Meetings Held During Research

· Service Employees International Union (SEIU) –John Gray, Assistant Director of Legislation

· Department of Labor — Dr. David Weil, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division and Sharon Block, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy

· American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) — Bill Samuel, Legislative Director

· American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — Tor Cowan, Legislative Director & Derrick Figures, Assistant Director of Legislation

· North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) — Sonia Ramirez, Director of Government Affairs

· International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) — Jeffrey Soth, Legislative and Political Director

· United Auto Workers (UAW) — Josh Nassar, Legislative Director

· Thomas Geoghegan, author of Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement

· Cass Sunstein, author of The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever

· David Mindell, author of Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy

· Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor

· David Madland, Senior Advisor to the American Worker Project at Center for American Progress

· Roosevelt Institute

· Art Pulaski, Executive Secretary-Treasurer California Labor Federation

· Margaret Hanlon-Gradie, Executive Director Contra Costa AFL-CIO Labor Council

· Steve Older, President, Contra Costa AFL-CIO

· Labor Council/Business Agent Machinists

· Aram Hodess, Business Manager Plumbers & Steamfitters, UA Local 159/Board, Member of Contra Costa Building & Construction Trades and the Labor Councils

· J. Michael Nye (CA Federation of Teachers — ret) California Alliance of Retired Americans

· Judy Barrientos, ATU 1605 President

· Pablo Benavente, Political Coordinator SEIU Local 2015

· Bob Lilley, IBEW Local 302

· Steve Bell, Northern California Carpenters

Future of Work, Wages, and Labor

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A vision for the American Workforce. An effort launched by Representatives Mark DeSaulnier, Mark Pocan, Donald Norcross, and Debbie Dingell.