WHO WE ARE.  The Labor and Employment Committee of the National Lawyers Guild [NLG] is a non-profit unincorporated legal association engaged in legal education and advocacy. The membership of the Labor & Employment Committee includes lawyers, law students, legal workers, and worker representatives. It serves as a liaison between the Guild and legal organizations that represent organized labor and workers. The L&EC also works directly with organized labor and other organizations that represent workers.

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PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS. We are a committee of the National Lawyers Guild and work closely with the Guild and its various committees. We also work closely with and support the Guild's Sugar Law Center for the Economic and Social Justice to improve conditions in poor and working communities. 

We collaborate with the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee, the National Employment Law Association, and other professional legal associations on the national and local level. 

ANNUAL MEETINGS. The L&EC meets twice a year - at the annual NLG Convention in the fall and at the annual meeting of the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee meeting in the spring. 

ANNUAL NATIONAL EVENTS. The L&EC sponsors two annual events: a breakfast at the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee conference each spring and L&EC programs at the annual NLG National Convention that usually occurs in the fall.

OUR MEMBERS' PRACTICE AREAS INCLUDE:

•Administrative Law - including OSHA, social security
•Economic Rights - including unemployment insurance
•Employment Law - including sexual harassment, age discrimination, wage and hour
•Injured Worker Law - including workers comp and tort cases, disability rights
•Labor Law - work in all sectors of the labor movement
•Legal Services - attorneys who focus on economic and workers' rights
•Toxic Torts - representing workers and communities concerned with toxics in the workplace and community