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Rebalancing Economic and Political Power: A Clean Slate for the Future of American Labor Law

CLEAN SLATE PROJECT PHASE TWO

@LWPHarvard, @OnLaborBlog

#ReworkLaborRights

Domestic & International Advisory Groups Provide Feedback & Resources Spring/Summer 2018: Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law initiates Clean Slate project Fall 2019/Winter 2020:

• LWP consolidates working

group drafts into a final report

• Works with project members

for dissemination WG Memos:

• Informed by Area-

Specific Convenings

• Result from intensive

collaborative work within groups WG Co-Chairs

• Facilitate inter- and

intra-group communication

• Assign tasks and keep

track of work progress

• Identify overlap with
• ther groups

RAs:

• Provide research

support

• Facilitate intra-group

communication through exchanges with their peers

• Contribute to drafting

proposals WG Members:

• Lead specific group

tasks

• Engage in discussions

to develop and refine bold ideas Area Specific Convenings:

• Bring together a larger

group of experts

• Inform the working

groups’ ideation process Working Groups:

• Check-in monthly on

work progress remotely

• Meet in-person at

crucial project times

• Draft reform proposals

WHOs & WHATs & WHYs

1 day

2018 2020

Today

Jul Oct 2019 Apr Jul Oct 2020 Apr Jul Opening Conference - What Problems Should We be Solving For?

Jul 24

Closing Conference (date tbd) Formation & Sustainability of Powerful Worker Organizations

Oct 9

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

Empowering Labor Law by Updating

• ther Legal Regimes

May 9 Oct 1 - Jan 28

Phase 1: Literature Review

Jan 29 - May 3

Phase 2: Initial Reform Ideas

May 4 - Sep 30

Phase 3: Reform Proposals

Oct 1 - Dec 31

Phase 4: Report & Recommendations

Jan 1 - Jun 30

Phase 5: Roll-Out 392 days Future of Labor Law Research Fellowship

Mar 1 - Aug 31

WHENs – project overall

NOW: Phase 2 – Initial Reform Ideas Jan 29 - May 3, 2019

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:
• Models included in the initial working group memo
• Ideas generated during convenings
• Variations on models included in or inspired by lit review
• Your creativity informed by your expertise
• Working Group Members’ Role:
• Think big and bold
• 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”

1 day

2019

Jan Feb Mar Apr May

1st WG videoconference - Brainstorm big ideas, assign preliminary research to RAs

Feb 1

Intermediate deadline: Draft preliminary list

• f big ideas, assign WG lead to each idea

Feb 21

2nd WG videoconference - Discuss and refine each idea., confirm WG member &RA pairs to explore each idea variations

3/1/2019

Intermediate deadline: Co-chairs consolidate first draft and circulate for comments, assign research to RAs if needed

Mar 21

Intermediate deadline: WG members and RAs provide their input on draft memo

Mar 28

LWP/domestic & int'l AGs check-in

Mar 29

3rd WG videoconference - Final discussions and questions about memo addressed

Apr 11

LWP/domestic & int'l AGs check-in

May 1

Kick-off videoconference

Jan 29

Final deadline: WG Co-Chairs submit memos to LWP

Apr 19

LWP shares feedback with all WGs

May 3 5 days

Co-chairs edit and share memos for final feedback before 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:

LOW IMPACT INNOVATE HIGH IMPACT ADAPT

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