Labor rights aren’t just legal protections—they’re fundamental human rights that determine whether people can live with dignity or if they’re forced into exploitative, depressing relationships. My approach centers worker power and collective action rather than “corporate social responsibility” narratives — these are more performative, rather than positively evolving for the common good..
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Specifically, I help to cultivate just and fair work relationships and cultures through HR Consulting & Organizational Development, Employee Experience Design, HR Policy Development, Leadership Development, Workplace Investigations, Workplace LGBTQ+ Inclusion, Mediation and Conflict Resolution, and more.
Beyond Neoliberal Labor Relations
Most organizational approaches to labor rights focus on legal compliance and conflict avoidance rather than addressing the fundamental power imbalances between capital and labor. This approach often maintains exploitative conditions while providing the appearance of ethical employment.
My frameworks address:
- Wage theft and economic exploitation disguised as “competitive compensation”
- Union-busting and organizing suppression through “positive employee relations”
- Workplace surveillance and control (bossware) masked as “performance management”
- Benefit cuts and precarity justified through “market competitiveness”
- Environmental and safety violations rationalized as “cost-effectiveness”
- Class analysis understanding how economic interests create conflict between owners and workers
- Power structure mapping identifying how workplace hierarchies serve capital accumulation
- Popular education about labor rights, economic systems, and organizing strategies
- Leadership development for worker organizers, HR departments, managers and others
- Community accountability systems for democratic workplace governance
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Next Steps
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