Racialized Bodies: South Asian Labour and the Activities of the BC Organization to Fight Racism
Anushay Malik, Bailey Garden

2) Striking Switchmen: Railroad Worker Unrest and Unionism in the United States and Canada, 1888 – 1917
Kevin Kipers

3) March of the Innocents
TheatreWorks

4) Red, Green and International
Rosalinda Guillen, Michael Schulze-Oechtering, Cindy Domingo

2:15 – 2:30 PM (PT) - BREAK

2:30 – 4:00 PM (PT)
PNLHA Annual General Membership and Business Meeting