In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Alvin Velazquez, a law professor at Indiana Maurer School of Law; Lynn Rhinehart, a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute; Gali Racabi, a law professor at Cornell Law School; and Seth Goldstein, a labor law attorney and partner at Goldstein and Singla PLLC to discuss the future of labor law. Watch now to hear four expert labor lawyers debate arguments over the future of worker power given the all-out assault on the National Labor Relations Act and the National Labor Relations Board. One argument focuses on state laws, and the other on whether workers would be better off without federal labor laws.
Lynn Rhinehart is a Senior Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute. Prior to Rhinehart’s role at the EPI, she worked as Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Acting Secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Seth Goldstein is a partner at Goldstein and Singla PLLC. Seth has represented public and private unions, including Amazon Labor Union and Trader Joe’s Workers United, before the National Labor Relations Board, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the U.S. Department of Labor.
Alvin Velazquez is an Associate Professor of Law at Indiana Maurer School of Law. Velazquez previously served as the Associate General Counsel for the Service Employees International Union. Read Velazquez’s Power At Work article “The Case for Letting Labor Law Collapse” here!
Gali Racabi is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, with a focus on various employment and labor law topics. Racabi has published work in many journals, including the Yale Law Review and Cornell Law Review. Read Racabi’s Power At Work article “In Lieu of the NLRA: How State Laws Can Rebuild Worker Power” here!
