I. Building Worker Power at the Sectoral, Value Chain, Enterprise and Worksite Level and Expanding Who Has the Right/Obligation To Bargain:
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I.A. Levels of bargaining: sectoral bargaining; mechanisms for tripartite bargaining; value-chain bargaining; the future of enterprise bargaining
Members:
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Kate Andrias (co-chair), Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
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Larry Cohen (co-chair), Chairman, Our Revolution
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Craig Becker, General Counsel, AFL-CIO
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Cindy Estrada, Vice President, UAW
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Matt Finkin, Professor of Labor and Employment Law, University of Illinois College of Law
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Cathy Ruckelshaus, General Counsel, National Employment Law Project
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Dorian Warren, President, Center for Community Change
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I.B. Who bargains and what do we bargain over: definition of employer; range of workers who have the right to bargain; “codetermination,” workers on corporate boards and worker ownership; scope of bargaining subjects
Members:
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Sarita Gupta (co-chair), Co-Executive Director, Jobs With Justice
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Raj Nayak (co-chair), Deputy Executive Director, NELP
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Nicole Berner, General Counsel, SEIU
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Rakeen Mabud, Fellow, Roosevelt Institute
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Brishen Rogers, Associate Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Mark Schneider, General Counsel, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW)
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II. Available Forms of Worker Organizations:
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II.A. Organizations for worker power: works councils; members-only unions; consumer, community and worker campaigns; political and advocacy organizations for workers; strengthening existing unions
Members:
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Catherine Fisk (co-chair), Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
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David Rolf (co-chair), President Emeritus, SEIU Local 775
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Jennifer Abruzzo, Special Counsel for Strategic Initiatives, Communications Workers of America
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César F. Rosado Marzán, Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Law and the Workplace, Chicago-Kent College of Law
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Kris Rondeau, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical
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Andrew Strom, Associate General Counsel, Service Employees International Union 32BJ
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Alexandra Suh, Executive Director, Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA)
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II.B. Facilitating the formation and sustainability of powerful worker organizations: models for generation of revenue and for sustaining institutions; facilitating the choice of worker organization (setting the default, mandating elections)
Members:
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Celine McNicholas (co-chair), Director of Labor Law and Policy, Economic Policy Institute
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Judy Scott (co-chair), Partner, James & Hoffman, P.C.
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Matt Ginsburg, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO
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Gerry Hudson, Executive Vice President, SEIU
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Shayna Strom, National Advocacy Director and Deputy Political Director, ACLU
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Karla Walter, Director, Employment Policy, Center for American Progress
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Gwynne Wilcox, Partner, Levy Ratner, P.C.
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III. Establishing the Scope and Power of Collective Action: new pathways for building power; strike rights; defining the scope for boycotts, pickets and other forms of collective action; right to collective action in the nonunion workplace
Members:
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Charlotte Garden (co-chair), Professor, Seattle University School of Law
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Saket Soni (co-chair), Executive Director, National Guestworker Alliance
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Stephen Lerner, Fellow, Georgetown University Kalamanowitz Center
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Mike Manley, Staff Attorney, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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Michelle Miller, Co-Founder and Co-Director, coworker.org
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Jake Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St Louis
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Adam Shah, Senior Policy Analyst, Jobs With Justice
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Erica Smiley, Co-Executive Director, Jobs With Justice
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George Wiszynski, Associate General Counsel, United Food and Commercial Workers
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IV. Building Worker Power Through Benefits Provision and Enforcement:
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IV.A. Benefits: using worker organizations to administer portable benefits; adapting a Ghent-type system for the U.S.; facilitating use of worker owned/controlled capital
Members:
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Matt Dimick (co-chair), Professor, University of Buffalo School of Law
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Aijen Poo (co-chair), Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
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Jim Conigliaro, Founder, Independent Drivers Guild
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Natalie Foster, Fellow, Future of Work Initiative, Aspen Institute
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David Madland, Senior Advisor, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress
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Jamil Poonja
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Richard Resnick, Sherman Dunn, P.C., General Counsel, IBEW and North America’s Building Trades Unions
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IV.B. Enforcement: creative redesign of enforcement regimes to build worker power; reopening access to the courts for workers; addressing employer intransigence
Members:
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Terri Gerstein (co-chair), Director, State and Local Enforcement Project, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
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Sean Goldhammer, Dallas Staff Attorney, Workers Defense Project
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Jane Flanagan, Visiting Scholar, Chicago-Kent Law School and Leadership in Government Fellow, Open Society Foundations
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Richard Griffin, Of Counsel, Bredhoff & Kaiser
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Emily Spieler, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
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David Weil, Dean and Professor, Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University
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V. Empowering Labor Law Reform By Updating Other Legal Regimes: antitrust; corporate; immigration; constitutional; criminal; consumer; voting rights and campaign finance
Members:
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K. Sabeel Rahman (co-chair), President, Demos and Associate Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
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Lynn Rhinehart (co-chair), Former General Counsel, AFL-CIO
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Mary Joyce Carlson, Attorney, Fight for Fifteen
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Benjamin Elga, Executive Director, Justice Catalyst
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Ruben Garcia, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, UNLV, Boyd School of Law
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Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy, Harvard Kennedy School
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David Seligman, Attorney, Towards Justice
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