2017 Metal Trades Department Annual Conference
 

Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO

Annual Conference

October 9-12, 2017

Bally’s Hotel/Las Vegas, Nevada

 

                                                                                                AGENDA

 

Monday, October 9th

 

Location

11:00 am

MTD Charity Golf Tournament

Desert Pines Golf Resort

Tuesday, October 10th

 

 

8:00 am – 12:00pm

DOE Caucus Meeting (Invite Only)

Directors Room

8:00 am – 3:00 pm

IAMAW Caucus (Invite Only)

Skyview 3

9:00 am

EXHIBIT SET UP

Skyview 1

10:00am – 12:00pm

East Coast MTC Meeting (Invite Only)

Skyview 2

12:00pm – 2:00 pm

AEMTC Meeting (Lunch Provided)

Skyview 4

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

REGISTRATION

Skyview Foyer

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

IBEW Caucus (Invite Only)

Directors Room

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Vigor Industrial Labor-Mgmt (Invite Only)

Skyview 2

Wednesday, October 11th

 

 

7:30 am

Registration

Skyview Foyer

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

Skyview 2 & 3

9:00 am

Opening Ceremony

-   Invocation

-   Pledge of Allegiance

Skyview 5 & 6

9:15 am          

Introduction of Head Table & Opening Remarks

 

10:00 am

Keynote Speaker
Eric Dean, General President
Iron Workers

 

10:20 am

Douglas Matheney,
Special Advisor to the Secretary
Office of Fossil Energy

 

10:35 am

Will Attig, Executive Director
Union Veterans Council

 

10:50 am

Break

 

11:05 am

Brian Hale, Senior Vice President & COO
Ullico Inc.

 

11:25 am

Russ Gittlen, President/Director
Guide Dogs of America

 

11:45 am

Roy Coulombe
Royal Advisors & Consultants LLC

 

12:00 pm

LUNCH (on own)

 

12:00 pm

NAVSEA Lunch (Invite Only)

Skyview 1

1:30 pm

Rear Admiral Stephen F. Williamson
NAVSEA

 

1:50 pm

Award Presentation

 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

MTD Council Reports

 

3:00 pm

CLOSE

 

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Reception

Paris Pool

Thursday, October 12th

 

 

7:30 am - 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

Skyview 2&3

9:00 am

General Session Convenes

Skyview 5 & 6

9:10 am

Karen McGinnis, Director, Volpentest HAMMER Federal Training Center

 

 

9:30 am

J. Michael Snowden, Market President

Labor Banking Bank of Labor

 

9:45 am

Panel Discussion 1
MTD Safety & Health Issues

·       Tom Carpenter, Hanford Challenge

·       Eric Dean, General President, Iron Workers

·       Dan Stepano, General President, OPCMIA

·       Mike Thompson, President, ATLC

 

 

10:45 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Panel Discussion 2
The future of the Metal Trades (Committee in Formation)

·       Chris Madello,
President, Washington Area MTC

·       Roy Coulombe,
Royal Advisors & Consultants LLC

·       Sue Haley, Vigor Industrial LLC

·       Ken DelaCruz, President New London MTC

 

12:00 pm

Lunch

Skyview 2 & 3

1:15 pm

MTD Organizing “Strategic Plan for the Future”
James Hart, President
Metal Trades Department, AFL-CIO

 

2:15 pm

MTD Council Reports cont.

 

2:45 pm

Wrap up & feedback of conference