LIFT Learning Days 2025: Full Schedule

Learning Days 2025
May 27-29, Minneapolis, MN

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9:00am CDT

Industrial Policies & Community Benefits Agreements | Políticas industriales & beneficios comunitarios

Wednesday May 28, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT

Workshop on the intention of IRA, updates on where it is now, and how organizations are using public funds to leverage more funds for communities and better standards for workers.

Taller sobre la intención del IRA, actualizaciones sobre dónde está ahora, y cómo organizaciones están utilizando fondos públicos para obtener más fondos para comunidades y mejores estándares para trabajadores.

Speakers

Ben Beachy

Senior Fellow, Global Fund for a New Economy

Ben Beachy served in the White House Climate Policy Office until January as Special Assistant to the President for climate, industry, and community investment. He worked to advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s industrial strategy for the clean economy, including trade, investment... Read More →

Wednesday May 28, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
Stone Arch IV

10:45am CDT

Community Labor Partnerships | Colaboraciones entre los sindicatos y la comunidad

Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm CDT

Stone Arch IV

Conversation with labor and community leaders from Seattle and Minneapolis sharing learnings, best practices and challenges around community labor partnerships. Seattle is focused on stadium, worker, organizing, workforce and transit oriented development, Minneapolis is focused on the construction sector and immigrant worker organizing.

Conversación con líderes sindicales y comunitarios de Seattle y Minneapolis, quienes comparten aprendizajes, mejores prácticas y desafíos en torno a las alianzas laborales comunitarias. Seattle se centra en el desarrollo orientado a estadios, trabajadores, organización, fuerza laboral y transporte público; Minneapolis se centra en el sector de la construcción y la organización de trabajadores inmigrantes.

Speakers

Rigo Valdez

Seattle POI Coordinator, MLK Labor

Rigo Valdez, is currently on loan to MLK Labor, to Coordinate the Presidents’ Organizing Initiative (a partnership of National Unions and local labor movements to pilot new external organizing strategies) from UFCW Local 3000. He has been a Union Organizer for almost 30 years. In... Read More →

Merle Payne

Executive Director, CTUL

As Co-Director of CTUL since 2007, Merle coordinates the corporate campaigns that build power for worker voice, as well as overseeing the infrastructure of the organization. Merle has worked as an organizer since 2000, when he co-founded the Student Farmworker Alliance in Immokalee... Read More →

Kevin Pranis

Marketing Manager - MN/ND, LIUNA

Kevin Pranis is the Marketing Manager for the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) in Minnesota and North Dakota, where he has led legislative and organizing efforts to create high-quality clean energy jobs, combat wage theft and exploitation, and raise construction... Read More →

Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm CDT
Stone Arch IV

Bilingual (bilingüe)