Labor Curious? Visit the Labor Café, where ND talks work!
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 Teaching have to say about these labor questions? Participants choose the concrete topics, all people are welcome, and all opinions are entertained.
The Labor Café Persists Virtually in the Spring 2021 Semester! Join us via Zoom monthly on select Fridays at 5 pm.
Next up:
Friday, April 9, 2021, 5:00–6:00 p.m.
Topic: A New Day for Unions? Amazon, the Biden Agenda, & Beyond
Non-required reading to get the conversation started:
- Michael Corkery, “Organizing Gravediggers, Cereal Makers and, Maybe, Amazon Employees,” New York Times, Mar. 23/upd. Mar. 25, 2021
- David Streitfeld, “How Amazon Crushes Unions,” New York Times, Mar. 16/upd. Mar. 18, 2021
- Michael Sainato, “Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama make the final push toward unionizing,” The Guardian, Mar. 21, 2021
- President Joe Biden, “President Biden On Workers' Rights to Organize & Unionize,” The White House (YouTube channel), Feb. 28, 2021
- Rachel Sandler, “Sen. Rubio Backs Amazon Union Drive—A Rare Move For A Republican,” Forbes, Mar. 12, 2021
- Jay Carney, “It’s time to raise the federal minimum wage,” Amazon, Jan. 26, 2021
- Nelson Lichtenstein, “Can a grand bargain empower Amazon’s workers and limit corporate power?,” Washington Post, Mar. 25, 2021
- John W. Miller, “The fight to unionize Amazon is the most important labor story of this century,” America, Mar. 25, 2021
- Sarah Jones, “The PRO Act Could Do More Than Revive Unions,” New York Magazine, Mar. 13, 2021
- Josh Dzieza, “Why the Amazon union vote is bigger than Amazon,” The Verge, Mar. 28, 2021
- Jörn Boewe & Johannes Schulten, "2nd edition: The long struggle of the Amazon employees," Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Dec. 3, 2019
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Friday, May 7 | 5:00 p.m.
Topic: The Paid Leave Priority
Facilitator: Jade Moss (Finance and Gender Studies '21)
come back soon for resources to get the conversation started ...
