Facilitator: Dan Graff, Director, Higgins Labor Program

Resources to get the conversation started. Should Workers Have …

• The Right to Quit? Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, “Pay Thousands to Quit Your Job? Some Employers Say So.,” New York Times Magazine, Nov. 20, 2023
• The Right to Solidarity? Harold Meyerson, “At Tesla, Swedish Workers Can Do What American Workers Can’t,” The American Prospect, Nov. 14, 2023
• The Right to Child Care? Catherine Rampell, “What happened to this Wisconsin day care should concern us all,” Washington Post, Nov. 6, 2023
• The Right to Pay Equality? Carolina Aragao, “Gender pay gap in U.S. hasn’t changed much in two decades,” Pew Research Center, March 1, 2023
• The Right to a Just Wage? “New California law raises minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour, PBS, Sept. 28, 2023 

The Labor Café convenes the Notre Dame community for casual yet critical conversation on contemporary questions about work, workers, and workplaces. What rights and protections should those who work for others have? What’s the proper role for government in the economy? How should we address enduring problems of inequality, poverty, and lack of opportunity? And what does Catholic Social Teaching (CST) have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained.