Power At Work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris lays out a worker power overivew for the Trump administration. Harris also answers questions from the live audience during this blogcast, as well as discuss the implications of a Trump presidency on unions, the NLRB, federal employees, and much more. Follow us on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Celeste Drake, the Deputy Director-General at the International Labour Organization. Watch now to learn about the International Labour Organization and their global impact. Also hear Drake's opinions on current labor issues and the global picture for worker power.  Follow us on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Noam Scheiber, a reporter for The New York Times, Lauren Kaori Gurley, a reporter for The Washington Post, and Dave Jamieson, a reporter for the HuffPost. Listen now to hear their predictions for the future of worker power under a second Trump administration, as well as their views on the NLRB, state level vic...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jimmy Williams Jr., the General President of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades. Listen now to learn about how President Williams views the Presidential election results, as well as his opinion on why the Democratic party failed to successfully nominate Vice-President Kamala Harris as the ne...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Martha Gimbel, the Executive Director of the Budget Lab at Yale University, and Ernie Tedeschi, the Director of Economics at the Budget Lab. Listen now to learn how they view the current economy and how they expect Trump's presidency will impact it. Also hear their perspective on how worker power will change i...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Gregg Johnson, a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and Robert Bruno, a Director of the Labor Education Program and a Professor of Labor and Employment at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Listen now to learn about Illinois' groundbreaking new bill for students in high schools to learn abo...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jenny Brown, an assistant editor at Labor Notes and Mylo Lang, a machinist apprentice at Boeing and a member of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. Listen now to to get an inside perspective on the strike and contract negotiations from a Boeing worker currently on strike. Also le...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jacob Morrison, the host of the Valley Labor Report, and Maximillian Alvarez, the host of the Working People Podcast. Listen now to hear the first ever Power At Work "Most intriguing people in labor" blogcast, in which Morrison, Alvarez, and host Harris explain their picks for the people or organizations that...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Shannon Lederer, the director of immigration policy for the AFL-CIO and Lety Salcedo, an immigration campaign director for the SEIU. Listen now to hear about the current state of immigration in the U.S. and how it realtes to labor. Also learn about the economic side of immigration as well as how immigration an...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Sharon Block, the Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School, and Bill Samuel, the former director of government affairs at the AFL-CIO. Listen now to see the first ever "buy or sell" episode on Power At Work. Learn if Block, Samuel, and host Harris are "buying" or "sel...

In this very special blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Julie Su, the United States Secretary of Labor. Listen now to hear about Su's role as the acting secretary along with her accomplishments in the position. Also learn about Su’s opinions on the current state of labor and her views on the future of worker activism. Follow us on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this very special blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Bernie Sanders, the senior United States senator from Vermont. Watch now to hear Senator Sanders' opinion on the current status of the labor movement and worker power, along with his views on the Biden administration and a possible Harris administration. Also learn about Sanders’ strategies to imp...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Amy Chin-Lai, the president of the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), and Hannah Stephens, a Vice President for Organizing with the NPEU. Watch now to learn about the NPEU and their successes organizing in the nonprofit sector. Also learn about the differences between organizing in the for-profit w...

In this edition of The Power Hour, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Roberto Corrada from the Denver University Sturm College of Law and Harry Katz from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations to discuss arbitration, organizing in college athletics, general views on the state of labor and much more. Follow us on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

On Labor Day, Monday, September 2, the Greater Boston Labor Council held their annual Labor Day Breakfast. The event featured many notable speakers, from Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey to labor leaders such as Massachusetts AFL-CIO President Chrissy Lynch. This breakfast was unlike any prior year as it coincided with UniteHere! Local 26's Hot...

On Tuesday, August 27, President Liz Shuler delivered her second State of the Unions address to a packed house of enthusiastic trade unionists and friends at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was obvious to us that this was a speech Power At Work's audience would want to hear. We are proud and pleased to be able to present it you in its entirety. We expect you will enjoy it. Follow u...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Claudia Navarro, the Co-Executive Director of WeCount!, and Rebecca Reindel, the Safety and Health Director at the AFL-CIO. Listen now to learn about the current state of working in the heat in both Florida and the country as a whole. Also learn about OSHA's proposed heat standard, and how it would help th...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Andrew Spar, the President of the Florida Education Association (FEA), the union of Florida's teachers, and Emilio Azoy, the President of AFSCME Local 121, which represents over 1,800 Miami-Dade County Water and Sewer Department workers. Watch now to learn about Governer Ron Desantis' attack on public...

In this episode, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Susan Valentine, the National Political Director of UNITE HERE!, Russ Breckenridge, the Director of Legislative and Political Affairs at the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA), and Katrina Mendiola, the National Political Director of the National Education Association (NEA). Listen now to hear...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jaz Brisack, one of the original Starbucks union organizers, and the co-founder of the Inside Organizer School. Watch now to hear an inside perspective on union organizing, Jaz's origins in organizing, the successes in unionizing at Starbucks, and how those successes can lead to further improvements with o...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Cindy Estrada, the strategic advisor to the president for the Center for Transformational Organizing at the AFL-CIO. Watch now to hear about Cindy's career, the CTO, her strategies to further the labor movement, and much more. Follow us on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jody Calemine, director of advocacy at the AFL-CIO, and Karla Walter, senior fellow for Inclusive Economy at the Center for American Progress, to discuss Project 2025's labor related implications. Watch now to hear about how the proposal would affect American workers, unions, and the labor movement as a wh...

In this edition of The Power Hour, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Risa Lieberwitz, a Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR); and Diana Reddy, an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley's School of Law; to discuss changes and infringement's on democracy taking place in labor unions, un...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Madison Zack-Wu, lead organizer of Strippers Are Workers, and Kim Kelly, freelance labor journalist, to discuss Washington state's new bill to protect dancers in their workplaces. Watch now to hear about the Strippers' Bill of Rights, how the COVID-19 pandemic affected dancers, and how the labor movement can get involve...

In this special Pride Month blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Jerame Davis, President of Pride At Work, Evette Avery, Southeast Regional Director of Teamsters' LGBTQ+ Caucus, and Jared Reece, Co-President of SEIU's Lavender Caucus, to discuss the state of the world for LGBTQ+ workers. Watch now to hear about why the labor and LGBTQ+ communitie...