Antitrust Strategies
Workshop Description:
While labor laws govern how workers interact with employers, antitrust law governs how employers interact with each other: Mergers, competitive tactics, and contracts between businesses in a supply, franchise, or contractor relationship all fall under antitrust jurisdiction. Antitrust enforcers have the power to block mergers, impose triple-damage fines, and even send executives to jail. Brian Callaci from the Open Markets Institute will walk you through what the intervention points are, how to poke through the jargon and economic models, and how other worker organizations have been able to successfully take advantage of the current antitrust moment.
Workshop Leader:
Brian Callaci is the chief economist at the Open Markets Institute. He researches and writes about market structure, antitrust law, and their relationship to worker and employer power. In addition to peer-reviewed academic research, he publishes articles in popular outlets such as The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, and The New Republic, and gives expert testimony and policy advice to government bodies. His CV can be found here. Callaci received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to working at the Open Markets Institute, he worked at the Strategic Organizing Center and Workers United/SEIU.
