NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo joined Roosevelt experts to discuss threats to the NLRB’s mandate.
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Trader Joe’s employees and union activists hold a rally in support of forming a union at the grocery store chain in April 2023 in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images).
Facing enforcement from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) over alleged illegal intimidation and retaliation against workers, several giant corporations—including Amazon, SpaceX, Starbucks, and Trader Joe’s—are attacking the underlying constitutionality of the NLRB. On Tuesday, the Roosevelt Institute hosted NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo ([link removed]) , along with a panel of labor and regulatory experts, to discuss what’s at stake if opponents succeed in their efforts.
“We dared to issue a complaint against SpaceX after it unlawfully fired eight workers for speaking about their workplace concerns,” Abruzzo said. “Others [got] in on the action just because we’re trying to hold them accountable for repeatedly violating workers’ rights to organize and collectively bargain through representatives of their free choosing.”
Roosevelt board member K. Sabeel Rahman and Fellows Diana Reddy and Hiba Hafiz also joined Abruzzo in discussing labor law and the NLRB’s critical role in protecting collective bargaining rights. The panel, which was reported on by news outlets including The Guardian ([link removed]) , The American Prospect ([link removed]) , Reuters ([link removed]) , and HuffPost ([link removed]) , was moderated by Roosevelt’s think tank vice president Suzanne Kahn and deputy director of Worker Power and Economic Security Alí R. Bustamante.
As Abruzzo emphasized, the federal labor relations agency would not succumb to corporate efforts to suppress workers’ right to organize. “It seems to me [corporations] would rather spend their money initiating court litigation rather than improving their workers’ lives and their own workplace operations,” Abruzzo said.
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** New Class of Fellows Joins Roosevelt’s Think Tank
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This week, the Roosevelt Institute announced that six new progressive policy experts ([link removed]) have joined the think tank fellows program. During their fellowship at Roosevelt, the new cohort will research and write about critical challenges, from ensuring an efficient and equitable renewable energy transition to rebuilding worker power to building a more stable and democratic retirement system.
The fellows bring diverse and distinct expertise to the Roosevelt Institute:
* Juniper Katz ([link removed]) , assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will research community input in renewable energy development and land use.
* Michael A. McCarthy ([link removed]) , associate professor of sociology at Marquette University, will focus on public-interest financing of retirement and renewable energy.
* Sanjukta Paul ([link removed]) , law professor at the University of Michigan, will study antitrust and competition from a labor perspective.
* Diana Reddy ([link removed]) , assistant professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, will research unions and labor regulations.
* Benjamin Schoefer ([link removed]) , assistant professor of economics at UC Berkeley, will study labor markets, employment, and wages.
* Graham Steele ([link removed]) , former assistant secretary for financial institutions in the Treasury Department, will focus on financial regulation and banking reform.
“We can’t shift the economic paradigm without the people doing the work to provide empirical evidence for a new way of thinking,” said Roosevelt CEO and President Felicia Wong. “These fellows are foundational to our strategy to change the narrative and build real progressive power.”
The new class of fellows will join Roosevelt’s existing expert fellows—Kate Aronoff, Sameera Fazili, Hiba Hafiz, Diana Hernández, Lev Menand, Todd Phillips, and David Stein—as well as senior fellows including Sandy Darity, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Darrick Hamilton, J.W. Mason, Beverly Moran, Saule Omarova, and Lenore Palladino.
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