Is the Great Resignation a Turning Point for American Workers?
Two years into the pandemic, American workers supposedly have record leverage. But workers’ increasing power is running up against inflation, declining union membership, a lack of paid sick leave, and generally poor working conditions and low pay.
Is the so-called Great Resignation a turning point for workers and organized labor, or simply a temporary reshuffling? What would it take for workers to use this moment as the start of a genuine transformation of working conditions?
Join us on Wednesday, April 20, 3:00–4:00 PM ET, as panelists lift the curtain on what’s really going on with the Great Resignation, and discuss ways that workers can translate their rising power into concrete improvements and better pay.
Featuring:
- Moderator: Steven Greenhouse, senior fellow, The Century Foundation
- Lisa Lynch, professor of social and economic policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management Brandeis University
- Rakeen Mabud, chief economist and managing director of policy and research, Groundwork Collaborative
Please register to obtain the Zoom link, which will be sent twenty-four hours before the event.
Presented by NYU Wagner and The Century Foundation.
