LERA, the Labor and Employee Relations Association, recently hosted a webinar, moderated by Wilma Liebman, former Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, and Tom Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, on Inflection Points in Labor-Management Relations and Worker Activism: A Glance Back and a Look Ahead.
The webinar also features Noam Schreiber of the New York Times. A very interesting discussion that is well worth watching. There is a lot going on in US labor relations at this time. Whether these diverse developments amount to a major turning point, with labor unions about to make a comeback, remains to be seen. You can watch it on YouTube here
In the UK, Sharon Graham, who last year was elected the first female general secretary of Unite the Union, said in an interview with the Financial Times that she believed that “this was a moment for the union movement to be reborn’’ You can read the interview here.