2:30 p.m. ET / 7:30 p.m. BST
On Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 2:30 p.m. ET, part one of the series unpacks the economic drivers and disparities that impact mobility in the labor market, featuring Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), David Madland, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Valerie Wilson, director of the Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute.
In a segment presented by the Ford Foundation, Sarita Gupta, Vice President of U.S. Programs at the Ford Foundation, speaks with Martin Walsh, U.S. Secretary of Labor, on why and how we must measure not only the number of jobs in our country, but also the quality of those jobs, in order to build a more just, equitable, and crisis-proof economy.
12:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. BST
On Thursday, Sept. 8 at 12:00 p.m. ET, part two of the series looks at what structural changes mean for the future of the workforce and how workers are shaping the relationship between their jobs and their lives, featuring Ai-jen Poo, president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, and Michelle Miller, co-founder and co-executive director of coworker.org.
In a segment presented by the Ford Foundation, José García, director of Ford’s Future of Work(ers) program, speaks with Jennifer Epps, executive director of the Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT) Fund, on the significant labor challenges facing working people in the US South, from some of the nation’s worst wages, benefits, and collective bargaining opportunities, and new efforts to strengthen worker power and the economic and social conditions across the South.
12:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m. BST
On Friday, Sept. 9 at 12:00 p.m. ET, part three of the series examines how businesses are engaging their employees and what companies can learn by listening to them, featuring Hubert Joly, former chair and CEO of Best Buy, Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, and Martin Whittaker, CEO of Just Capital.
In a segment presented by the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, speaks with Pete Stavros, founder of Ownership Works on their innovative model to help public and private companies deliver shared ownership opportunities to their workers, with a goal of building over $20 billion in wealth for working people and their families.
