December 2025 Meeting

Meeting Agenda:

9:30 am - 10:00 am: Meet, greet, and eat
10:00 am - 10:30 am: Elected Official Updates
10:30 am - 11:00 am: Updates from Congresswoman Debbie Dingell
11:00 am - 11:20 am: Candidate Corner
11:20 am - 12:00 pm: Ian Robinson on Trump, Working People and the Labor Movement: Crisis & Opportunity

Speaker Bios:

Congresswoman Dingell represents Michigan’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Natural Resources Committee, where she leads on critical issues including affordable and accessible health care, clean energy and water, domestic manufacturing and supply chain resilience, and protecting our wildlife and natural resources.

Ian Robinson has been working on issues related to labor and globalization, with a particular focus on North America, for about 20 years now. In addition to scholarly research and writing, and courses related to these topics, Robinson is engaged with these issues as a labor activist. He is an elected officer of the union of nontenure-track faculty at the U of Michigan, which he helped to organize. He is also a board member of the Washtenaw County Workers’ Center, which aims to increase the power of low-wage workers in the Washtenaw County area.