In this blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris speaks with Amy Livingston and Sarah Lazare, co-authors of the Workday Magazine/In These Times article entitled "5 Things Unions Can Do To Defend Transgender Workers." The article argues that liberation for transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive people is a labor movement issue, and urges unions to do what they do best: fight for workers in the workplace and beyond.
Livingston and Lazare talk about why gender identity rights are workers' rights, what unions can do to protect their transgender, non-binary, and gender expansive members (and others), and more. This issue is imperative to increasing the power of all workers, but has not gotten the attention it deserves.
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Amy Livingston is a labor educator at the Labor Education Service for the University of Minnesota. She has taught classes on a wide range of topics for union members and other workers, including steward trainings and courses on collective bargaining, grievance handling/contract enforcement, labor history, labor law, union leadership, and internal organizing. Livingston has a particular interest in working with unions and workers who are struggling toward racial, gender, and disability justice in their workplaces and unions.
Sarah Lazare is the editor of Workday Magazine and a contributing editor for In These Times. She comes from a background in independent journalism for publications including The Nation, Tom Dispatch, YES! Magazine, and Al Jazeera America. A former staff writer for AlterNet and Common Dreams, Lazare co-edited the book “About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War.” Lazare got her start in journalism reporting for the Independent Media Center movement and has organized against U.S. militarism at home and abroad.
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