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Plan now to attend the LERA 71st Annual Meeting, June 13-16, 2019 in Cleveland at the Westin Cleveland Downtown. What do you get? Enjoy the sights and culture of Cleveland in addition to 4 days of intense learning and skill building at over 80 workshops, sessions, and more than 400 diverse presenters from every community focused on workplace issues.

Featured Speakers

Special Events

Thank you to the LERA-neo and CO-LERA Chapter Officers and Leaders, including but not limited to: Dennis Minni, for organizing these special events featuring local traditions and entertainment!

Please find complete details here for all of our special events associated with LERA 71st Annual Meeting.

Registration open, Early Bird pricing ends March 25

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Full Schedule: Events, Program and Presenters' Index

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

Practitioner Picks: Selected Workshops from the Program

Kris President, LERA President, and the Program Committee have looked through our program offerings and put together a selection of sessions throughout the conference that offer practical, hands-on professional development that will specifically appeal to our practitioner attendees ... including labor attorneys, arbitrators, mediators, government officials, and labor relations specialists, HR directors, managers, CEO's, and more.

Online Practitioner Program Guide

Downloadable Practitioner Program Guide

Hotel Accommodations

All LERA meetings will be held at the Westin Cleveland Downtown, located at 777 St. Clair Ave NE, Cleveland, OH 44114, U.S. You can reserve your hotel accommodations online at the negotiated rate of $139 per night. Reservations cutoff is May 21, 2019 to guarantee block pricing, but only until the room block fills up:

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Pre-conference Training for Arbitrators, Mediators, and Fact-finders

The Dispute Resolution Interest section of LERA is pleased to announce an arbitration training seminar for aspiring or newer arbitrators interested in exploring how to commence and grow a career as a neutral.  This three (3) hour program will feature the basics of establishing  an arbitration practice plus an opportunity to interactively obtain guidance from a panel of five (5)  highly experienced labor and employment presenting arbitrators. 
For program and complete information, please visit:
https://lera.memberclicks.net/71st-anl-mtg-pre-con-pdw

LERA 21st PhD Student Consortium

The LERA 21st Annual PhD Student Consortium will be held in conjunction with LERA's 71st Annual Meeting, and is chaired by: Jenna Myers, MIT; Benjamin Kreider, Brandeis; Hyesook Chung, Cornell; and Bulin Zhang, Rutgers.

The event will be held on Saturday, June 15, 2019, 8:30 - 11:45 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-2019.

LERA 4th Annual Junior Faculty Consortium

The LERA 4th Annual Jr. Faculty Consortium will meet Saturday, June 15, 2019, 2 - 5: 15 pm and is chaired by Ting Zhang, University of Baltimore. 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-71st-am-4th-jr-faculty-consortium-2019.

LRAN 2019 Conference, June 12-13, 2019, Cleveland

 The 2019 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) national conference will be held Wednesday, June 12 and Thursday, June 13 at Case Western Reserve University. Scholars, labor practitioners, and activists from across the country will convene in Cleveland, Ohio to share new ideas, research and best practices, and to identify points of connection and collaboration. This year’s conference will examine The Future of Workers and LRAN invites participants from universities, unions, worker centers, and policy centers. 

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-71st-am-participant-information-2019

Transportation from Airport

Transportation in Cleveland

Organizations Represented at this Conference Include

https://lera.memberclicks.net/71st-annual-meeting-attendees

LERA 71st Annual Meeting Event Sponsors and Partners

Sponsors of the Night at the Comedy Club
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association National Labor Office

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 Cleveland!
(Find the Call for Proposals connected to this meeting here.)

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