This panel will convene key leaders in labor organizing with academics to ask: why are we seeing an upsurge in organizing now? What might a longer view of labor power, political economy, and labor law tell us about today? How can we reconcile the surge in interest in unions with the previous declines in labor law and traditional unionism? Can law and lawyering play a role in increasing worker power, and what might that do to address questions of corporate power, democratic decline, and inequality in the US today?

Panelists will include Sara Nelson (Association of Flight Attendants-CWA), Lorena Lopez (UNITE HERE Local 11), Eric Blanc (Rutgers University), and Charles Du (SEIU 32BJ). Gabriel Winant (University of Chicago) will moderate.

This is a hybrid event. It will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 12:10pm at Yale Law School (Sterling Law Building Room 127). If you are not affiliated with Yale University, please email us at lpeproject@yale.edu so that we can include your name on a pre-approved list of people who will be entering the building. Please also bring an ID and proof of vaccination to the event.

**If you would like to attend this panel virtually, please register here instead.**

This event is co-organized by the LPE Project, LPE at Yale, and the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights