Staff Attorney

GLOW:
Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (formerly National Legal Advocacy Network)
Illinois

Staff Attorney, Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers
(formerly known as National Legal Advocacy Network)
Chicago, Illinois

January 15, 2024

Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers (GLOW) seeks a Staff Attorney to advance our mission of leveraging legal strategies to build worker power. The Staff Attorney will play a key role in developing and leading our work confronting exploitation through contingent work arrangements, with a focus on supporting Black and immigrant workers.

Who We Are:

GLOW, Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers, is dedicated to shifting the balance of power towards greater equity in our economy and society by leveraging legal strategies and resources to build worker power. We do this by working in deep partnership with base-building organizations. Together, we empower systematically marginalized people to take collective action, challenge predatory and exploitative working conditions, and advance policies that build worker power and create long-term systemic change.
GLOW was formerly known as National Legal Advocacy Network (NLAN) and was a fiscally sponsored project of the National Employment Law Project (NELP) from 2019 to 2023. In the past four years, we reached over 65,000 low-wage workers, engaged in litigation impacting over 6,000 low-wage workers, put approximately $10 million back into the hands of low-wage workers and their communities, and provided technical support for over 30 organizing campaigns.

Our work employs 3 core strategies:

• Leadership Development: developing and providing legal empowerment trainings for low-wage workers so they can understand their rights, conduct peer to peer education, and engage in collective action; training lawyers and legal organizations in how to best support efforts to build worker power; providing technical assistance to organizers so they understand the laws that impact their base and have support integrating legal strategies into their campaigns;
  
  and creating opportunities for people of color, LGBTQ+ and working-class people in the legal profession.
• Partnership with Worker-Led Organizations: directly partnering with worker organizations and coalitions to design, launch and win hybrid law and organizing campaigns; creating and maintaining a national legal referral network that is available to support worker centers and their members; conducting know your right trainings and legal clinics to grow and support membership base; providing technical and capacity support for policy campaigns;
  
  and working with organizations to develop and implement best practices to protect against opposition attacks.
• Strategic Enforcement: engaging in impact litigation; representing workers before labor enforcement agencies; supporting corporate and direct-action campaigns; and developing and implementing collaborative enforcement strategies with state and federal labor enforcement agencies.

What You Will Do:
The Staff Attorney will work remotely and report to GLOW’s Executive Director. You will also work closely with GLOW’s Legal Organizer and in time may be asked to supervise staff or interns. The Staff Attorney will work closely with partner organizations, including the National Black Worker Center, Temp Worker Justice, the National Employment Law Project, and many more.
Your work will involve:

• Working with GLOW Executive Director to identify opportunities to use a combination of legal and organizing strategies to support worker center partners;
• Strengthening and leading the Temp Worker Advocacy Coalition by developing coalition infrastructure, coordinating and facilitating coalition meetings, participating in campaign specific meetings, creating and curating temp worker advocacy materials, coordinating coalition resources and more.
• Supporting the capacity of worker centers to combine legal and organizing strategies by working with partners to develop their internal legal capacity, reviewing legal intakes and worker documents to identify potential strategic enforcement cases, developing and delivering relevant and accessible Know Your Rights trainings and…