Power At Work

Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Cynthia Estlund, author and Professor at NYU School of Law, and Steven Greenhouse, Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation. Listen to their conversation on the importance of collective bargaining in 2023, the trends leading into 2024, and the future of worker power.

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Listen to her in conversation with Elise Gould and Rick McGahey as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for November 2023. This conversation was aired live on the homepage of the blog at 12:00 PM ET on Friday, December 8. You don't want to miss this Numbers Day blogcast! Don't forget to subscribe to the Power At Work Blog: https://poweratwork.us/

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Bill Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining, Joseph van der Naald, PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, and Scott Phillipson, president of SEIU Local 200. Seth and guests discuss trends in organizing among higher education workers, including graduate and undergraduate students, Ruth Milkman's union density report, and current organizing efforts at Universities like Emory, Syracuse, and California State. **This blogcast is brought to you by Union Built PC: https://unionbuiltpc.com/ **

In this month's Power Hour blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Ruben Garcia, professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Mark Gaston Pearce, the executive director of the Workers’ Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Listen to their conversation on the politics of labor and labor in politics, the unfinished business of pro-worker legislation, the unfinished business at the NLRB, bargaining over new technologies, and much more. Subscribe to the Power At Work Blog here: https://poweratwork.us/

In this very special Veterans Day Blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by William Attig of the AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council and Martin Helms from Helmets to Hardhats to discuss veterans in the labor movement. Learn about the role unions play in the lives of veterans, the role veterans play in unions, the best programs in the movement for veterans, and much more. Don't forget to subscribe to the Power At Work Blog: https://poweratwork.us/

In this podcast, we hosted a roundtable of labor reporters who discussed and reacted to some of the biggest stories about the labor movement today. Their conversation covered the covered recent collective bargaining stories, including the negotiations between the UAW and the “Big Three; the ongoing wave of strikes, pickets, and other forms of collective action that workers and unions are using to confront corporate power; the state of worker worker power within the news business; and much more.    Kim Kelly is an independent journalist and author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. Kim has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Vogue since 2018, and her work has also appeared in numerous publications, including In These Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and The New York Times.  Michael Sainato is a labor reporter for The Guardian US. His writing has been published by The New York Times, the Guardian, Gizmodo, the Nation, HuffPost, and many other outlets. Jordan Zakarin is a reporter and producer for More Perfect Union. He writes, reports, produces, directs, and edits stories about politics, policy, and the revived workers' rights movement.

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with three political directors exactly a year before the 2024 presidential election. Seth is joined by Susan Valentine from Unite Here!, Russ Breckenride from the International Plumbers and Pipefitters Union, and Katrina Mendiola from National Education Association. This blogcast is a treat for any political junkie. Pay close attention, you don't want to miss this one. Subscribe to the Blog! https://poweratwork.us/

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Watch to her in conversation with Aaron Sojourner, Senior Researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute, and Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis at the New School, as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for October 2023. This conversation was aired live on the homepage of the blog at 8:45 AM ET on Friday, November 3 — just 15 minutes after the release of the report. Subscribe to the Blog! https://poweratwork.us/

In this podcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris speaks with with Amy Livingston and Sarah Lazare, co-authors of Workday Magazine and In These Times article "5 Things Unions Can Do To Defend Transgender Workers". Learn about the gender related terms they define, listen to them talk about why gender identity rights are workers' rights, what unions can do to protect their transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive members, and more. Read the article here: https://inthesetimes.com/article/5-things-unions-can-do-to-defend-transgender-workers Don't forget to subscribe to the Power At Work Blog: https://poweratwork.us/

In this month's Power Hour blogcast, Seth is joined by Victor Narro, Project Director for the UCLA Labor Center, and David Madland, senior fellow and the senior adviser to the American Worker Project at American Progress. Listen to them as they discuss strike activity, sectoral bargaining, labor's role in immigration, and Bidenomics. Don't forget to subscribe to the Power At Work Blog: https://poweratwork.us/