The School of Industrial and Labor Relations had its annual Union Days event yesterday. The conference consisted of a one-day panel discussion entitled “Worker Power in the 2008 Election: Is Change for Real?”
Moderated by Fil Eden ’10, president of Cornell’s Organization for Labor Action, the discussion featured guest speakers Jane McDonald-Pines, executive assistant to the executive vice president of the AFL-CIO; Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute; Barbara Lifton, New York State Assemblywoman; and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, executive officer of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council.