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
Welcoming Remarks
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, University of Illinois, LERA President and Program Chair
Plenary: Priorities in Health Care and Retirement Security
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?
Chair: Bonnie Summers
BlueCross BlueShield Association
“Ben”
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Randy G. DeFrehn
National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans — A Plan Sponsor Perspective on Health Care Reform
Stephen W. Gammarino
BlueCross BlueShield Association — A Payor Perspective on Health Care Reform
Question and Answer
Plenary: Auto Crisis and Revitalization: The Roles of Labor, Management, and Government when Labor Markets, Product Markets, and Financial Markets Collide
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?
Chair: Robert Chiaravalli
Strategic Labor & Human Resources, LLC
Thomas Klier
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago—An Industry Structure Perspective
Martin Mulloy
Ford Labor Affairs—A Management Perspective
Bob King
United Auto Workers — A Labor Perspective
Susan Helper
Case Western Reserve University — A Research Perspective
Stephen J. Girsky
Centerbridge Partners, L.P. — An Equity and Financial Markets Perspective
Question and Answer
Luncheon: Ensuring Good Jobs, Fair Treatment and High Performance in a Turbulent Economy
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
University of Illinois, LERA President and Program Chair
Co-Chair: Thomas A. Kochan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Introducing the Featured Speaker
Featured Speaker: Honorable Hilda Solis
Secretary of Labor, US Department of Labor
Workforce Development and International Competitive Dynamics
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?
Chair: David Finegold
Rutgers University
Panelists: F. Ray Marshall
University of Texas-Austin — A Workforce Development System for the 21st Century
David Finegold
Rutgers University
Unknown
IBM
Nancy Mills
AFL-CIO Working for America Institute — Workforce Development: A Union Perspective
Question and Answer
Federal Sector Labor Relations: Opportunities and Innovations
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 revitalizethe Federal Labor-Management Partnership Act?
Online Stream of Entire Session
Chair: Matthew M. Bodah
University of Rhode Island
Steven Sharfstein
US Dept of the Treasury — An Employer Perspective
Brian DeWyngaert
American Federation of Government Employees — A Labor Perspective
Carol Waller Pope
Federal Labor Relations Authority — A Government Perspective
Markus Franz
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany — An International Perspective
Question and Answer
The National Labor Relations Act, Union Organizing and Collective Bargaining: The Present and the Future
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?
Chair: Thomas A. Kochan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Block
Michigan State University — An Academic Perspective
Charles Cohen
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP — An Employer Perspective
Sarah Fox
Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. — A Labor Perspective
Question and Answer
Where Should the Money Go? Ensuring that Infrastructure Investments Advance Sustainability and Create Green Jobs
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?
Online Stream of Entire Session
Chair: Thomas J. Schneider
Restructuring Associates, Inc. — The Structure of Infrastructure: An Overview
Robert Pollin
Univ of Massachusetts-Amherst — Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-carbon Economy
Paul Whitehead
Pennsylvania State University (formerly USW) — The Union Push for Green Jobs
David Hasen
Internal Revenue Service Professor in Residence — Tax CodeProvisions that Support Infrastructure Privatization and their Impact
Ellen Dannin
Penn State University — Infrastructure Privatization Contracts and their Significance for Governance
Labor Market Policy Reform During Economic Crisis
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
University of Illinois, LERA President and Program Chair
Featured Speaker: Lisa M. Lynch
Heller School, Brandeis University
Question and Answer
Plenary: Pay for Performance? Reforming Executive Compensation Practices for Today's Economy
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: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
University of Illinois, LERA President and Program Chair
Chair: David Lewin
University of California-Los Angeles — Tournament Theory: An Inappropriate Basis for Executive Compensation
Charles Tharp
Cornell University — What Policy Makers Should Consider in Regulating Executive Compensation
Question and Answer
Edward Durkin
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America — A Labor Leader's View on Guidelines for Executive Compensation
Alan May
The Boeing Company — Executive Compensation: Guidelines for a Firm
Matthew Sottong
The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. — Executive Compensation: the View from BNA
Question and Answer
New Frontiers in Labor and Employment Relations
Chair: Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
University of Illinois, LERA President and Program Chair
Co-Chair: Bonnie Summers
BlueCross BlueShield Association — Introduction of the Featured Speaker from Management
Featured Speaker: Robert A. DuPuy
Major League Baseball
Featured Speakers (Labor): Stephen R. Sleigh & Gordon Pavy
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