Gutting Labor Rights for Nurses -- and Millions of Others - July 12, 2006

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Nathan Newman is a lawyer, policy analyst and longtime community and labor activist. He is Policy Director for the Progressive States Network, a nonprofit that supports state legislative campaigns for economic and social justice. He previously worked as a union organizer in the hotel industry, a labor lawyer, associate counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice and director of the UC-Berkeley Center for Community Economic Research.

Nathan has a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC-Berkeley and a law degree from Yale Law School and has been published in a range of academic and popular journals, including Working USA, The American Prospect, the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, MIT's Technology Review and he is a regular columnist for the Progressive Populist. He is also the author of the 2002 book, Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits and the Costs to Community. He also writes at TPMCafe and at his own long-established blog at http://www.nathannewman.org/log/ and he can be contacted at nathan@nathannewman.org.