Ready for the Fight: Labor Law, Unions, and Social Movements
Please join us for our annual Review of Law & Social Change Journal Colloquium, titled: “Ready for the Fight: Labor Law, Unions, and Social Movements!" RLSC’s 2025 Spring Colloquium will highlight the dynamic, energized landscape of contemporary workplace organizing and the ways labor law shapes and is shaped by this organizing. We have invited practitioners, organizers, and workers to lead workshops and panels on how worker organizing is empowering poor and working people to improve their working conditions and challenge larger structures of racial, economic, and colonial subordination. In addition to panels with worker-organizers and academics, we also plan to prioritize workshops and report-backs from current union members in legal services organizations, who will teach attendees about organizing in their own workplaces. We hope attendees will leave with a sense of how the current generation of lawyers fit into current labor struggles, both as practitioners and employees.
We will provide meals and refreshments for the events.
SCHEDULE
Tuesday, March 11: Labor Law in the Legal Workplace
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Workshop: Power Mapping: Furman Hall Rm 214 (245 Sullivan St, New York, NY 10012)
6:00 PM - 8:15 PM: Workshop: Union Organizing in Legal Workplaces: Vanderbilt Hall Rm 204 (40 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012)
7:30 PM - 8:15 PM: Social and Presentation of RLSC Co-Publication and "Imperyalismo Ibagsak!" a zine in solidarity with the Filipino peoples' struggle with the New York Committee on Human Rights in the Philippines (NYCHRP): Vanderbilt Hall Rm 204 (40 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012)
Wednesday, March 12: Workplace Justice and Social Change
12:00 - 1:00 PM Panel: Organizing with Massage and Sex Workers in Queens with Red Canary Song: Furman Hall Rm 216 (245 Sullivan St, New York, NY 10012)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Panel: Protecting Dissent and Organizing in the Workplace: Furman Hall Rm 212 (245 Sullivan St, New York, NY 10012)