Worker Centers: A New Form of Worker Organization? 

Worker centers are much in the news across the country in raising public awareness of work fairness issues and putting pressure on employers and government authorities to raise minimum wages and promote compliance with wage-hour and immigration laws.  These centers have an important on-the-ground impact on labor and employment law, but very little is known about them. 

NYU’s Center for Labor and Employment Law, Professor Samuel Estreicher, Director, hosts an evening program on these developments addressing such questions as:

•  What are the goals of these organizations?
•  Who funds them?
•  How are they different from traditional labor unions?
•  If they are different, why?
•  What issues do they face under the labor laws?

Featured speaker:     Kate Griffith, Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Cornell ILR School and the Worker Institute, "Worker Center Organizing: Is Federal Labor Law a Friend or Foe?"

Commentators:         Dennis A. Lalli, Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

                                    Patricia McConnell, Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C.

                                      Tosh Anderson, NMASS 

Moderator:                 Aaron Halegua,  NYU Law 

This event is seeking approval for New York State CLE credit. If approved, it will be appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. 

There is no charge for this event.