The Peggy Browning Fund Fall Newsletter 2021

7 PBF’s First Set of Twins had Similar Summer Fellowships Continuing to Pursue Careers as Workers’ Rights Advocates (cont’d) of impassioned legal advocacy and strategic community partnerships, they were able to vindicate the rights of workers like her and many others. Kevin helped recover tens of thousands of dollars in stolen wages and penalties. His experience was deeply inspiring and motivational. But he also found parts of it immensely frustrating from the inadequacy of state and federal employment laws, to the horrendous abuse and exploitation regularly suffered by workers, the unrelenting obstacles that prevent workers from asserting their rights, and the inability of the legal system to meaningfully redress them. Kevin noted, “Without pressure exerted by a strong and well-organized labor movement, legal protections for workers will remain inadequate, and workers will remain unable to meaningfully assert the meager rights they do possess.” 2020 and 2021 summer fellow Sommer Omar. 2021 Leadership Circle Pacesetter United Steelworkers Leader AFL-CIO Champion AFSCME American Income Life Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters Joseph Lurie Service Employees Int’l Union Benefactor Bank of Labor Bush Gottlieb, a Law Corporation Gilbert & Sackman Int’l Assoc. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Int’l Brotherhood of Boilermakers New York State United Teachers Pitta LLP Vincent Pitta Segal / Segal Marco Advisors Patrick J. Szymanski United Auto Workers Defender Amalgamated Transit Union American Federation of Teachers Richard J. Brean Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP Communications Workers of America IBEW local 134 Int’l Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers National Nurses United Sheet Metal Workers Int’l Association Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 19 Sherman Dunn, PC Union Plus United Food & Commercial Workers USW Local 7-1 Patron AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance Anonymous Michael L. Artz Lucas Aubrey Creighton, Johnsen & Giroux CWA District 4 Galfand Berger, LLP David Jury James C. Kokolas Danielle Leonard Levy Ratner, PC LiUNA Local 4 LiUNA Local 300 Mehri & Skalet, PLLC Ann Fromm and Bill Payne Pond Lehocky Glenn Rothner Rosanne & Samuel Spear United Mine Workers Winebrake & Santillo, LLC “Overall, my experiences at TakeRoot greatly reaffirmed my commitment to work as a labor lawyer and support unions and the labor movement,” shared Kevin Vazquez. Advocating for Workplace Justice PBF’s Regional Workshops Program is held at law schools across the country and consists of a one-hour panel discussion followed by a networking reception. Panelists include union lawyers, labor law firm attorneys, labor law professors, Peggy Browning Fellowship Alumni and attorneys from the U.S. Department of Labor and the NLRB. 2021 Remaining Workshops Schedule Nov. 2 University of California, Berkeley School of Law Nov. 4 New York University School of Law Nov. 8 University of California, Los Angeles School of Law Nov. 11 Chicago-Kent College of Law For more information go to: https://www.peggybrowningfund.org/workshops Nov. 16 University of Michigan Law School Nov. 16 Seton Hall Law School Nov. 18 Harvard Law School