Registration • Hotel • Program • Special Events • Student Consortium • Jr. Faculty Consortium
Organizations • Speakers • Program Committee • Participant Information • Sponsors

Plan now to attend the LERA 70th Annual Meeting, June 14-17, 2018 in Baltimore at the Hilton next to Camden Yards!  What do you get? Baseball, crab cakes and 4 days of intense learning and skill building at over 80 workshops, sessions, and more than 250 diverse presenters from every community focused on “the world of work.”

Featured Speakers

Special Events

Thank you to the Baltimore LERA Chapter Officers and Leaders, including but not limited to: Ezio Borchini, Daniel Altchek, Heather Heilman, and Christy Yoshitomi, for organizing these special events featuring local traditions and entertainment!

New to the agenda is a "Dinner in Little Italy" for Thursday evening. Please see details here.

Please find complete details here for all of our special events associated with LERA 70th Annual Meeting.

Registration open, standard pricing ends May 2

Click HERE to register

Schedule of Events, Program and Presenters' Index

The Preliminary Program and Presenters' Index will be found at:
http://leraoffice.org/drupalinclude/program2018.asp.

Hotel Accommodations

All LERA meetings will be held at Hilton Baltimore, located at 401 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States. You can reserve your hotel accommodations online at the negotiated rate of $169 per night. Reservations cutoff is May 22, 2018 to guarantee block pricing, but only until the room block fills up:

Group Name:  LERA 70th Annual Meeting
Call-in #:  (443) 573-8700
Web-link:  https://aws.passkey.com/e/49263113 (choose "attendee")

LERA 20th PhD Student Consortium

The LERA 20th Annual PhD Student Consortium will be held in conjunction with LERA's 70th Annual Meeting, and is chaired by Duanyi Yang and Alex Kowalski (MIT), Yao Yao (Univ. of Toronto), Brandon Grant (Univ. of Illinois).
The event will be held on Saturday, June 16, 2018, 8:15 - 11:30 am with other events continuing throughout the day. To register for this event, you must first register for the meeting, and indicate on the registration form that you plan to attend the PhD Student Consortium.
For program and complete information, please visit: http://lera.memberclicks.net/phd-student-consortium-2018.

LERA 3rd Annual Junior Faculty Consortium

The LERA 3rd Annual Jr. Faculty Consortium will meet Saturday, June 16 2018 in the afternoon, and is chaired by Sean Rogers of Cornell University. You will be able to RSVP for this event when you register for the conference.
For program and complete information, please visit: https://lera.memberclicks.net/lera-70th-am-3rd-jr-faculty-consortium-2018.

Participant Information

If you are participating in this meeting as a session chair, paper presenter, a panelist, a speaker, a discussant, or poster presenter, there is information that you will need to refer to here throughout the next several months, and after the meeting is complete.
For complete details, visit: https://lera.memberclicks.net/lera-70th-am-participant-information-2018

Transportation from Airport

Transportation in Baltimore

Free Charm City Circulator (Bus): http://www.charmcitycirculator.com/

Organizations Represented at this Conference Include

https://lera.memberclicks.net/70th-annual-meeting-attendees

LERA 70th Annual Meeting Event Sponsors and Partners

United Auto Workers
Ford Motor Company
UAW/Ford National Partnership
Kaiser Permanente
Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions
American Arbitration Association
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

The Martin and Laurie Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution,
The School of Industrial and Relations at Cornell University
Miles and Stockbridge P.C.

Sponsors of the June 15, 2018 Baltimore Orioles Pre-Game Party at Camden Yards

Kahn Smith and Collins, P.A.
Major Lease Baseball

Sponsors of LERA 70th Annual Meeting June 14-17, 2018 Catered Events

University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
University of Minnesota, Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Labor and Employment Relations
University of California-Los Angeles, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
University of California-Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations
Pennsylvania State University, School of Labor and Employment Relation
Michigan State University, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Brandeis University, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Boston University, Human Resources Policy Institute

Sponsors of the Maryland Crab Feast

American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1923
BlueCross BlueShield Association National Labor Office
John C. Alfano, Arbitrator & Mediator
Law Offices Abato, Rubenstein, and Abato, P.A.
Shawe Rosenthall LLP
Alabama LERA
Central PA LERA
LERA-CT Valley
DC LERA
Detroit Area LERA
Maryland LERA
Orange County LERA
RU LERA
TERRA

Program Committee

This event has been made possible by the work of the LERA Program Committee over the past two years to develop all aspects of this meeting. Please join us in thanking these dedicated volunteers when you see them in Baltimore!
(Find the Call for Proposals connected to this meeting here.)

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