Solidari-flea: Labor Unions and Entomology

Organizer(s)

• TP

  Tiffany Pan (they/them/theirs)

  Graduate Student
  University of Calgary
  Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• MR

  Max Ragozzino

  Oregon Department of Agriculture
  Salem, Oregon
• 

  Thomas Sheehan (he/him/his)

  PhD Worker
  Entomology
  University of Georgia
  Athens, Georgia

Whether you are an active union member, sympathetic to unions, or even agnostic to unions, you have benefitted from organized labor. This symposium will discuss the role of labor unions from speakers active in their unions at the state government, academic faculty, and graduate student worker level.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Pacific

  What is a labor union?
  

  Presenting Author: Thomas Sheehan (he/him/his) – University of Georgia
• 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific

  The power of graduate unions and solidarity
  

  Presenting Author: Tiffany Pan (they/them/theirs) – University of Calgary
• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific

  Postdocs, instructors, researchers, and professors - All workers need unions!
  

  Presenting Author: Louisa A. Hooven (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific

  Organizing field staff
  

  Presenting Author: Francesca Edmonds (She/They) – SEIU Local 503

  Co-Author: Max Ragozzino – Oregon Department of Agriculture
• 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific

  Panel discussion