Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal

This part of Volume 5, Issue 2, includes an edited transcript of the proceedings of the Section on Labor Relations and Employment Law, of the Association of American Law Schools, from the January 5, 2001 Annual Meeting of the Association held in San Francisco, California. The program, which was moderated by Professor Peggie R. Smith of Chicago-Kent College of Law, focused on contingent work. Professor Smith provides an overview of contingent work relationships and discusses the implications of workplace transformations on the status of private paid household workers. Attorney Stephen Strong, a partner in the Seattle firm of Bendich, Stobaugh & Strong, explores some of the issues raised in representing the workplace interests of temporary or intermittent workers. Mr. Strong provides a first-hand account of the litigation that his firm has handled on behalf of Microsoft temporary workers. Leone Bicchieri, Project Coordinator of the Poultry Justice Campaign of the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice in Chicago, discusses the Committee's work to support the rights of poultry workers and chicken farmers. Mr. Bicchieri draws particular attention to problems confronting the immigrant poultry workforce and strategies to create interracial alliances. Hae Jung Cho, Project Director of the Los Angeles-based Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, focuses on the problem of trafficking internationally and in the United States, and outlines strategies to help women who are trafficked into prostitution, domestic service, and sweatshop labor.