Organizers discuss lessons from the work of the Gulf Coast Labor Council.
Speakers: Hany Khalil, Executive Director of the Gulf Coast Labor Council, AFL-CIO; Lorraine Montemayor, Texas AFL-CIO; Kristie Shackelford, IATSE 896.
May 19 on facebook live, zoom and youtube, sponsored by Convergence
Guests
Kristie Shackelford is an IATSE Local 896 costume designer from Houston.
Lorraine Montemayor is the Mobilzation & Campaign Coordinator for Texas AFL-CIO.
Hany Khalil has served as Executive Director of Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation AFL-CIO since 2016. In that role he has led the modernization of the labor council’s political program, local policy campaigns to raise workplace standards and grow the labor movement, the expansion of the council’s communications and mobilization capacity, and the growth of the council’s affiliated membership by one-third. He is a member of the Houston Federation of Teachers.