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Learning Days 2025
May 27-29, Minneapolis, MN
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm CDT
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
avatar for Rigo Valdez

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 →
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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 →
avatar for Kevin Pranis

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
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