Webinar-New Waves of Worker Employment: Labor and Technology in the 21st Century
New Waves of Worker Employment: Labor and Technology in the 21st Century
September 18, 2020
6:00 AM – 2:15 PM
Abstract
Traditional labor power is still an important force within our economy, as the strikes by GM workers and public school teachers’ unions demonstrate. Within an increasingly fractured workplace, however, workers are taking new approaches to collective action. Whether it be a sectoral effort to improve wages and benefits, such as the Fight for $15, or efforts within companies to promote antidiscrimination protections and fairer dispute resolution, like the Google Walkout, workers are expressing their joint interests and posing fresh challenges to the existing social, legal, and economic status quo. Changing technologies provide new opportunities for connection between workers and outreach to the public, but also give employers new tools for surveillance, scheduling, and organizational fissuring. This Symposium will discuss these new forms of engagement and examine the role of the law in facilitating, dampening, or outlawing the new expressions of worker engagement.
Tentative Schedule
6:30 a.m.: Introduction
William P. Johnson, Dean, Saint Louis University School of Law
6:45 - 8 a.m.: Panel 1
Marley Weiss, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Sandra Sperino, Judge Joseph P. Kinneary Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Winifred Poster, Professor of International Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis
8:15 - 10 a.m.: Panel 2
Sara Slinn, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research & Institutional Relations), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Michael Duff, Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law
Michael Oswalt, Associate Professor of Law, Northern Illinois University College of Law
Terri Gerstein, Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program
10:15 - 11:15 a.m.: Keynote
Steven Greenhouse, American Labor and Workplace Journalist and Writer
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.: Panel 3
Miriam A. Cherry, Professor and Co-Director, William C. Wefel Center for Employment Law; Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, Saint Louis University School of Law
Tammy Katsabian, Postdoctoral Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
Courtlyn Roser-Jones, Assistant Professor of Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
1 - 2:15 p.m.: Panel 4
Marion Crain, Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law, Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs for Washington University in St. Louis
Ruben J. Garcia, Professor of Law, Co-Director, UNLV Workplace Law Program, Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Jonathan F. Harris, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, NYU School of Law