Power At Work

Episode #29 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Aaron Sojourner - Senior Researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchBill Samuel - Labor Consultant for NVG, LLCCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on July 7th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432 Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.us TikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #28 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Benjamin Sachs - Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law SchoolMichael Sainato - writer for The GuardianAlex Jacquez - Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork CollaborativeCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on June 23rd and soon after on PowerAtWork.US. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432 Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.us TikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #27 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Elizabeth Ford - Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of LawClaudia Irizarry Aponte - writer for THE CITYHarold Phillips - Principal Director of the Labor Radio Podcast NetworkCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on May 26th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432 Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.us TikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #26 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Kim Kelly - writer for In These TimesPatricia Campos-Medina - Executive Director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell UniversityDavid Madland -Senior Fellow at the Center for American ProgressCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on May 26th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432 Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.us TikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #25 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Michael Z Green - Professor of Law at Texas A&M UniversityKate Bronfenbrenner - Director of Labor Education Research at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor RelationsChris Garlock - Executive Director of the Labor Heritage FoundationCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on May 12th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432 Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.us TikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #24 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Ali Bustamante - Professor of Practice at University of New OrleansMcKenna Schueler - reporter for The Orlando WeeklyRuben Garcia - Professor of Law and Director at UNLV, William S. Boyd School of LawCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on March 14th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432 Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.us TikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #23 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Anne Lofaso - Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of LawJacob Morrison - Host, The Valley Labor ReportLauren Gurley - Labor Reporter, The Washington PostCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on March 14th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432 Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.us TikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #21 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Steven Greenhouse - Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation,Benjamin Sachs - Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law SchoolMel Buer, - creator of Words About WorkCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on March 31st and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #21 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Claudia Irizarry Aponte - Writer, THE CITYAaron Sojourner - Senior Researcher, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment ResearchBill Samuel - Labor consultant, NVG, LLCCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on March 17th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QFZux5X96zMiCbcM5Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/power-at-work/id1677013432Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Professor John Kallas to break down the numbers behind worker activism in 2025 — how many strikes were launched, how many workers walked off the job, and what it all means for labor power in America.Continuing a Power At Work annual tradition, Seth and John discuss the Cornell ILR-University of Illinois Labor Action Tracker's Annual Report on work stoppages in 2025. They examine whether workers grew bolder or more cautious during the first year of the second Trump presidency — and what workers were fighting for when they did strike: higher wages, safer workplaces, and an end to anti-union retaliation.Professor John Kallas is the director of the Labor Action Tracker. He has worked in collective bargaining and organizing for the California Nurses Association and SEIU, and is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #20 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Hamilton Nolan - Writer, In These TimesDr. Patricia Campos-Medina - Executive Director, Cornell ILRMark Gevaart - Host, My Labor RadioCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on March 3rd and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #19 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Kim Kelly - Writer, In These TimesMichael Green - Professor of Law, Texas A&M UniversityDave Jamieson - Labor Reporter, HuffPostConnect with Power At Work:Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblogInstagram: @poweratworkblogTwitter/X: @poweratworkblogFacebook: @poweratworkblogLinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #18 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Michael Sainato - Writer, The GuardianKate Bronfenbrenner - Director of Labor Education Research, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor RelationsChris Garlock - Executive Director, Labor Heritage FoundationConnect with Power At Work:Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblogInstagram: @poweratworkblogTwitter/X: @poweratworkblogFacebook: @poweratworkblogLinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #17 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Alexandra Martinez - writer for PrismAlex Jacquez - Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork CollaborativeDavid Madland - Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Catch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on January 27th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QF...Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Listen on OvercastConnect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Patricia Campos-Medina to explore migration, belonging, worker power, and the everyday people shaping the future of immigrant worker justice.In this special episode, Seth talks with Patricia about a project of the Worker Institute at Cornell University called Stories of Belonging: TPS Workers. The project collected interviews with Temporary Protected Status holders living and working in the United States. Seth and Patricia examine how race, immigration status, and workers’ rights intersect and how collective action transforms precarity into power.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workDr. Patricia Campos-Medina is a Research-Teaching-Extension (RTE) Faculty and labor educator focusing on the intersection of race, immigration status, and workers’ rights. She serves as the Executive Director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Episode #16 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Bill Samuel - Pro-union consultant for NVGAndrew Ziaja - Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of LawCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on January 13th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #15 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Claudia Irizarry Aponte - Senior Reporter covering labor and work for THE CITYMatt Alley - Creator of BlueCollarWriterCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on December 16th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Matthew Platkin and Randy Korgan to discuss the ongoing fight for Amazon’s employees that is raging in the courts and the workplace.In this episode, Seth discusses with his guests the two lawsuits brought by New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew Platkin that allege Amazon has broken the laws protecting its workers, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' efforts to organize Amazon delivery drivers and others. Most importantly, they will discuss the intersection of New Jersey’s lawsuits against Amazon with the Teamsters’ efforts to organize Amazon.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workMatthew J. Platkin is the Attorney General for the state of New Jersey. He was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to serve as the state’s 62nd Attorney General on February 3, 2022, and confirmed to that role with bipartisan support by the New Jersey Senate on September 29, 2022.Randy Korgan leads the Teamsters’ Amazon Division and serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 1932 in San Bernardino, California.

Episode #14 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Kim Kelly - Labor reporter for In These Times magazineMark Gevaart - Host of the My Labor Radio podcast and an active and activist member of the United Auto WorkersRuben Garcia - Ralph Denton Professor of Law at the University of Las Vegas, NevadaCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on December 9th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by David Foster and Lenore Palladino to discuss how workers can build real power at the very top of the corporations that shape our lives.In this episode, Seth, Lenore, and David dig into the arguments for and against worker representation on corporate boards and how board representation compares to and comports with traditional forms of worker power like strikes and collective bargaining. They also explore the limitations of the current mechanisms for providing workers with board seats and policy reforms that could strengthen how workers are represented in the boardroom. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QF...Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Listen on OvercastConnect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workDavid Foster is a member of the Board of Directors of Kaiser Aluminum and the Board of Directors of steel producer EVRAZ North America. David previously served as Director of United Steelworkers District #11, a 13-state region based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Lenore Palladino is an economist, lawyer, and Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research centers on the political economy of corporations and finance.

Episode #13 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Harold Phillips - Host of Working to Live in Southwest Washington and Principal Director of the Labor Radio Podcast NetworkTalia Soglin - Reporter covering transportation and labor at the Chicago TribuneJacob Morrison - Host of The Valley Labor Report and Secretary-Treasurer of the North Alabama Area Labor CouncilCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on November 25th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Miren Algorri and Johanna Hester to discuss the recent important contract victory for more than 60,000 child care workers in California.Watch now to learn more about the lives of child care workers and how the right to organize and bargain collectively has shaped child care provision in California. Seth, Miren, and Johanna will discuss how these workers won this latest contract victory, how organizing and bargaining in California’s child care industry uses a different model than the private-sector model overseen by the federal National Labor Relations Board, and how that model might inform union organizing in the future. Connect with Power At Work:Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblogInstagram: @poweratworkblogTwitter/X: @poweratworkblogFacebook: poweratworkblogLinkedIn: power-at-workJohanna Puno Hester is the assistant executive director of UDW/AFSCME Local 3930. She continues her community organizing through the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), the first and only national organization of Asian Pacific American union members to advance worker, immigrant and civil rights.Miren Algorri is a dedicated Early Childhood Educator with over 30 years of experience in the field and owner of Little Blossoms Family Childcare, providing bilingual early childhood services to families in San Diego, California.

Episode #12 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Seema Patel - Associate Professor of Law at UCSF Law SchoolClaudia Irizarry Aponte - Senior Reporter covering labor and work for THE CITYBill Samuel - Pro-union consultant for NVGCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on November 11th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QF...Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Listen on OvercastConnect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by David Sirota of The Lever and Luc Triangle of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to discuss how some wealthy corporations are aggressively engaged in undermining democracy and how the labor movement is fighting back.In this episode, Seth, David, and Luc will discuss a new report issued by the International Trade Union Confederation — the ITUC — entitled “Corporate Underminers of Democracy 2025”, and new book titled "MASTER PLAN" by David Sirota. Seth, David, and Luc will discuss the report and book, along with other recent developments in the battle to preserve democracy. They will also discuss why worker power and the labor movement are essential to winning that battle.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workLuc Triangle is the General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation. He was elected to that position two years ago, after serving as the General Secretary of IndustriAll European Trade Union for almost a decade. Before that, he was the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Federation for Textiles, Clothing and Leather (ETUF-TCL). David Sirota is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Lever, a reader-supported investigative news outlet. He was a speechwriter and senior adviser for Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign. He also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Netflix's Don't Look Up.

Episode #11 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:McKenna Schueler - News reporter for Orlando WeeklyAli Bustamante - Professor of Practice at the University of New OrleansSuhauna Hussain - News reporter for Los Angeles TimesCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on October 28th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Sonia R. Vásquez Luna of LIUNA and Steven Gardner of NJ LECET to discuss working-class politics and the state government elections in New Jersey and Virginia that are taking place in 2025.The panel covered a number of important topics, including whether working-class and worker power issues are part of the candidates’ campaigns.  Our guests discussed whether unions in Virginia and New Jersey have an agenda that they want their endorsed candidates to implement if they are elected. They also addressed whether the two Democratic candidates are labor Democrats, focusing on working-class issues. Finally, Seth will ask Sonia and Stever to predict the outcomes of the elections in their states, and the effects that those expected outcomes might have on the 2026 midterm elections that will involve more governors and state legislators, but also every member of the U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the U.S. Senate.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workSonia R. Vásquez Luna is the Business Manager of Laborers' public employee local union 572, representing over 3,000 Public Employees and Service Contract members in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, and North Carolina. Ms. Luna is also a member of the Manassas, Virginia, city council. Steve Gardner is the Director of the New Jersey Laborers Employers Cooperation and Education Trust, which is a labor-management partnership of the Laborers International Union of North America. Mr. Gardner is the former Executive Director of the New Jersey Assembly Majority Leader’s Office and a former Senior Advisor to Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald. Prior to his service in government, Mr. Gardner administered the New Jersey Laborers’ political action committees.

Episode #10 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Sharon Block - Executive Director at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just EconomyElizabeth Ford - Assistant Professor at Seattle University School of LawTalia Soglin - Reporter for transportation and labor at the Chicago TribuneCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on October 14th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Randi Weingarten of the AFT and Roy Bahat of Bloomberg Beta to discuss the effort by the American Federation of Teachers and its local largest affiliate in cooperation with three of the leading American artificial intelligence companies to train elementary and secondary school teachers to use AI in their work.Watch now to see answered: How and why did the deal come together? Seth, Randi, and Roy will talk about what the union and the companies hope to accomplish by training school teachers in the use of AI. They will discuss how the union might try to address AI through collective bargaining over artificial intelligence. And they will discuss whether this arrangement between a very large teachers’ union and some very large companies is getting any pushback from local leaders, members, other unions, or anyone else.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workRandi Weingarten is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator. She has been president of the American Federation of Teachers since 2008, and is a member of the AFL-CIO. She is the former president of the United Federation of Teachers.Roy Bahat is a venture capitalist, educator, and activist. He is currently the head of Bloomberg Beta, the venture capital arm of Bloomberg. He teaches at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Episode #9 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Alexandra Martinez - Senior News Reporter at PrismMel Buer - Multimedia freelance journalist and creator of Words About WorkAndrew Ziaja - Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of LawCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on September 30th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jason Stahl of the College Football Players Association and Tremayne Anchrum Jr., Clemson Tigers alumnus, to discuss the effort currently underway to organize college football players so they will be able to bargain with their schools over their working conditions.Watch now to see answered: Are college athletes, and college football players in particular, employees of their universities with the rights to organize and bargain collectively under federal and state laws? To better understand this question, Seth, Jason, and Tremayne will discuss the lives of college football players and what their work weeks look like, both during the season and off-season. They will also discuss whether this is the right time to engage in a novel form of worker organizing, given the ferocious union busting and anti-union attitudes of the current President of the United States.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workJason Stahl is the founder and Executive Director of the College Football Players Association. Jason is a former faculty member in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.Tremayne Anchrum Jr. is an American professional football guard. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and has previously played in the NFL for the Los Angeles Rams, with whom he won Super Bowl LVI. Tremayne serves on the CFBPA's Alumni Member Leadership Committee.

Episode #8 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Kim Kelly - Labor reporter for In These Times magazine and a regular labor columnist for Teen VogueMark Gevaart - Host of the My Labor Radio podcast and an active and activist member of the United Auto WorkersAnne Lofaso - Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and former attorney for the National Labor Relations BoardCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on September 16th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this episode, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris will recap all seven of the blogcasts that were a part of the 'What Could Happen Under Trump?' series published on Power at Work.Watch now as Seth shares clips of some of the most important insights from the 14 guests who generously participated in this series.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workSeth D. Harris is a Distinguished Professor of Practice at Northeastern University and Affiliated Faculty and a Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change (and its partner project The GovLab) where he runs the Initiative on Labor and Economic Justice. Prior to joining Northeastern University, Professor Harris was the Deputy Assistant to the President for Labor and the Economy and Deputy Director of the Biden White House’s National Economic Council.

In this very special blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Governor Tim Walz, the two-term governor of Minnesota and the 2024 Democratic nominee for Vice-President of the United States. Watch now to learn more about the state of worker power in America, the relationship between the Democratic Party and working-class voters after the re-election of Donald Trump, some of Gov. Walz’s pro-worker accomplishments during his seven years as Minnesota’s governor, and about the elections of 2026 and 2028.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workTimothy James Walz is an American politician, former educator, and Army National Guard veteran serving since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. He was the Democratic nominee for vice president in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2019.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Chris Griswold from American Compass, a leading pro-union conservative policy expert who has been working with Sen. Josh Hawley and others on legislation that, if enacted, may very well benefit workers, worker power, and unions.Watch now to learn more about how support for unions fits with a larger politically conservative ideology, whether there is broader support for unions in the conservative movement than might be obvious to those of us who are not a part of that movement, and legislation that is currently pending that is the product of some our guest’s policy worker and advocacy.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: @poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workChris Griswold is the policy director at American Compass, a think tank "dedicated to restoring an economic consensus that emphasizes the importance of family, community, and industry to the nation’s liberty and prosperity". Griswold’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, National Affairs, the Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, American Affairs, Comment, and The Hill, among other publications. He was previously a senior advisor in the U.S. Senate.

Episode #7 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are: Ruben Garcia - Ralph Denton Professor of Law at the University of Las Vegas, NevadaMatt Alley - Creator of BlueCollarWriterBill Samuel - Pro-union consultant, former AFL-CIO Director of AdvocacyCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on September 4th and soon after on poweratwork.us.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Lorena Gonzalez and Chrissy Lynch to discuss the new effort by the AFL-CIO’s state federations of labor to study, plan, organize, and bargain around artificial intelligence in the workplace and our society.Watch now to learn more about this initiative from the presidents of two of our country’s largest state federations of labor, who will be the national co-chairs of a new AFL-CIO task force about AI and worker power. They will discuss how artificial intelligence will affect workers and unions, the labor movement’s efforts to force government to put public policy guardrails in place that protect workers’ right and jobs, the lessons they hope to learn from unions’ experience bargaining over artificial intelligence, and how the labor movement might be able to use artificial intelligence to build worker power.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workLorena Gonzalez is an American union leader and former politician, serving as the president of the California Labor Federation since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the California State Assembly from 2013 to 2022, representing the 80th Assembly district. In January 2022, Gonzalez resigned from the state assembly to assume a leadership position in the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.Chrissy Lynch is President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. She previously served as the Secretary-Treasurer and Chief of Staff of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, and spent 15 years running the political and legislative departments of the MA AFL-CIO. Before working for organized labor in Massachusetts, she worked on union-led electoral campaigns in California and Massachusetts.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Raj Nayak, Candace Archer, and Rebecca Reindel, three policy experts who are closely monitoring and actively opposing the Labor Department’s deregulatory agenda.Watch now to learn more about some of the labor standards and protections that are slated for elimination across the Labor Department. Seth and guests will discuss what happens next, and how the labor movement and members of the Power At Work community can make themselves heard inside the Francis Perkins Building, which is the Labor Department’s national headquarters.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workRajesh D. Nayak is a fellow at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and a consultant on labor policy and organizational transitions. Most recently, Raj served as the Assistant Secretary for Policy at the United States Department of Labor, overseeing the Department’s regulatory agenda, forward-looking policy development, and evaluation offices.Candace Archer is the policy director for the AFL-CIO. She previously worked for Americans for Financial Reform, the American Federation of Government Employees, and National Labor College. Candace has a Ph.D in Political Economy and was an associate professor for more than 15 years.Rebecca Reindel is the director of occupational safety and health for the AFL-CIO, where she advocates for improved workplace safety and health policies at federal, state, and international levels. She facilitates collaboration among stakeholders to address workplace hazards, testifies before policymakers, and bridges the gap between shop-floor realities and legislative decision-making.

Episode #6 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are: Claudia Irizarry Aponte - Senior Reporter at THE CITYHarold Phillips - Host of Working to Live in Southwest Washington and Principal Director of the Labor Radio Podcast NetworkDavid Madland - Senior Fellow and the Senior Adviser to the American Worker Project at American ProgressCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on August 14th and soon after on poweratwork.us.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Victor Mineros and Kathy Torres to discuss the nationwide strike by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters against Republic Services, which is a solid waste management company that collects and disposes of garbage and recycling in cities across the U.S.Watch now to learn more about the status of the strike, the kind of work the Teamsters members at Republic Services perform, the biggest issues in the negotiations, and how we can expect this strike to be resolved. Also discussed are some of the strategies the Teamsters have used in this strike to bring pressure on Republic Services to agree to their members’ bargaining demands, and how the public’s reaction to a long-lasting garbage strike had influenced those strategies.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workVictor Mineros is the Director of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' Solid Waste and Recycling Division. He got his start with the Teamsters as a rank-and-file UPS package car driver in Los Angeles. He served as a business agent and organizer for Teamsters Local 396 and was appointed an International Representative for the Teamsters Solid Waste and Recycling Division, which is the Teamsters Division he now leads as the Director.Kathy Torres is a Teamsters Local 179 member who has been employed by Republic Services in Ottawa, Illinois, for a year. She is a Class A Driver who has been on strike for three weeks. Kathy is originally from the South Side of Chicago and currently resides in Joliet, Illinois.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Javier Ramirez to discuss the future of labor mediation after President Trump shut down the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS). Ramirez takes you inside the negotiating room and explains the critical role labor mediators play.Watch now to learn about what happens next and why labor mediation is important. Also, learn from one of the nation's foremost mediators how the process works, and more broadly, why collective bargaining can be a model for dispute resolution in American society. Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workJavier Ramirez is the Executive Manager of the National Conflict Resolution Service at the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at Cornell University’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations. Previously, Javier served as Deputy Director of Field Operations at the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS).

Episode #5 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for our fifth episode are:Alex Jacquez - Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork CollaborativeMel Buer - Multimedia freelance journalist; Words About WorkMcKenna Schueler - News reporter for Orlando WeeklyConnect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: https://twitter.com/PowerAtWorkBlogFacebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on July 31st and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Mark Lauritsen, Veronica Cruz-Velandia, and Leehanyi Baptista to discuss the important and impressive collective bargaining victory by the meatpacking workers at JBS Foods and their union, the United Food and Commercial Workers.Listen now to learn about a historic collective bargaining win by the UFCW’s members in negotiations with JBS Foods and some of the specifics of what is included in that contract. Discussed are the members’ experience of sitting across the table from a large multi-national corporation and demanding what the workers needed to live good-quality lives, as well as the strategies they used to win a great contract.Mark Lauritsen is a UFCW International Vice President and Director of the UFCW’s Food Processing, Packing, and Manufacturing Division. Mark is a third-generation packinghouse worker who began his union career as a shop steward in the Wilson Foods meatpacking plant in Cherokee, Iowa. He is also the President of the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF).Veronica Cruz-Velandia is a UFCW shop steward and bargaining committee member who works in the fabrication department for JBS Regional Beef in Souderton, PA. She has worked for JBS for 6 years.Leehanyi Baptista is a UFCW shop steward and a member of the UFCW’s bargaining committee. He works in the maintenance department at JBS Regional Beef in Souderton, Pennsylvania.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Michael Sainato and Josh Eidelson to discuss the latest stories involving unions, worker power, and worker collective action.Watch now to learn about President Trump’s effort to bust federal employee unions, the future of the National Labor Relations Board, the labor movement’s involvement in protests against the Trump Administration’s immigration policies, and workers with disabilities in the workplace and in public policy.Michael Sainato is a labor reporter for The Guardian US. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, Huffington Post, LiveScience, Buffalo News, the Plain Dealer, the Hill, Gainesville Sun, Tallahassee Democrat, Knoxville News Sentinel, and the Troy Record.Josh Eidelson is a labor reporter for Bloomberg News and Businessweek. His work is frequently cited by lawmakers and scholars, and has been honored by groups including UCLA Anderson’s Loeb Foundation; the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW); the Sidney Hillman Foundation; the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA); the New York Labor History Association; the San Francisco Press Club; and the Northern California, Western Washington, and New York chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Episode #4 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for our second episode are:Ali Bustamante - Professor of Practice at the University of New OrleansChris Garlock - Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and founder-coordinator of the Labor Radio Podcast NetworkSharon Block - Executive Director at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just EconomyConnect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter: / poweratworkblog Facebook: poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-workCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on July 17th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Claudia Irizarry Aponte, a senior reporter covering labor and work for THE CITY; Lucia Gomez, former political director for the New York City Central Labor Council and National Immigration & Worker Rights Coordinator for LiUNA; and Michael Podhorzer, former political director of the AFL-CIO to discuss the results of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary with a labor lens.Watch now to learn whether Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s messaging about working-class and middle-class cost-of-living issues was a deciding factor in his primary victory over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the divide in the labor movement going into the primary election. Watch as these experts assess whether these NYC primary election results teach us anything about the future of working-class politics in other parts of the country.Claudia Irizarry is a senior reporter covering labor and work for THE CITY, a nonprofit local news outlet in New York, and adjunct professor at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Her reporting on the dangerous and exploitative conditions of the city’s app-based food delivery workers resulted in landmark local reforms and was awarded the James Beard Award in 2022 and the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2021, among other honors. Her work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, City Limits and NPR’s Latino USA.Lucia Gomez is the National Immigration & Worker Rights Coordinator for LiUNA, an American and Canadian labor union. Prior to her work for LiUNA, she served as the political director for the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. She led the development and implementation of the Council's political agenda, lobbying, and electoral campaigns, with a focus on advancing workers' rights, racial equity, and labor organizing.Michael Podhorzer is the former political director of the AFL-CIO. He founded the Analyst Institute, the Independent Strategic Research Collaborative (ISRC), the Defend Democracy Project, and the Polling Consortium, and helped found America Votes, Working America, For Our Future, and Catalist. He is now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Alvin Velazquez, a law professor at Indiana Maurer School of Law; Lynn Rhinehart, a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute; Gali Racabi, a law professor at Cornell Law School; and Seth Goldstein, a labor law attorney and partner at Goldstein and Singla PLLC to discuss the future of labor law. Watch now to hear four expert labor lawyers debate arguments over the future of worker power given the all-out assault on the National Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Relations Board. One argument focuses on state laws, and the other on whether workers would be better off without federal labor laws. Lynn Rhinehart is a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. Prior to Rhinehart’s role at the EPI, she worked as Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Acting Secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor.Seth Goldstein is a partner at Goldstein and Singla PLLC. Seth has represented public and private unions, including Amazon Labor Union and Trader Joe’s Workers United, before the National Labor Relations Board, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the U.S. Department of Labor.Alvin Velazquez is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana Maurer School of Law. Velazquez previously served as the Associate General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union.Gali Racabi is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, with a focus on various employment and labor law topics. Racabi has published work in many journals, including the Yale Law Review and Cornell Law Review.

Episode #3 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Aaron Sojourner - labor economist and senior researcher at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research;Jacob Morrison - host of The Valley Labor Report and Secretary-Treasurer of the North Alabama Area Labor Council; andPatricia Campos-Medina - the Executive Director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.Follow us on social media:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠Catch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on July 3rd and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Brendan Duke, the Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy at CBPP, and Amy Hanauer, the Executive Director at ITEP, to discuss Trump’s tax-and-spending bill and its impact on workers and worker power. Watch now to hear these tax experts dissect and evaluate the bill, specifically the tax cuts, and how it will disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals and corporations. Also, hear Hanauer and Duke advocate for a more progressive tax system that adequately supports working individuals and families.Follow us on social media:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠Brendan Duke is the Senior Director for Federal Budget Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. He previously served as a senior policy adviser at the Biden-Harris White House National Economic Council and as a volunteer on the Biden-Harris transition team.Amy Hanauer is the Executive Director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP). Hanauer is also the Executive Director of Citizens for Tax Justice, ITEP’s 501(c)(4) partner organization. Prior to joining ITEP, Amy founded and developed Policy Matters Ohio from a one-person start-up in 2000 to a 14-person operation with offices in Cleveland and Columbus.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Cathy Feingold, the Director of the International Department at the AFL-CIO, and Jeffrey Vogt, Rule of Law director of the Solidarity Center, live from the International Labour Conference in Geneva. Watch now to learn more about the issues being discussed at the conference, such as the platform economy and informal work, and why they matter to American workers and worker power. Also, listen to Vogt and Feingold discuss the importance of maintaining global labor standards that protect workers' rights.Follow us on social media:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠Cathy Feingold is the Director of the International Department at the ALF-CIO. In 2018, Feingold was elected Deputy President of the International Trade Union Confederation. In 2022, Secretary Blinken appointed Feingold to his Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and in 2020, Speaker Pelosi appointed her to the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board.Jeffrey Vogt is the Rule of Law director of the Solidarity Center and co-founder of the International Lawyers Assisting Workers Network. In 2022, Vogt was also appointed to the International Labor Organization Governing Body and serves on the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association.

Episode #2 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for our second episode are:Ruben Garcia - law professor and director of the Workplace Law Program at the UNLV, Boyd School of Law;Bill Samuel - former director of Government Affairs at the AFl-CIO; andMcKenna Schueler - news reporter for Orlando Weekly.Follow us on social media:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠Catch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on June 19th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.