Join Us in Atlanta: Registration is Underway
2010 Annual Meeting in Atlanta
Join your colleagues for the 62nd Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta January 2-5, 2010. 59 exciting workshops, symposiums, committee, section, and industry council meetings, plenaries, breakfasts, luncheons, and receptions are planned. Visit the website to see the complete Annual Meeting Program and Register Online before December 1 to enjoy the discount.
All participants and attendees must register, including speakers and discussants. Badges are required for admission to all sessions and activities. You must register and pay the registration fee before booking a room at the special conference rate. A five-digit registration ID number is needed to book a room or suite.
Once registration payment is received, you will get an email confirmation, registration ID number, housing form, and link to housing. If you register online you will get an email confirmation within a few minutes, faxed registration forms take up to three days, and mailed-in forms take up to two weeks to process. If you do not receive a registration confirmation within this time frame, email ASSA at assa@vanderbilt.edu If you prefer to register via fax or mail, print out and complete the ASSA Registration Form and fax to ASSA at 615-343-2986 or email to assa@vanderbilt.edu.
Those who pre-register by December 1, 2009 will receive the early-bird discount—the fee is $75 regular and $35 for full-time students and spouses for the four-day conference. After December 1, 2009, the registration fee goes up to $125 and $55 for students and spouses. Online registration is possible until December 31st. After that time, onsite registration will be offered at both the ASSA headquarter hotel, the Atlanta Marriott Marquis, and the LERA headquarters hotel, the Hyatt Regency, beginning January 2, 2010.
Tickets for the LERA Presidential Luncheon may be pre-ordered on the registration form. This year’s luncheon will feature an address by President Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and the presentation of LERA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A limited number of tickets will be available onsite.
LERA members are encouraged to check off the box on the registration form that denotes LERA as their primary affiliation, as revenue from the meeting is distributed according to this report.
Don’t forget about LERA’s Packet Pickup Service. Through special arrangements made with ASSA, you can authorize the LERA office staff to pick up your ASSA registration packet, badge, and program for you and hold it at the LERA Information Desk at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Simply complete the form online Packet Pickup Form at the LERA website. Two minutes now will save you the hassle of standing in long lines in Atlanta. There is no charge for this service.
Plan to come early to attend any of seven Industry Council sessions on the Pre-conference Day, (January 2nd) as well as other workshops.
On Tuesday, January 5th, the late morning sessions offer two workshops and a symposium:
- NFL Labor Relations: First and Ten or Fourth and Long? organized by the host Atlanta Chapter and featuring NFL and college coaches, player reps, and an NLRB attorney
- Empirical Studies of Retirement Plans: Implications for Workers, Firms and Public Policy, a symposium chaired by Stephen Woodbury, Michigan State University
- The Current Economic Crisis: Can Industrial Relations Contribute to the Reform Process? organized by Anil Verma, University of Toronto and featuring John Budd, University of Minnesota; Arindrajit Dube, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; and Rafael Gomez, University of Toronto
In additions, two special sessions are planned for Tuesday afternoon by the International Interest Section that you will not want to miss:
- 12:15-2:15 p.m. Alternative Union Futures in a Neo-Liberal Environment
Chair: Martin Upchurch, Middlesex University
Presenters: Martin Upchurch, Middlesex University; Andrew Mathers and Graham Taylor, University of the West of England—Alternative Futures for West European Trade Unionism
Pauline Dibben, Kamel Mellahi and Geoffrey Wood, University of Sheffield—Is Social Movement Unionism Still Relevant?: The Case of South African Federation COSATU
Heather Connolly and Miguel Martinez Lucio, University of Manchester—Workers’ Centres, Union Renewal, and the State: Immigration and Union Initiatives in Spain
Edson I. Urano, University of Sophia; Paul Stewart, University of Strathclyde; and Andy Danford, University of the West of England—What to do about Workers on the Periphery. How Japanese Labor Unions are Responding to the Increasing Demands of the Excluded: Kanagawa City and Union MIE
- 2:30 -4:00 p.m. Conceptualizing Work
Chair: Andrew Brown, University of Leeds
Presenters: John Budd, University of Minnesota—Industrial Relations Theory: What About Work?
Bruce Kaufman, Georgia State University—Theorizing Work: Implications of Institutional Economics
Michael Perelman, California State University, Chico—The History of the Marginalization of Work
David Spencer, University of Leeds—The Economics of Work: Past, Present and Future
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