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National Policy Forum 2009 New Frontiers in Labor and Employment Relations: Ensuring Good Jobs, Fair Treatment, and High Performance in a Turbulent Economy Co-sponsored by The Bureau of National Affairs and BlueCross BlueShield Assn | |
| Thursday | Conference Activities • 6/11/2009 |
| 8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast—Continental Ballroom
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| 8:45 a.m. ‑ 8:50 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks—Continental Ballroom
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, LERA President and Program Chair |
| 8:50 a.m.‑ 10:15 a.m. | Plenary: Priorities in Health Care and Retirement Security—Continental Ballroom
What are our priorities in addressing health care and pensions in today’s economy? How do we best understand and address the fundamental challenges facing US health care and pension systems? Is an employer-based system still viable? What are the most promising policy options?
Panelists: Randy G. DeFrehn, National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans—A Plan Sponsor Perspective on Health Care Reform
Portia Wu, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)—Health and Pension Policy-Majority Perspective
Greg Dean, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP)—Health and Pension Policy-Minority Perspective |
| 10:15 a.m. ‑ 10:30 a.m. |
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| 10:30 a.m. ‑ Noon | Plenary: Auto Crisis and Revitalization: The Roles of Labor, Management, and Government when Labor Markets, Product Markets, and Financial Markets Collide—Continental Ballroom
What are the options for government’s continuing role in the auto industry? How can innovations in labor-management relations in this industry be properly valued and supported? What are the responsibilities of labor and management when financial markets, products markets and labor markets collide?
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| Noon ‑ 1:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Ensuring Good Jobs, Fair Treatment and High Performance in a Turbulent Economy (Speaker's address at 12:15 p.m. with lunch served at 12:45)—Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, LERA President and Program Chair Featured Speaker: Honorable Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor, US Department of Labor—Business Working with SEIU on Health Care |
| 1:45 p.m. ‑ 3:15 p.m. | |
Workforce Development and International Competitive Dynamics—Continental Ballroom
What investments are needed in workforce skills to ensure competitive capabilities across US industries? How do we help workers at all levels who have been displaced by the economic crisis and global competition find new jobs? How can we better prepare the new generation entering the workforce?
Panelists: F. Ray Marshall, University of Texas-Austin—A Workforce Development System for the 21st Century | |
Federal Sector Labor Relations: Opportunities and Innovations—Doyle (Room 302)
How do we properly value and advance innovation in federal sector labor relations? How can labor and management build capability and broader public appreciation for improving government operations? Can we revitalize the Federal Labor-Management Partnership Act?
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| 3:15 p.m. ‑ 3:30 p.m. |
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| 3:30 p.m. ‑ 5:00 p.m. | |
The National Labor Relations Act, Union Organizing and Collective Bargaining: The Present and the Future—Continental Ballroom
How do we best ensure employees open and fair choice regarding union recognition? What are the prospects for first contracts that represent a constructive beginning to a collective bargaining relationship? How can the Employee Free Choice Act contribute to efforts to advance the American Dream?
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Where Should the Money Go? Ensuring that Infrastructure Investments Advance Sustainability and Create Green Jobs—Doyle (Room 302)
How do we understand the scope and impact of infrastructure investments in creating new jobs in society? What do we mean by "green jobs?" What are the institutional implications, including an enlarged role for project labor agreements, mechanisms for government contracting, and other operational challenges?
Chair: Thomas Schneider, Restructuring Associates, Inc.—The Structure of Infrastructure: An Overview Panelists: Robert Pollin, Univ of Massachusetts-Amherst—Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-carbon Economy
David Hasen, Internal Revenue Service Professor in Residence—Tax Code Provisions that Support Infrastructure Privatization and their Impact.
Ellen Dannin, Penn State University—Infrastructure Privatization Contracts and their Significance for Governance | |
| 5:00 p.m. ‑ 6:30 p.m. | Policy Forum Reception—Terrace 3rd Floor
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, LERA President and Program Chair |
Friday | Conference Activities • 6/12/2009 |
| 7:45 a.m. ‑ 8:30 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast—Continental Ballroom
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| 8:30 a.m.‑9:15 a.m. | Labor Market Policy Reform During Economic Crisis—Continental Ballroom
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, LERA President and Program Chair |
| 9:15 a.m. ‑ 9:30 a.m. |
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| 9:30 a.m. ‑ 11:00 a.m. | Pay for Performance? Reforming Executive Compensation Practices for Today's Economy—Continental Ballroom
What is the scale and scope of the challenge as policy makers take on the issue of executive compensation? What are models that appropriately balance market and competitiveness considerations with newly highlighted issues of fairness? Is this issue limited to organizations receiving federal bail out assistance?
Chair: David Lewin, University of California-Los Angeles—Tournament Theory: An Inappropriate Basis for Executive Compensation Panelists: Charles Tharp, Cornell University—What Policy Makers Should Consider in Regulating Executive Compensation
Edward Durkin, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America—A Labor Leader's View on Guidelines for Executive Compensation |
| 11:00 a.m. ‑ 12:30 p.m. | New Frontiers in Labor and Employment Relations—Continental Ballroom
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, LERA President and Program Chair Co-Chair: Bonnie Summers, BlueCross BlueShield Association—Introduction of the Featured Speaker from Management Co-Chair: Matthew Sottong, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.—Introduction of the Featured Speaker from Labor Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, LERA President and Program Chair—Concluding Remarks |
| 12:30 p.m. | Adjournment |