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
