Date/Time
Date(s) - April 15, 2024
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
LSC 302, Lory Student Center

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Workplace Democracy: Inequality and the Future of U.S. Labor

Lane Windham, Georgetown University

Monday, April 15
Longs Peak LSC
4:30-5:30pm

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A revived union movement strengthens democracy by giving workers a voice on the job, curbing inequality, and helping provide a bulwark against right-wing extremism. Yet labor has been shrinking since the 1970s, enervating working-class power and strength. How and why did U.S. unions weaken? What does the  current wave of post-pandemic worker action, including in the higher education sector, signal about labor’s path forward?

Refreshments available at 4 and throughout.

This is a CSU Year of Democracy event and part of the Democracy and Labor series and the 2024 Democracy Summit. More information at https://thematicyear.colostate.edu/calendar-of-events-and-programs/.