2026 Agenda
v7, updated January 23rd, 2026
| IBEW Local 48 | NECA/IBEW Training Center | |||
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| Meeting Hall (MC: John Bishop) | Center Auditorium (MC: Liz Joffe) | Room 1/2 (MC: Dan Hutzenbiler) | Room 5 (MC: Andrew Toney-Noland) |
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| 7:30-8:30 am | Registration | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 8:30-9:00 am | Welcome Conference Organizers Opening Graham Trainor, Oregon AFL-CIO | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 9:00-9:50 am | Christina Stephenson Oregon Labor Commissioner | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 10:00-10:50 am | Organize and Resist David Rosenfeld | Responding to Employer Changes: Grievance, Bargain, or ULP? Caren Sencer | Oregon ERB Update Chair Adam Rhynard & Members Shirin Khosravi and Benjamin O'Glasser | Making the Most of Mediation Janet Gilman, ERB |
| 11:00-12:20 pm | Offensive Bargaining David Rosenfeld | Bargaining Over AI Lisa Kresge UC Berkeley Labor Center, and Gordon Lafer, LERC | NLRB Law and Strategy Developments Caren Sencer | Steward Training Mark Brenner |
| 12:30-1:20 pm | Lunch in the Meeting Hall and Keynote: Labor’s Role Right Now Rep. Lisa Fragala, Rep. Dacia Grayber | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 1:30-2:20 pm | Understanding Labor Preemption Rich McCracken | National Labor Relations Board Update Brenna Wolfe, NLRB Region 19 Field Attorney | Building Trades Focus: Hiring Hall Basics Dan Hutzenbiler | Grievance Focus: Writing Strong Grievances Jared Franz |
| 2:30-3:20 pm | Strategies Without the NLRB Rich McCracken | Leave Laws Liz Joffe | Building Trades Focus: Jurisdictional Disputes Krista Cordova | Grievance Focus: I’m a Labor Arbitrator, Ask Me Anything! Barbara Diamond and Dorothy Foley |
| 3:30-4:20 pm | Advocating in the ADA Interactive Process Charese Rohny | Immigration Rights in the Workplace Bonnie Allen-Sailer | Workers’ Compensation Derrick Louie and Emily Guida | n/a |
| 4:30-6:00 pm | Social Hour |
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