On Labor Day, September 1, Workplace Fairness will launch the Take Back Labor Day blog project right here, on the new and improved Today’s Workplace blog.
Some of the most influential and provocative thinkers on workplace issues today have agreed to participate in Workplace Fairness’s Take Back Labor Day blog project. They are:
- Morra Aarons-Mele, Blogger, Women & Work
- Paul Bland, Staff Attorney, Public Justice
- Natasha Chart, Blogger, Open Left, MyDD and Pacific Views
- Katie Corrigan, Co-Director, Workplace Flexibility 2000
- Phil Dine, Journalist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Author, “State of the Unions”
- Phil Duran, Staff Attorney, OutFront Minnesota
- Cynthia Estlund, law professor at New York University School of Law
- Chai Feldblum, Co-Director, Workplace Flexibility 2000
- Charlotte Fishman, Executive Director, Pick Up The Pace
- Melvina Ford, Executive Director, DC Employment Justice Center
- Richard Freeman, Faculty Director, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School
- Irasema Garza, President, Legal Momentum
- Tom Geoghegan, Labor Lawyer and Author
- Elizabeth Glidden, Minneapolis City Council; Employment Lawyer
- Bruce Goldstein, Executive Director of Farmworker Justice
- Jason Gooljar, Blogger, The Working Families Party Man
- Steven Greenhouse, Journalist, New York Times and Author, “The Big Squeeze”
- Mark Harbeke, Winning Workplaces
- Tom Jackson, Workplace Author, including “The Perfect Resume”
- David Kusnet, Author, “Love the Work, Hate the Job“
- Anne Ladky, Executive Director, Women Employed
- Art Levine, Investigative Reporter and Blogger, Huffington Post and Contributing Editor, Washington Monthly
- Mike Lux, co-founder of Progressive Strategies, LLC, and OpenLeft.com
- Dr. David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress
- Lew Maltby, Executive Director, National Workrights Institute
- Cyrus Mehri, Employment Lawyer (Texaco, Coca-Cola)
- Shannon Price Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights and lead counsel in the California marriage case
- David Moberg, Senior Editor of In These Times
- Jen Nedeau, womens issues blogger for Change.org
- Nathan Newman, Policy Director, Progressive States Network; Blogger, TPMCafe
- Myron Quon, Executive Director, Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center
- Richard Renner, Legal Director, National Whistleblower Center
- Bob Rosner, Workplace Columnist, Working Wounded
- Robin Runge, Director of the Commission on Domestic Violence at the American Bar Association
- Paul Secunda, law professor at Marquette and blogger, Workplace Prof Blog
- Rick Seymour, Employment Attorney; formerly with Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
- Ellen Simon, Employment Attorney and former Congressional candidate
- Diane Stafford, Workplace and Careers Columnist, Kansas City Star
- Paul Tobias, Founder of the National Employment Lawyers Association and Workplace Fairness
Take Back Labor Day is part of a larger effort, where upwards of 40 blogs have agreed to blog about Labor Day and labor issues on Labor Day 2008, to rally American workers and remind the American public about what Labor Day is really about – that’s it’s much much more than just a three-day weekend!
At Workplace Fairness, we hope the Today’s Workplace blog will become the premier online discussion forum for experts, thought leaders, organizers, practitioners and the general public to mix freely with each other to find common ground and shape the public discourse around labor – what’s discussed, how it’s discussed, and ultimately impacting policy. Visit us in September and join the conversation!
UPDATE: Thanks to Michael Whitney at American Rights at Work, we’ve been plugged on DailyKos! Michael will be joining us as a blogger as well.
UPDATE 2: More guest bloggers have joined us, including David Moberg, Senior Editor of In These Times, and Paul Secunda, law professor at Marquette and blogger, Workplace Prof Blog. Don’t be left out — if you have something to say, contact us, or be sure to participate in the comments section once we launch on Labor Day, September 1.
UPDATE 3: We’re still adding bloggers to our list: Cynthia Estlund, law professor at New York University School of Law, Robin Runge, Director of the Commission on Domestic Violence at the American Bar Association, and Dr. David Madland, the Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress, will also be joining the fun here at Today’s Workplace.
