Mga Detalye ng Kaganapan

FRIDAY, MARCH 2ND

8:30 – 9:00
Registration

9:00 – 9:15
Opening

Thomas Collombat (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Aziz Choudry (McGill University)

9:15 – 11:00
Precarious Work and New Strategies (1)

Chair : Alexandra Juliane Law (McGill University)

Siobhán McGrath (Lancaster University)
Am I Not a Citizen? Contesting and Combatting “Slave Labour” in Brazil

Leah DeVellis (Carleton University)
Canadian Prison Labour and the 'Liberal Veil' of Rehabilitative Ideology

Lilian Yap (York University)
“It’s not easy being green”: Green jobs, labour informality and privatization in recycling in Toronto and Buenos Aires

Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier (Université de Montréal)
Interdiction de changer d’employeur au Canada : le permis ou contrat de travail comme obstacle à la liberté d’association des travailleurs étrangers temporaires

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:45
Rebuilding Workers’ Power, Rethinking Mobilization

Chair : Michèle Rioux (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Julia Tomassetti (University of California in Los Angeles)
Using Strategic Research to Build Worker Power in the Era of Neoliberal Restructuring

Dave Bleakney (Canadian Union of Postal Workers) and Matthew MacDonald (Concordia University)
Engaging members through online tools: An opportunity for reflection

Ben Scully (Johns Hopkins University)
From the Shop Floor to the Kitchen Table: Unions and Household Livelihoods in the Global South

France Bernier (Centrale des syndicats du Québec)
Le désengagement syndical : sortir du paradigme générationnel!

12:45 – 2:00
Lunch

2:00 – 3:30
Public Service Workers in the Line of Fire

Chair : Paul-André Lapointe (Université Laval)

Louise Boivin (Université de Montréal)
Problèmes d’accès à la syndicalisation pour les travailleuses précaires des services publics externalisés et initiatives d’action et de négociation collectives : le cas des services d’aide à domicile au Québec.

Carlo Fanelli (Carleton University)
Rob Ford's Toronto: Reactionary Neoliberalism Meets Right-Wing Populism

Jonathan Carson (Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario)
Hardball or Softball? The McGuinty Government and Ontario Public Sector Labour Relations

Salimah Valiani (Ontario Nurses’ Association and Centre for the Study of Education and Work, University of Toronto)
Analyzing the Political Economy of Temporary Labour Migration and the Politics of Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers

3:30 – 3:45
Coffee Break

3:45 – 5:15
Social Movement or Class Struggle?

Chair : David Mandel (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Philippe Boudreau (University of Ottawa)
Les rapports entre mouvements sociaux comme dimension de leur action politique : l’expérience québécoise des années 1980 et 1990

Loïc Moissonnier (Institut d’études politiques de Grenoble)
Les syndicats et le mouvement altermondialiste en Europe : des divergences aux conflits

Xavier Lafrance (York University)
Néolibéralisme, résistance et (trans)formation de classes en France : une perspective historique

Bradley Walchuk (York University)
A New Hope? Labour Unions and the Liberal Party

7:00 : Dinner at the Immigrant Workers Centre
4755, Van Horne - suite 110, metro Plamondon
[Registration for the dinner is required - $20 per person]


SATURDAY, MARCH 3RD

9:15 – 11:00
Union Democracy, Democracy at Work

Chair : Sid Ahmed Soussi (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Kristin Plys (Yale University)
Worker Self-Management in Comparative Historical Perspective

Chris Vance (York University)
Workers’ Self-Organizing Against Precarious Conditions in Toronto and San Salvador: Saving Social Reproduction For People Against Capitalism, 2010 In Historical Perspective

Sophie Béroud (Université Lyon 2) and Jean-Michel Denis (Université Paris Est–Marne-la-Vallée)
Faire du syndicalisme autrement ? L’Union Syndicale Solidaires à l’épreuve de son développement

Bahar Tabakoglu (The New School for Social Research)
Social Constituency of Religious Politics: The Case of Islamist Labor Unionism in Turkey in a Comparative Perspective with the Case of Hindu Labor Unionism in India

11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:45
Towards New Internationalisms?

Chair : Mélanie Dufour-Poirier (Université du Québec en Outaouais)

Amanda Coles (Brock University)
Employment Precarity Breeds Global Solidarity, or Hobbits Deserve Unions Too: An Analysis of the 2010 Global Boycott of The Hobbit by the International Federation of Actors

Anne Dufresne (Université catholique de Louvain)
La révolution silencieuse contre les salaires : de Maastricht à la gouvernance économique européenne

Jan-Frans Ricard (Université du Québec à Montréal)
L’action syndicale internationale comme réponse aux politiques néolibérales dans le secteur de l’éducation depuis 1990: les cas du Québec et du Brésil.

Rod Palmquist (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) and Ashok Kumar (Oxford University)
Checking Predatory Corporate Power: How Labor and Students’ Effective Boycott Model Restrains Garment Industry Giants

12:45 – 2:00
Lunch

2:00 – 3:30
The Challenges of Organizing Im/migrant Workers

Chair : Jill Hanley (McGill University)

Franz Clément (Centre d'études de populations, de pauvreté et de politiques socio-économiques)
La représentation sociopolitique des travailleurs migrants et frontaliers dans la Grande Région

Aziz Choudry (McGill University) and Mostafa Henaway (Immigrant Workers Centre)
Agents of Misfortune: Contextualizing Im/migrant Workers' Struggles Against Temporary Labour Recruitment Agencies

Jon Hiatt and Ana Avendaño (American Federation of Labor – Congress of Industrial Organizations)
An Inside Assessment of the AFL-CIO’s Formal and Informal Partnerships with Worker Centers and their Networks

Émilie E. Joly (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Étienne David-Bellemare (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
L’organisation syndicale des travailleurs et travailleuses agricoles migrant-e-s : analyse comparative entre le Québec et l’Andalousie (Espagne)

3:30 – 3:45
Coffee Break

3:45 – 5:15
Precarious Work and New Strategies (2)

Chair : Malek Abisaab (McGill University)

Ilju Kim (McGill University)
Temporary Worker System in Construction: A Focus on the South Korean Case

Yanick Noiseux (Université de Montréal)
Organisation collective sur les marchés périphériques du travail : esquisse d'un travail de traduction des pratiques émergentes

Gretchen Purser (Syracuse University)
The Labor of Liminality: Navigating the Temporal Turbulence and Spatial Splintering of "On Demand" Employment

Simon Black (York University)
“We’re paid less than dog walkers”: Mitigating Precarious Employment in New York City’s Home Childcare Sector