2021 NLG #Law4ThePeople Convention

Sponsor: NLG International Labor Justice Working Group, Canadian Association of Labor Lawyers, and the Association of Labor Lawyers of Latin America

Each year the NLG International Labor Justice Working Group is guaranteed an workshop or major panel slot for our workshop in conjunction with the Canadian Association of Labor Lawyers and the Association of Labor Lawyers of Latin America. This year the theme is the roll of international labor solidarity in the fight for democracy. Given the attacks on workers all over this hemisphere by the Right wing and the threats to democratic governments throughout the hemisphere the workshop will focus on the key role unions and international labor solidarity plays in promoting democracy.

Panelists:

Wilma B. Liebman was designated by President Obama as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board on January 20, 2009. She served as Chairman until August 2011, when her third term expired.  Since then, she has served in various consulting roles and on several boards, and has taught at several universities. Ms. Liebman was first appointed to be a Member of the NLRB by President Clinton and was twice reappointed by President Bush. Earlier.  Earlier, Ms. Liebman served as Deputy Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and as counsel with the Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
 
Matías Cremonte is a lawyer (University of Buenos Aires), union advisor, former president of the Association of Labor Lawyers of Argentina (2016-2020), Regional Vice President of the Latin American Association of Labor Lawyers (ALAL), Doctor in Labor Law of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC), professor of international doctorates at the University of Buenos Aires and USAC, with postgraduate degrees at the University of Castilla La Mancha (Spain) and the National University of La Plata (Argentina). He is the author of numerous articles in specialized journals, books and newspapers.
 
Angela B. Cornell is a Clinical Professor at Cornell Law School and founding director of the Labor Law Clinic. Her teaching, practice, and scholarship focus on domestic and international labor law and business and human rights. Before joining faculty in 2005, she was a partner in a union-side labor and employment law firm. Her research has been published in a number of outlets and her opinions referenced by the media, including The New York Times, Economist, BBC, Ms. Magazine, Washington Post, and NPR. She is the coeditor of the Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy, which is scheduled for publication in January 2022.

Maximiliano Nagl Garcez is a lawyer for labour unions and social movements in Brazil and a Board member of Ilaw Network. He is the former Director for Legislative Affairs of ALAL – Associación Latino Americana de Abogados Laboralistas, the former Legal Adviser and Coordinator of the Advisory Body of the Workers’ Party caucus in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Former Legal Adviser for the President of the National Parliament of East Timor, through UNDP, and Former Visiting Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, recipient of a Fulbright scholarship. Max is the lawyer for the union Metabase Brumadinho, that represents the families of deceased and surviving workers of the Brumadinho industrial homicide. He also defends claimants from communities affected by the homicide. Max has been litigating on behalf of the union against Vale and Tüv Süd in Brazil and in Germany, as well as coordinating the domestic and international efforts to bring justice to the victims through financial compensation, measures to avoid future deaths and the imprisonment of the corporate executives responsible for the 272 workers lives lost.

Biju Mathew is a professor, author and activist.  He is a co-founder and organizer with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and author of  Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City. (Cornell 2008). Biju is the Secretary of the National Taxi Workers Alliance (AFL CIO) and currently serves on the founding board of the International Alliance Of App-based Transport Workers (IAATW). 

Sibel Ataogul is a partner at the law firm of Melançon Marceau Grenier Cohen where she has been practicing in labour and human rights law since 2004. She has acquired an expertise in constitutional litigation and has challenged successfully provisions in the Quebec Labour Code, the Quebec Highway Safety Code as well as a regulation limiting the right to protest on the island of Montreal, all on the basis of human rights violations such as the freedom of association and expression. She was also one of the attorneys representing Quebec politician Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois in his case in front of the Supreme Court of Canada. Sibel is also co-founder of the Association des juristes progressistes et president of the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers. She is the attorney for Amnesty International in the challenge of the Law on the Secularism of the State (Bill 21).