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ADVISORY: Members of Congress, Academics, and Labor Leaders to Hold Special Forum on the National Labor Relations Board
Press Advisory

ADVISORY: Members of Congress, Academics, and Labor Leaders to Hold Special Forum on the National Labor Relations Board

Forum to Address Assault on the NLRB and Workers’ Rights

Washington, D.C. — On Wednesday, November 30, at 9:30 a.m., the AFL-CIO, American Rights at Work, and the Center for American Progress Action Fund will host a special forum to detail what’s really at stake with the attacks on the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB. This key agency, charged with ensuring workplace rights, is facing an unprecedented assault from partisan politicians and the top 1 percent. Elected leaders, academics, and experts will discuss how corporate interests are trying to eliminate the rights and protections that ensure the 99 percent a fair shake in the workplace—and what working people will do to push back.

SPEAKERS

  • Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), U.S. Senate
  • Rep. George Miller (D-CA), U.S. House of Representatives

WELCOME

  • Arlene Holt Baker, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO

PANEL

  • Harold Meyerson (moderator), Editor-at-Large, The American Prospect
  • Kimberly Freeman Brown, Executive Director, American Rights at Work
  • Elizabeth Bunn, Organizing Director, AFL-CIO
  • Prof. Julius (Jack) Getman, University of Texas School of Law
  • David Madland, Director, American Worker Project, Center for American Progress Action Fund
  • Prof. Dorian Warren, Columbia University

WHEN:
Wednesday, November 30
9:30 a.m.

WHERE:
AFL-CIO
815 16th St. NW
Gompers Room

 

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