Areas of expertise
Labor and employment policy • Unions • Collective bargaining
Biography
Lynn Rhinehart is a senior fellow at EPI, where she works on labor and employment policy with a focus on unions and collective bargaining. Rhinehart returns to EPI after serving in the Biden administration as a senior counselor to the Secretary of Labor and Acting Secretary of Labor, advising them on issues relating to unions, collective bargaining, and labor policy, including the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment (vice-chaired by the Secretary of Labor).
Previously, Rhinehart was general counsel of the AFL-CIO from 2009 until July 2018. She joined the legal staff at the AFL-CIO as an associate general counsel in 1996. While at the AFL-CIO, she was the executive director of the Lawyers Coordinating Committee (LCC), a national organization of 2,000 union-side labor lawyers in law firms and legal departments. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, Rhinehart clerked for the Honorable Joyce Hens Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Labor. Rhinehart has authored publications on enforcement of federal workplace safety laws, the contingent workforce, and other topics.
Education
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
B.A., University of Michigan
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What’s behind the corporate effort to kneecap the National Labor Relations Board?: SpaceX, Amazon, Trader Joe’s, and Starbucks are trying to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional—after collectively being charged with hundreds of violations of workers’ organizing rights
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Misclassification, the ABC test, and employee status: The California experience and its relevance to current policy debates
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Shortchanged—weak anti-retaliation provisions in the National Labor Relations Act cost workers billions
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How Amazon gerrymandered the union vote—and won
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Strengthening workers’ right to organize is 50 years overdue
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Six ways the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act restores workers’ bargaining power
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Why workers need the Protecting the Right to Organize Act: How the PRO Act solves the problems in current law that thwart workers seeking union representation
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The PRO Act is pro-worker: How the act would restore workers’ freedom to form a union
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How the PRO Act restores workers’ right to unionize: A chart of the ways the PRO Act fixes major problems in current labor law
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Rebuilding Collective Bargaining Back Better
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Explaining the erosion of private-sector unions: How corporate practices and legal changes have undercut the ability of workers to organize and bargain
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Debunking the specious claims underlying Missouri’s anti–collective bargaining law
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50 reasons the Trump administration is bad for workers: President Trump has said he would ‘protect’ and ‘fight for’ workers. Instead, his administration has systematically done the opposite.
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Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19: 12 policies that would boost worker rights, safety, and wages
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Collective bargaining beyond the worksite: How workers and their unions build power and set standards for their industries
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The Trump NLRB needs to be removed
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Three Republican-appointed white men are now deciding whether you have rights on the job
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Unprecedented: The Trump NLRB’s attack on workers’ rights
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Why Eugene Scalia is the wrong person for the job
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The PRO Act: Giving workers more bargaining power on the job
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Let’s not forget unions and collective action when discussing victories on workers’ rights