Stan Quoted in Washington Lawyer Article: "Big Changes in Big Labor"

Washington attorney Stanley Brand, founder of the Brand Law Group and vice president of Minor League Baseball, believes the union split will be beneficial for union-side labor lawyers because it is premised on two things: “One is a renewed commitment to and focus on organized workers, which obviously is something you need labor lawyers for. The Change to Win group, which I represent, is trying to reinvigorate the grassroots labor movement through organizing, with various industries as targets. That is going to require the enlistment of labor lawyers.

“The second reason is the energy and resources that some of the individual unions are bringing to bear on this project. I’m talking about the unions that are members of the coalition—the Teamsters, the United Food and Commercial Workers, the SEIU, and the Laborers’ [International Union]—which represent roughly 40 to 45 percent of organized labor. You’ve got a significant segment of the union sector involved in this on a very high level. We haven’t seen this kind of unity and energy in a long time."

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