Lecturer in Law
- B.A. UC Berkeley
- J.D. Georgetown University Law Center
Jeremy Blasi co-teaches Law, Organizing, and Low-Wage Workers at UCLA School of Law. He currently serves as General Counsel for UNITE HERE Local 11--a labor union for more than 32,000 hospitality workers in Southern California and Arizona--where he represents workers and the union in a variety of matters to vindicate workplace rights. He previously served as Director of Investigations for the Worker Rights Consortium, a global anti-sweatshop monitoring organization that works to protect the rights of workers who make apparel and other products.
Blasi's research and writing focuses on strategies to eradicate labor abuses like wage theft and unsafe working conditions in low-wage sectors. He has explored such topics as contractual and policy approaches to hold lead firms accountable for sweatshop conditions in their supply chains, transparency policies to incentivize labor standards compliance, and the use of international human rights instruments in labor campaigns. His work has been published by the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, ILR Review, Global Labour Rights Reporter, Cornell University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, and the International Labour Organization. He has also contributed to Bloomberg BNA's treatise International Labor and Employment Laws.
Blasi received his B.A. summa cum laude from UC Berkeley, and his J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a Public Interest Law Scholar. Following law school, he served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Dean D. Pregerson in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California.
Bibliography
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Articles And Chapters
- Bargaining Up the Supply Chain: Lessons from a Cross-Sectoral Study (with Jennifer Bair and Jeffery Vogt), 2 Global Labor Rights Reporter 13 (2021).
- Private Equity, Human Rights Due Diligence, and Global Labour Rights: the Case of "Hotel California" (with Samir Sonti), 1 Global Labor Rights Reporter 44 (2021).
- The Political Economy of Private and Public Regulation in Post-Rana Plaza Bangladesh (with Jennifer Bair and Mark Anner), 73 ILR Review 969 (2020).
- An Analysis of Multiparty Bargaining Models in Global Supply Chains (with Jennifer Bair), International Labour Organization Conditions of Work and Employment Working Paper Series No. 5 (2019). Full Text
- Sweatshops and the Search for Solutions, Yesterday and Today (with Jennifer Bair and Mark Anner), in Unmaking the Global Sweatshop: Health and Safety of World’s Garment Workers, (edited by Rebecca Prentice and Geert De Neve, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).
- Learning from the Past: The Relevance of Twentieth-Century New York Jobbers’ Agreements for Twenty-First- Century Global Supply Chains (with Mark Anner and Jennifer Bair), in Achieving Workers Rights in the Global Economy , (edited by Richard Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein, Cornell University Press, 2016).
- Towards Joint Liability in Global Supply Chains: Addressing the Root Causes of Labor Violations in International Subcontracting Networks (with Mark Anner and Jennifer Bair), 35(1) Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal 1 (2013).
- Using Compliance Transparency to Combat Wage Theft, 95 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 97 (2012).
- Counterproductive and Wasteful: Los Angeles’s Daytime Curfew Pushes Kids Away from School and Diverts Resources Away from Real Community Safety (with David Sapp), ACLU of Southern California (2012).