WHAT COULD HAPPEN UNDER TRUMP?

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.

In the second blogcast of the new Power At Work series "What Could Happen Under Trump?", Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by two top labor law academics Ben Sachs, the Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School, and  Charlotte Garden, a Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. Watch now to learn about what to expect in labor law under the second Trump administration alongside controversies that we should be prepared for. 

In the third blogcast of the new Power At Work series "What Could Happen Under Trump?", Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by three of his former colleagues in the U.S. Department of Labor: Patricia Shiu, the current Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs at the Department of Labor, David Michaels, a professor at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and former Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, and David Weil, a Professor at Heller and the Department of Economics at Brandeis University and former Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor. Watch now to learn more about how the Department of Labor will react to the leadership of Secretary-designate Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Also hear Shiu, Michaels, and Weil’s insights on how this next administration will impact their respective branches of the Department of Labor. 

In the fourth blogcast of Power At Work’s series "What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Steven Schwartz, LIUNA Organizing Director, Emily Stewart, SEIU Deputy Organizing Director, and David Cann, AFGE Organizing Director to discuss the future of organizing. Watch now to learn how these organizing leaders are prepared and ready to combat anti-worker policies in this administration. While the playing field is designed to be favorable towards employers, this discussion shows that unions are not phased and will continue to fight for collective action and workers’ rights.

In the fifth blogcast of Power At Work’s series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by all four co-chairs of the Congressional Labor Caucus: Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan 6th District Representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin 2nd District, Representative Donald Norcross of New Jersey 1st District, and Representative Steve Horsford of Nevada’s 4th District. Watch now to find out the extent to which this Republican-controlled Congress will attempt to repeal or weaken laws that protect workers’ rights alongside how the Congressional Labor Caucus is ensuring that laws that protect workers rights will not be jeopardized.

In the sixth blogcast of Power At Work’s series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by President Doreen Greenwald of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) to discuss the attack on the rights of federal workers by the Trump administration. Watch now to hear President Greenwald’s response to this attack on dedicated civil servants who run the federal government, along with NTEU's strategies in defending its members. This discussion will cover how this mass firing and buyouts of federal employees by the Trump administration is an attempt to weaken and damage the federal government.

In the seventh blogcast of Power At Work’s series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Ambassador Katherine Tai, the 19th U.S. trade representative, to make sense of President Trump's trade policies and their implications on workers. Ambassador Tai was the architect of the “worker-centered trade policy” during her tenure under President Biden –– Watch now to hear her analysis on the current “America First Trade Policy,” the tariffs being placed by the Trump administration, and what it means to have a worker-centered trade policy.