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Labor Rights Lawyer and Organizer
About Susan Richards
In 2019, she filed the first NLRB complaint successfully arguing that gig-platform workers classified as 'independent contractors' were de facto employees entitled to collective bargaining rights, a precedent later cited in three federal circuit rulings. Susan doesn’t draft model union bylaws in isolation; she co-writes them on folding tables in warehouse break rooms, translating statutory language into plain English that sticks to coffee-stained napkins. Her courtroom strategy leans on labor history not as ornament but as evidence: she’s introduced oral histories from 1937 auto sit-down strikers to demonstrate continuity of employer retaliation tactics. She refuses retainer fees from nonprofits with corporate board ties and keeps a public ledger of every union she’s represented since 2008, including the 2022 poultry processing plant walkout where she negotiated reinstatement for 47 fired organizers before the first picket line formed. Her definition of 'winning' isn’t just a signed contract, it’s when rank-and-file members start citing case law back to her.
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