Kaiser Lecture

16th Annual Henry Kaiser Memorial Lecture: “Collective Rights in the Workplace Within a Culture of Individual Rights”
Jonathan Hiatt, General Counsel of the AFL-CIO

Hiatt was appointed to his position as the general counsel of the AFL-CIO in 1995. Previously, he directed the legal department of the Service Employees International Union, a 1.5 million-member labor organization based in Washington, D.C., as the union’s general counsel. Prior to working for labor unions, Hiatt was a partner at Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle, Wagner and Hiatt, a union-side labor law firm in Boston, Massachusetts. He joined the firm in 1974 after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and Harvard College.

Hiatt serves as the executive of the AFL-CIO’s Lawyers Coordinating Committee and is a member of the boards of directors of several non-profit organizations, including the National Employment Law Project, the American Arbitration Association, the Appleseed Foundation, the D.C. Employment Justice Center, and the Peggy Browning Fund Advisory Boards.