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In the fifth blogcast of Power At Work’s series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by all four co-chairs of the Congressional Labor Caucus: Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan 6th DistrictRepresentative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin 2nd District, Representative Donald Norcross

This article was originally published by New Labor Forum

When Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent faculty an email with suggestions for keeping their classes on track. As Inside Higher Ed reported, the dean’s “creative” solutions

In the fourth blogcast of Power At Work’s series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Steven Schwartz, LIUNA Organizing Director, Emily Stewart, SEIU Deputy Organizing Director, and David Cann, AFGE Organizing Director to discuss the future of organizing. Watch

In the fourth blogcast of Power At Work’s series ‘What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Steven Schwartz, LIUNA Organizing Director, Emily Stewart, SEIU Deputy Organizing Director, and David Cann, AFGE Organizing Director to discuss the future of organizing. Watch

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In Power at Work’s 2025 Labor Grammys nominations the song “Joe Hill” is entered in the “Traditional Song” category. The song shares some storied company: Woody Guthrie’s “Better World a-Comin;” Florence Reece’s “Which Side Are You On” as performed by the Almanac Singers (of

In this special blogcast, Burnes Center Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by music and labor experts to reveal the results of Power At Work’s #LaborGrammys2025. This awards ceremony features Elise Bryant, the founder-director of the DC Labor Chorus and co-host of the Labor Heritage Power Hour podcast; Chris Garlock,

In this live blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris will review the 2024 Union Member Survey results with Aaron Sojourner, a labor economist and senior researcher at the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Watch now to hear Harris and Sojourner interpret what these results

As the Academy Awards ceremony approaches, Power At Work is excited to announce our second Labor Oscars!

#2025LaborOscars is dedicated to spotlighting films that feature worker power, unions, labor leaders, front-line union members, and workers’ collective action. This year we have added 13 more labor films to our original

Cover Image: Delegates gathered for 1199WV/KY/OH annual meeting, @1983. Courtesy of SEIU District 1199WV/KY/OH.

J.D. Vance’s ascent from Silicon Valley venture capitalist to the second-highest office in the nation lends new urgency to examining his narrow portrayal of Appalachia’s working-class history.  

Few people serious about Appalachian Studies

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Nicole Anschutz, an SEIU member and Triage Registered Nurse at Planned Parenthood North Central States, and Jeffrey Hirsch, a law professor at the University of North Carolina. For the 52nd anniversary of the Supreme Court

I appeared with Matt Miller and Vonnie Quinn on Bloomberg TV’s “The Close” on Thursday, January 16 to discuss several labor-related topics: the likelihood that President Trump’s choice for Labor Secretary will be confirmed, the labor relations landscape in 2025, and the effect President Trump’s proposed tariffs and mass deportation

This article was originally published by Labor Notes

In some of the most exciting fights of 2024, strikers shut down ports on the East Coast and backed up plane orders on the West. The coming year is full of expiring contracts that could keep the strike wave rolling.

ALIGNED TO

The power is in your hands, but time is slipping through your fingers. 

At midnight on Friday, January 17, all voting for the Labor Grammys’ “Guthrie Awards” will close. Do not miss this opportunity to cast your ballot.

VOTE RIGHT NOW! 

Only Power At Work subscribers are eligible to

In the third blogcast of the new Power At Work series “What Could Happen Under Trump?”, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by three of his former colleagues in the U.S. Department of Labor: Patricia Shiu, the current Director of the Office of Federal Contract

This article was originally published by the Economic Policy Institute.

U.S. employers have tremendous power over worker conduct. For decades, federal law has allowed employers to require workers to attend “captive audience” meetings—and force employees to listen to political, religious, or anti-union employer views—on work time. 

Last week, the National