Labor Café: Is the American Labor Movement Reviving?
Friday, November 1, at 5 pm
Geddes Hall, Coffee House
The Labor Café convenes the Notre Dame community for casual conversation on contemporary questions about work, workers, and workplaces. All people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained.
Dan Graff, director of the Higgins Labor Program at the Institute for Social Concerns, will facilitate this session on the question: Is the American labor movement reviving?
Ten provocative pieces to get the conversation started:
- “Minnesota’s Labor Week of Action Is a Bold Experiment in Social Justice Unionism,” In These Times, Mar 4, 2024
- “America’s most powerful union leaders have a message for capital,” Financial Times, Mar 7, 2024
- “The inspiring wave of student worker organizing that the Trump administration tried to stop,” Economic Policy Institute, May 1, 2024
- “Project 2025 Would Undo the NLRB’s Progress on Protecting Workers’ Right To Organize,” Center for American Progress,” Jun 20, 2024
- “A Development in the U.S. Labor Movement: Starbucks and its union are on track to reach a contract.,” New York Times, Jun 26, 2024
- “The State of the Unions, Labor Day 2024: Growing among professional workers, but still stuck when it comes to organizing nearly everybody else,” The American Prospect, Sep 2, 2024
- “Big Labor Bullies,” National Review, Sep 2, 2024
- “To Honor Labor, Rethink Unions,” American Compass, Sep 25, 2024
- “Union election petitions have doubled since Biden took office, NLRB says,” Reuters, Oct 15, 2024
- “Telling the Amazon Labor Union’s Story,” The Nation, Oct 17, 2024