ILR's Union Days, April 5-7, will include a live streamed national teach-in, a panel on the fight to save public sector employee collective bargaining, a panel on economic inequality and the Social Justice Career Fair.

Events will wrap up April 7 with keynote speaker Joann Lo, national coordinator of the Food Chain Workers Alliance. Lo was an organizer on Los Angeles campaigns resulting in hundreds of new union members. In 2001 she co-launched the Garment Worker Center and supported garment workers in Los Angeles to lead a successful boycott against young women's retailer Forever 21.

Union Days events, free and open to the public, will be held in the ILR Conference Center and in Ives Hall at the school, at Tower Road and Garden Avenue.

"Ten That Toil Where One Reposes: Fighting the New American Inequality" is this year's theme.

Professor Risa Lieberwitz, who leads the organization of Union Days, said the theme "focuses on how to tackle the deep problem of growing economic inequality in the U.S."

"As current struggles in Wisconsin and other states -- including New York -- have shown, labor unions are essential for employees to gain a fair share of the enormous wealth in this country," she said. "But the attack on public and private sector unions threatens to roll back these gains. The Union Days speakers will address how the labor movement can fight back for workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively for a fair distribution of wealth and power."

The schedule is:

April 5:

April 6:

April 7:

Mary Catt is assistant director of communications at ILR.