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James Gray Pope

James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University. Before joining Rutgers in 1986, he worked in a shipyard and represented labor unions at the Boston law firm of Segal, Roitman & Coleman.

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Unions are being strangled by laws that block workers from organizing, striking, and acting in solidarity. Becoming a rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

Peter Kellman, Ed Bruno, James Gray Pope

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Nothing better illustrates the crippling impact of law on today’s labor movement than Janice Fine’s account of the planning sessions for the recent attempt at a May Day general strike. Fine observes...
Peter Kellman, Ed Bruno, James Gray Pope

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