Power at Work Blogcast #32: Legal Assault on the NLRB
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Exploring the current legal challenges against the NLRB, implications of the cases, and the potential for increased conflict between corporations, unions, and the government.
In this podcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Charlotte Garden, Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and contributor to the Economic Policy Institute's Unequal Power Project; Michael Z. Green, Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law and Director of the Workplace Law Program; and Jeffrey Hirsch, Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and editor of the Workplace Prof Blog, to discuss the business community's legal attacks on the NLRB. Listen to their conversation as they discuss the pending Supreme Court case Starbucks v. McKinney, the constitutionality of the NLRB, and the legal infrastructure of labor relations.
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Charlotte Garden joined the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in Fall 2022. She specializes in labor law, employment law, and constitutional law. Her interests include the intersection of workers' rights and the Constitution, and how law supports (or undermines) worker voice and power. Professor Garden is active in national policy efforts to strengthen workers' rights, including the Economic Policy Institute's Unequal Power Project, a multiyear interdisciplinary initiative to reexamine the foundational assumptions about the balance of power in labor market relationships, and the Clean Slate for Worker Power, a project of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program.
Michael Z. Green is a member of the Texas A&M University School of Law faculty. Professor Green’s scholarship focuses on workplace disputes and the intersection of race and alternatives to the court resolution process. His legal practice experience in Illinois and Kentucky focused on representing clients in workplace disputes. Among his many other professional activities, Professor Green is a labor and employment mediator and arbitrator who serves as a member of the American Arbitration Association’s National Labor Arbitration panel, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Labor Panel, and as a hearing officer for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Trial Board.
Jeffrey Hirsch, Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professor of Law, joined Carolina Law in 2011. He served as Associate Dean for Strategy from 2016-2018 and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2013-2016. Hirsch’s teaching and research focuses on labor and employment law issues, and he has authored numerous books, book chapters, articles, and essays on topics including technology in the workplace, unions, and dismissal law. He is an editor of the Workplace Prof Blog, executive committee member of the Labor Law Group, research fellow at the NYU Center for Labor & Employment Law, former chair of the AALS Labor Relations & Employment Law Section, and former president of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools.
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