MISSION STATEMENT. The Labor & Employment Committee of the National Lawyers Guild (the Committee) is a national committee of the National Lawyers Guild. We seek to advance the interests of working people and organized labor through education and advocacy, support for their individual and collective actions, and any other efforts necessary and appropriate to the advancement of these interests, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.

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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. 

WEEKLY MEETINGS. The Steering Committee meets every third Friday at 9 am Pacific/12 noon Eastern.

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