From the UPS Teamsters labor agreement to the continuing writers and actors strike and the recent United Auto Workers strike, labor rights have been a major topic of 2023.  

This panel will discuss the importance of labor rights in achieving racial and economic justice, the empowerment of the working class through the strengthening of labor unions, the deeply interconnected relationship between race and labor throughout US labor history, and major wins of labor action of the past. We will dive into specific companies’ working conditions and pay, income and wealth inequality, legislation that directly affect the strength behind labor action, and the demands of our striking and unionized workers of today.

This event was submitted as a student proposal and collaboratively designed in partnership with the Gephardt Institute.