2009 Worker Safety and Health Summit:
A New Era for Safety and Health Activism

8:30 – 10:00 - Registration. Peruse information tables.

10 – 10:45 – Opening Plenary – Brief outline on some issues that face us – Marcy Gelb Goldstein - Masscosh, Peg Seminario – AFL-CIO, Eric Frumin CTW, Tammy Miser - USMWF Celeste Monforton – Moderator

10:45 – 11:45 - Small group discussions on Protecting American Workers Act [PAWA] overview and other Health & Safety legislative initiatives. What H&S issues are affecting workers and what needs to be done to fix the problems?

11:45 – 12:15 – Speak out from small groups - what we need to do to fight for change.

12:15 – 1:15 – Lunch and Speaker – Jordan Barab – Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor

1:15 – 2:15 – Workgroups 1 – Will divide groups by specific issue areas: Ergonomics, Immigrant Workers, Hazardous Chemical Policy and Family and Victims Rights. The task is to develop the national work plan to move agenda in these areas. People choose workgroup they are most interested in.

8 workgroups with at least 2 facilitators in each room. Identify strategies to promote our agenda in each of these areas. Also identify how we build the H&S Activist movement and worker rights movement as we work on legislative/regulatory campaigns.

2:15 – 3:00 – Report back from working groups

3:00 – 3:15 – Break

3:15 – 4:00 – Panel discussion – Plans for follow-up on legislative initiatives and networking activism raised by small groups.

4:00 – 5:00 – Workgroups 2 - Individuals in groups sign up for actions to follow-up on plan which is documented by workgroup and report out with actions on flip charts.