LEAP Kickoff Meeting
WCC 3018Are you interested in workers' rights? Do you want to learn more about how lawyers can help build a more just economy and society? Would you like to get involved with local worker advocacy campaigns? Or maybe you care about poverty, inequality, education, trafficking, racial justice, or gender/LGBTQ equality and want to build the movement? […]
Unions in the Legal Profession
Milstein East ALawyers? In unions? Join the Labor and Employment Action Project (LEAP) and the Office of Public Interest Advising (OPIA) for a conversation on how and why lawyers join unions, and how it affects their legal practice. Lunch and good company provided!
Labor Justice in the Modern Service Economy: SEIU VP Valarie Long
WCC 1023Valarie Long is an International Executive Vice President of the Service Employees International Union. She leads the Property Services Division, which represents more than 386,000 janitors, security officers, airport workers, food service, light manufacturing, laundry and maintenance workers throughout North America. She grew up in a union household in an Ohio steel town, organized her […]
Organizing Committee Meeting
Lewis 301The LEAP organizing committee meets every week to plan events and discuss opportunities for the HLS community to support labor rights and economic justice. No commitment required, just join us!
R.L. Stephens at HLS: Class, Race and the Future of Solidarity
WCC 1010R.L. Stephens is an elected member of DSA’s National Political Committee and the former A. Philip Randolph Fellow at Jacobin Magazine. His writing on race, class and social movements has appeared in The Guardian, Gawker, and Jacobin. He was a campaign strategist at labor union Unite Here in Chicago and previously participated in a campaign […]
Alt-Labor Lunch Talk with Professor Manoj Dias-Abey
Pound 100Professor Manoj Dias-Abey of Queen's University will discuss labor movements, migrant worker rights, and comparative law between various countries, including Canada, as well as his forthcoming article in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, "Justice on our Fields: Can Alt-Labor Organizations Improve Migrant Farm Workers’ Conditions?" Non-pizza lunch.
