Hi all! Welcome to the webinar! As you enter, please share in the chat 1) Your name and where you’re calling from 2) Pronouns 3) Any affiliations 4) and if there’s anything you or your organization/office have been grappling with on workers’ rights!

Marco Hernandez (He/They). Calling from Minnesota and affiliated with Tending the Soil

Margaret K. O'Hora, she/her, DC Council (legislature)

Dora Chen (she/her), SEIU

Steve Koffroth (He, Him, His), SEIU 721 So. CA

Ceilidh Gao, she/her, Communications Workers of America

Meryum Khan (she/her), MA AGO

Kameron Dawson (she/hers), Calling from Nashville, TN, A Better Balance Southern office

Al Vega, he.him, MassCOSH/USW9358. Nice to be with you all here today.

Josh Jacob, he/him, Columbia Law School (2L)

Rick Rabin - Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health

Corinna Spencer-Scheurich (she/her), Northwest Workers' Justice Project, Portland OR

ginny sawyer (she/her) City of Fort Collins

Hi Everyone; My name is Tyler Sandness (He/Him) and I am from Rideshare Drivers United - California.

Seema N. Patel, Berkeley Law

Hello My Name is Jamie Corban (He/Him) Northwest Carpenters Union

Susan Marquis, Princeton University (she/her)

Meghan Lucas, she/her, Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy (NC)

Jean Pierce (she/her) New Jersey - Health Professionals & Allied Employees. Good to be here!

Eli Levine (He/Him), Penn State University Harrisburg School of Public Affairs, PhD Candidate

Jon Zerolnick, he/him, researcher in LA

Hello from Latham, NY - NYSUT, Tricia Geisel Nice to be here!

Liz Doyle, here with Tending the Soil in MN

Maureen McCormack, she/her, Nassau County District Attorney's Office, Long Island, New York

Hi all, KyungSun Lee (she/hers) calling from St. Louis MO. and I'm with the Economic Security Project

Molly Coleman (she), People's Parity Project, Saint Paul, MN

David Rosenfeld from CBay

Rachel Anderson (she/her), Center for Public Justice, DC

Sheila Sullivan (she/her/hers). Assistant Director of Litigation and Strategic Advocacy. Legal Action of Wisconsin.

Lindsay Fallon (she/her) w/ Towards Justice - joining from Colorado

Pooja Shethji (she/her) from Outten & Golden's DC office

Matt Goldberg (he/him), California Department of Justice

Vicki Shabo, she/her New America, Washington DC

Ryan Sypniewski (he/him) PA Office of Attorney General

Hi! Beth Commers (she/hers) City of Saint Paul, MN Department of Human Rights & Equal Economic Opportunity (HREEO)

Nicolette Gullickson (she/her), Minneapolis Civil Rights Dept- Labor Standards Enforcement

Emily Spieler (she/her) Northeastern Univ & MassCOSH

Felipe Guevara, he/him, New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty

Margaret Weihs, she/her, Seattle Office of Labor Standards

Branden Butler (he/him) County of San Diego OLSE

Blanca Rodriguez, she/her, Columbia Legal Services in WA.

Tarshia Green-Williams (She/Her) Action for Equity Boston, MA

Mark Erlich

Allison Glass, she/her, Atlanta with 9to5 GA

Emina Becirovic, she/her, Boston, learning about how to best represent myself (worker)

Arnold Zack, Boston, Trade Union Program

Gary Warren / Carpenters Union

Militza Pagán (Sher/Her), Shriver Center on Poverty Law

Carol Meyers she/her SEIU

Hi all! This is Naw EhKu (She/Her) with the Northeast New York Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (NENYCOSH), based in Albany, New York.

Valerie Nannery, she/her. American Constitution Society, Washington, DC

Lou Mandarinihe/himSenior AdviserOffice of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu

Jacob Shawback (he/him), Ramsey County Attorney's Office in Saint Paul, MN

Julie Ulmet (she/her), The Law Offices of Julie R. Ulmet (formerly NY AG and NLRB)

Chris Pontus - Mass Nurses Association

Emma Vignola, she/her, CUNY School of Public Health/CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

Meredith Stewart, Southern Poverty Law Center

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Adam Kader (he/comrade) Arise Chicago

Keith Talbot, Worker Legal Rights and Farmworker Project - NJ

Dean Staffieri, MSEA-SEIU Local 1989, Naples, Maine

Sam Noel (He/Him) EAS Carpenters Union New Castle, DE

Mitra Ebadolahi, Senior Project Director for Economic Justice at Upturn. She/her(s). Based in San Diego CA.

Nate Horrell, Policy and Research Analyst, Local Progress

Hallie Albert, San Francisco OLSE

Matt Berens - City of Oakland DWES

Dan Stein, CTUL, he/him

Vasu Reddy (she/her), National Partnership for Women & Families

Shannon Foley (she/her/ella) Worker Safety Committee IATSE 415, Tucson, Arizona

Sarah Stennes - Complex Crimes Unit, Hennepin County Attorney's Office, Minneapolis

Jessie Yu (she/her), County of Santa Clara OLSE

Jack Trumpbour, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School

Deborah Greenfield, (she/her), labor consultant, Washington, D.C.

Maya Hazarika Watts, she/her, changelab solutions, Oakland, CA

Andy Fox (he/him)Chicago OLS

Seth Lyons (he/him), Community Legal Services of Philadelphia

Anyone familiar with unemployment benefits appeals? Are workers getting proper representation?

Reena Arora, Senior Policy Attorney, National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) (State & Municipal)

Hi all, Kate Suisman at NWJP in Portland OR. She/her. We are grappling with so much, where to start...marijuana farm work conditions are a particular crisis right now in OR.

Alice Berliner (she/her), UC Merced Community & Labor Center

Mary Goff, South Carolina Legal Services Migrant Unit

will you be sharing recording?

Karina Bull (she/her) - Legislative Analyst, City of Seattle City Council

Emily Chong, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in the Economic Justice Project (she/her)

Lillian Hirales, Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General

Yaaaa Mayor Wu!!!!

Brennan Grayson and Magda Orlander, Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center

Monica Tong, Program Manager, County of Santa Clara (CA) Office of Labor Standards Enforcement

Xhoana Ahmeti, CUNY School of Law

Caitlin Vega, General Counsel, CA Labor Federation

Vail Kohnert-Yount (she/her), I’m a legal aid lawyer in Brownsville, Texas 🤠

Mark Hansen (he/him) Seattle Office of Labor Standards

hi all, brian chen, senior staff attorney at NELP

Hello from Boston! Kaitlyn Bean, Deputy Director at SkillWorks/The Boston Foundation. Great to see Mayor Wu!

Welcome Mayor Wu! For bios and more information on all of our esteemed guests, click belowMayor Wu: https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office/michelle-wu Durham Councilmember Jillian Johnson: https://www.durhamnc.gov/1661/Jillian-JohnsonNYC Comptroller Brad Lander: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/about/about-brad-lander/Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda:32BJ SEIU General Counsel Katchen Locke: https://www.seiu32bj.org/press-release/generalcounselappointmen t/

So excited to have Trinh Nguyen in her new role!

Hi all, click here for the full report that Terri and LiJia wrote on the role of local government in protecting workers’ rights: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-role-of-local-governmen t-in-protecting-workers-rights-a-comprehensive-overview-of -the-ways-that-cities-counties-and-other-localities-are-takin g-action-on-behalf-of-working-people/

are any of the localities in Dillon Rule states?

Hi all, click here for the full report that Terri and LiJia wrote on the role of local government in protecting workers’ rights: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-role-of-local-government-in-protecting-workers-rights-a-comprehensive-overview-of -the-ways-that-cities-counties-and-other-localities-are-takin g-action-on-behalf-of-working-people/

I don't think the link is working

Hi all, click here for the full report that Terri and LiJia wrote on the role of local government in protecting workers’ rights: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-role-of-local-government-in-protecting-workers-rights-a-comprehensive-overview-of-the-ways-that-cities-counties-and-other-localities-are-taking-action-on-behalf-of-working-people/ (fixed the URL!) =)

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Kamara Douglas- SEIU

We managed to summarize our report on one page! (Double-sided). One side is for cities in states with preemption and the other side is for cities without preemption.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r2fEdVIH8CUHSj_d1NtrPJiZMx7WVe0t/edit

For bios and more information on all of our esteemed guests, click below
Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda: https://www.seattle.gov/council/mosqueda
Mayor Wu: https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office/michelle-wuDurham Councilmember Jillian Johnson: https://www.durhamnc.gov/1661/Jillian-JohnsonNYC Comptroller Brad Lander: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/about/about-brad-lander/32BJ SEIU General Counsel Katchen Locke: https://www.seiu32bj.org/press-release/generalcounselapp ointment/

thanks!

For bios and more information on all of our esteemed guests, click below
Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda: https://www.seattle.gov/council/mosqueda
Mayor Wu: https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office/michelle-wuDurham Councilmember Jillian Johnson: https://www.durhamnc.gov/1661/Jillian-JohnsonNYC Comptroller Brad Lander: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/about/about-brad-lander/32BJ SEIU General Counsel Katchen Locke: https://www.seiu32bj.org/press-release/generalcounselappointment/

What resources exist for workers if they cannot afford an attorney? (i.e. most workers)

Most corps have excellent legal representation. What about workers?

Hi - please share questions in the Q and A! Thanks.

ooh! Thanks!

An untapped local resource for worker well-being are community health workers. If they are trained in worker rights they could empower their worker clients.

A Better Balance has a free and confidential legal helpline for workers who have questions about their rights to family and medical leave, sick time, pregnancy accommodations, and flexible scheduling 1-833-NEED-ABB or https://www.abetterbalance.org/get-help/

I respect Kenneth Mejia

Hi all– please use the Zoom Q and A function to pose a question to our panelists! You can find that button at the bottom of your zoom screen! Thanks so much :)

Rachel: Please add the question to the Q & A. But here's some info from NELP about the law: https://www.nelp.org/news-releases/federal-court-upholds-new-york-citys-just-cause-job-protections/

And here's a page from the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection that includes information about the just cause provisions (it's contained in the sections about the "Fair Workweek Law in Fast Food”): https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/workers/workersrights/fastfood-retail-workers.page

Thanks for sharing Alex!

Section III of this document has details about the just cause law: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dca/downloads/pdf/workers/FAQs-FairWorkweek-FastFood.pdf

Again, for bios and more information on all of our esteemed panelists, click below:Durham Councilmember Jillian Johnson: https://www.durhamnc.gov/1661/Jillian-JohnsonSeattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda: https://www.seattle.gov/council/mosquedaNYC Comptroller Brad Lander: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/about/about-brad-lander/32BJ SEIU General Counsel Katchen Locke: https://www.seiu32bj.org/press-release/generalcounselappointment/

Durham is ahead of New York City in having it's minimum wage indexed to inflation so it goes up over time!

Hi all– if you have a question, please use the Zoom Q and A function! You can find that button at the bottom of your zoom screen! Thanks so much.

Alison HirshAssistant NYC Comptroller for Pensions and Senior Advisor for Labor/Workers Rights ahirsh@comptroller.nyc.gov(w) 212-669-2744(c) 917-254-5597

I have to jump off. Thank you Terri and everyone. Very informative.

Thank you Terri. Great speakers, inspiring.

Yes! Thank you, Councilmember Mosqueda.

Thank you for a fantastic presentation

Thank you for an awesome presentation!

Thanks so much. Terrific panel and report

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Great presentation. Impressive local leaders.

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Thank you to hosts and panelists!

Thank you panel for your leadership on these issues!

Thank you for coming everyone!

Thank you all!