We invite you to join a breakfast featuring one of the leading voices on issues confronting American workers today: ANDY STERN, Former President of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest union of health care, hospital, nursing home, home care, janitors, security officers, child care, food service, and state workers in North America.
Author of Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream (PublicAffairs Books 2016), and of A Country That Works (FreePress).
Andy Stern was a member of the Simpson-Bowles Commission, Presidential appointee to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations U.S. Trade and Investment Policy Task Force. He has been a prominent leader in the national healthcare debate. Stern is currently a Senior Fellow at Columbia University's Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy and a Board member of the Broad Foundation.
Welcoming remarks by Ronald Shechtman, Managing Partner, Pryor Cashman LLP
Question & Answers moderated by Paul Salvatore, Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP
Response to Raising the Floor:
Technology will replace so many good jobs that Americans won't have enough purchasing power to keep the economy going without an economic floor to stand on. I urge you to read Andy Stern's provocative and compelling book." - Robert B. Reich, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor under the Clinton Administration
Join NYU's Center for Labor and Employment Law to discuss the bold proposition of UBI and its implications for workers as well as for labor and employment law.