Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez
Senate Majority Office
Contact: Isaac Padilla
Office: (505) 986.4819
Mobile: (505) 264-6512
Isaac.Padilla@nmlegis.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 7, 2015
Advisory: The White House Invites Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez to be a Member of the Plenary Panel for Worker Voice Summit
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez will be one of six members of the plenary panel, “The Importance of Worker Voice,” for the White House Summit on Worker Voice. President Obama is hosting the “Worker Voice Summit” at the White House to discuss the benefits of empowering employees to become partners in growing the economy.
Who: President Obama, Secretary Tom Perez, Senator Michael Sanchez, Sarita Gupta, Ambereen Khan-Baker, Gregory Adams, Joe Schmidt and Robert Hathorn.
What: Plenary Panel “The Importance of Worker Voice” of the 2015 White House Summit on Worker Voice
Where: The White House Live Stream at https://www.whitehouse.gov/campaign/worker-voice
When: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 8:30AM MT to 10:00AM MT
Why: The panel will establish the themes of the day for all other panels: (1) underscore the importance of worker voice in an economy where the middle class shares in the benefits of economic growth; (2) present the challenges to worker voice that that justifies the President’s decision to devote an entire day at the White House and (3) identify success and ways to improve worker voice in our economy.
The plenary panel starts at 8:30AM Mountain Time and the President will give his remarks at 10:00AM. Senator Sanchez will also participate in the digital backstage from 10:35AM to 10:45AM to respond to live Twitter questions.
EAST ROOM SPEAKING PROGRAM:
10:30AM ET Opening Session
10:40AM ET Plenary Panel: The Importance of Worker Voice
12:00PM ET Remarks by the President
4:40PM ET Town Hall with the President on the Future of Worker Voice