This Virus Knows No Borders –Solidarity & Sisterhood Around the World

Event Type

Conference/Workshop

Sponsor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Labor and Employment Relations & the Regina V. Polk Women's Labor Leadership Conference

Virtual

Date

May 14, 2020   3:10 - 5:05 pm  

Speaker

Speakers include: • Dr. Elisa Fruhauf-Garcia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janiero, Brazil on political climate in Brazil • Susanne Bali, Hotell-och restaurangfacket, Stockholm, Sweden on hotel industry in Sweden • Dr. Sirisha Naidu, University of Missouri - Kansas City on women workers in India • Pinar Ozcan, Oz iPlik is, Ankara, Turkey on working conditions in the textile industry in Turkey

This panel will feature a series of women scholars and worker leaders from Sweden, Turkey, Brazil, and India. The panel will discuss how the pandemic is impacting women workers in their home countries and how they have been organizing for support. The speakers will speak for approximately 75 minutes and we will then open the discussion up for Q&A. The program will be moderated by Polk instructor Judy Ancel.