A key agency charged with ensuring workplace rights is facing an unprecedented assault from partisan politicians and the 1 percent. Join this forum as Sen. Tom Harkin, Rep. George Miller, academics and workers’ rights advocates discuss these attacks, how they fit into the larger political agenda of degrading rights, collective bargaining and good, middle-class jobs and what working people are doing to push back.
Speakers include: Sen. Tom Harkin, U.S. Senate Rep. George Miller, U.S. House of Representatives
Welcoming Remarks Arlene Holt Baker, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President
Panel Harold Meyerson (moderator), Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect Kimberly Freeman Brown, Executive Director, American Rights at Work Elizabeth Bunn, Organizing Director, AFL-CIO Prof. Julius (Jack) Getman, University of Texas School of Law David Madland, Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund Prof. Dorian Warren, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO, Center for American Progress Action Fund and American Rights at Work
Event Location
AFL-CIO, Gompers Room
815 16th St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
