Newsletter Archives

  • October 2015

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Oct 01, 2015

    • From "Right-to-Work" to "Fight for 15" -- The Labor Movement at the Crossroads: Learning Lessons, Plotting the Way Forward by Anthony Prince
    • Turning the Tide: Fighting the Nationwide Assault on Low-Income Workers by John Philo
    • Art Heitzer to receive the Debra Evenson Award
    • Workers' Rights are Human Rights
    • What We Need to Do: Remarks at ALAL's Sao Paulo Congress by Anthony Prince
    • Our Best Hope by Aaron Mair, Estela Vazquez & Lenore Friedlaender
    • ROCking the House
    • Street Vending: Challenging the Criminalization of Workers by Cynthia Anderson-Barker
    • NLG Convention - annotated schedule for L&ECers    

  • April 2015

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Apr 01, 2015

    • "Death by a Thousand Cuts" and LEC's Local Strategy for Attacking Unions by Brendan Fischer
    • Two and a Half Cheers for Bankruptcy: Detroit City Retirees Avoid the Worst While Lenders Get a Buzz Cut by Ursula Levelt
    • Cuba in Transition by Matthew Rinaldi
    • Resolution Calling for an End to the U.S. Embargo of Cuba
    • Kicking Them When They're Down: Corporate America and Its Allies Make Life Even Harder for the Unemployed by Tony Paris
    • Join Us! - Work with Us on our Section 7 Rights Project to assist legal aid offices and other advocacy groups and employment lawyers who work with unorganized low-wage workers

  • September 2014

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Sep 01, 2014

    • Bringing Labor Law into the 21st Century: Dealing with the Realities of the Modern Workplace by Henry Willis
    • NLG Convention - annotated schedule for L&ECers
    • Chicago Labor History Tour
    • Using Human Rights to Defend Workers' Standard of Living - mini-CLE in Chicago Sep 4, 2014    

  • April 2014

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Apr 01, 2014

    • Food Fight - A report from the field on the fight against sweatshop conditions in the food industry by Ursula Levelt
    • The Legal Services NYC Strike: Neoliberalism, Austerity & Resistance by Tyler Kasperek Somes 
    • Workers, Communities, and the Clean Energy Economy: Working Together For a Future that Works by Dean Hubbard
    • Cuba Report 

  • October 2013

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Oct 01, 2013

    • Making The Road by Walking - The AFL-CIO Takes a Major Step to Transform the Labor Movement by Victor Narro
    • Privatizing Democracy in Detroit: Constitutional Rights, Civil Rights And Labor Rights Under Siege In Michigan by John Philo 
    • The Puerto Rican Labor Movement in 2013 by Luis Pedraza Leduc 
    • Honoring Ann Fagan Ginger

  • May 2013

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on May 01, 2013

    • Warehouse Workers for Justice: An Alternative Organizing Model by Margot Nikitas
    • D.R. Horton: Is There Life After Concepcion? by Ursula Levelt
    • See you in San Juan! - announcing the NLG Convention in Puerto Rico October 23 - 27, 2013
    • Support Legal Services Workers - on strike now    

  • October 2012

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Oct 01, 2012

    • Forward into the past? by Sanjukta Paul (an examination of how modern "independent contractors" resemble a feudal system)
    • Segregating American Citizenship: Latino Voter Disenfranchisement in 2012 by The Advancement Project
    • Fighting Wage Theft by Daniel Gross    

  • May 2012

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on May 01, 2012

    • Occupy Labor Law!by Ursula Levelt
    • Voter Suppresion - Why It Mattersby Dean Hubbard
    • D.R. Horton: The NLRB Enters the Fight Over Class Action Waiversby Henry Willis
    • Occupy Labor Law: What Labor Can Learn 

  • October 2011

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Oct 01, 2011

    • We Are All Wisconsin: The Stakes Get Even Higher by Dean Hubbard
    • Walkout at Hershey: Extracts from the Report of the August 2011 Human Rights Delegation to Hershey, Pennsylvania
    • Solidarity Forever
    • Defending Democracy by Tova Perlmutter
    • Learning by Teaching - The Guild's Mentoring Program by Fran Schreiberg
    • NLG 2011 Convention in Philadelphia - Schedule of L&EC related events    

  • April 2011

    Posted in Newsletter Archives on Apr 01, 2011

    • The attack on Public Sector Workers: Ground Zero for Democracy and Human Rights by Dean Hubbard
    • NLG L&EC Breakfast at the LCC - Crimes Against Labor: Attacks on Workers' Rights in Mexico & US by Henry Willis
    • Worker Advocates Fight for Expanded Useof Crime Victim's Visa by Jessie Hahn
    • Mexican Mineworkers Union's Carlos Esquer Speaks in NYC by Ursula Levelt
    • NLG L&EC Successfully Concludes 12th Delegation to Cuba by Joan Hill
    • 100 Years After Triangle Fire, the Slaughter Continues by Anthony Prince