Jon
Hiatt

Visiting Scholar

jonhiatt17@gmail.org

Program Area

Unions & Worker Organizations

About Jon

Jon Hiatt is a union lawyer, who currently serves as Of Counsel to Solidarity Center, based in Washington D.C., while also a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. Previously, Hiatt was General Counsel of the Service Employees International Union from 1987-1996, General Counsel of the AFL-CIO from 1996-2009, and then Chief of Staff and Executive Assistant to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka from 2009-2017.

    Commentary by Jon Hiatt in OnLabor Blog

    Why Biden Must Confront Corporate Employers More Directly

    Where Biden has fallen short is in his reluctance to directly take on the corporate employers who are responsible for the cruelty and hostility that workers suffer on the job, particularly when seeking to assert their lawful right to union representation and collective bargaining.