Fighting Wal-Mart’s Labor Policies: A ‘Labor Lunch’ at New York Law School

MEDIA ADVISORY

Media are invited to a panel discussion by labor law experts who will discuss strategies for organizing, legislating, and litigating against the retailer

 

DATE: Thursday, March 2, 2006
DESCRIPTION:

At this “Labor Lunch,” a panel of labor law experts will discuss various legislative attempts to curtail Wal-Mart’s abusive treatment of its employees, class action lawsuits brought against Wal-Mart by its employees, and current strategies for organizing Wal-Mart’s workers into unions.

Speakers include:

  • New York State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell
  • Jennifer Sung, Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice
  • Rachel Geman, Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP
  • Pat Purcell, Organizing Director, UFCW Local 1500
TIME: 12:45 p.m.
PRESENTED BY: New York Law School’s Labor and Employment Law Program
ADDRESS/LOCATION: Room A300, New York Law School, 57 Worth Street, New York, N.Y. 10013  (between Church Street and West Broadway)
DIRECTIONS: Via Subway: 1 to Franklin Street; 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street.
CONTACT: Edith Sachs, New York Law School, 212.431.2187 or esachs@nyls.edu

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Founded in 1891, New York Law School is the second oldest independent law school in the United States. Drawing on its location near the centers of law, government, and finance in New York City, its faculty of noted and prolific scholars has built the school’s curricular strength in the areas of tax law, labor and employment law, civil and human rights law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and interdisciplinary fields such as legal history and legal ethics. New York Law School has more than 11,000 graduates and enrolls some 1500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. program. It is one of only two law schools in the metropolitan area to offer the Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Tax Law.