Power At Work

In this podcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Charlotte Garden, Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and contributor to the Economic Policy Institute's Unequal Power Project ; Michael Z. Green, Professor of Law at the Texas A&M University School of Law and Director of the Workplace Law Program; and Jeffrey Hirsch, Professor of Law at the Univer...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Johnnie Kallas, Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois and Program Director of the Labor Action Tracker, to discuss the Labor Action Tracker 2023 Annual Report. Listen to their conversation as they dissect the report's numbers, discuss 2023 strike activity, and make...

In this podcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Tia Koonse, Legal and Policy Research Manager at the UCLA Labor Center, and Todd Vachon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and the Director of the Labor Education Action Research Network at Rutgers University. Listen to their conversation on the results of the 2023 BLS Union Members...

Due to technical difficulties, the Power At Work Blog was unable to share this month's Workers by the Numbers stream live, but you can still catch our labor experts' latest takes on the January BLS report. Watch below to hear a conversation between Alicia Modestino, Seth Harris, and Aaron Sojourner recorded live at 9 AM on February 2, 2024, the morning of the BLS report's release. Alic...

During this blogcast moderated by Seth Harris, Former top Biden White House labor advisor, former Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor, and a Senior Fellow at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, our guest labor experts will react to and analyze the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2023 Union Member Survey, which reports on how many American workers are union members as well as Amer...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation about podcasting in the labor movement with Judy Ancel, executive producer of the "Heartland Labor Forum;" Max Alvarez, host of "Working People" and Editor-In-Chief of the Real News Network; and Mel Buer, staff reporter at the Real News Network and host of the "Real News Network Podcast." Seth and guest...

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Listen to her in conversation with Kate Bahn and Harry Holzer as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for December 2023. This conversation was aired live on the homepage of the blog at 12:00 PM ET on Friday, January 5 You don't w...

Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Cynthia Estlund, author and Professor at NYU School of Law, and Steven Greenhouse, Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation. Listen to their conversation on the importance of collective bargaining in 2023, the trends leading into 2024, and the future of worker power.

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Listen to her in conversation with Elise Gould and Rick McGahey as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for November 2023. This conversation was aired live on the homepage of the blog at 12:00 PM ET on Friday, December 8. You don&#39...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Bill Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining, Joseph van der Naald, PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, and Scott Phillipson, president of SEIU Local 200. Seth and guests discuss trends in organizing among higher education workers, including graduate and...

In this month's Power Hour blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Ruben Garcia, professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Mark Gaston Pearce, the executive director of the Workers’ Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Listen to their conversation on the politics of labor and labor in politics, the unfinished business of pro-worker leg...

In this very special Veterans Day Blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by William Attig of the AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council and Martin Helms from Helmets to Hardhats to discuss veterans in the labor movement. Learn about the role unions play in the lives of veterans, the role veterans play in unions, the best programs in the movement for veterans, and much more. Don't...

In this podcast, we hosted a roundtable of labor reporters who discussed and reacted to some of the biggest stories about the labor movement today. Their conversation covered the covered recent collective bargaining stories, including the negotiations between the UAW and the “Big Three; the ongoing wave of strikes, pickets, and other forms of collective action that workers and unions are using to...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with three political directors exactly a year before the 2024 presidential election. Seth is joined by Susan Valentine from Unite Here!, Russ Breckenride from the International Plumbers and Pipefitters Union, and Katrina Mendiola from National Education Association. This blogcast is a treat for any political junkie. Pay close attent...

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Watch to her in conversation with Aaron Sojourner, Senior Researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute, and Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor of Economics and Policy Analysis at the New School, as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for Octo...

In this podcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris speaks with with Amy Livingston and Sarah Lazare, co-authors of Workday Magazine and In These Times article "5 Things Unions Can Do To Defend Transgender Workers". Learn about the gender related terms they define, listen to them talk about why gender identity rights are workers' rights, what unions can do to protect their trans...

In this month's Power Hour blogcast, Seth is joined by Victor Narro, Project Director for the UCLA Labor Center, and David Madland, senior fellow and the senior adviser to the American Worker Project at American Progress. Listen to them as they discuss strike activity, sectoral bargaining, labor's role in immigration, and Bidenomics. Don't forget to subscribe to the Power At Work Blog:...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with returning guests Glenn Kage and Don Looney, two front-line UAW members from Local 2250. Hear their update about the strike against General Motors in Wentzville, Missouri. Follow us on TikTok: Power at Work – @poweratworkblog Glenn Kage – @laborfront Don Looney – @the_telecom_don Subscribe to the Power At Work Blog here: https:/...

In this blogcast, "WorkerTech" experts Michelle Penson of the AFL-CIO and Adrian Haro of the Workers Lab join Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris to discuss how technology is being used as a tool to build worker power.

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Watch to her in conversation with Harry Holzer, Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and Aaron Sojourner, Senior Researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute, as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for September 2023. Thi...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior fellow Seth Harris in discussion with Mike Sukal, AFSCME’s organizing and field services director, and three volunteer member organizers as they discuss their choice to be volunteer member organizers, their experiences organizing through the pandemic, the future of organizing, and more. Don't forget to subscribe to the Power At Work Blog: https://poweratwork.us/

**This episode is updated with a new intro to explain why we are keeping it on the blog despite the federal government remaining open** Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, and Doreen Greenwald, president of the National Treasury Employees Union as they talk federal government shutdown....

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, and Doreen Greenwald, president of the National Treasury Employees Union as they talk federal government shutdown. Listen to how this shutdown will affect workers, both union and non-union alike, the American people, and more. This is breaking news he...

Watch Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Senator Jessica Ramos of the New York Senate and Debby King, a trade unionist with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Our guests describe the current program in New York state to help working people find childcare, which is in high demand but low supply, and the impact it has on young people, especially young moms. There are s...

The Power At Work Blog proudly presents the fourth and final installment of our Labor Day blogcasts, an exclusive interview with Brent Booker, newly elected General President of the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA). Booker talks about his experience as a third-generation laborer, LIUNA’s history as a union of immigrants and how they are protecting their workforce today, u...