Labor Law Archives - Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law https://iapbl.org/tag/labor-law/ At the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:54:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://iapbl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-kekanawaimamalahoe-logo-light-green-32x32.png Labor Law Archives - Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law https://iapbl.org/tag/labor-law/ 32 32 Talking About Labor Law from a Worker’s Perspective https://iapbl.org/2023/02/04/talking-about-labor-law-from-a-workers-perspective-2/ https://iapbl.org/2023/02/04/talking-about-labor-law-from-a-workers-perspective-2/#respond Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:49:00 +0000 https://iapbl.org/?p=394 Saturday, February 4th, 3:00 pm, Classroom 1, Richardson LawBook talk – Class Struggle Unionism with Joe BurnsJoe Burns

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Book talk – Class Struggle Unionism with Joe Burns
Joe Burns is a veteran union negotiator and labor lawyer with over 25 years experience negotiating labor agreements. He is currently the Director of CollectiveBargaining and General Counsel for the Association of Flight Attendants, CWA. He graduated from the New York University School of Law. Prior to law school heworked in a public sector hospital and was president of his AFSCME Local.
Burns is the author of Class Struggle Unionism. He is also the author of Strike Back: Rediscovering Militant Tactics to Fight the Attacks on Public Employee Unionsand Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America.


Sunday, February 5th, 3:00 pm, Classroom 1, Richardson Law
Bargaining/Negotiations Workshop with Joe Burns and Eric Gill
Eric Gill is the elected leader and Financial Secretary-Treasurer of UNITE HERE Local 5, Hawaii’s hospitality, food service, and healthcare workers union. A Local 5member since 1976, Eric has led the 10,000-member union since 2000. In 2012, Eric and other Local 5 members joined with 90 community leaders to form AiKea,an alliance of community and civic organizations focused on building a social and political movement to improve the future of Hawai’i. Central to the success ofLocal 5 and UNITE HERE’s program has been the union’s internal committee-building program that has produced a generation of effective worker leaders, trainingthem to become effective organizers.
Also a Vice-President of the UNITE HERE International Union, he has been a central figure in UNITE HERE’s various national campaigns, including the 2018 7-citystrike against the Marriott Corporation and the national electoral campaign to defeat Trump. Eric is currently driving a program to improve the union’s ideologicaltraining in class consciousness and analysis for the most advanced leaders in the workplaces and on the union staff.

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]]> https://iapbl.org/2023/02/04/talking-about-labor-law-from-a-workers-perspective-2/feed/ 0 Equal Pay Law in Japan and the US https://iapbl.org/2010/08/27/equal-pay-law-in-japan-and-the-us/ https://iapbl.org/2010/08/27/equal-pay-law-in-japan-and-the-us/#respond Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:46:00 +0000 http://iapbl.org/?p=221 Hiroko Hayashi, Professor of Law, Fukuoka University Law School Equal pay for equal work represents on of the

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Equal pay for equal work represents on of the fundamental principles of gender equity law in the workplace. Moreover, Article 4 of Japan’s Labor Standards law presents a crucial link between the nation’s reality and its obligations pursuant to the international treaty regime of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women.

In this talk, Professor Hiroko Hayashi, one of the foremost scholars and active lawyers in Japan with regards to gender equity law will briefly explain both the reality and the legal framework in Japan, drawing upon comparison with the United States and elsewhere, and considering the need and potential for law reform to improve the working circumstances for women in Japan.

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