Power At Work

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with two front-line UAW members, Glenn Kage and Don Looney, as they discuss their fellow strikers attitudes toward the strike, what it will take to settle, and what it is like to work in an auto factory. Follow us on TikTok: Power at Work – @poweratworkblog Glenn Kage – @laborfront Don Looney – @the_telecom_don

The Power at Work Blog is proud to present its newest featured blogcast: The Power Hour. The Power Hour is a monthly labor experts roundtable in which Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris discusses current labor news with expert guests. This special blogcast is designed to provide you with a diverse perspectives and opinions, as well as to keep you updated with the latest news and analysis.  In...

Watch Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with the President of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. In the third installment of the Power at Work's Labor Day blogcasts, President Weingarten discusses important ideas for public education, the assault on education, worker organizing, democracy, and the future. If you care about worker power, collective acti...

Watch Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. In this special blogcast recorded a day after Labor Day, President Shuler talks candidly about her earliest organizing experience, the increase in worker militancy, the AFL-CIO's role in organizing, and much, much more. If you care about worker power, collective action, and unions, this is one inte...

On Friday, September 1, Northeastern University Prof. Alicia Modestino led a panel including The New School's Teresa Ghilarducci and Economic Policy Institute's Elise Gould in a Power At Work Blog/Workers by the Numbers discussion of the Bureau of Labor Statistics's August jobs, unemployment and wages report. This conversation aired live on the Power at Work Blog at 8:45 AM ET on Frida...

Watch Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo. In this special blogcast, recorded a week before Labor Day, Abruzzo talks candidly about her long history with the NLRB, the organization’s mission and workers’ rights, and some of the most important labor issues in our country today. If you care about worker power, collective action, and unio...

In this blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris spoke with Maida Rosenstein, the organizing director for the UAW local 2110, and three museum employees she worked with-- Jordan Barnes, Karissa Francis, and Erika Wentworth. Listen to what they have to say about their experiences working to ratify their unions' first contracts with their employers.

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, hosts this month's Workers by the Numbers Blogcast. Listen 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 July 2023. This co...

In this special National Whistleblower Day blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris spoke with Siri Nelson and Stephen Kohn, the executive director and the founding director of the National Whistleblower Center, and whistleblowers Dr. Toni Savage, a former contracting officer with the Army Corps of Engineers, and Jane Turner, a former FBI Special Agent.

In this blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris spoke with Josh Eidelson and Dave Jamieson -- two of the biggest hitters in the world of labor reporting. The conversation covered the UPS-Teamsters negotiations, the role of the Supreme Court in advancing corporate attacks on worker power, and several other stories impacting labor and worker power today. Josh Eidelson covers the workplace...

Watch Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, and Elise Gould, Director of Health Policy Research at the Economic Policy Institute, as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for June 2023. This conversation was aired live on the homepage of the blog at...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Cathy Nolan, former New York State Assemblywoman for District 37, and Jessica García, Assistant to the President of the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Union (RWDSU), as they discuss agricultural workers' rights, the barriers and triumphs organizing under the 2019 New York Farm Workers Bill, the fight to get it passed, a...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with John O'Malley, legislative coordinator for the Communications Workers of America Local 1180, as they discuss his history organizing in the workplace, the legislative goals of local 1180, organizing not-for-profit workers, and much more.

Listen to Burnes Center for Social Change senior fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Portia Wu, Secretary of Labor for the state of Maryland, Laura Fortman, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Labor, and Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner at New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, as they discuss the the role and responsibilities of a labor secretary, the big issues each s...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Charlotte Garden, Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, and Anne Marie Lofaso, Professor of Law at West Virginia University, as they discuss the recently decided Glacier Northwest Inc. V. International Brotherhood of Teamsters Supreme Court Decision. 

Listen to Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern 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 May 2023. This was aired live on the homepage of the blog at  8:45 AM ET on Friday, Jun...

Listen to the Burnes Center for Social Change's Seth Harris in conversation with Daniel Ratner, partner at Levy Ratner, as they discuss the incredible story of the Battle of Bronxville, Ratner's history as a union organizer, some of the biggest cases in labor now, and more.

Listen to the discussion between Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris, Matthew Cunningham-Cook, researcher and writer with The Lever, Alexandra Martinez, the Senior News Reporter at Prism, Tim Noah, staff writer at the New Republic, and Noam Scheiber, reporter with The New York Times, as they talk about some of the biggest news stories impacting workers, unions, and worker power in the U.S. tod...

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in conversation with Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, and Elise Gould, Senior Economist at the Economic Policy Institute, as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for April 2023. This conversation aired live on the blog— https://poweratwork.us/ —at 8:45 AM ET on Friday, Ma...

Listen to the Burnes Center for Social Change's Seth Harris in conversation with Tony Clark, Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), as they discuss the minor league organizing success, life as a player, the importance of unions in baseball, and more.

Listen to Burnes Center senior fellow Seth Harris interview Andy Levin, former U.S. representative for Michigan’s 9th congressional district and current distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in a conversation with Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor at Northeastern University, William Spriggs, AFL-CIO’s chief economist, and Aaron Sojourner, senior researcher at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment research, as they discuss the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs, wages, and unemployment report for March 2023.

Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris in a conversation with Elise Gould, Senior Economist at the Economic Policy 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 February 2023.

Listen as Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris and Director of the Cornell ILR Labor Action Tracker Johnnie Kallas unveil the latest data about strikes and other work stoppages in the United States. This blogcast was posted at the same time the report was released to the public, and is the first analysis of these numbers.

Listen to Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris, Northeastern University Professor Alicia Modestino, AFL-CIO Economist Bill Spriggs and W.E. Upjohn Institute Senior Researcher Aaron Sojourner have an in-depth worker-focused conversation on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Employment Situation Report. The discussion was aired live on the Power At Work Blog on Friday, February 3 at 8:45 AM — just 1...