In this month's Power Hour blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Ruben Garcia, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Workplace Law Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, and Mark Gaston Pearce, a Visiting Professor and Executive Director of the Workers’ Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, as well as a former Chairman and member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Listen to their wide-ranging conversation on the politics of labor and labor in politics, the unfinished business of pro-worker legislation, unfinished business at the NLRB, bargaining over new technologies, and much more.
Ruben Garcia is a professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' William S. Boyd School of Law. Before joining the UNLV faculty in 2011, he was a professor and director of the Labor and Employment Law Program at California Western School of Law in San Diego, where he taught for eight years. He also has held academic appointments at the University of California, Davis School of Law; the University of Wisconsin Law School; and at the University of California, San Diego. His new book, Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice, is avaliable for preorder here.
Mark Gaston Pearce is a visiting professor and the executive director of the Workers’ Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Pearce is a former Board Member and Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who served by appointment of President Barack Obama for two terms, concluding in August 2018. Prior to assuming his positions at Georgetown, he was a visiting senior scholar and Lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor Relations. As referenced in this Power Hour blogcast, you can review some of Chairman Pearce's art here.
