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Learning Days 2025
May 27-29, Minneapolis, MN
Venue: Stone Arch IV clear filter
Wednesday, May 28
 

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
avatar for Ben Beachy

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
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
Stone Arch IV
 
Thursday, May 29
 

9:30am CDT

Sector Breakout: Construction | Sesión sectoral: construcción
Thursday May 29, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
LIFT supports organizations in specific sectors and across sectors. This workshop allows grantees to discuss their various industries, what makes them unique in the region, what makes them vital to the economy, and how folks are organizing folks to build power to shift standards.

LIFT apoya a organizaciones de sectores específicos y también amplios. Este taller permite que les beneficiaries pueden conversar sobre sus diversas industrias, qué les hace únicas en sus regiones, qué les hace vitales para la economía y cómo se organizan para generar poder y transformar los estándares.
Thursday May 29, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Stone Arch IV

11:00am CDT

Regional Discussion: Southeast | Discusión regional: el sudeste
Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Grantees meet to discuss their specific region and talk about their work across industry and state lines to find shared learnings and commonality. Southeast- NC, SC, GA, FL

Les beneficiaries se reúnen para discutir su región específica y hablar sobre su trabajo en diferentes industrias y estados para encontrar aprendizajes compartidos y estrategias comunales. El Sudeste- NC, SC, GA, FL
Thursday May 29, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Stone Arch IV
 
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