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May 11, 2021
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez joined Cornell ILR School Dean Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, on Monday for the latest installment of the eCornell series, “The Future of Work: Labor in America.”
The event, “The PRO Act: Upending the Labor Landscape,” was moderated by Cathy Creighton ’87, director of ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab, and touched on the first 100 days of the Biden presidency, the rise and fall of union membership, and the proposed Protecting the Right to Organize Act. If passed by the U.S. Senate, the bill would expand collective bargaining rights for workers and reform labor law in ways unseen in decades.
May 7, 2021
Thomas Perez, U.S secretary of labor during the Obama administration from 2013-17 and chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2017-21, is the guest in the ILR School’s upcoming eCornell series “The Future of Work: Labor in America.”
He will discuss the rapidly changing labor landscape with Alexander Colvin, Ph.D. ’99, the Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean and the Martin F. Scheinman ’75, MS ’76, Professor of Conflict Resolution.
Cathy Creighton ’87, director of ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab, will moderate the event, which begins at 2:30 p.m. May 10. The event is free and open to the public. Register here to view “The PRO Act: Upending the Labor Landscape,” either live or after the event.