The Center for American Progress will host a program on Tuesday, December 8, 2008 to discuss how the Obama Administration may immediately improve upon the Bush's administration's poor track record for the ordinary American worker.
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Panel I: Enforcing Change: Strategies for the Obama Administration to Enforce Workers' Rights at the Department of Labor
Jordan Barab, Senior Labor Policy Advisor, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives
Kim Bobo, Founder and Executive Director, Interfaith Worker Justice
Thomas E. Perez, Secretary, Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
Catherine K. Ruckelshaus, Litigation Director, National Employment Law Project
Karla Walter, Policy Analyst, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Moderated by:
David Madland, Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund
10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Keynote Address:
Governor Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
11:00 - 12:00
Panel II: Making Federal Contracting Work for the United States
Scott Amey, General Counsel, Project on Government Oversight
Margaret Daum, Counsel, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Richard C. Loeb, University of Baltimore School of Law
David Madland, Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Moderated by:
Scott Lilly, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund
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