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Hiatt advocates for collaboration between the organized labor movement and an emerging labor movement of worker centers and community based organizations. Presentation of "Community-Labor Coalitions: Los Angeles Car Wash Campaign."
Jonathan Hiatt has served as the General Counsel of the AFL-CIO since 1995. Hiatt serves as the Executive Director of the AFL-CIO's national Lawyers Coordinating Committee and sits on the Board of Directors of the National Employment Law Project, the American Arbitration Association, the Appleseed Foundation, as well as on the D.C. Employment Justice Center and Peggy Browning Fund Advisory Boards. Previously, Hiatt served for eight years as the General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union, based in Washington, D.C., where he directed the union's legal department, and before that he was a partner in Boston based union-side labor law firm Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle, Wanger and Hiatt. He joined the firm in 1974, after graduating from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard College. He has penned articles for numerous publications including The Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law and The Journal of Labor Research.
What is your momentum? My conviction that a successful struggle against social and economic inequality requires the exercise of and respect for collective, not just individual, rights.
