In this first blogcast of the new Power At Work series "What Could Happen Under Trump?", Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris laid out a worker power overview of the next Trump administration in Power At Work's first-ever live blogcast. Harris also answered questions from the live audience. He discussed the implications of a Trump presidency for unions, the NLRB, the Labor Department, federal employee unions, and much more.
Power At Work's blogcast series "What Could Happen Under Trump?" will continue after the New Year with several episodes seeking answers to that question with respect to several aspects of labor law, policy, economics, and politics with the help of a long list of experts. To make sure you stay updated on "What Could Happen Under Trump?", subscribe for free to Power At Work today on the bottom of the front page of the web site.
Seth D. Harris is a Distinguished Professor of Practice at Northeastern University and Affiliated Faculty and a Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change (and its partner project The GovLab) where he runs the Initiative on Labor and Economic Justice. Power At Work is one of the projects of the Burnes Center's Labor Initiative. Prior to joining Northeastern University, Professor Harris was the Deputy Assistant to the President for Labor and the Economy and Deputy Director of the Biden White House’s National Economic Council. Building on almost seven years of service in the Labor Department during an earlier administration, Professor Harris was Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor (and a member of President Obama’s Cabinet) and Deputy U.S. Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2014. Between the Obama and Biden Administrations, he was an attorney in Washington, D.C., a Visiting Professor at Cornell University’s Institute for Public Affairs and School of Industrial & Labor Relations, and one of the nation’s most sought-after analysts, speakers, and commentators on work, workers, workplaces, the economy and labor market issues, government leadership, and government performance.
