Kate Andrias: State and Local Government Efforts to Build Worker Power (American Political Economy Blog)

Columbia Law Professor Kate Andrias authored the article — "State and Local Government Efforts to Build Worker Power" — for the American Political Economy Blog that explores the levers states and localities are exploring to build worker power and identifies their strengths and limits.

"A primary reason for low levels of unionization despite widespread support for unions is the structure of federal labor law," Andrias wrote. "The National Labor Relations Act promises to protect workers’ rights to organize, bargain, and strike, but in practice, it fails to do so."

Andrias is the Patricia D. and R. Paul Yetter Professor of Law, is a co-director of the Columbia Labor Lab and the Columbia Law School Center for Constitutional Governance and is a member of the Center for Political Economy's advisory board.