May 16th - Conference Call: Averting Layoffs and Revitalizing the Manufacturing Economy

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May 16th - Conference Call: Averting Layoffs and Revitalizing the Manufacturing Economy

As communities face a mounting economic recession and an even deeper problem of a hallowing out of manufacturing jobs across the countries, many states are promoting new and exciting policies to not only avert mass layoffs but work proactively to revitalize manufacturing jobs in our communities.

Progressive States Network, along with the National Employment Law Project, the Steel Valley Authority, and the Center for State Innovation/Center on Wisconsin Strategy will be sponsoring a national conference call for state legislators and officials and state advocates to highlight strategies and best practices for averting layoffs and revitalizing the manufacturing economy. This conference call will include participants from the recent Great Lakes Regional Revitalization Summit held this April in Cleveland.

A summary of the practices highlighted at the Summit was detailed in a recent Stateside Dispatch, which is included below, including policies that ranged from rapid response networks to help workers during layoffs, early warning programs to avert layoffs in the first place, new industry partnerships to help whole sectors revitalize themselves in the face of global competition, and policy programs to promote high road manufacturing and a greening of the regional economy.

Date: Friday, May 16, 2008

Time: 1:00pm EST

Speaking on the call will be:

Tom Croft, Steel Valley Authority
Laura Dresser, Center for State Innovation / COWS
Rick McHugh, National Employment Law Project
Nathan Newman, Progressive States Network
For Call-in information, RSVP at http://www.progressivestates.org/conferencecallRSVP/

[eridani]

1. Corrected contact info

Please note that our most recent Stateside Dispatch listed an eroneous link to the RSVP page for tomorrow afternoon's conference call on Revitalizing the Manufacturing Economy.

The incorrect link was:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1665/EVENT: Great Lakes Economies Conference call/index.jsp?EVENT: Great Lakes Economies Conference call_KEY=41148

The correct link is as follows:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1665/event/index.jsp?event_KEY=41148

We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

Best,


Austin Guest
Communications Specialist
Progressive States Network
aguest {at} progressivestates.org
212.680.3116 x 110