Rebalancing Economic and Political Power: A Clean Slate for the Future of American Labor Law CLEAN SLATE PROJECT PHASE TWO @LWPHarvard, @OnLaborBlog #ReworkLaborRights
WHOs & WHATs & WHYs Working Groups: WG Memos: - Check-in monthly on - Informed by Area- work progress remotely Specific Convenings - Meet in-person at - Result from intensive crucial project times collaborative work within - Draft reform proposals groups WG Co-Chairs Fall 2019/Winter 2020: Spring/Summer 2018: Labor Area Specific - LWP consolidates working - Facilitate inter- and and Worklife Program at Convenings: intra-group group drafts into a final report Harvard Law initiates Clean communication - Bring together a larger - Works with project members Slate project group of experts - Assign tasks and keep for dissemination - Inform the working track of work progress groups’ ideation process - Identify overlap with other groups RAs: - Provide research WG Members: support - Facilitate intra-group - Lead specific group communication through tasks - Engage in discussions exchanges with their peers to develop and refine - Contribute to drafting bold ideas proposals Domestic & International Advisory Groups Provide Feedback & Resources
Opening Conference - What Problems WHENs – project overall Should We be Solving For? Jul 24 1 day Scope & Power of Collective Action Dec 5 Levels, Actors & Scope of Bargaining Jan 15 Organizations for Worker Power Mar 1 Worker Power Through Benefits Provision & Enforcement Apr 4 Formation & Sustainability of Powerful Empowering Labor Law by Updating Worker Organizations other Legal Regimes Closing Conference (date tbd) Oct 9 May 9 2018 2020 Jul Oct 2019 Apr Jul Oct 2020 Apr Jul Today Phase 1: Literature Review Oct 1 - Jan 28 Phase 2: Initial Reform Ideas Jan 29 - May 3 Phase 3: Reform Proposals May 4 - Sep 30 Phase 4: Report & Recommendations Oct 1 - Dec 31 Phase 5: Roll-Out Jan 1 - Jun 30 Mar 1 - Aug 31 392 days Future of Labor Law Research Fellowship
Jan 29 - May 3, 2019 NOW: Phase 2 – Initial Reform Ideas What is Phase 2 about? It’s the core phase of the project Phase Two Task : Create a menu of proposals and assess the proposals using the memo • template • Sources of Ideas for Proposals : o Models included in the initial working group memo o Ideas generated during convenings o Variations on models included in or inspired by lit review o Your creativity informed by your expertise • Working Group Members’ Role: o Think big and bold o Consider this space as YOUR intellectual playground that is not constrained by current law or other limitations that you may face in your “day jobs”
2nd WG videoconference - Discuss and refine each idea., confirm WG member &RA pairs to explore each idea variations 1 day 3/1/2019 Intermediate deadline: Co-chairs consolidate first draft and circulate for comments, assign research to RAs if needed Mar 21 1st WG videoconference - Brainstorm big Intermediate deadline: WG members and ideas, assign preliminary research to RAs RAs provide their input on draft memo Feb 1 Mar 28 Intermediate deadline: Draft preliminary list 3rd WG videoconference - Final discussions of big ideas, assign WG lead to each idea and questions about memo addressed Feb 21 Apr 11 2019 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jan 29 Mar 29 May 3 Kick-off videoconference LWP/domestic & int'l AGs check-in LWP shares feedback with all WGs May 1 LWP/domestic & int'l AGs check-in Apr 19 Final deadline: WG Co-Chairs submit memos to LWP Co-chairs edit and share memos for final feedback before 5 days submission 6 days Domestic and Int'l AG may choose to review memos
HOW CAN WE PUSH OURSELVES TO THINK BIG AND BOLD? FIRST, LET’S CHECK TO SEE WHERE OUR IDEAS STAND ON THE IMPACT-INNOVATION MATRIX: HIGH IMPACT ADAPT INNOVATE LOW IMPACT
LET’S AGREE ON AN IMPACT-INNOVATION CHECKLIST (i.e. how can we aim for ideas that will mostly be in the upper-right quadrant): - Have we considered ways to design this reform proposal to maximize worker power as much as possible? - What might be the appropriate implementation level – at the federal level or as an option at the state level if preemption was lifted? - With what level of bargaining would this reform best fit -- enterprise, sectoral, regional, national? How might we design variations of this reform proposal that could work at different levels? - Have we thoroughly considered how this reform proposal could address racial and gender subordination? - How might this reform proposal be carried out in the context of a hostile federal judiciary?
Rebalancing Economic and Political Power: A Clean Slate for the Future of American Labor Law CLEAN SLATE PROJECT PHASE TWO @LWPHarvard, @OnLaborBlog #ReworkLaborRights
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