Power At Work The Power Hour: Labor Experts on Automation, Climate Change, and Attacks on the NLRB with Tia Koonse and Todd Vachon
In this podcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Tia Koonse, Legal and Policy Research Manager at the UCLA Labor Center, and Todd Vachon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and the Director of the Labor Education Action Research Network at Rutgers University. Listen to their conversation on the results of the 2023 BLS Union Members Survey, just transition in climate change and automation, and the business community's growing attacks on the NLRB.
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Todd E. Vachon, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations (LSER) and the Director of the Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. As the Director of LEARN, Todd oversees the University’s labor education programs, including classes and workshops for workers, unions, and other organizations and public programming designed to: (a) strengthen the community at work, (b) facilitate its organization on a more democratic basis, and (c) address unjustified inequalities of power and wealth in society. Todd is also the author of Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice (Temple University Press, 2023).
Tia Koonse is the Legal and Policy Research Manager at the UCLA Labor Center, where she provides legal research on low-wage industries and program support for ReWork: The Worker Justice Institute and the Black Worker Center. She holds a law and a master’s degree (’11) in urban planning from UCLA’s Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, with concentrations in Critical Race Studies and Community Development and Housing. Tia is an author of the UCLA Labor Center report "Automation and the Future of Dockwork at the San Pedro Bay Port Complex."
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