Shaping Markets

Building Worker Power as Anti-Monopoly: The Next Phase of the Modern Antitrust Agenda

05. 10. 2024

What does the next phase of the modern antitrust reform agenda look like, in relation to labor issues?

In recent years, federal and state antitrust enforcers have challenged corporate lawbreakers with renewed vigor, while a revitalized labor movement has sought to improve working conditions and build power for workers. This conversation will address the following questions and more:

• What does the next phase of the modern antitrust reform agenda look like, in relation to labor issues?
• How might reformers fashion a vision of anti-monopoly that challenges the worst forms of corporate power, while also addressing the disparity between corporate and worker power in the process?
• What legal and policy levers can be used to further the needs of working people today?
• What is the role for state policymakers and enforcers in relation to these matters?

This event will feature leading experts, advocates, lawmakers, and enforcers operating at the nexus of labor and antitrust today, to discuss these and other important questions.

Keynote speakers:
Alvaro Bedoya, Federal Trade Commissioner
Michael Gianaris, Deputy Majority Leader, New York State Senate

Speakers:
Kate Andrias, Columbia University
Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute
Brian Callaci, Open Markets Institute
Terri Gerstein, New York University
Hiba Hafiz, Boston College
Amanda Lewis, Cuneo, Gilbert, LaDuca LLP
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
Laura Padin, National Employment Law Project
David Seligman, Towards Justice
Hal Singer, University of Utah
Sandeep Vaheesan, Open Markets Institute

The event is hosted by the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative, and co-sponsored by the Columbia Labor Lab and Center for Political Economy, For the Many, ALIGN, Economic Policy Institute, National Employment Law Project, and Economic Security Project.