Power At Work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Professor John Kallas to break down the numbers behind worker activism in 2025 — how many strikes were launched, how many workers walked off the job, and what it all means for labor power in America.Continuing a Power At Work annual tradition, Seth and John discuss the Cornell ILR-University of Illinois Labor Action Tracker's Annual Report on work stoppages in 2025. They examine whether workers grew bolder or more cautious during the first year of the second Trump presidency — and what workers were fighting for when they did strike: higher wages, safer workplaces, and an end to anti-union retaliation.Professor John Kallas is the director of the Labor Action Tracker. He has worked in collective bargaining and organizing for the California Nurses Association and SEIU, and is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #20 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Hamilton Nolan - Writer, In These TimesDr. Patricia Campos-Medina - Executive Director, Cornell ILRMark Gevaart - Host, My Labor RadioCatch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on March 3rd and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Connect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

Episode #19 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks.

Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:

Kim Kelly - Writer, In These Times

Michael Green - Professor of Law, Texas A&M University

Dave Jamieson - Labor Reporter, HuffPost

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Episode #18 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks.

Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:

Michael Sainato - Writer, The Guardian

Kate Bronfenbrenner - Director of Labor Education Research, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Chris Garlock - Executive Director, Labor Heritage Foundation

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Episode #17 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:Alexandra Martinez - writer for PrismAlex Jacquez - Chief of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork CollaborativeDavid Madland - Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Catch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on January 27th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1tdZ4QF...Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Listen on OvercastConnect with Power At Work: Website: poweratwork.usTikTok: @poweratworkblog Instagram: @poweratworkblog Twitter/X: @poweratworkblog Facebook: @poweratworkblog LinkedIn: power-at-work

In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Patricia Campos-Medina to explore migration, belonging, worker power, and the everyday people shaping the future of immigrant worker justice.In this special episode, Seth talks with Patricia about a project of the Worker Institute at Cornell University called Stories of Belonging: TPS Workers. The project collected interviews with Temporary Protected Status holders living and working in the United States. Seth and Patricia examine how race, immigration status, and workers’ rights intersect and how collective action transforms precarity into power.

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Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina is a Research-Teaching-Extension (RTE) Faculty and labor educator focusing on the intersection of race, immigration status, and workers’ rights. She serves as the Executive Director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

Episode #16 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!

The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:

Bill Samuel - Pro-union consultant for NVG

Andrew Ziaja - Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law

Catch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on January 13th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.

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Episode #15 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!

The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:

Claudia Irizarry Aponte - Senior Reporter covering labor and work for THE CITY

Matt Alley - Creator of BlueCollarWriter

Catch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on December 16th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.

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In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Matthew Platkin and Randy Korgan to discuss the ongoing fight for Amazon’s employees that is raging in the courts and the workplace.

In this episode, Seth discusses with his guests the two lawsuits brought by New Jersey’s Attorney General Matthew Platkin that allege Amazon has broken the laws protecting its workers, and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters' efforts to organize Amazon delivery drivers and others. Most importantly, they will discuss the intersection of New Jersey’s lawsuits against Amazon with the Teamsters’ efforts to organize Amazon.

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Matthew J. Platkin is the Attorney General for the state of New Jersey. He was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to serve as the state’s 62nd Attorney General on February 3, 2022, and confirmed to that role with bipartisan support by the New Jersey Senate on September 29, 2022.

Randy Korgan leads the Teamsters’ Amazon Division and serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of Teamsters Local 1932 in San Bernardino, California.

Episode #14 of the Power Half-Hour has arrived!

The Power Half-Hour is a livestreamed, fast-paced, bi-weekly roundtable with a rotating group of regular guests. Our guests discuss the biggest labor story of the preceding week and the labor story everyone should be talking about over the next two weeks. Joining Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris for this episode are:

Kim Kelly - Labor reporter for In These Times magazine

Mark Gevaart - Host of the My Labor Radio podcast and an active and activist member of the United Auto Workers

Ruben Garcia - Ralph Denton Professor of Law at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada

Catch our next episode live on Power At Work's LinkedIn page on December 9th and soon after on PowerAtWork.US.

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