LERA 71st AM - Cleveland 2019 |
LERA 71st Annual Meeting, June 13-16, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio
Preconference Day – June 12, 2019
Westin Cleveland Downtown, 777 St. Clair Avenue NE, Cleveland, OH 44114
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Registration open; click here to registerRegistration • Hotel • Full Program • Special Events • Practitioner Picks• Preconference Training Plan now to attend the LERA 71st Annual Meeting, June 13-16, 2019 in Cleveland at the Westin Cleveland Downtown. What do you get? Enjoy the sights and culture of Cleveland in addition to 4 days of intense learning and skill building at over 80 workshops, sessions, and more than 400 diverse presenters from every community focused on workplace issues. Build your networks with managers, unions, researchers, public policy and agency staff from throughout the U.S. and abroad. Return home value added for your organization and your job.
Take part in practical workshops, join debates on the latest applied research topics and hear from experts on how their companies, organizations, and unions have successfully navigated workplace issues critical to success. Featured Speakers
Special Events
Thank you to the LERA-neo and CO-LERA Chapter Officers and Leaders, including but not limited to: Dennis Minni, for organizing these special events featuring local traditions and entertainment! Tour: Ford Motor Company Cleveland Engine Plant Indians v. Reds Game (first pitch 1:10 pm) LERA Welcome Reception on the Goodtime Charter Ship Night at the Hilarities Comedy Club Rock and Roll Hall of Fame discount code
Registration open, Early Bird pricing ends March 25Click HERE to registerRegistration is online. All participants and attendees must register, including speakers and discussants (chairs, panelists, presenters, speakers, discussants, etc.). The earlybird registration deadline is March 25, 2019. Online registration will be open through June 7, 2019. After that, onsite registration will be offered at the LERA headquarters hotel, the Westin Cleveland Downtown, beginning June 13, 2019. Registration will open at 7am on the opening day of the conference and at 8am on the second, third, and fourth day of the conference.
Full Schedule: Events, Program and Presenters' IndexThe Preliminary Program and Presenters' Index will be found at: Practitioner Picks: Selected Workshops from the Program
Kris President, LERA President, and the Program Committee have looked through our program offerings and put together a selection of sessions throughout the conference that offer practical, hands-on professional development that will specifically appeal to our practitioner attendees ... including labor attorneys, arbitrators, mediators, government officials, and labor relations specialists, HR directors, managers, CEO's, and more. Online Practitioner Program Guide Downloadable Practitioner Program Guide Hotel AccommodationsAll LERA meetings will be held at the Westin Cleveland Downtown, located at 777 St. Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, U.S. You can reserve your hotel accommodations online at the negotiated rate of $139 per night. Reservations cutoff is May 21, 2019 to guarantee block pricing, but only until the room block fills up:
Please find complete details here for hotel accommodations at the Westin Cleveland Downtown
for the LERA 71st Annual Meeting. Pre-conference Training for Arbitrators, Mediators, and Fact-findersThe Dispute Resolution Interest section of LERA is pleased to announce an arbitration training seminar for aspiring or newer arbitrators interested in exploring how to commence and grow a career as a neutral. This three (3) hour program will feature the basics of establishing an arbitration practice plus an opportunity to interactively obtain guidance from a panel of five (5) highly experienced labor and employment presenting arbitrators. LERA 21st PhD Student ConsortiumThe LERA 21st Annual PhD Student Consortium will be held in conjunction with LERA's 71st Annual Meeting, and is chaired by: Jenna Myers, MIT; Benjamin Kreider, Brandeis; Hyesook Chung, Cornell; and Bulin Zhang, Rutgers. LERA 4th Annual Junior Faculty ConsortiumThe LERA 4th Annual Jr. Faculty Consortium will meet Saturday, June 15, 2019, 2 - 5: 15 pm and is chaired by Ting Zhang, University of Baltimore. You will be able to RSVP for this event when you register for the conference. LRAN 2019 Conference, June 12-13, 2019, Cleveland
The 2019 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) national conference will be held Wednesday, June 12 and Thursday, June 13 at Case Western Reserve University. Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will convene in Cleveland, Ohio to share new ideas, research and best practices, and to identify points of connection and collaboration. This year’s conference will examine The Future of Workers and LRAN invites participants from universities, unions, worker centers, and policy centers. See complete information here: https://lera.memberclicks.net/lran-2019-conference
Participant InformationIf you are participating in this meeting as a session chair, paper presenter, a panelist, a speaker, a discussant, or poster presenter, there is information that you will need to refer to here throughout the next several months, and after the meeting is complete. Transportation from AirportDirections from area airports to Westin Cleveland Downtown can be searched here.
There is convenient train service from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) to downtown Cleveland, on the RTA Red Line. It costs $2.50 each way, departs every 15 minutes, and takes less than 30 minutes to travel to or from Downtown Cleveland’s "Tower City Station".
Transportation in ClevelandOnce downtown, at Tower City Station, you will find a free E-Line Trolley that loops between all the major downtown hotels and downtown destinations, Westin Cleveland Downtown included. Their hours of service are Monday - Friday from 7 am to 7 pm.
Organizations Represented at this Conference Includehttps://lera.memberclicks.net/71st-annual-meeting-attendees LERA 71st Annual Meeting Event Sponsors and PartnersAFL-CIO
American Arbitration Association Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National Labor Office Boston University, Human Resources Policy Institute Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions Cornell University Press Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Ford Motor Company Kaiser Permanente Long Island LERA Chapter Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management Michigan State University, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations Northeast Ohio LERA Chapter Orange County LERA Chapter Oregon LERA Chapter Pennsylvania State University, School of Labor and Employment Relations Philadelphia LERA Chapter Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations Tennessee Employment Relations Research Association The Martin and Laurie Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution Tybera United Auto Workers United Steeworkers District 1 University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources University of California-Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment University of California-Los Angeles, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Labor Education Program University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Labor & Employment Relations University of Minnesota, Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Wayne State University, Labor@Wayne Zashin & Rich Co., L.P.A. Sponsors of the Indians Baseball Game
Zashin & Rich Co., L.P.A.
Sponsors of the Ford Cleveland Engine Plant Tour UAW-Ford National Partnership
Sponsors of the LERA Welcome Reception
Kaiser Permanente
The Martin and Laurie Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at Cornell University UAW-Ford Motor Company Sponsors of the LERA Welcome Reception Hosted Bar
Central Pennsylvania LERA
Greater Rhode Island LERA Chapter Long Island LERA Chapter Northeast Ohio LERA Chapter Orange County LERA Chapter Oregon LERA Chapter Philadelphia LERA Chapter RU LERA Tennessee Employment Relations Research Association Sponsors of LERA 71st Annual Meeting Hospitality at Westin Cleveland Downtown
Boston University, Human Resources Policy Institute
Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management Michigan State University, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations Pennsylvania State University, School of Labor and Employment Relations Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations University of California-Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Labor & Employment Relations University of Minnesota, Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Sponsors of the Labor Breakfast
University of Illinois Labor Education Program
AFL-CIO
Sponsors of the Night at the Comedy Club Program CommitteeThis event has been made possible by the work of the LERA Program Committee over the past two years to develop all aspects of this meeting. Please join us in thanking these dedicated volunteers when you see them in Cleveland!
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