Episode 136: How Employers Should Prepare for Union Organizing Drives

The Align team interviews an old friend of ours and industry veteran, New York City labor attorney Carolyn Richmond who runs the Hospitality Practice Group for Fox Rothchild. She stopped by the pod to help us understand the likely next steps of the SEIU’s organizing campaign in New York and how area employers should prepare if organizers end up on their doorstep. And we’ve seen the inevitable pushback on recent narratives that CEOs should be prioritizing people and communities over profits. We discuss a New York Times piece this week that argues for CEOs to remember what their real job is. And under the heading of broken record, again this week, everyone’s talking about wage theft. We’ll talk about those stories and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.