Labor Café: American Workers and the 2024 Election

Friday, October 4, at 5 pm
Geddes Hall, Room 233

Hayden Kirwan, a senior majoring in history and minoring in poverty studies, will facilitate a discussion about workers and the 2024 election — jobs, immigration, unions, taxes, tariffs, and more. Hayden is a Just Wage Research Lab fellow at the Institute for Social Concerns.

Resources to get the conversation started:

• Ask an expert: American workers, labor unions and the 2024 presidential election | Penn State University (psu.edu)
• Ask an expert: Labor and the economy in the 2024 presidential election | Penn State University (psu.edu)
• Up First briefing: Unions and the election; Gen Z work ethic : NPR
• The labor movement and the presidential election : NPR
• WashU Expert: How GOP has gained ground with unions, impact on election – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis
• Union workers are not a monolith when it comes to the election. Here’s why : NPR
• Democratic Party’s embrace of organized labor in 2024 elections has long roots that had started to wither (theconversation.com)
• Harris, Walz Policy Records Undermine Pro-Worker Rhetoric | The Heritage Foundation
• Teamsters Leader Sean O’Brien’s Speech to Republicans Still Reverberates – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
• The Teamsters President Pays a Price for Not Endorsing Harris — The New York Times
• Trump And Harris Spar Over Jobs At Debate: Here Are The Facts (forbes.com)
• A look at how Trump’s plan to increase tariffs would affect U.S. workers and consumers | PBS News
• TPC: Trump Tariffs Would Raise Household Taxes And Slow Imports | Tax Policy Center
• Trump’s Pitch to Working-Class Voters Is a Scam | The New Republic
• Misinformation About Immigrants in the 2024 Presidential Election: KFF

The Labor Café convenes the Notre Dame community for casual 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 tradition have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained.