Explore how we can build a pro-worker anti-monopoly movement by reclaiming and restorring our antitrust laws to protect working families, entrepreneurs, and small businesses with Open Markets Institute, The American Prospect, United for Respect, and Change to Win.

The growth of monopolies and concentrated corporate power has intensified income inequality, suppressed wages, and eroded the economic well-being and political rights of workers. The coronavirus pandemic is making a bad situation even worse, with nearly 40 million people and out of work and many independent businesses struggling to stay afloat.

Meanwhile, dominant corporations have become pandemic profiteers. They are doing everything in their power to gain from the crisis, including trying to buy up competitors to capture more market share and greater market control, overcharging people for essentials, and firing and mistreating their workers. But a new pro-worker anti-monopoly coalition is emerging to fight to halt and reverse the trend of concentrated economic power across industries.

This webinar explores how we can solve these problems by building a pro-worker anti-monopoly movement.

Participants discuss the importance of developing and supporting a corporate merger moratorium, remaking antitrust law as a tool for worker freedom, and protecting collective action among workers, professionals, and independent firms – and this work’s salience in the midst of the pandemic. 

The discussion features on-the-ground perspectives from worker organizations to bear on policy discussions that too often operate at a distance from the experiences and needs of working people.

Guests:

• David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect

• Sandeep Vaheesan, Legal Director, Open Markets Institute

• Andrea Dehlendorf, Co-Director, United for Respect

• Brian Callaci, Postdoctoral Scholar, Data & Society

• Emma Rebhorn, Assistant General Counsel, Change to Win