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Michael Z. Green directs the Workplace Law Program at Texas A&M University School of Law. His experience as a manager, fresh out of college, led him to get a law degree as well as a master’s in human resources and industrial labor relations. He’s worked in a corporate legal department, a firm representing labor unions and a boutique employment law firm. He calls his current role teaching and mentoring students in workplace law a “labor of love.”
This Labor Day, Green talked to the Report’s Shomial Ahmad about the gains of the labor movement, some key workplace protections, and songs that belong on his Labor Day playlist.
Shomial Ahmad: Work governs most of our days. For many people, we spend more time at work than we do with our families. What drew you to labor and employment law, both from the employee and the employer side?
Michael Z. Green: Through the years, I’ve learned how central work is to people’s lives. Other than family, close friends, or their faith, nothing is more important to people’s lives than their work experiences.
It’s central to my life. I grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a low-income area known as Englewood. My mother did not graduate from high school, but she later obtained her GED and eventually graduated from college when I was a junior in high school. She became a transportation manager and supervisor, and she was a tremendous role model for...
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