Building a Labor Movement for the 21st Century: Can Labor Law Keep Up?

Date & Time:

• November 21, 2022
• 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Location

• Sargent Hall, Keches Room, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA, 02108
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Contact Information:

• Michelle A. Kenyon
• (781) 507-1037
• [email protected]

The labor movement is at a critical point. Union organizing and strike activity is at a 60 year high and support for labor unions is at nearly 70%–the highest since 1965. Yet, over the last several decades, we’ve seen union membership steadily decline and outdated labor laws turn America into an inhospitable environment for new industries to organize.

This panel will convene local union leaders, organizers, labor lawyers, and community advocates to discuss how the ossification of America labor law has hindered the current labor movement and how the law needs to change to allow employees in new industries to create worker power. The conversation will focus on what it will take to enable workers to more efficiently organize and advocate for improved workplace environments and their economic security in the 21st century.

Join us to support the Starbucks Workers United movement in Boston, learn about current events in labor law, and connect with local, nationally recognized labor lawyers and the National Lawyers Guild Massachusetts Chapter. CLE credit is available. The event starts at 7:00 p.m. in the Keches Room on the first floor of Suffolk University Law School, located at 120 Tremont Street in Boston. You may also join via zoom. CLE credit is available. For questions, please contact: [email protected].

Panelists:

• Lou Antonellis, Business Manager/Financial Secretary, IBEW Local 103
• Taylor Dickerson, Regional Organizer, Starbucks Workers United
• Alicia Fleming, Co-Executive Director, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
• Ellen J. Messing, NLG-Mass Chapter; Partner at Messing Rudavsky & Weliky, P.C
• James Shaw, Partner at Segal Roitman, LLP
• Rand Wilson, Union Organizer, Labor Educator, and Political Activist