The Power At Work Blog invites you to participate in the UMass Boston Labor Resource Center’s Boston Labor Conference: Labor and the State Today. This important and informative conference will take place on March 30th, 2024 at Carpenters Center, 750 Dorchester Ave, Boston MA from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.
Space is limited, so reserve your spot now!
Here’s a description of the event from our friends at the UMass Boston Labor Resource Center:
“Questions of whether and how organized workers should engage the state are as old as the labor movement. Still, the pitfalls and possibilities of this engagement have been particularly stark in 2023. Amid a generational upsurge in militant labor action, a sitting president joined a picket line for the first time, just months after the Supreme Court reaffirmed its willingness to dismantle settled labor law on behalf of its billionaire benefactors. The most labor-friendly NLRB in decades has supported a wave of new union elections while Amazon and Starbucks brazenly flout the Board’s limited power to punish union busting. Labor-led coalitions have elected progressive city councilors and mayors promising reinvestment in the public good, even as the far right works to strip elected representatives of power and entrench minority rule through state-level gerrymandering and judicial chicanery. As the 2024 presidential election looms, the fraught relationship between labor and government is as crucial as ever. Join us on March 30, 2024, for this important conversation.”
To learn more and view the conference program, click here.
Register now by clicking here.
