Archive - NLG-Labor & Employment Committee

September 2020

Fight for the Right to Vote: Recap of the NLG LEC Webinar "Defending Voting Rights in 2020." The Voting Rights Working Group will meet Friday, September 11 at 9am PT/11am CT/12pm ET
Police Unions: What is to Be Done? CLE Workshop on September 23 at 10am-1pm ET / 12-3pm CT / 1-4pm ET
"Holding Uber and Lyft Accountable" by Stacey Leyton
"DOJ Pushes White Supremacist Policy on Campus" by M.S.M.R.

Join us for "How Can Lawyers Support Worker Organizing Under COVID-19" on Friday, June 26 at 12pm ET/11am CT/9am PT
"A New Normal Calls for Paid Leave for Employees" by Joan G. Hill
"Defending Workers' Health and Safety State by State" by Fran Schreiberg
"Bringing Gig Workers Back into the Fold: California's New Law and Gig Employers' Resistance to It" by Amy Cu and Octavio Velarde�
"Cuba's Currency Dilemma" by Matthew Rinaldi

Join us for the #Law4thPeople Convention in Durham, October 16-20, 2019. A calendar of events is in the newsletter
Organize the South (or die): Why the South Matters to the Future of Labor, by MaryBe McMillan
A Southern Workers School to Organize a Labor Movement in the South, by Angaza Laughinghouse
Organizing Gig Workers in California,by Benjamin O'Donnell
Reform of the Gig Economy Is a Wonderful Thing: The California Legislature's enactment of rights for gig workers is the biggest blow against poverty in years, by Jay Youngdahl
Updates from Sugar Law, by John Philo
In Memoriam: Ursula Levelt

What Does NAFTA 2.0 Mean for Workers' Rights? by Jeffrey Vogt
What We're Fighting For: Teachers and other school employees strike to preserve public schools, by Christine Campbell
Why Educators in North Carolina are Going Back to Raleigh on May 1, by Michelle Burton
USMCA - Canadian Labour Law Perspectives, by Claude Melancon & Simon Archer, CALL-ACAMS
United Teachers - Los Angeles 2019 Strike: One for the Ages, by Ira L. Gottlieb
Updates from Sugar Law, by John Philo
Organizing Workers in the Gig Economy
Immigrants' Rights are Labor Rights
Save the Labor & Education Research Center
Send us your ideas for the annual NLG Conference
See you at the LCC!

Join us at the Law for the People Convention in Portland, Oregon, October 31 - November 4. A calendar of events is in the Newsletter, including our Workshop: Teachers Strikes: Workers, Students & Our Communities
The Right Wing's Plans to Destroy Public Schooling: Why defending public schools from corporate attacks matters to all of us, by Prof. Gordon Lafer
Los Angeles Chapter Report
Information about our the 20th Anniversary 2019 Cuba Delegation
Meet our Student Committee
Mentorship Program Announcement

Join us at the LCC Conference in Atalnta
Social Justice and Progressive Unionism: Bargaining to improve conditions for women workers at Sierra Club by Larry Williams Jr.
We are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: West Virginia's women know what they are worth by Sarah David Heydemann
#MeToo: Standing Up to Abuse in the Hospitatliy Sector and Beyond by Susan Minato
Elections Matter: Join the Fight Against Racial Voter Supression by Jeanne Mirer
Reclaiming the Red and Purple States: Unions' and Workers' Role in the Resistance by Joan Hill
This Land is Our Land: Organizing in the Central Valley and the country's heartland by Fran Schreiberg

Join us at the NLG Convention in Washington, DC
Green, Blue & Black: Environmentalists support Nissan workers' organizing drive by Dean Hubbard
Will You Represent TUPOCC?
Protecting Human Rights in the Trump Era
Updates from Sugar Law by John Philo
Ba da ba ba baaa ... We're Not Loving It by Dean Hubbard

Where to find us at the LCC in Denver 2017
Winning back key battlegrounds in 2018 -- How to rebuild progressive multiracial majorities in OH, PA and beyond by Eric Dillon, Working America
Cuba Si!
Build the resistance and build a majority -- Organizing in the Central Valley and the country's heartland by Fran Schreiberg
The new joint employer rule: How significant? by George Gonos
Seeking authors for the NLG Guide to Labor Law by Elise Gautier
Organizing to defend immigrant workers in LA County by Ariella Morrison
Join us for breakfast at the LCC in Denver 5/16/2017 and for our meeting (open to all) on 5/15/2017 (both ridiculously early)

Fighting Uber-Exploitation in NYC by Zubin Soleimany
Rebuilding Detroit from the Grass Roots Up - Using the Democratic Process to See that the Community's Needs are Met by John Philo
LA STORY: the Workers Rights Committee Returns by Ben O'Donnell
Know Your Economic Human Rights! - announcing CLE August 4 at NLG Convention in NYC
Knowledge is Not Power - Knowing your rights and Using Them is